As teenagers we did everything we could to break free of our parents. Now we do what we can to hang on for as long as we can.
Most of us who still have our parents are dealing with the emotions of seeing declining health and the frailties that come with old age.
Just this week, I came home from visiting with a friend whose father is now a dialysis patient, while her mother is battling Parkinson’s. When I sat down to catch up on some social media, I discovered an old friend’s father had passed. Yesterday, I spent the day transporting my parents to a medical facility. In middle age, hospitals, nursing homes and funerals become all too familiar to us.
Somewhere in our crammed schedules and busy lives, we need to find the time. Some things really can’t wait until another day.
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