BONUS BLOG - AUGUST 9, 2010 "Yes Moon"
CONNIE
A dear old friend of mine is going through some pretty tough stuff these days. She’s in her 80s. She’s a widow. She has a bit of the dementia thing going on. And now she has a cancerous tumor on one of her kidneys.
I saw Connie last weekend. For the first time in over a year and a half. She is thin and frail. But she is still the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen or known.
There was a time when her youngest and most beautiful daughter and I cared for that dear woman. That time is gone. But when Connie was here, quite often her daughter would boss me around. That is her nature. The daughter would say, “Moon, do this!” “Moon, do that!” Her mom would just look at me with those big beautiful eyes and say, “Say, ‘yes,’ Moon.” I would, naturally, look at Connie and say, “Yes Moon,” then do as I was told. The big and beautiful eyes would always just roll back in her head.
I wasn’t sure how last weekend would go. I really had some doubt as to whether Connie would even remember me. Very shortly after we arrived at her new home hundreds of miles away, her youngest daughter told me to do something. Connie very quickly said, “Say ‘yes,’ Moon.”
She remembered. So did I.
“Yes Moon,” was my reply. And. I got the eye roll.
One more time.
MORE ON DEATH WITH DIGNITY
A few more words about “death with dignity” and my own future. I have instructed my son and other loved ones on how I to handle the decision of life support if I happened to need that one day. I have left very specific instructions to them that they NOT, under any circumstances, pull the plug.
Look, I try to be upbeat and positive about things. But the fact is, I have been known to have some pretty bad luck all my life. I used to call it the “Moon Curse.” And my timing has been off in almost every life cycle. I think I reached puberty at age 23.
So my thinking is this. With my luck and timing, as soon as they pull the plug on me, they will find a cure for what put me there.
So leave me plugged in, damn it!
A dear old friend of mine is going through some pretty tough stuff these days. She’s in her 80s. She’s a widow. She has a bit of the dementia thing going on. And now she has a cancerous tumor on one of her kidneys.
I saw Connie last weekend. For the first time in over a year and a half. She is thin and frail. But she is still the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen or known.
There was a time when her youngest and most beautiful daughter and I cared for that dear woman. That time is gone. But when Connie was here, quite often her daughter would boss me around. That is her nature. The daughter would say, “Moon, do this!” “Moon, do that!” Her mom would just look at me with those big beautiful eyes and say, “Say, ‘yes,’ Moon.” I would, naturally, look at Connie and say, “Yes Moon,” then do as I was told. The big and beautiful eyes would always just roll back in her head.
I wasn’t sure how last weekend would go. I really had some doubt as to whether Connie would even remember me. Very shortly after we arrived at her new home hundreds of miles away, her youngest daughter told me to do something. Connie very quickly said, “Say ‘yes,’ Moon.”
She remembered. So did I.
“Yes Moon,” was my reply. And. I got the eye roll.
One more time.
MORE ON DEATH WITH DIGNITY
A few more words about “death with dignity” and my own future. I have instructed my son and other loved ones on how I to handle the decision of life support if I happened to need that one day. I have left very specific instructions to them that they NOT, under any circumstances, pull the plug.
Look, I try to be upbeat and positive about things. But the fact is, I have been known to have some pretty bad luck all my life. I used to call it the “Moon Curse.” And my timing has been off in almost every life cycle. I think I reached puberty at age 23.
So my thinking is this. With my luck and timing, as soon as they pull the plug on me, they will find a cure for what put me there.
So leave me plugged in, damn it!
Posted by David Moon at 8/9/2010 7:12 AM 
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Tags: parents respect death elder care child elderly memories death with dignity michael vick
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