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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?
