What do you tell someone who wants to die?
I visited my aunt. At first she didn’t know who I was, probably because she can’t see very well. She has cataracts and late last fall she promised me she’d go to the doctor about them after the holidays. I teasingly accused her of ending up in the hospital to keep from going to the eye doctor.
She’s not doing well. She’s lost 13 pounds in the last few weeks since she’s been sick. She was skinny before all this. She doesn’t think she’ll ever go back to her apartment. She’s having trouble keping food down. I’m going to try to talk with her doctor and therapist tomorrow.
What do you tell someone who wants to die?
She still has 90% of her mental abilities. Though she does seem to have slipped there a little. Sometimes I wonder if it would be easier if she didn’t know what was going on. But I think that would be worse. She’s able to tell you that she loves you and is so thankful that I’m here. She talked about the time right after Hurricane Charley hit in 2004 and she was sitting in her neighbors house without electricity (90 F) and looked out the window and saw me standing there. After not being able to contact her for two days, I jumped on a plane and flew down to check on her. All power was out for several weeks, so I ended up driving her to my cousins house in Louisiana (actually they me m half way). A few weeks later when they finally got her power back on, I flew to New Orleans and drove her back home.
I guess it’s just important to be there for them.
Tuesday Open Mic
This is a rare Tuesday Open Mic. I’m off to the airport in about 4 inches of snow. Hopefully my flight won’t be delayed or canceled. As of 5:30 am my 9:45 flight is “On Time”.
I’ll try to figure out what’s wrong with the BABBQ page and the inability to post a comment there. As you may notice there are now 3 such pages I created in order to try to fix the problem. Scott has found a cached page that will allow the comments to appear on the first BABBQ page in the time being.
Here’s the link for that.