Do not wait to chat with those you enjoy
Taking a seat with a mug of coffee, I ask my mommy how she is doing. Here in the living-room of her condo, she hesitates and ultimately states she’s doing fine. It’s the method she considers me with a sideways glance that informs me she’s got a few things to share. It could be that she’s lost her phone once more in the market or accidentally hit her neighbor’s car pulling out of the garage. It might be that her gout pain is breaking down, or she had an atrial fibrillation episode heading down to the mail box. I hear all sorts of weird and in some cases worrying things that happen in her life. I have actually discovered to pay attention to her tales first before I start determining what needs to occur following.
She states that she requires to tell me something that took place concerning a week ago.
“I started having discomfort in my neck and left arm,” she states.
A stillness focuses my attention, and I concentrate know what she is saying. I am cognizant that the discomfort she’s discussing isn’t from lifting something heavy. It’s angina– discomfort caused by a lack of blood flow to the heart. Mother is a walking medical miracle, slowly and irrevocably coming to the end of the line. Her very first cardiac arrest was at 52 years of ages. Seven pacemakers, triple by-pass surgery, angioplasty, stents and a new aortic valve …