I will be off-line again for a while. I hope you all do well to help each other and celebrate small and large victories. I love you and appreciate support--I have to admit--I hope you will be thinking of me. I am traveling to Texas for my father. I spoke to him on the phone (though he could not answer; he did hear) before he died. I am lucky. I grew up with a very loving father. I am sorry for those of you who did not. I don't know whether this is triggering or not. Please edit, if you think it should be tagged. I am not in deep mourning, because my father and I love and sometimes have even openly expressed it (not so with my mother, but I have to not think of that and try to be a strong support for her this week). My father has been terminal for a bit more than a year, and he has not been in very much pain. He never saw the inside of a nursing home. My wonderful adult son stayed with them off and on all of this past year and was a great help, which made me proud and relieved. I visited my father many times this year. This is right.
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