family

Yesterday Debbie and I were up at 4:00 a.m. for her to catch a plane to Memphis. Her 84-year old mom fell and has been in ICU for four days with blood that has pooled in her cranium. The neurosurgeon believes there will be no lasting effects from where she hit her head. Her mom has Alzheimer’s and can’t figure out why she has to stay in this “office” with all these people she doesn’t know. When Debbie’s sister Rita visits she has to bring a word search with the words circled so that “those people whoever they are” will think Grandmama is “smart” and maybe then they will let her go home. Debbie may be in Memphis a month or more, but that’s fine. We both are committed to family. With all the dysfunction we have on both sides, we love them, and amazingly they love us. They are a part of us, and we are a part of them. And we are grateful for blessings large and small.