09-27-2006, 11:12 PM
My mom has become caretaker for several of her friends. It's weird. Of course, she's had her health issues too. She recently either got food poisoning or a stomach flu and wound up vomiting so hard that she lost her bridge. She's better now, but of course, that's so worrisome.
She had asked me to cut down a tree last Sunday, but I really hate cutting down trees. I like planting trees. We need more trees. Anyway, she had borrowed some kind of chainsaw from a widower friend that's gone blind. She is a part-time caretaker for him too - they go out to lunch every week and she always checks in on him. Anyway, Tara had a cold on Sunday so we didn't go down. Yesterday my mom calls me not to worry about the tree because her blind friend cut it down. I'm like "Ma! You let a blind guy handle a chainsaw?!" She said "yeah, and Dad was overwhelmed by it." I'm like "riiiiight....."
It's frightening how fragile my family is now. It wouldn't take much to push over an already teetering balance. And like a spinning top, time will eventually rob it of its momentum....
She had asked me to cut down a tree last Sunday, but I really hate cutting down trees. I like planting trees. We need more trees. Anyway, she had borrowed some kind of chainsaw from a widower friend that's gone blind. She is a part-time caretaker for him too - they go out to lunch every week and she always checks in on him. Anyway, Tara had a cold on Sunday so we didn't go down. Yesterday my mom calls me not to worry about the tree because her blind friend cut it down. I'm like "Ma! You let a blind guy handle a chainsaw?!" She said "yeah, and Dad was overwhelmed by it." I'm like "riiiiight....."
It's frightening how fragile my family is now. It wouldn't take much to push over an already teetering balance. And like a spinning top, time will eventually rob it of its momentum....
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