When do you start putting the reality next to the fantasy about how long you’ll live? What happens when everything’s checked off your bucket list? Do you make a new one? Throw in the towel and say good-night? Eternally?
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It’s very funny when my 91 year old mother fumes with frustration at me and, in heated seriousness, snaps “FECK OFF.” When it happened.....
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I pulled out the soap box. Not a real one (what is a soap box anyway?), but a virtual one...the kind you stand on when you need a little height to project your important message out to the masses....
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Like a box of chocolates- you never know what you’ll get with your aging mother. Sometimes, you put your finger in the middle, and feel an OMG-I-can’t-believe-we’re-doing-this-again piece.
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Me and my friends, sitting on the beach, sucking up the sun... ahhhhh...feels the same today, as it did 40 years ago. Sort of...
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At first, I thought it would be the same thing – taking care of children and caretaking aging parents.
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DEFACTO....We don’t plan on it.... it just happens. Unsuspecting adult children, incrementally caring for aging parents.
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Yesterday was Mom’s “annual physical.” Ahem... didn’t we just have one of those? Apparently not....
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