When I started this newsletter I did not expect to write about my mom at all. She’s been doing the same thing for so many years that it felt like she’d never change. But change, of course, is the only constant. Her memory got worse. She lost the ability to drive. The guy I found to drive her car for her started “borrowing” her car to deliver pizza. He started introducing her to friends of his who were interested in living with her, who were “not homeless,” as he put it. I was fine with this as long as she was, which she said she was—when she’s very worried she tends to tell me that there’s nothing wrong at all, because she doesn’t want to be a bother to me. She asked the guy to drive her to Sears so she could buy some looser clothes, because she was having trouble breathing, she said. She was so worried that she’d started feeling like there was something tight around her chest.
Bad habits
Bad habits
Bad habits
When I started this newsletter I did not expect to write about my mom at all. She’s been doing the same thing for so many years that it felt like she’d never change. But change, of course, is the only constant. Her memory got worse. She lost the ability to drive. The guy I found to drive her car for her started “borrowing” her car to deliver pizza. He started introducing her to friends of his who were interested in living with her, who were “not homeless,” as he put it. I was fine with this as long as she was, which she said she was—when she’s very worried she tends to tell me that there’s nothing wrong at all, because she doesn’t want to be a bother to me. She asked the guy to drive her to Sears so she could buy some looser clothes, because she was having trouble breathing, she said. She was so worried that she’d started feeling like there was something tight around her chest.