On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:48:49 GMT, Sydney Hoeltzli
wrote:

Corky Scott wrote:

My wife is determined to overcome her tendency towards motion sickness
to fly with me in the airplane. She wants to do this, she says, so
that when I fly into the side of a mountain, we'll both go together.

Touching faith in your navigational abilities, that.

Cheers,
Sydney

It's her gallows humour. On the other hand, she selflessly gave of
herself when my two parents, who lived next door to us became infirm
and died. For two years she and I became nurses because my mother did
not want to be placed in a nursing home. It was a lot of work. It
was the death of my mother that allowed me to realise my dream of
finishing my flight lessons begun when I was 15.

Now her parents are in their middle 80's and her mother has advanced
Parkinson's. Her father has to deal with her every weekend so we go
down once a month to visit and give him a break. It's a lot like the
type of work it took to nurse my mother only my wife's mother is
heavier than my mother was because she doesn't have cancer.

My wife is not impressed with the aging process or the amount of
support available to the aged in the US. We would both rather not
have things get to the point where we were living vegetables.

So she's only half joking.

Corky Scott