Hmmm blindness, eh? ... unfortunately, all of the dudes in my family-tree have fallen victim to "Macular Degeneration"
... amazingly, my Dad now lives by himself, he's 100% blind and 88 years old (I know, that sounds ridiculous, right? ... he's actually been 100% blind for the last 20 years ... after a successful career of being an architect) ...
=> oh, but hey, my sister (now 55 years old) drops-by pretty much daily to ensure that Pa is still doing okay ...
Ummm, if you happen to have a stubborn old dude (or dudess) in your family, then you'll totally undertsand that there is absolutely "zero-chance" of convincing my Pa into leaving the house that he built with his own hands 60 years ago, to live his last few years in a nursing home (and totally blind ... so he'd have zero-idea where he was 100% of the day => which would be a total nightmare to a self-sufficient dude, right?) ...
=> so all four of us (his kids) have agreed to let him live-large, and rattle around in our empty ol' childhood home, rather than forcing him to sell the house and move into a nursing home (it was a very hard decision, with Dad basically making the final decision ... get it?) ...
anyway => again, amazingly, the old dawg still makes all of his own meals (sure, mostly micro-waved and/or boiled eggs, etc), and does all of his own laundery (blind ... so sure, every now and then my sister, Jill, has to make sure that his sox are matched, etc, etc) ...
=> but holy Poop, imagine!! ... sadly, my Mum died a few years ago, so he lost "his sight" for she still had her vision but she had pretty-much lost all of her wits in the end ...
=> anyway ... blah-blah-blah ... geeesh, I never even thought about going blind, and the whole coin-part of life!! ... wow, maybe I will be selling my coins before I die!!? (thanks for putting me into a bad funk, sel_691!!)
ahaha => just kidding (sort of) ... but I actually didn't ever think about that part!! (hmmm, "blind and coins" is a pretty poor mix, eh?)
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Posted 05/16/2012 6:08 pm
with you trout1105
