Excellent story Marc and I can definitely relate to it. I know I haven't been too responsive lately to PM's but that has now changed.
You and a few others here know what I have been dealing with lately. Anyway, my dad always l;oved to go to the field to what me and others fly. The people treated him just like anyone else even when he would explain to me that he did not want to go because he felt embaraased by the way he looked. I had to keep reminding him that they did not care about that and were just glad he could come along.
Fast forward to now, he is much worse than he was at this time last year. During the pastyear he has helped as much as possible in assembling my ARF's and stripping ones that just did not hold up to my dumb thumbs. Anyway, he has helped me do my 30% Ultimate, my 27% Cap, my helicopter and now soon to be WH Edge 540. Anyway, getting him outside is a real chore with having to rent a wheel chair van, a nurse to go along and all the other little things and trying to coordinate this stuff is a nightmare at best. Well, next week we will have a full time nurse along with a van for the whole week. He is looking forward to it and has requested only one thing.
He most definitely wants to hit the field everyday that the weather allows. He has also seen videos of my much improved IMAC and 3D skills and by his own words, he cannot wait to see what I can now do with a plane not to mention a heli.
Whatever else we do is OK with him but that is his only request. He said to me that he feels his time is now very short and if nothing else he wants to his only son do something that he has always wanted to do.
This all comes from a person that I used to argue with whenever we would fix or build something together.
My point to all of this, my Dad (father just does not seem to fit) has expressed to others, including my 4 sisters how proud he is of me. He has never said that to me but I can see it when I land and turn around and see the smile on his face. I'll bet a weeks (read that as WEAK
) pay your Dad will feel the same way