Wishing your dad and your whole family the best. I hope the treatment works.

I’m so sorry about your dad. I know what you mean. My dad is in his last weeks/months at this point (terminal cancer), and one of the things that makes me saddest is that my brothers and I haven’t had any kids yet, and he would have looooved having grandkids. He would have been the best granddad.

That sounds wonderful! It seems like you had something similar to what we had, where friends and family all rallied to help make it happen in a hurry. It’s nice that way (assuming you have family and friends who are up for it), and you’re right—it cuts out a lot of nonsense that would get in there the longer you drag…

My childhood dog and my grandmother died in the same month when I was 10, and I always lump the two experiences together as strange as that sounds. I share this to say it’s not weird for you to think of your cat and grandmother in the same way—I really hope they both pull through and continue on many more years!

Awesome, congrats! I hope it works out for you and the position becomes permanent, but at least it’s something for now. Good luck!

Oh my gosh, that’s crazy. Glad you’re OK, but that sucks about being stranded there.

Thanks! It’s true, it seemed like we could have spent much more time worrying over all the details and it couldn’t have been any better. It was very special. Kind of can’t believe it’s over, since it happened so fast, but we have the wonderful memories :)

Thanks! Just to clarify, the above photo is not one of the professional ones, just one I snapped on my phone the morning of the wedding. But the Airbnb was really perfect.

Ugh, I still can’t believe anyone would give you such a hard time for cremating Ollie to bring him home. You made a choice that makes perfect sense. Hang in there. We’re rooting for you.

I’m so happy we have SNS this week because I wanted to thank all the SNS contributors who helped encourage me to get married in a hurry. I guess it was four weeks ago that I posted saying that my boyfriend of 10 years and I were thinking of finally getting married while my father, who is declining rapidly from late…

Update on the wedding that I’m putting together at the last minute to include my ailing father:

Just a brief follow up from my post last week, regarding my ailing father with pancreatic cancer and my boyfriend’s and my then unannounced decision to get married while my dad can still enjoy the occasion.

Congrats! That’s so awesome! Go dispense justice!

Thanks. You’re right, it’s not a state secret—we’re desperate because we’re in a desperate situation. It is what it is.

Thanks. I will update when there is an update to share. Thank you to you and everyone else for your words of encouragement. And also the people who starred, since as I mentioned in my first post, I don’t always know what to say so sometimes just star in support, and I appreciate that too. It means a lot to know there…

Thank you so much. My dad isn’t getting hospice care yet, but I guess that’s something that we’ll be preparing for. It’s good to know that celebrations like this are common and welcome. It’s all overwhelming, but I have to make it happen, because you’re right--photos and memories of him at the wedding are priceless.

Thanks. Yes, I’m really feeling the sooner the better, because one never knows if things could accelerate for the worse. I tried facebook snooping on old friends from high school to see if any looked like they had courthouse weddings—so far only saw church weddings. Oh well. I haven’t lived there in over 15 years, so…

That sounds lovely. Thank you.

Thanks for the advice and the story of your friend. Hopefully it won’t come to a ceremony in a hospital room, but we’ll do what we have to.

Thanks for the encouragement. It’s true--one consideration is that my dad’s diet is very restricted now that he has a stent, so he’s mostly been avoiding restaurants. We’d have to make sure they have special options to accommodate him. And he does get tired, so a break could be a good idea. I’m sorry about your…