Saturday, December 19, 2020

new problems

 *For a long time I added Si not teaching us Yiddish to my list of grievances but now I forgive him everything when I look at my life and hope my children will forgive me.

I should be more cheerful this holiday season and look at all I'm grateful for.
It's hard though when another age-related problem appears. I now have age-related macular degeneration.  It's funny Mother had glaucoma so I faithfully have used eye drops every night to prevent peripheral vision loss so instead I'm losing central vision. The eye dr is doing shots and lasers to delay progression. Bright lights and a magnifying glass are helpful. 
Then there's Eliot and all his problems. It all started when the generic water pills he took to keep his congestive heart failure under control were changed. The new ones didn't work. Finally the dr gave him new pills and also gave him oxegen to use at night.

Saturday, April 18, 2020

corona virus

I joined a Zoom meeting this morning but didn't really get to say something relevant. I have been thinking about comparing the present situation with WWII since I'm the only one who remembers that far back (being the oldest one alive in my family),  Hitler vs the corona virus - hmm?  Somehow I guess it was more understandable how to win the war which of course involved the enormous loss of lives and the atom bomb. I guess it would be more like polio vs the corona virus. We didn't have social media and even television news back then so our concern about polio was very individual.  Some parents were more concerned than others. Sharing a lollypop got me into trouble with my friend's mother. I have no idea how parents are now altering their children's interaction with other children. Or maybe they have no choice since orders about daily life now comes from the government