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INTERESTINGLY.......20 YEARS AGO WHEN I WENT TO A DOCTOR, THE COMMENTS FRO M THE VISIT WERE OF ThE SORT ... TWISTED RIGHT ANKLE—TAKE 2 TYLENOL AND GO AWAY...
NOW AT THE TENDER AGE OF 86 THE COMMENTS GO ON AND ON—ASKED APPROPRIATE QUESTIONS.. ALERT.... APPEPARS STATED AGE, SPEAKS IN FULL SENTANCES – BREATHING COMFORTABLY ---- MADE ME WONDER WHAT THE COMMENTS WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I DOZED OFF.... THERE IS AN AGE EXPECTATION WHICH SO Far I apparently am ahead of. Yet frank sinatra’s “my way” song keeps going round in my head...—there is no way I can give up and be stagnant.... these 3 dogs of mine would not let me anyway-- they want to be out in public making people smile.... even if it is for just a few minutes....and the cards and emails I get are most encouraging. “ Keep on keeping on”. Is a constant theme as people buy their henny pennies....
Then there is the real fact that -- at my age , I figure I can make a few wize cracks----there are enough people who will still give me their seat on the bus... and don’t have the attitude. “Don’t help that old gal – she belongs in a nursing home.” ... most noteably. 100 years ago--- some guy offered to help me with my shopping at cressy’s ..... as I had just come from the farm where someone had cursed me for being in their way.... I was totally shocked- I am sure I did a daily doggie on that topic I could not believe how gracious the total stranger was....a few years later and the same guy is living across the driveway--- it was nick—elizabeth’s husband...and he is just as gracious in real everyday life !! also darn funny....good manners are not dead!... but neither is elder abuse!!
So at 1:00 I had an appointment with a woman writing on elders in general....and how Ipswich makes sure I have one meal a week ! – on Mondays they bring one to the door—this week a lovely slice of ham.... fresh salad.. delmonica potatoes and a frosted cookie ! r
And there is someone in town who bakes a loaf of banana bread evey year on my birthday.... so all is not lost....
My new phone---- I am hand typing in the phone numbers.... I am so sure there is a weird bug in that old phone I don’t want them talking to each other....—my old phone, I emailed judy sitting next to me in the car... she got the email—and it then did not even show on my phone... it is strange...now we can use it for mail call.. and that is it !
