Jerseygirl

You do just that SM. Hope you all have a great time together.

taffie77

What an amazing story, and so well written . I'll definitely be having a look at your blog later (I didn't even know there was a blog section). I just hope our move next year is less traumatic.

scrubbedexpat097

New posting to Blog

AlienUk

dammit...don't leave us hanging!!!

Jerseygirl

Woo hoo thanks SM...I'll go take a look.

Edit: Thank you for sharing another episode of your life. BTW I think you jumped 10 yrs...from 1995 to 2005/6.

scrubbedexpat097

Damn.................off to edit!
Thank you

britchicknyc

Great update! Don't keep us waiting long for the next installment!

Irn-bru

It certainly never stops with you, your life is an adventure.
I can't wait till it gets to modern day as I hope it 'ends' well!

cindyabs

Damn it, another cliffhanger.


Bless.

scrubbedexpat097

I'll try not to. The problem is deciphering my own writing. I kept scrappy diaries over the years and now I can't read some of what I wrote




I guess I don't think it's an adventure, it was just life and it seems sometimes in life a lot of stuff gets thrown at you all at once.

(actually it still does)

scrubbedexpat097

........another one.

Jerseygirl

That is so sad SM.

At least she was able to come and spend some quality time with you in Texas.

scrubbedexpat097

I'll finish it later. It was hard to write....

For a long time I felt guilty. I thought she might have felt pressured to come and visit even though she didn't feel well enough.

Jerseygirl

I went through something similar when MIL visited 9 yrs ago. She had terrible pains at the top of her leg and in her groin but she refused to go to the ER. A few days after arriving home she went to the hospital because she was having trouble breathing...she was found to have a blood clot near her lung...luckily she survived. She'd had thrombosis a few years before...so I had a pretty good idea what was causing the pain.

You shouldn't have felt guilty I'm sure she loved her time with you and your family. Lovely memories for you to treasure.

Irn-bru

I am so sorry for your loss.
But if you look at it that she managed before she died to do what she wanted to do, to come and visit you, have that experience she wanted of paddling in the sea, that would have brought her so much joy doing all that and she died happy I am sure with those memories and by her family by her side.

My elderly aunt back home came and saw us and she said it helped her so much going back home thinking of us here as she could picture everything.

She wouldn't have felt pressurised I am sure but just was given something 'to live for' in coming to see you.