Dad's Appointment 9 (pg3)

11/29/2010  Lahey today for Dad, I met his Pulmonary Specialist Tim Lieasching who tells some pretty dry analogy jokes, however for the 1st time I finally understood that my Dad's breathing is progressively getting worse and the Doctor does not want him doing anything more than walking from the porch to the mailbox. Needless to say I had to wheel my father out in a wheelchair. Poor guy I almost got his ankle torn off in the elevator, yeah I suck at wheel chair driving. Though both of us laughed about the whole wheel chair driving disaster, still I knew that this was NOT what my father wanted, his daughter to be  pushing him in a wheelchair, after all my father is way more active than I ever was, he skis and sails and keeping up with my super sport Stepmum is way more than I could ever do. There is a certain sadness that is hard to explain unless you are standing in these moments, but you try and you have to keep pushing for the laughter to get you through to the next day.