Alli and Beth's bio uncle (father of Cousin It, grandfather of this baby) has been declared terminal with cancer for a couple of months now. He has hospice services in place. Alli got a text yesterday that he'd had another stroke and a seizure. It was really no surprise tonight when Alli got a text saying he'd died. I was sitting here trying to figure out when the service would be and what I had appropriate to wear to it when I got a text from Alli saying, "He's still alive. LOL!"
Alli had called Beth to get the details. (Beth works with Cousin It now so she has all the family news more accessible to her.) Anyway, Beth said he HADN'T died. He was still gravely ill but very much alive. She even called Cousin It to confirm that he was still breathing.
Guess someone along the texting chain sent or received the wrong message. Kind of like that old game of Telephone or Gossip where everyone sits in a circle and you whisper a word around the circle and the word at the end usually doesn't even come close to being the word they started with. Only this time, we didn't have a funny word at the end. We had a dead uncle that wasn't dead. Again, only in my family...
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