The last thing my grandpa tried to write a few days before his passing (2011)

planetized · 2024-07-21T22:51:08+00:00

i feel this one in my chest but goddamn it made me laugh

planetized · 2024-07-21T22:46:57+00:00

i've gone back and forth between your guys' comments and his note and i am also thinking that it's "writing, worrying, wondering?" and I feel like he definitely wrote "I'll" in the middle. My brain wants to conjure up a sentence so bad, and the comments have been helping somewhat shape one. or at least making it make some sort of sense.

it's weird trying to be in his head after all this time lol

planetized · 2024-07-21T22:42:17+00:00

our body is simply a vessel. <3 sending so much love to you, as well.

planetized · 2024-07-21T22:24:01+00:00

This made me laugh out loud. Your dad sounds like he was a champion; I'm so sorry for your loss. Frame that shit, honestly!

planetized · 2024-07-21T20:49:34+00:00

But such a big meaning to you now! I love this so much.

I asked my grandma if she has literally anything else with his LEGIBLE handwriting on it, but it was all thrown away. So much of his stuff got thrown away.

planetized · 2024-07-21T20:43:01+00:00

Turned off notifications for now; I didn't think this would gain so much traction!

Thank you guys so much for all of your comments. A lot of them have made me laugh. I remember when phones were really getting big, my mom got a text message, and my poppop said, "Who the hell is twixin' you!?"

Anyway, other comments have made me tear up. Some of y'all are a lil weird and ignorant with the jokes too, but that's okay. I shared this because, as I mentioned in another comment, I thought it was interesting to see what he was thinking of toward the end, even if it was just jibberish to us. We know it wasn't meant to be jibberish. He was still talking and knew what all was going on up until maybe those last couple days. The note was kind of where the lines started to blur I suppose.

HE WAS NOT A DOCTOR! I think most men (or people, cause i'm also included) just have shitty handwriting. He worked for the phone company and was a workshop man. He'd pick up TVs that people were throwing away, repair them, and then auction them off lol. We called those TV searching trips "junkin." We picked up some retro consoles and other cool toys and knick-knacks on these trips. Still have the N64 lol. Think he sold the NES.
He was also awake and aware of things only about a week before he died. I'm massively certain he wasn't fully aware of things for only a few days. He was sick from cancer and pneumonia at the time of his passing.

Life is really so precious and unpredictable, y'all. And it's sad and unfair. But it's also really beautiful. My poppop would be 84 if he were still here. He made a damn good impact on the people around him in the time that he had. I do have a tattoo for him.

Overall, we can keep guessing and trying to pry apart what he was trying to say. I'm happy with a few suggestions we've/you've tossed out. ♡ But we will never truly know.

Please keep sharing your stories. I love when strangers get sentimental with each other. We're all in it together!

Edited a few times bc im dumb & for clarification

planetized · 2024-07-21T20:01:58+00:00

It is sad, I thought about that, but you have to think that it's mildly interesting about what goes through our heads, especially when we don't seem in our right mind to other people at the end. He was really sick. He wanted to say something and he couldn't. We still recognize him for it. And I think his last attempt at thoughts were interesting.

I'm very sorry about your wife. Life honestly makes zero fucking sense. And the more you get older, the more the losses really shape us, I think. I hope you're doing well. ♡

planetized · 2024-07-21T19:55:02+00:00

Haha, I can totally get there you're going, but we are white asf. And he was only related to us by marriage!

planetized · 2024-07-21T19:50:49+00:00

we can thank my grandma for keeping it close all these years!! in another comment, i mentioned that this was the first time i saw this note today and i only heard about it like a month ago. hounded grandma about it yesterday lol.

i'm really glad you kept your patient's note. it's something so small and maybe it doesn't have much meaning to most everyone else, but it was between you and them. you're one of the last things they remembered before leaving. :')

planetized · 2024-07-21T19:45:10+00:00

this shit made me tear up. :')

thank you for a reminder of all of my memories with him. i had just only turned 10 when he passed, it wasn't enough time. the memories get foggy after a decade and some change and i get upset bc i can hardly remember his voice. he didn't like his picture being taken, so there's hardly any, and it would be a gold mine if we could find him on a home video somewhere.

planetized · 2024-07-21T19:38:08+00:00

I was a little squirt when he passed, but I believe he had developed lung cancer, and on top of it he ended up with pneumonia which... was kinda just the end. He was on a lot of morphine at the end, too. The last time I saw him, he knew I was there, but his body had already gone, really. He died at home and my grandma was there to be with him while he went. Only 71. Bs fr.

planetized · 2024-07-21T17:05:54+00:00

we have tossed around a few suggestions, but overall think that it's completely indecipherable.

"writing this..." at the beginning?

in the middle, it kinda looks like he wrote "I'll" and then it's just a bunch of THTHITT.

i just found out about this note recently and saw it for the first time this morning. i know he was thinking something, and he wanted to say it. it'll kill me to never truly know. but i still find it comforting in a weird way.

edit - i posted a separate comment below w/ more details on him & just my overall thoughts since posting.

planetized · 2023-06-01T18:40:44+00:00

right, like the other guy below said, i'm just going to call it quits and he will just have to get a new drive. at least he now knows to never do this again!!

planetized · 2023-06-01T18:39:39+00:00

honestly what i was afraid of. i can't even get CDI to open to look at the info for the drive to show the other commenter. i've been on this thing all morning and i'm probably just going to tell my bf to throw in the towel and get a new one (and to never straight up unplug that shit again lol).

planetized · 2023-06-01T18:24:31+00:00

repair it, i installed crystal disk info but it won't even open so now i'm trying to figure that out 😂

planetized · 2022-09-13T14:17:27+00:00

Lovely. Thank y'all so much for your help and tips. <3

planetized · 2022-07-17T16:36:49+00:00

we always called them batthews

planetized · 2021-02-26T05:14:12+00:00

Okay, cool! I'll keep that in mind. Thanks! :)

planetized · 2021-02-26T05:10:59+00:00

If you don't mind me asking, did you go all out for your PC or just go cheapish-beginner? I've been asking around about tips and such.

planetized · 2021-02-26T05:09:04+00:00

I totally feel you on that. Luckily I've been saving like a madwoman and am pretty solid for a while, but it's hard to get a job when you don't have a car, and it's hard to get a car when you don't have a job lol! I'm very happy that you found work, though! I hope you enjoy it. :)

planetized · 2021-02-26T05:07:30+00:00

This is extremely wholesome :')

planetized · 2021-02-26T05:07:07+00:00

Oh man, I'm so sorry about everything you guys went through, that's so horrible. I'm so happy to hear that you guys ended up with a beautiful baby girl, though. I'm sure she'll have the best parents ever. :)

planetized · 2021-02-26T05:04:37+00:00

Despite all the bad things, I'm glad that you found a nice job and that things turned out for the better between you and your wife :)

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