Tart cherries!

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26. So sorry you were not there when your mom passed. My mom had

a type of Parkinsons'. She was lucid almost to the end. She stopped eating and drinking. Was on morphine her last days. She was wanting to pass a month before she did. I'd much rather die of pneumonia. But I'm glad I was there to tell her "we love you so much" when she died. And I'm glad my mom died well before Covid because it was really hard on people who were in lockdown. My parents should have been in a nursing home before but we wanted to keep them together in their assisted living apartment. I cooked for them. They had lots of visits with friends and family.

We, before vaccines but during covid, would visit dad through a window to the nursing home. We'd talk to him there using phones. He so went downhill. He looked distressed. They were shut into their rooms alone 24/7 as you would know. But he revived after we got to visit again. And then he just started shutting down. It was his time.

For both of them I go back to the good times when I remember. They were so devoted.... the type of parents who lent the cottage to us kids in our twenties because they wanted us to have fun with our friends. We were lucky. They were good to us. We tried to be good to them.