Drat!  Still with the pie chart.

Our son can do anything and usually will do it for us.  But there are some things:  plumbing, electricity that we really hire an expert for.  Otherwise, i can sometimes figure it out.

I do try very hard not to do things that will come back.  But at this vast age, of course, there are some things that still haunt me — oh, that Jewish guilt.  Candice’s finger would be one; small things usually, granted, but to me shameful nonetheless. 

As far as topless?  Who cares?

We’re very lucky to have a wonderful health care plan that includes eyes, dental and prescriptions, so we’re able to maintain all that we need to.  However, a friend of mine with many health problems, pays dearly for a prescription plan for which she must initially meet a base cost.  Some of her single, 30-day prescriptions cost as much as $800-$900.  She and her husband have often opted to just not take them — they simply cannot afford that cost.  So as well as the health care industry and all its problems; I do hope that the pharmaceutical companies will be overhauled as well.  The pharmaceutical lobby is a powerful one and the companies for which they lobby are employed by need to bear some very close scrutiny.

My father had Parkinson’s in his later years.  It was difficult for him to adjust to it (of course he wouldn’t or couldn’t take medication); but the illness itself invades every part of your life.  It was difficult for him to get the fork to his mouth when eating; the cup to his lips when drinking; he couldn’t wear hearing aids though he had a profound hearing loss — it was just impossible to get them in or to change the batteries.  As well, he wouldn’t allow the help that he needed…..but that’s another story; one for when we do ‘aging’. 

 I too think it’s wonderful that Michael J. Fox has taken his celebrity status and is using it to inform.  I’m sure he has his "pity parties", but has found, as many of us do, that no one comes. 

Thank you Michael; I too wish you many more optimistic years with your family and us.

There was, and still is, nothing I wouldn’t do for my husband. 

When we married, he was in law school and I worked for the government.  It was I that wanted to relocate and really wanted him to take the bar exam in another state.  It would have been easy for me to get a transfer and I liked the idea.  He didn’t and we stayed……it’s okay, but that was a decision I’ve always wondered about.

 Sacrificing my dream for that another — I would think that one would eventually so resent the person asking that of you.  Though there are dreams and dreams — some of them we outgrow, some of them aren’t feasible for many reasons and some we manage to do later in life. 

Never bothered formally switching, but do vote both parties.  Though lately, I’m so displeased with them both.