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I don’t usually bore forumpudluans with my personal life details here (my exterior life is blessedly uneventful), so this post is unusual. But anyways: My mother Mombontee celebrated her 75th birthday last weekend, yay! And the occasion should’ve been happier, but it was bittersweet: You say it’s her birthday? well, it was sister Von Auntie’s birthday too yeah! Born on mom’s 5th birthday in fact she was; and we three all spent 16 wintery hours, enthralled, watching “Get Back ” a couple of times earlier this year; and we should’ve celebrated her 70th alongside Mom’s 75th, but she sadly passed at the end of May. 🙁

And mom herself is not well, at all. She hasn’t been for years; she underwent cancer surgery a few years back, and was seemingly free, until learning in July that it had returned, in lymph nodes and elsewhere – this in addition to breathing problems and poor knees that have plagued for years, and are worse than ever. She’s suffered dizziness, nausea, headaches, and a series of stroke/seizure-like episodes beginning in August, noticeably worsening in mental function afterwards; culminating in Monday’s slow-motion fall to the floor (semi-caught by myself and a cousin), an emergency ambulance call, and a hospitalization, which is where she’s been since. She had a coherent pleasant visit with myself and other relatives yesterday; two nights previous she was in the emergency room, raving and babbling, and I was certain she’d be gone by sunrise. She’s wavered between those extremes through the week, and is much improved since Monday/Tuesday. Nevertheless, they still don’t know what’s the problem exactly (neurologist will show up next week), or if she’ll be discharged anytime soon, but it’s apparent she can’t live without constant care any longer. She’s simply nearing the end of her life.

But she’s still here at the moment, so let me acknowledge her once and for all right now, my mother. I’ve mentioned her many times here over the years, my preschool-and-eternal adoration for that yellow-orange “She Loves You ” record she’d bought in her teens; how she taught me to sing a verse of “Hey Jude “; how Von Granny regrettably wouldn’t allow her to ride three hours (with a recently licensed friend) to see Our Boys at Maple Leaf Gardens in ’64 (65?); how she accidentally stabbed herself in the leg with scissors, while struggling, trying to give an (unwanted) Beatle haircut to her longtime (male) friend across the street….I could tell you many non-Beatley things too, but later. I just thought I’d give you guys the situation, unburden. Thanks.

Happy birthday, Mombontee, we love you! (even tho you’re probably 25% the Beatle fan that I am, lol)

Thanks TJ

…and thanks for the update about Tiny Japanese (#1); I don’t remember if you’ve posted anything about her aside from her birth announcement a coupla years back. She’s clearly very smart!

Thanks AG …I’m fortunate to have dozens of family and inlaws etc. living in town, and that (Dr.) Vonsister (Ph. D) is making the six-hours-south-thru-Michigan journey here Friday, thru the weekend (reluctant to stay longer, since her new crop of Psychology students and faculty board colleagues require attention too)