FREEDOM

And so begins my first week of retirement. I am free to practice veterinary medicine and am doing so in the form of petHelper, I am free to teach if I so desire, and free to help my mom in the last years of her life however long that is. It has been an interesting week, laying some ground rules with my mom that she will have to obey and this she knows. She has become dependent and demanding as a two year old and what I have to wrap around my head is that she is a grown woman and is actually quite lucid, lucid enough to still look after her finances, lucid enough to follow football, and lucid enough to wash and dress and function in the real world. She is 92 and with that has come fraility and falls. But it has not decreased her mental capacity and her desire to be independent. I can only hope I have those genes when I am her age.