So, in the past few weeks, I’ve been all over Florida, spent a week in LA with my sister and her family, and now I’m heading back to Florida with alot of STUFF in tow. Went a little crazy shopping for the boat, oh well, you do what you gotta do. Now, to just figure out how I’m going to get it all to central america… oy…
But unfortunately, things are not so good in Florida with my mom. She’s been ill for sometime now. She had some major surgery about a year and a half ago to remove a tumor in her intestinal wall. She never really bounced back from it. On top of that, she took a fall a few months ago, breaking her hip.
Since then, it’s been relatively downhill for her. I saw her when I was in Daytona, and could not believe how thin she’d gotten. Our relationship has been rather strained for quite sometime, but I told myself I would not let that get in the way of keeping at least some contact with her in her final days.
She’s in the hospital now, her kidneys and liver are failing and she’s on a respirator. It does not look like she has much time left I’m afraid. Judy is flying back to Florida tonight as well, so we can all be with her for at least a short time. Not exactly the note I was hoping to end my stateside visit on, but such is life.
Damn…