Thursday, July 9, 2009

Home Again

Both mother and father are out of the hospital and at home. Hopefully things will stay that way for a good long while.

The day my mother got out of the hospital, she walked out to the garden without her oxygen tube. Well, that might be good except she was still on antibiotics and steroids to treat her illness. I'm afraid I got mad at her and was a little mean. I told her that I should tie a rope around her waist to keep her from running off, just as she once did to me when I was a little boy. Then I said, "At least we know you still remember your way home." That's the part I feel bad about, because her short-term memory has been getting steadily worse since her illness in the Winter of 07-08. I must be more mindful about what I say.

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