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Husband M and I were pulling into our driveway in the middle of the week and he noticed our neighbour next door walking slowly down her driveway. He said 'she looks ill'. We waved to her and she waved back with her right arm, but her left arm hung lifelessly by her side. M said her face didn't look right either. We figured she must have had a stroke. M noticed he hadn't seen her for awhile. She usually walks 2 little dogs twice a day and she babysat her grandkids. This is life-changing and sudden for her, poor lady. She is in her early fifties I imagine and was so active, a slim woman. Maybe we will get a chance to talk to her husband soon, he is usually puttering around outside with the weeds.
This really makes you think about life and our tenuous hold on it. We bustle about our business every day never thinking things could change on a dime. I suppose it's what you have to do.
Then I was at my hairdresser the next day. His assistant greeted me and said she would have to do my hair as the hairdresser's wife had to go to the hospital and he was with her. It seems the poor woman has not been well this past month. I hope they can help her in the hospital.
I realize that at this stage of my life (mid-fifties), this is what starts to happen, some of the people in my circle are also aging and they get ill or have to start moving into retirement homes. Some will be fortunate and will carry on. Then as you get even older, you lose even more friends and so on. I will stop being morbid now.
Here is a fun video of Dick Van Dyke, he can still dance and did you know he married a beautiful woman 46 years younger than him?
Yes, life can change very quickly, and it is always hard to see that those around us are getting sick or just plain old. Valerie
ReplyDeleteI've had to accept that we're at that time of our lives that people around us get ill and sometimes pass away. It's hard. Friends just told us how they were at the ER with a 60 year old friend who had a stroke and was now in hospice so family members could say goodbye. It's so scary. Life is precious. Our health is so important.
ReplyDeleteI don't think you're being morbid, just being realistic, I turned 59 the other day and I feel the same way , its a fragile precarious time and sends home the message even stronger, enjoy each day as if its our last and drive it like you stole it, lol,
ReplyDeleteAs I approach 70, I think of death quite a bit, especially after losing my mom at age 99 and my brother in law at age 65 this year.
ReplyDeleteThat does sound like the after-math of a stroke
ReplyDeleteAround here, we call it the Any Given Sunday, rule. As in any given Sunday you can win or lose. Just like in health, any given Sunday.
ReplyDeleteIt 's true, after the'turning point' after the 40th start all ailments but think to become old on 50 years noooooooooo no no !!! :(
ReplyDeleteChristine you live in Toronto that nice place !!! How many memories ... :) I've been in holiday, the Niagara Falls are fantastic !!!
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You just never know what life has in store for you. Live each day fully, I say!
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking a lot about changes in one's life lately as there have been many of all sorts. It's not change that bothers me, it's losing what one had, never to get it back. Once there was time to regroup, redo, rethink, but time is running out and we don't get those re-dos much any more.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right, Christine. Things happen so suddenly as the years go by. Just today I added my son to my bank safe deposit list because I realized no one could get to my will if something happened to me. Thanks for your comment about my painting shown on the PPF page today. I am not attending the party this week.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Christine, I think we all realise how fortunate we are sometimes. I do hope your neighbour will be okay, after Stroke there is a long road to recovery - how you saw her the other day can improve with physio....here's hoping.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty flowers. I'm sorry to hear about your neighbor. I hope she feels better soon. You're so right that we should appreciate things more.
ReplyDeleteThe picture of your neighbour's flowers is beautiful and at the same time I'm sorry to hear that the neighbour's lady has to go through this difficult experience. Beauty and sorrow are sometimes so close to each other.
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