Tuesday, July 12, 2011

First night on the road...Mom's

For those of you who are not sure of our Itinerary, we start in Sun City, Arizona to visit my 81 year old mother Mary Ann and her 85 year old boyfriend Lenny. My crafty mother arranged for one of her young friends Bob (a mere 71 years old) to pick us up at the airport...now we haven't ever met Bob but he was supplied with a picture of us, our flight number and arrival time. We of course had offered many times to catch a shuttle but Mom wouldn't think of it and so she dispatched Bob. We arrived on time, made our way down to baggage, figured out which carousel our luggage was coming to and hoped to find Bob. Nancy is so good at these kind of things...she spied him out in record time, we collected our bags and were on our way. Bob turns out to be the kind of guy I'd like to hang around with!!! My mom has cool friends?? Lenny has been ailing for about a week from a procedure he had done, and was still in the hospital...but there not to my surprise was my little Italian mother cooking up lunch for us. This woman was renowned for her fried chicken back in the day and is directly responsible for my being overweight (having taught me the love of food). After lunch we piled into the car and went to visit Len. Hospitals now days have more computers than doctors and nurses put together...if they could only tell you what's going on you'd be a happy camper. Unfortunately these computers have taken a vow of silence so you sit and wait and wait and wait for one of the God like Doctors to make an appearance. We are almost giddy with excitement when this man of action arrives! How wrong can we be??? This Dr. knows nothing, shares nothing and makes no promises. He hasn't read the chart and is kind of like a hot air balloon...nothing inside. After we harassed him for 10 minutes he jumps into action doing what, we don't know. So here we sit the next day getting ready to go back for a little bit of the same! I promise I won't yell to much!!!

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