For the record: We’ve just finished our 17th year of early morning walks down to the beach at dawn. We started walking irregularly in late 1995, but had moved to a regular daily schedule by February 1996. We remember the timing because Meda had a criminology conference in Las Vegas, and it was the first [...]
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Another morning with no overnight telephone call from the hospice house in the back of Palolo Valley where my mother has been for the past week. It means she’s still alive. Barely. On Friday, I was sure she would not survive the night. On Saturday, I was sure she would certainly not survive another night. [...]
It took over an hour on Sunday evening for the ambulance to reach my mother’s modest WWII-era home in Kahala. My sister, Bonnie, says it was 72 minutes, to be precise. Earlier that day, it seemed like we were making some progress. My mother’s condition was about the same, but the hospice agency had readily [...]
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It could be a little quiet here at iLind.net over the next couple of days. “Could” is the operative word, because I still don’t know what we’ll be facing and how I’ll be coping. If this page isn’t updated for several days, please send along good thoughts. Here’s the story. Meda and I cut our [...]
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I was sorry to get the news yesterday of Chuck Frankel’s death. He was a class act. His son, David “Kimo” Frankel, sent out an email to those on Chuck’s correspondence lists. It says a lot about the man. On Saturday evening, my father experienced intense pain and called an ambulance. After some testing, the [...]
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I’m sitting with my mom for several hours this morning after a very early drive to Kahala from Kaaawa. We scheduled this so my sister could attend a meeting at her church in Aina Haina. It’s the same church we both attended as kids. Bonnie became active again as soon as she moved back several [...]
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By now you’ve almost certainly seen part or all of the video of Mitt Romney uttering his now famous “47 percent” comments before a crowd of major GOP campaign donors. The New York Times published a transcript in today’s edition. There really aren’t a lot of surprises, although Romney certainly sounds crass when he is [...]
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I’m afraid we’re at the point of needed professional assistance in providing home health care, this time for my mom. We shopped around about five years ago for assistance with my father. I’m guessing the available options may have changed in that time period. If you have any relatively recent experience with reputable home care [...]
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