Getting old stinks! [View all]
I've kept in touch with Henry, one of my mother's cousins, for years. He's 88 now and the last couple of e-mails I wrote to him, he didn't reply. I got a reply from his daughter in law today. He used to use hearing aids and he quit driving several years ago because of macular degeneration. DIL said they put him in a nursing home about a month ago. His grandson was living with him, but Henry had several falls. He also is now totally deaf and almost totally blind. They communicate with him by using a whiteboard. He loved his dog, Rusty, but now he can't have him.
He LOVED using his computer and kept in touch with people all over the country by e-mail. He even had a few international friends. He and his late wife were educational missionaries back in the late 50's and 60's in Afghanistan and Iran. He lived to paint and was quite talented. Such an interesting, happy sweet man. I asked his DIL how his health was otherwise, but she hasn't replied yet. Sad to say, but I'm kind of hoping his health isn't to good, because the thought if him wasting away, being deaf and functionally blind just breaks my heart.
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