Lately I've let everything slide. I searched for specific parts of my life that I could claim not to have ignored, even slightly, and came up nill. I mentioned a few days ago my mom came home from the nursing home last month. She had renewed her cross stitch hobby and bought a swimming suit to commence water aerobics at the local indoor pool. Five days later on the way to a softball game she went into cardiac arrest while I was driving down the interstate. Paramedics came and on the way to the hospital they regained her pulse. Family was called and siblings arrived. She passed into Heaven a week a later. My youngest daughter grasped the finality of it when she said, "Grandma won't need her (false) teeth, or her glasses, or a wheelchair to go watch softball games." While I will miss her all of my remaining days the trip down the slide is over. No excuses available.
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| 1938-2012 |
