Mom, Roscoe and Alex
Mom and Roscoe
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So, the letter officially and publicly announcing my mom’s retirement came out last month, and I meant to post this then, but well, I got busy. Oops. The full pdf of the letter is here. The most relevant parts for those of us in the family are these:
This was of course not a surprise to us. We’d been talking about the upcoming plans for quite awhile before they were official. I am very much looking forward to having my mom nearby for the next “3-year adventure”. If all goes as planned, that means she will be here as Amy finishes high school and moves on to college, and as Alex continues to grow and moves from day care to pre-school to kindergarden to elementary school. Those are important years. As much as Alex enjoys video chatting with Grandma on the computer and on my iPhone, I’m sure he will enjoy having her around in person even more. And so will I.
A little over four hours ago my mom got the green light to start driving again, go back to work, and generally to not need someone like me hanging around and “observing” to make sure she is OK. There are no ongoing effects from last week’s episode. Basically, she is fine. Yay! And whew! So slightly over 24 hours from now I’ll be getting on a plane heading back home. It has been great having this extra time with my mom. It was a nice change of pace for me too. But I miss my family. It will be good to get home. I got a scary call this morning. My mom had been taken to the ER. I won’t go into the details here, but I’ll just say I was quite worried for a few hours and being half a continent away didn’t help. At this point she has been out of the hospital for most of the day, and she is doing much much better. She’ll need a bunch of tests and stuff over the next few days though, and the Doctor said she probably shouldn’t be alone for a bit. So some friends and colleagues of hers are staying with her tonight, and I’m about to head to the airport to spend the rest of the week in Ohio with her to be her driver and to just be there for a bit. Of course at this point she is sure she’ll be completely fine in the morning and none of this is necessary. But I’m still going. I’ll believe all that when I hear it directly from the Doctor. :-)  Taken 2010 Jun 1 16:53 UTC  Taken 2010 Jun 1 16:52 UTC  Taken 2010 May 31 22:25 UTC |
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