Thursday, April 25, 2013

David Asks about Mom when Suzy Takes Him Out


This reminds me of David’s response on the June day before Javier and I left for Germany and I spoke about Mom.  “You mean she’s still alive?”  and then, when I asked what message I could give her from him, “I was wondering what kept you away so long.”   This message was just the day before another kind of journey.

Friday, October 8, 2011  from Suzy

Hi Tina,

Took David to lunch today and found a huge model store. It's in the basement of the Ace Hardware on University in Berkeley. He was very pleased to see all the models.

On our drive to the restaurant, he asked me, without my bringing anything up at all, when he'd be seeing Mother. So I told him on her birthday. I also explained to him how she was much older now and had memory problems and sometimes got scared when there wasn't anything that we saw that was scary. I told him that she's different from when he last saw her, so I wanted him to be prepared, and he really seemed to hear me, and he responded. He said OK. He didn't seem upset about it, but he did seem attentive, which I thought was interesting and a good thing.

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