My circle of friends is getting shrunk down…..
Was thinking of how I would go to friend’s houses for coffee.. They would come over my house. For years… But now? I am sad to say, that I occasionally go over to my one friend’s house for coffee.. seems like every 6 months or so. I felt bad at first.. after all she lives about 2 miles from our house.. I drive by the road she lives on and I can see her home as I go by… to go to the store. But then I got to thinking.. the road goes both ways… and she knows where I live. She is a little more active than I.. she is active in her church… she also volunteers for Ancestry dept of her church. And she visits her sister. Her mom just past away a couple months ago.
My other friend.. who lives in
the next town… maybe 6 miles away from our home.. is in poor health.. trying to get surgery
done. They won’t let her because… get
this folks… SHE SMOKES… and she has
smoked since she was a teenager, and she is 70 something. She has tried and tried.. and when she had quit for 3 weeks, they
loused up her test. So she had to go
back again 4 days later.. They said she
didn’t pass.. it was close but not good enough.. She was so disappointed .. she started to
smoke again.. Not as heavy as she use
to.. but enough not to make the test.
Then she went in for dental.. which is weird, as they did not have the
no nicotine test… so she got that done.. and found out her jaw has some
problems. She is still waiting (it is
almost 2 years) because appt, get cancelled,
she didn’t make the test good enough again.. She has a problem with her
back and her left leg. She had surgery
years ago on her shoulder. She totally
amazes me because in the summer, she is always out in the yard doing yard
work.. cleaning out her flower
beds.. she did hire a young man the past
summer to mow and do some other work, but she still is out there.. limping along.. pulling weeds, and other
things.
But I find it cruel that they
won’t let her have the surgery. She is
trying again.. to quit, enough to pass the test.. I hope she makes it this time.. but I don’t go over, because I don’t want
to disturb her, when she gets to lay down for a short time.. As standing hurts.. sitting in a chair
hurts.. and even laying down gets to her.. So I am afraid if I come knocking
she will be sleeping and I woke her.
A lot of my friend have moved away after they retired. And even more… have… died. We use to get together once a month for lunch.. but there is only a few of us left. Use to be about 11 of us. Now I think maybe 4 or 5?
Yep the circle is getting smaller and smaller..
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