I hate doing this. My father tested positive for COVID today. He's been in a hospice care facility since October last year due to end stage emphysema. Hospice is amazing, they make him as comfortable as possible and support him and our family while he slips away

That's how it's supposed to work. In the time of COVID19 we can't visit at all. We can't even drop anything off for him. Not his favorite food, not pictures of the kids nothing. His care facility was being very careful and protecting all of their patients.

Then they had an outbreak 45 patients and 32 staff members tested positive this week so far. They're going to move him to the COVID floor tonight. That means all new nurses and aides. People he doesn't know who don't know him. He's going to be so frightened and alone.

Hospice is supposed to be a relief. The patient is surrounded by people who care about them and ease their pain and their progress into the next stage. Now he will die alone, afraid, and anonymous.

I want to celebrate his life and show off a little for him. If you've ever been to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame he built that. New World Trade Center he built that. Chicago Millennial Park Bridge that too. Pittsburgh PPG that's his too.

The skylines of cities all over this country are different because my dad was good at his job. He should be celebrated instead we won't be able to have a funeral, my brother can't come home from Australia to say goodbye we just have to wait for someone to call and tell us.

He wants to be cremated and have his ashes spread so these buildings will be the only headstone he has. His name isn't on them but his welds will be there. He showed his work.