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I’m telling you so that you can not only nag me and poke me and ask me how it is going and offer advice, but also so that I have a witness to this kind of big deal thing that I am just going to DO. Because I can. Anyone can. But you just have [...]
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Yesterday. She would have been 89. And while rationally I know that if she was still alive it would have been oh so painful for all of us, oh so complicated and sad, but I am missing her. And on the important days the missing her wafts in and wafts out. You know it almost [...]
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Often it is my Grandfather that I think of when I think of Memorial Day. I think about him being such a young, young man in the Air Force during WWII. I think about the nightmares he would have decades later about things he never spoke of. I think about the pride he felt for [...]
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All conditions and terms and schedules and emotions and traffic and speed of elevators and arrival of lunch trays must be in alignment. The planets of my son and my Grandmother are rarely in perfect orbit. Almost always someone needs to be changed or fed or napped. But yesterday, oh yesterday, we had perfect synchronicity. [...]
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We arrived mid morning with cards, cake, a gift and a baby in a party shirt. As we exited the elevator and turned the corner to where GM is “parked” I suddenly thought, “wait. Do we say Happy Birthday or do we say who we are first?” Just about every other visit we need to [...]
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I miss my happy boy. I miss sleep. It seems like our days are a cycle of comfort nursing, pooping, pain management, and TRYING to get someone to take a nap and failing. Yesterday it took sometimes an hour to get him to sleep and then he would only sleep for twenty minutes. I know [...]
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This morning W and I traveled solo to visit GM. The occasion? He looked cute wearing a plaid outfit from one of his Internet Aunties. Well and also, even if just for myself, I wanted to mark the birthday of GM’s cousin. Today this cousin is 88 and in three weeks and three days GM [...]
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Mother has just left to go sit with GM today. I feel hugs pangs of guilt for not going, but the traveling, the heat of the room, and the VERY uncomfortable seating situation slayed me yesterday. Every single nurse had to comment on my “still” being pregnant and on the massive size of my ankles. [...]
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