I am at my mom's mobile home a little over a hundred miles from where we live. She is 81 years old and has been in a nursing home for a few weeks, breathing problems due to smoking Pall Malls for 50 years or so. We kids have to face the real possibility that she will never come back here to live on her own. I was just thinking that it is funny - my daughter and I have an ostomy because of familial polyposis, but I don't know if my father had one. I don't think so. He died at a young-ish age, perhaps because he didn't have ostomy surgery. My mother even had an ostomy for a while for a different reason, though it was later reversed. But our daughter will never have any kids with her disabilities, so this is one strain of FAP that won't continue down through the generations. The ostomy is just a slight inconvenience to me after 25 years, but seeing my daughter deal with it brings home how hard it must be for others.
Showers are predicted today and tomorrow, mixed with a few snowflakes. But it won't be like winter snow: it won't accumulate and it won't stick around, but after a few warm days last week, it will seem odd. Mustn't complain - we had a mild winter, for us. Most of the big snowstorms passed to our south also. By next winter, we hope to be wintering in Florida, working from home. We'll see. I am too busy looking forward to summer and fall to worry about that.
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Apr 17, 2010 11:45 am