Okay, okay -

[kyburg]

Guys, leave Nancy alone for a while. She's got 90 days to just breathe, okay? Don't ask for anything else right now. She just gets to breathe. In, out. Period.

After that, about 45 days of picking her head up to take a look around a world without her Love in it. And try to decide what to do next.

But right now, just breathing will be plenty.

And don't expect her to remember much for the next month. The short-term memory is bye-bye for the duration. Find a pad of paper and a pen for her to carry around.

She'll likely begin sleeping nights again. She's used to being without him, y'see. But now the job is done, he's no longer in the hospital or with caregivers...and she needn't worry anymore.

It's a blessing.

The great leveler has caught up with Ronald Reagan. Whatever I think about him is just mental static now; he's answering to a higher authority.

That, and my late husband. Feel sorry for him.

Comments

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I'm actually going to give her credit for (in her spare time!) coming out in recent years to support stem cell research. It's something Reagan blocked, and which many people of her generation and political background won't support.

OK, I missed something...

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

What happened to your late husband, if you don't mind my asking? I personally see him answering to a majority of people who've died of AIDS and Alzheimer's, because I know he cut funding for research on those topics...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Type I diabetes, diagnosed at age 5 - he died at 36 after complications set in with a vengence five years earlier after an injury at work went south.

Reagan was the one to close most of the state facilities, shifting most of the health care burden to medicare (which already had been cut back, and didn't have the feet to begin with) and private health care systems - and began the major shift in "non-insured" care we've seen since then. Let alone AIDS, Alzheimers and what-have-you.

And don't get me started on state-funded mental health. For the criminally insane. Etc.

"We don't need these things."

I've choked on a lot of cake since then.

Yeah, I'd say so...

[scarcrest.livejournal.com]

I don't remember all of that, though I do remember his firing the air traffic controllers who went on strike. *shakes his head*

[zyrc.livejournal.com]

I have compassion for Nancy.

That's a hard illness to deal with.

And she's on the good side of the stem cell research fight.

I say: Leave Nancy be.

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Well said.

Gessi