I learned this week that a high school friend - Richard Daines - passed away. Heart attach they think. Richard and I have been friends since gradeschool. He was a doctor and Commissioner of Health for the state of New York. He was bright and funny. He made being smart something to be desired. I liked him a ton. It seemed like just yesterday we laughed and talked at our forty year reunion. I'm so glad I got that chance to catch up. I hadn't seen him in years. How tough for his family to have him snatched away so quickly.
Another friend has been diagnosed with multi-domain MCI (mild cognitive impairment). He's barely over sixty - too young for such a disease. The multi-domain part means the impairment is more than just memory loss, but effects recalling stories, switching gears in thought process, finding alternative solutions, and following inference. I can't imagine how that must feel, like being caught in a nightmare where things just don't make sense.
Yet another friend was just diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. She is dizzy and has chronic pain. She has had problems for years, but just now received the diagnosis.
You wonder which would be the worst - losing a husband in an instance, losing your faculties bit by bit, or dealing with MS. Likely the one that is the worst is the one YOU are dealing with.
This life isn't for sissies.
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I've thought a lot about that lately. I know of so many people going through hard things. Things I can't even imagine. Yet my problems seem so big.
Did Richard have a little sister Janet that was my age? I think she attended Edith Bowen too, did he?
Yes. Janet was his little sister. Richard and George also attended Edith Bowen.
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