oma – gaat goed?

I started this blog around the time my Oma (grandmother) had her 5th stroke. I’ve since been able to visit her while trying to work on laptop in Amsterdam — that didn’t work out so well as I was staying at my family’s houses without my own car on their schedule and the internet didn’t work. Next time, I’ll get a hotel, with good internet access and rent my own car — independence is important, especially when you live in the U.S. where one must work work work in order to live okay.

That’s what I’ve been doing, the pleasurable times, I know will arrive again, and they are trickling in, as well there will be more travel, more swimming, more yoga.

I am happy I was able to visit my Oma, we have beautiful pictures on my phone of her and me…. Which I don’t know if I’ve ever had before. I need to buy that cord to upload it to my computer soon….

Yesterday morning, my father called me saying that his sister called him from Nederland, and that Oma was admitted into the hospital, she had gone unconscious with her teeth falling out, she had a book in her lap. She is always reading and doing crossword puzzles my Oma, to keep her mindhealth alive. She always has her wits, though she can’t move one side of her body well, she can still wheel herself around the home she lived in and talk with us about the grace of life.

Yesterday, she told my aunt “Ik ga nu dode” — which means I go now dead. She’s been kicking for 93 years, she specifically wanted to see the family in the U.S. before she went. We all got to visit her. My visit with her was amazing and inspiring. My Oma is like me and me like her, it was just in time to reignite my awareness of the gift that life is.

Thank you Oma Truus.

May you either survive so that Dad can visit and I can too next summer. You told me you were going to live until 95, you are not yet 94. Or, pass on to the beauty and rest of the next place beyond this realm. Thank you for your spark, your egg, that created your children, your grandchildren and their courage.

Love en houde
de grote-docther D. Truus

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~ by truus on June 21, 2007.