Me Mum

2011 Was a great year...married to a wonderful woman, and we still have our health and wealth and so far there is no snow in Warren!...My mother spends most of her time sitting and sleeping at home, but manages to move around the house with her walker and still bakes and reads and does her crossword puzzles in between naps. She is approaching 88 years in April and I noticed her muttering to herself at the table this morning after it took her five minutes to remember that she was reading the news paper, as she always does during breakfast. Her intact,sensitive spirit apologized for her loss of mental faculties, and today I found a piece of paper with the words "Sorry, I Am crazy." near a small drawing of a crying face...this because she misplaced some Christmas cards a few days ago and thought she had been impatient with us when we found different ones in her desk which she had no recollection of possessing. I'm not sure what the future holds but she seems to be happy in her simple life and claims not to be afraid of dying. We convinced her to drop her supplemental health insurance which at $320 a month had returned maybe $500 in bill payments over the past 6 years, a time period which had included a week long hospital stay. Because she will not want any drastic procedures to prolong her life, paying $4,000 a year with a pitiful return like that was just a scam, so Medicare and bank savings will suffice. Too bad she had not been saving that money all along, for she'd have put another $20,000-$30,000 in the bank....but fear of illness and whatever will do that to people. It was her choice. As it is she still spends about $200 a month out of pocket for her medicines, but probably at some point she will recognize them as pointless too.
-Finally, the book is finished, although with every reading I find things to edit and improve... it will be incumbent upon me to let it go soon.