Wow. Hard to believe another year has already passed by. St. Pat's local parade is this coming Sunday, even though the holiday is actually on the following Tuesday. All the snow & ice won't be melted by then, but we can hope it's above 20F outside so the girls don't freeze wearing their pretty Irish outfits in the parade.
Time sure flies by when you get older. It's getting to be I'm afraid to fall asleep because I'll wake up & it will suddenly be next year or I'll be dead. No male in my family has ever lived past 65. No Female in my family has ever lived past 71. It's genetics. The non-smoking non-drinking people survived no longer than the ones who didn't live a healthy life. I turn 60 in June. At that age I will have survived longer than more than half the males in my family did. My father died of his first heart attack at 55 just about an hour after just shoveling a couple inches of snow off his front & back step. Sadly my mom & dad were separated & all the kids had grown up. So he died alone in his home the day before Thanksgiving. We didn't know there was something wrong until he didn't show up for Thanksgiving dinner. He was a healthy fit man.
My oldest brother turns 66 in less than a year. If he makes it, he will break the family record for the oldest male ever in our family. My second oldest brother is also still alive. He just finished his 3rd round of chemotherapy, & is once again cancer-free for now. The 2 brothers between him & me are both gone. My baby sister just 3 years younger than me is having leg problems, arthritis, & all sorts of aches & pains, but nothing life-threatening. She's the one who always behaved herself & took good care of herself, so it's odd that she has so many problems now. She was no dummy, she had the highest IQ in the family & in school. I was the second highest in the family, & about the 3rd highest in school.
She will be attending the parade because it goes right by her church on Sunday.
A friend's mom died at 98 y/o. She smoked 2 packs a day all of her adult life, & drank a pint of vodka a day since she was 40 when her rich husband died. But everybody in that family lives to their 90s, so it's genetics. She lived in her own home un-assisted until she died in her sleep one night, except her kids would drive her out for groceries & shopping. Go figure...
Who knows, maybe medical science will have advanced enough for us all to live to be 100 if we can all just survive just a few years more & can afford the treatment.
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