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Jun. 22nd, 2003 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
changelingIt's my Grandma and Poppy's wedding anniversary today. My mum made us promise to call them, as apparently she's called them for it every year, even one year when they forgot, and mum'll be on a plane on her way to Nashville.
Grandma was as bouyant as ever, and as likely-to-talk-your-ear-off as ever (hmm, wonder where I get it from?). Both my grandmas have heart problems at the moment; my paternal grandma (Nannie) is going in for a triple bypass shortly. No problems there, she's well off and can pay for it. Grandma and Pop are dirt poor. Grandma's going in for a quintuple bypass in July.
She started talking about mum's trip, and how she's glad her operation's in July so mum wouldn't cancel it. Mum's been talking about going overseas for years. Grandma was talking in a very calm, cheerful voice about how life was for the living, and how she thought it would have been stupid if mum cancelled her trip just to be with her mother for one final time.
It was so hard not to cry over the phone.
Grandma was as bouyant as ever, and as likely-to-talk-your-ear-off as ever (hmm, wonder where I get it from?). Both my grandmas have heart problems at the moment; my paternal grandma (Nannie) is going in for a triple bypass shortly. No problems there, she's well off and can pay for it. Grandma and Pop are dirt poor. Grandma's going in for a quintuple bypass in July.
She started talking about mum's trip, and how she's glad her operation's in July so mum wouldn't cancel it. Mum's been talking about going overseas for years. Grandma was talking in a very calm, cheerful voice about how life was for the living, and how she thought it would have been stupid if mum cancelled her trip just to be with her mother for one final time.
It was so hard not to cry over the phone.