Mama & Daddy
Right now, both my parents are very ill. My dad, who is 75, has incurable cancer. He was given 3 months to live last summer, but with the treatments, he had gotten some strength back and looked like himself again. My mother and I thought he would never come home from the hospital, but he was given back to us. He had been sick at home for months before he finally let us take him to the hospital, where he stayed for a month. From September until just the last couple of weeks, he was tolerating the chemo and the only big problem he had was with his red blood cells. (not enough of them, the chemo kills the good along with the bad.)
But, a week ago Tuesday, 2/9/99, my Mom (who is 70) had to go to the hospital because she couldn't breathe. They kept her there for 3 days, and it just had a horrible effect on Daddy. He was so scared of losing her. She has emphexyma, asthma, real high colesterol, high blood pressure and all these things have continued to worsen ever since my Dad fell so ill last summer.
By the time we brought her home on that Friday, Daddy was so sick, we think he might have pneumonia. He couldn't get in to the doctor until tomorrow, so we have to see if they are going to put him back in the hospital. He is running a fever and any infection could kill him. He is so stubborn! He totally forgot his doctor appointment the day Mom went to the hospital and then the next day when he went for his hemoglobin shot, the nurse wanted him to stay and see the doctor, but he wouldn't. He wanted to get back to Mom, even though I was there with her. I really think they are killing themselves worrying about each other.
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I am so afraid I am going to lose both of them close together. I think it is harder when you have been as close as we have than when parents and children are at odds most of the time.
I have always pretty much agreed with my parents, though there might have been a few months when I was 13 that I thought I knew more than my Dad. Or at least I wanted to convince him of that. But it never worked and it didn't last. They were always honest with me and it was just easier to be honest with them.
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There have never been any periods of estrangement between my parents and me. Even when I lived out of town for different periods, I always came home once a week. That is, except when I moved to Oregon for 4 months, and to Connecticutt for 2 months. Neither worked out though, and I should have known that before I ever left.
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Well, I have too many animals to get sick let alone die and leave them. No one would want my spoiled rotten dogs or the cats. I have to be here to love them and care for them in the manner they have become accustomed to.
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