“Children, in finding a way to cope with unmanageable grief. May patronize, ignore, or simply not visit aging. Ill parents or those parents who are too forgetful to recognize them or to recall if the children had come the day before.

Imperative, absolutely imperative is to not allow yourself to be cornered time-wise into selecting a nursing home or signing a nursing home contract.

I began to wonder why I was feeling grief in anticipation of her eventual passing. “Anticipatory grief,” I thought, must be a new concept.

I realized that my career is way off balance and that I have been taken for granted by many people but more importantly I realized that I need to enjoy the moment because you never know when it will be your last.