Last time I say my father alive he was on oxygen permanently. The last few years of his life he was in a wheelchair, unable to walk due to various side effects of having smoked 5 packs/day for almost 40 years of his life. Taking the oxygen mask off his face long enough to take one bite of a sandwich and chew it down would cause his blood-oxygen levels to drop almost 20 points. His doctor described his lungs as looking like cottage cheese with swiss holes in them, and the bottom thirds were rotted off. He was found dead at 5 am with his mask off on Memorial Day morning.
The irony is that at his funeral my wife and I were the only non-smokers in the entire family. I have 3 half-sisters by my father and they and all their children smoke. On a side note I'm also unique in that I'm the only one of my 4 half-sisters and one half-brother who hasn't gone through a divorce (some sisters are on their 3rd or 4th marriages). My father's last wife was his sixth.
The irony is that at his funeral my wife and I were the only non-smokers in the entire family. I have 3 half-sisters by my father and they and all their children smoke. On a side note I'm also unique in that I'm the only one of my 4 half-sisters and one half-brother who hasn't gone through a divorce (some sisters are on their 3rd or 4th marriages). My father's last wife was his sixth.
