96. Heidi's Motel, Brewster, New York

Date: November 25, 1977
Age: Six months

Happy Thanksgiving! This is your first, and we are together in Brewster.

Love, Mommy & Daddy

Dad hasn't left Arkansas yet. He'd been hoping to switch to outpatient at the myeloma clinic earlier this month, but that never happened. Still in the hospital, and chemo is doing nothing. H told C today that he is not going to fight it any longer. Stopping all treatment, and he's going home.

There's no way he can fly on a commercial jet. It's an 18-hour drive from Arkansas to Miami. H is trying to make arrangements with a social worker for an air ambulance so he doesn't have to endure all that time in the backseat.

I know we've gotten the panicked phone calls before to tell us to come right away, but I don't think this one is a fire drill. Once he gets home, H will tell us when to get there. But there isn't much time left, so it should happen next week.