My brother, treating us to lunch.
On the beach
It was a little chilly in FL while it was warm in CT. Go figure!
Dinner at Lario'sMy mother's oldest sister, Victoria, lives in Florida. She has been ill off and on for a few years now. My mother wanted to go see her sister when she was told that Victoria was near death. Since I have a very understanding boss (principal of the school where I teach), I took 3 personal days to take my mother down to see her sister. My aunt Victoria was in isolation due to MRSA infection. (When she was transferred to a nursing home they said she did not have MRSA...who to believe?) We entered her room (or should I say we stood by the door) and wore those surgical masks. It was so sad to see her in propped up in bed, with so many tubes coming in and out of her body. She was a beautiful woman in her day. I hardly recognized her. She recognized my mother and me not at all. She kept asking for water but we were told nothing by mouth.
Every day we went, she would talk a little more. The last day she was talking up a storm about her old boyfriend and education. My mother was sad to leave not knowing if she would ever see her sister alive again. But she made a miraculous recovery and is in a rehab/nursing facility.
While in Florida we stayed with a cousin, Michael. Thanks Michael for your generous hospitality! Thanks Jim for letting me drive your car!! Loved it! Please come and visit!
My brother and his wife, Jaimie, were in Miami Beach on vacation. They invited us to join them for lunch one day and dinner the next. We also walked on Ocean drive a few times. What a lively place! I told my mother that as long as we were near Miami Beach, we HAD to go to the beach at least once. So Sunday morning we went to the beach for 45 minutes before going to see my aunt.
My aunt is now stable and perhaps my mother will get to see her again in the near future.
