ORIGINAL: Apollo11
Hi all,
ORIGINAL: Terminus
Another Christmas eve done. Spent it with my mom as usual.
It's a bit melancholy these days. She'll turn 79 in January, and every Christmas I can't help but wonder if it'll be the last we have together.
Sorry if I'm bringing people down, but there it is.
I know how it is Kristian... my mother is 81... our entire family spends Christmas eve and Christmas together and we always have nice big (3 meters) Christmas tree...
Leo "Apollo11"
I, too. When my mother was 69, she had a seriously major stroke. The entire right side of her body, including her right brain, no longer functions. We all thought that was it. But she's 87 now and still going strong; alert, lucid, nasty as ever, can't speak but can grunt, groan, and sigh, intelligeably. The elderly are a lot stronger and way more butt-headed than we think.
Don't be melancholy, my friend, she might just surprise you. But, in any case, take what you get while you can get it. The elderly are susceptible to melancholia, so don't show it. Love them and confront them, engage them and challenge them; it's what keeps them alive and aware. When the time comes, as it will, you will both be prepared to deal with it. It's a glass half-full, or half-empty, kinda thing, and old as our parents are, they are still sensitive to their environment.
I utterly hate being philosophical. But every now and then ... please forgive. John
