Vertigo

 someone has been calling more than normal and telling me to eat something nourishing... i hear her voice tremble.... she lost her love ten years ago and has been slowly needing one more pill, one more walker, a wheel-chair, now a need for constant help because basic functions are failing... and her feet tingle... she can't feel them...  50-something years of marriage, and an empire of descendants... you are so surrounded by love! she said to me today on the phone . . . neither of us wants to say goodbye, do we? NO I DONT!