{"id":4376,"date":"2006-09-26T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:01:03","slug":"first_anniversa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4376","title":{"rendered":"First anniversary of my brother Paul&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My brother Paul died one year ago today. He died in the bathroom of his house in Texas, and wasn&#8217;t found for almost two days &#8211; he missed his dialysis so a friend came looking for him. For more about my brother, go here <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/paul_faranda_19.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Paul Faranda, 1958-2005<\/a>&nbsp; and here <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2005\/10\/pauls_last_rite.html\">Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Paul&#8217;s Last Rites<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paul was 47 when he died, after a lifetime battle with congenital kidney disease and juvenile diabetes. We are having the 12 o&#8217;clock Mass said for him today, and both Joe and Tim said they wanted to go to the Mass, so we&#8217;ll take them out of school for an hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in December, my brother Jim sent me a picture he&#8217;d found that Paul had. It goes back to June, 1980 when we lived in the Cayman Islands and he came down to visit. We were on a secluded beach and must have set our canon ae-1 on the timer to take this. We still have that big ice chest AND the flip flops I&#8217;m wearing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/cayman0680.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13266\" title=\"Cayman0680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/cayman0680.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/cayman0680-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, here&#8217;s a big family shot from probably over 15 years ago. No Joe or Tim on the scene and my Dad still alive. That&#8217;s Paul in the red shirt &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/family_shot_from_jim.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13267\" title=\"Family_shot_from_jim\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/family_shot_from_jim.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/family_shot_from_jim-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother Paul died one year ago today. He died in the bathroom of his house in Texas, and wasn&#8217;t found for almost two days &#8211; he missed his dialysis so a friend came looking for him. For more about my brother, go here Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: Paul Faranda, 1958-2005&nbsp; and here Tom Faranda&#8217;s Folly: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13268,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}