Well, I have been out of town for awhile. My mother lives in North Carolina and she fractured her hip about two weeks ago. After a hospital experience that would probably have Glenn Beck saying 'I feel your pain', she came home and is healing very well. We went to spend a week there to help with cooking, cleaning and taking mom to the numerous doctors appointments. I hope that we were more of a help than a burden, because sometimes having 4 extra people staying with you is worse than being alone. The kids were good overall, but being stuck without their toys was probably hard. I did really enjoy where they lived though. People let their dogs outside, the kids can play outside without supervision and there is no fear of them being kidnapped. It was almost like being flashed back to my childhood. The weather was mostly nice this past week and we got some great views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I considered for awhile if it was a place I could live. But I would have to spend more time in Asheville to see. The small town my parents live in is not very ethnically diverse, and that is something that is important for us. Its been a long time since I've gotten the 'watch out, it's a Puerto Rican' look from people, and I'd prefer to keep it that way. (actually many people may say Mexican, though I look nothing like a Mexican)
The trip wasn't bad, with the exception of the gas prices. We didn't hit any traffic except a brief bit in Baton Rouge on the way home, but that was only for about 5 minutes. I didn't get pulled over which is impressive. That makes 4 straight long distance trips without being stopped. The two previous trips I got pulled over each time in West Texas. But in my defense, there is NOTHING in West Texas. I had to push it a little. They've even raised the speed limit to 80 out there. (I've heard at least, maybe Reck can verify this) Well, I hope I won't be making any road trips like that soon, but all in all, it wasn't bad.
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And I went through one of my uncle's death this weekend ... one of my more famous (and one of the youngest) uncles, actually. I have about 1 uncle left (but in that frame of age, my dad still lives, so to many in our family, we still have 2 uncles left.) At least I didn't have to travel for this (but my broe and sister certainly did have to travel for this) ...
I should say, I have another brother who didn't have to travel to this (he couldn't make it back to town), but he was well represented.
Sorry to hear that Stan. You've had your fair share lately, my condolences.
Reck, I see more of my relatives that I usually don't see because of these circumstances. And we all agree that we should stop meeting like this.
Hi Nestor, glad to see your back! Hope your mom's feeling better.
I have a question about your post. I didn't understand the "letting your dog's outside" thing. Do mean the dogs are free to roam, or they have fences, so they can leave them out...? I didn't get that.
Sounds like a nice place to live. We're lucky we found a neighborhood that's like ours when we were kids. My kids and their friends are out all day in the summer, on bikes, scooters, stopping for popsicles. Every kid's house has something different to offer-playscapes, sandboxes, squirt guns, pools, (for some reason my garage is a fan favorite.)They're all so sweet, I feel like we're in the 1950's sometimes. Wasn't like that in my previous neighborhood, so I'm happy we moved.
Hey Stan, I didn't mean to skip over your post. I'm sorry about your uncle, too. Sounds like you have a nice supportive family...that always helps. My dad had a stroke, and it's changed everything for us. I worry about his longevity every day..it's tough to watch the 'rents age.
Linda -
> I have a question about your (Nestor's) post. I didn't understand the "letting your dog's outside" thing. ...
I think it's a reference to a pop son, 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.
And on my Uncle? At least he went relatively (so-to-say) fast. Watching parents deteriorate like what we're doing is tough.
Tough...yeah. Seein your hero in rehab every day trying to relearn to dress himself. Coulda done w/out that. (Not to mention the personality change.)But he's here, and I'm sure as heck glad for that! :)
Oooh, sorry about that last depressing one, Nestor. It was late.
About the dogs, they would pretty much go outside, sniff around for awhile, and visit with the neighbors dogs. They check to make sure things are safe and come back home. Where I live, we have a fenced in backyard so our dog goes out there, but he always gets excited when he can go outside, unfenced.
Stan,
I don't really know what to say. It seems like you're taking things as well as you can. I've been pretty fortunate in that most of the people I've lost passed with spacing. It was much more spread out. It's got to be difficult to deal with loss back to back like that.
Nestor, I have a mom that used to worry about every little thing. Even the things she could do nothing about. So being the rebelious child, I decided to be different than what was so obviously wrong in her. Death is life, and once someone's dead there's nothing I can do about it. I know in all cases of relatives deaths that I have talked about in public, the ex-person involved would want us to continue our lives unaffected by their deaths, indeed some would want us to laugh at these times.
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