Despite the best medicine had to offer, my dad is with this world no longer. He passed away sometime last night, in his sleep, so there wasn't any pain. We believe that he died as complications with chemo (he had a short emergency a few weeks ago related to that), possibly a heart attack. I go to the funeral home for the first viewing of the casket tomorrow. The funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m., and then there's the burial down in Douglas, Georgia.

There are some things about him I'll never forget. He loved to ride his motorcycles, indeed I'm wearing one of the shirts he'd bring home from trips in reverence of him. He rode once or twice for Ride for Life or something similar. I remember once, he saw I was bored and instead of going to work he called in sick and took me to Blockbuster to rent a game.

I'm still in a state of shock and truth be told I haven't seen his body since he died. The last things he ever said to me were "Do you have any apartment guides?" and "That's alright. I'll see you Ryan." It's a small comfort to me that he saw me working instead of loafing about like I'd done for most of my life after high school. I wanted to tell him about these forums; that everyone was cheering for him, but the opportunity never really presented itself.

I thank you all for your well wishes, as I truly believed they helped him fight the cancer, despite losing the war for his body.

I never knew I could cry so loud or punch through a wall before.

Sympathies to you as well. I didn't know about Eddie though.

Crap Update: The cancer has spread, but all I know as to a destination is "throughout."

I'll be heading out in a bit with my nana to do the grocery shopping for him.

It's cool Syd. I promise to keep everyone updated if anything changes.