Not only is my dad having to get a colonoscopy, his latest visit to the doctor showed he has hypothyroidism.
He called me today to tell me the doctor’s office called, “Go to the drugstore and get the thyroid medication we called in for you.” That’s all I know, he didn’t think […]
In what I hope doesn’t become another entry for the “What Now?” files, my dad informed me that he has to have a colonoscopy.
Now, while it’s good practice for people of a certain age to get them at prescribed intervals, this came up rather suddenly.
It’s routine-ish, but still, so was my mother’s carotid […]
An aside:
It’s a blessed wonder my father is still alive since he can’t drive worth a darn. That’s not a new development, so don’t worry that I need to have “the talk” with him, yet.
When I became an adult, I realized that his driving skills weren’t great, but had never known any differently because my […]
I was talking to my father this evening, and I asked him how his back was doing lately since we are getting ready to go on vacation and there will be steps where we are staying.
Me: “How’s your back been lately?”
Dad: “It’s not my back, it’s my knee.”
Me: “Your knee?”
Dad: “Yes.”
Me: “How long has […]
I called my dad this evening to check on him as we were having some rather large storms and some serious wind.
Through the howling wind (you could hear it inside the house, and, he’s only a few miles from me) and the frantic weathercastersI was talking to him, and, he, in his own inimitable fashion, […]
You guys are kind enough to ask about my dad from time to time.
Despite thinking he was having a back relapse, he continues to do well in that department, and, it’s too cold for him to be riding his bike.
You may recall, he is a high school teacher, and, I have no idea what I […]
My dad’s neighbor, a man about my age with a young family, invited him to go out to dinner last night.
I was touched by the sentiment since they haven’t been neighbors for very long, but, one part of their “bond” is that they went to the same high school.
My dad is an active alumnus, and, […]
This may not be as funny to you as it is to me, but, my father the interior decorator is at it again.
If you’re new here, my mother died last year, and, my dad lives alone.
He’s a Marine and a man of few words, but, when the word do come, they have been hilarious (to […]
An old neighbor of my parents called my dad the other day just to say hello, I thought that was so nice.
My mother had known her in the small town they both grew up in and it was a coincidence that they ended up living on the same street many years later.
She moved off […]
My father is apparently trying to relieve me of my Sandwich Generation status.
Seems he got a plate full of small sandwiches to take home from a reception at work.
He’s been enjoying them for several days, right from their little plate on the kitchen counter.
Please note that I didn’t say refrigerator anywhere in that previous […]
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