Once again it is the last day of a year and I for one am glad this one is done. It started out bad and just got increasingly worse. The husband was obviously sick the last week of January and refused any kind of medical care until he was so sick I didn’t think he would survive the night on January 29th, until he was so sick that he no longer had the wherewithal to object and my daughter and I took him to the emergency room. He was in the hospital for 15 days with a stubborn and vicious viral pneumonia and the prognosis was all doom and gloom; oxygen at home and a walker for life. But he did rally, he did recover, he did start going to doctors regularly and is now healthier I think than he was before he got sick but it was months recovering.
And then 5 months of hell descended on the Gulf Coast with three months of temps in the 90s and two months of temps in triple digits with little to no rain. Highest water bills, highest electric bills ever. Eventually the heat dome broke.
And then so did my sister who dropped dead the second week of November.
I’d beg for an easy year coming up except it’s an election year and things are going to get even nastier with our democracy on the line from those who would see it fall in favor of an authoritarian theocratic dictatorship, the minority ignoring the rule of law and imposing all those things they couldn’t get via elections or Congress onto the majority. Their list is long and none of it good. So, yay, we have that to look forward to.
I plan to end this year watching the Barbie movie with my granddaughter Robin on the big TV over at what I still think of as Pam’s house.
