Thanks Izzy and Sylvia. I don't come here often now but I do remember the kindness of the people on here when I was dealing with being carer to Ray while supervising my mother's care in the nursing home. It meant the world to me that the folk on here knew what I was going through when friends and family often didn't..
I must say life is much quieter these days. I just turned 77 and am much slower now but still manage my volunteer activities in the church and community. My families are all still far away but I but I see my younger son and his daughter Alice, now twelve for a week four times a year and I spent a week my daughter last month. She lives in Western Australia so I took two trains and two planes to get there, roughly twelve hours of travelling.
I am relatively well, discharged by both my oncologist and brain surgeon. No more tests for a while. So life as an older person is doable if not as exciting as life for younger folk. COVID and flu seem rife again this winter locally but so far so good, I've been in good health so far.
I must say life is much quieter these days. I just turned 77 and am much slower now but still manage my volunteer activities in the church and community. My families are all still far away but I but I see my younger son and his daughter Alice, now twelve for a week four times a year and I spent a week my daughter last month. She lives in Western Australia so I took two trains and two planes to get there, roughly twelve hours of travelling.
I am relatively well, discharged by both my oncologist and brain surgeon. No more tests for a while. So life as an older person is doable if not as exciting as life for younger folk. COVID and flu seem rife again this winter locally but so far so good, I've been in good health so far.
