My dad and grandmother both told me Don was born with 7 holes in his heart. The largest was the size of a half-dollar according to Don himself. He told me he was one of the first few to be a recipient of the Blalock heart procedures.
When my father died he was 53 years old, he died three weeks after his sister Laura whom he was very close too. My dad had been given many estimates how long he would live, his last told estimate from a doctor was 35, which he had told me just a couple of weeks before his death. At his funeral, they say was he had just inverted the number that the doctors had told him.
Don moved from his longtime home city of Coeur d'Alene, ID to Spokane, WA because Idaho would not pay for his oxygen required for his health issues. Spokane is less than 30 miles from Coeur d'Alene and his daughter lived in Spokane at the time. Don's lungs were scarred from the numerous heart surgeries of his youth, he was told by doctors that he had 50% lung capacity in one lung and less than 50% in the other. He was experiencing black outs from lack of oxygen and needed health care to live, Idaho would not provide it.
He moved in 1986 with the help of his daughter to get an apartment and services from the state. The state finally got him Social Security after being on state aid. He made many friends. Three weeks after coming back from his sister Laura's funeral, he died. He was talking to his chore worker and fell over in mid-sentence and could not be revived. After his death, he was transported to Coeur d'Alene to be buried next to his parents.
When my father died he was 53 years old, he died three weeks after his sister Laura whom he was very close too. My dad had been given many estimates how long he would live, his last told estimate from a doctor was 35, which he had told me just a couple of weeks before his death. At his funeral, they say was he had just inverted the number that the doctors had told him.
Don moved from his longtime home city of Coeur d'Alene, ID to Spokane, WA because Idaho would not pay for his oxygen required for his health issues. Spokane is less than 30 miles from Coeur d'Alene and his daughter lived in Spokane at the time. Don's lungs were scarred from the numerous heart surgeries of his youth, he was told by doctors that he had 50% lung capacity in one lung and less than 50% in the other. He was experiencing black outs from lack of oxygen and needed health care to live, Idaho would not provide it.
He moved in 1986 with the help of his daughter to get an apartment and services from the state. The state finally got him Social Security after being on state aid. He made many friends. Three weeks after coming back from his sister Laura's funeral, he died. He was talking to his chore worker and fell over in mid-sentence and could not be revived. After his death, he was transported to Coeur d'Alene to be buried next to his parents.
My dad and grandmother both told me Don was born with 7 holes in his heart. The largest was the size of a half-dollar according to Don himself. He told me he was one of the first few to be a recipient of the Blalock heart procedures.
When my father died he was 53 years old, he died three weeks after his sister Laura whom he was very close too. My dad had been given many estimates how long he would live, his last told estimate from a doctor was 35, which he had told me just a couple of weeks before his death. At his funeral, they say was he had just inverted the number that the doctors had told him.
Don moved from his longtime home city of Coeur d'Alene, ID to Spokane, WA because Idaho would not pay for his oxygen required for his health issues. Spokane is less than 30 miles from Coeur d'Alene and his daughter lived in Spokane at the time. Don's lungs were scarred from the numerous heart surgeries of his youth, he was told by doctors that he had 50% lung capacity in one lung and less than 50% in the other. He was experiencing black outs from lack of oxygen and needed health care to live, Idaho would not provide it.
He moved in 1986 with the help of his daughter to get an apartment and services from the state. The state finally got him Social Security after being on state aid. He made many friends. Three weeks after coming back from his sister Laura's funeral, he died. He was talking to his chore worker and fell over in mid-sentence and could not be revived. After his death, he was transported to Coeur d'Alene to be buried next to his parents.
When my father died he was 53 years old, he died three weeks after his sister Laura whom he was very close too. My dad had been given many estimates how long he would live, his last told estimate from a doctor was 35, which he had told me just a couple of weeks before his death. At his funeral, they say was he had just inverted the number that the doctors had told him.
Don moved from his longtime home city of Coeur d'Alene, ID to Spokane, WA because Idaho would not pay for his oxygen required for his health issues. Spokane is less than 30 miles from Coeur d'Alene and his daughter lived in Spokane at the time. Don's lungs were scarred from the numerous heart surgeries of his youth, he was told by doctors that he had 50% lung capacity in one lung and less than 50% in the other. He was experiencing black outs from lack of oxygen and needed health care to live, Idaho would not provide it.
He moved in 1986 with the help of his daughter to get an apartment and services from the state. The state finally got him Social Security after being on state aid. He made many friends. Three weeks after coming back from his sister Laura's funeral, he died. He was talking to his chore worker and fell over in mid-sentence and could not be revived. After his death, he was transported to Coeur d'Alene to be buried next to his parents.
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