It didn't register. Like my father who never went to his brother's funeral. This is okay. Not everyone who has a stroke or dies is a good person to those who are alive. We don't have to fake it or question ourselves.
Nobody wants to wish a stroke on anybody.
I'm just pleased he's happy. Apart from that nothing. All the other elderly men in the hospital are gentlemen who comment on the sandwich fillings and wait patiently for their families to come and visit them. Pop is less civilised. When they brought his dinner in, he dug his nails into their forearms.