Thursday, August 4, 2011

" SO YOU ARE 42 TODAY!! "

THIS WAS WHAT MIKE SAID TO ME ON OUR ANNIVERSARY.  I THINK HE MUST HAVE GOTTEN IT CONFUSED WITH MY BIRTHDAY (WHICH WAS JUST A FEW DAYS AGO).  HE SAID NEXT YEAR YOU WILL BE 43.  IT SOUNDED SO GOOD TO ME THAT I DID NOT BOTHER TO CORRECT HIM!!  I KNOW-I'M BAD.  MIKE IS GETTING MORE AND MORE FRAIL.  HE IS NOT STEADY ON HIS FEET, AND ALMOST FELL TWO OR THREE TIMES WHILE WE WERE GONE.  I HAD TO LAUGH LAST NIGHT, AS I BOUGHT HIM A REALLY NICE HAT WITH BUILT IN SPF50 (NOT CHEAP), AND HE WORE IT EVERYWHERE EXCEPT TO BED THE WHOLE TIME WE WERE GONE.  THEN LAST NIGHT, HE ASKED ME WHO'S HAT IS THIS??  WHERE DID IT COME FROM??  NOW I HAVE TWO HATS!!  THE ONE THING THAT DOES HAVE ME CONCERNED, IS THAT HE IS SAYING THAT HE IS SEEING DOUBLE.  WE JUST HAD HIS EYES CHECKED ABOUT ONE MONTH AGO, AND HE GOT NEW GLASSES.  HE SAID THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE, BUT DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY WAS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE HEARD HIM SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THAT.  I GUESS I WILL HAVE TO GIVE HIS PCP DOCTOR A CALL, AND SEE WHAT MAY BE CAUSING THAT PROBLEM.  WE ARE BOTH SO EXCITED THAT OUR SON AND HIS FAMILY WILL BE HERE IN JUST TWO MORE DAYS!!  MIKE KEEPS ASKING ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF OUR TWO LITTLE GRANDDAUGHTERS.  HE TRIES SO HARD TO REMEMBER THINGS I KEEP THINKING HE MUST BE AWARE OF HOW BAD HIS MEMORY HAS GOTTEN, YET HE IS NEVER CROSS OR UPSET, AND CONTINUES TO SAY HE IS HAPPY WHENEVER I ASK HIM.  I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR THAT.  WELL I HAVE MUCH TO DO TO GET READY FOR MY GRAND KIDS, SO TILL TOMORROW-HAVE A DELIGHTFUL DAY.  JUST ME

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