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Originally Posted by Shadow  spelcheq...welcome to YT and Im sorry about your husband. I enjoyed reading your post, I think you are going to be a breath of fresh air here.
Is there a meaning to the name spelcheq? |
Yes, there is real meaning to "Spelcheq" and in fact my husband's Mustang convertible has a license plate "Spelcheq".............PLUS the black cat we rescued is named "Typo"......both names have to do with the fact that we are both writers.....I wrote for three Southern Ohio newspapers, contributed three monthly columns to a Marin County, CA. magazine, did a brief stint with the Scottsdale newspaper and am currently writing a book. My husband wrote a monthly business column for a newspaper in Marin for 20 years and is also writing a book.......I came up with the name "Spelcheq" because of the frequency of use of the spell check tool on my computer and of course "Typo" is short for typographical error.
I talk to my husband every day and he's always telling me about Spelcheq's antics and that the twin grandsons love playing with him and what great company he is.
It's been 9 months since the cancer diagnosis and I understand for Grade 4 lung cancer he is doing very well..........and to hear someone who showed no introspection throughout our marriage evolve into a deeply introspective person as he faces death has been deeply touching to witness. How many women ever get the chance to hear, after they are separated or divorced, that the spouse they left profoundly understands why they are not together anymore. His children have stepped up to bat and surrounded him with love and care and concern and he told me "I don't deserve this......I left them when they needed me and I haven't really stayed close." But, I told him, you are the only father they have ever had and they have always loved you and to be able to care for you now is not a burden to them, it is an honor, a way to bring the circle fully closed, it's something they are doing for themselves as well as for you and they are setting the example they pray their own children will follow when they are frail, elderly and ill.
Sadly, their mother died last month. Luckily I have stayed close to my stepdaughter (the boys accepted me but in no way as a maternal figure) and I am praying I can be a part of their family forever. If not, I will lose 8 grandchildren and one great grandaughter and a stepdaughter who has always felt like my own........ I have no control over the path ahead and will flow with their decisions.
So that is the long version of the story behind "Spelcheq's" name. And he is a gorgeous example of the Silky breed.