07/10/2025
Rest In Peace Mom, I love you so much and I'm going to miss you. You are home now with family, and I will be seeing you one day soon.
To all my facebook family, I want to take this time to personally thank you so so SO much for your thoughts and prayers I asked for, and keeping me strong since I first posted this news on June 21. I can't believe this much time has passed.
When I made that post, I was in complete crisis mode. I have pretty much been radio silent since then, dealing with the issue at hand at the moment, day by day. Your words of encouragement, emails and letters definitely kept me going, and I thank you so much.
Mom just had cancer surgery and beat it, but God has a plan and a reason for this and I must have faith, as hard as it is right now.
Who remembers seeing mom in that video with the stealth antenna on her balcony?? I did that at Moms because mom thought it was the coolest thing in the world that I can bring an antenna to her apartment unannounced, make a video, and she got to read all the comments and have laughs about it. "If your father could have seen this with this ham radio stuff and you're on videos on TV, he would have been lost for words". Yes, dad never got to see me in my ham radio adventure, and all the stuff I do day after day. If he would have got to talk to me on a video chat on this device they call a "smartphone" , I don't know how he would have reacted. Well, mom was very proud of me. I keep hearing from so many people "your mom always said, my son Eric is my world, he's such a technical guy and has a fix for anything, he's so smart and he's the best chef I know". I got that chance to make mom proud, and even did a couple of donuts in the mustang to scare the crap out of her in the passenger seat. I have no regrets, and I'm SO happy my wife Michele got to spend so many days with Mom at our house. I never got the chance to "grow up" before I lost my dad. I was blind to what was happening when I lost my dad, but I made up for that with Mom the last few years.
The last 5 days were really rough. Hospice came and My aunt and I stayed at her bedside without eating hardly anything, and our bodies are completely wrecked from the most uncomfortable chairs to sleep in, but I owed it to my mom to stay there days on end, because she would have done that for me, and I know she knew I was there with her. That was truly the MOST difficult time but I pushed myself through it knowing it was the last thing I would get to do.
I'm thankful my sisters got to come up and see Mom. Mom had family with her in this time.
I'm thankful I have you all to vent to and to listen. I am so thankful I had my mom in my life for all these times and I'm so thankful I was there until the end.
I miss you already mom. I love you. Tell everyone I will see them all one day soon, and tell Dad I still have his soldering irons and his multimeter I borrowed from his trunk.
