Man, don't get old

[Moveon]

When it's my time I hope I go like your mother did. Sorry for your loss

We only get one mother in our lifetime and they are very special people. No one will treat you as good as your mother did. They are creators of life and developers of our lives as long as they are around.

I hope I go fast when I die and don't linger around suffering or in pain. After having a heart attack I can tell you that it is painful and until they can open up the arteries in your heart muscle and get blood to your heart it hurts. If you ever have had a muscle cramp in your leg then that's what it feels like, only it's in your chest and the muscle is your heart muscle. So you have a feeling of what the pain will be like. When muscles don't get enough oxygen they start to die and it hurts. Nitro Glycerin tablets are a God send. They help to open up constricted arteries that feed blood to the heart muscle and relieve the pain in the chest.

[Dobe Mejuwa]

Many of the same feelings, all parents and grandparents gone, on both my and the wife's family sides.

I'm not making light of it. Takes me to my knees every time. Wouldn't have it any other way. Caring hurts, and yet fulfills.

Couple things make it easier for me.
1. I can still talk to them, and somehow I still feel like through my memories of times passed they talk to and guide me.
2. They don't have to pay taxes any more.........good lord hurry my day!
3. They are at a better place, where the things we struggle with each day are no longer a hindrance to joy.
4. They don't have to put up with the Taylorsville, Jamestown, or Dale Hallow launching ramps on labor or memorial day.
5. And they are all in a place safe from Trump, Hillary, and Obama.

BTW....you should here some of the things my passed Navy Father says to me when I get caught in a storm I knew was coming half-way back from the dam at Cumberland..........you all would die laughing....I know it brings a grin to my face and tear to the eye for me.