Journal: 05/16/06

Today was "better," at least in the medical sense of the word. My hangover was gone, but I remained lethargic in mind and body, my soul like a wrung-out cheesecloth. Staying focused through the day wasn’t all that hard, I did manage to get ten hours of sleep last night. I’m going to bed early tonight also, so I can continue my unbroken record of arriving at work on time every day for the past month.

Joann’s Obituary (Update)

Joann’s son David called yesterday and we had a nice chat. I had left a message on Sunday on his cell phone, but he told me he had been out of town. He read Joann’s obituary that I posted on this blog on May 8, and told me that there were a few corrections that needed to be made. First, Joann was born in Scottsdale, Arizona, not Texas, and her father’s last name was Mahan, not Dubuc. All of the information I used in her obit came from our marriage license and her death certificate, and at least in the case of the marriage certificate, she wrote her own information down. I’ve made the corrections and am republishing Joann’s obituary here, the original posted on May 8 with stay uncorrected, in the spirit of not making corrections to any published post. If there are any other corrections to be made, I’ll put them up here as they come about.

Joann Gottlund-Scott August 24, 1951—April 6, 2006 MONTEREY, CA.—Joann Gottlund-Scott, 54, passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home in Monterey with her loving husband by her side on April 6, 2006, from complications of end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and coronary artery disease. Joann was born on August 24, 1951 in Scottsdale, Arizona; she spent her childhood and teen years in Modesto, Ca. and was a thirty-year resident of the Monterey Peninsula. She divided much of her professional career as a Registered Nurse working at the Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP) and the Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) of the Monterey Peninsula. She was well respected in her field by employers, colleagues and patients. Joann had a great love of life and a boundless passion for living it, even through the final three years of her life as her disease advanced. She was always there to lend a hand to friends in need, especially when they were ill or having surgery. Joann was a wonderful wife, loving mother to her son David, and stayed in daily contact with her mother, Mildred, the entire year before she passed away. Joann will be missed by everyone who knew her. Joann was preceded in death by her father, Joe Mahan, and her mother, Mildred Mahan. Her husband of eighteen months residing in Monterey, Ca., James A. Scott, her son residing in Sacramento, Ca. David R. Shorey, her brother Bobby and sister Janie residing in the Modesto, Ca. area, survive her.