I had hoped to have more downtime this week, but it didn’t happen. Oh well, here is this week’s Friday Five.
- My face began to swell over the weekend, on the side of my face where the lousy tooth is. It was then I started to panic. I got in first thing on Monday morning; sure enough, it is infected.
- Next week I go in for dental surgery. I blame my mother for this. Although she was good in so many ways, dental care was not one of them.
- The “Oh, so simple” signing up for Medicare and Social Security was not so simple. So I gathered all my documents and headed to the nearest Social Security Office, where I got both done in less than an hour.
- Next week is a crazy week. The biggest pain is I have an appointment with the VA to fill in a 40-page document so that I will receive my Widows Pension. The thing that frustrates me the most is that they already have this information.
- Lastly, as I have thought about Jack’s passing, I realize that there were several phases of his life with me.
The first was when we were both younger, healthy, and running mini-road races. We did so much, and we traveled the world. Life was one big adventure. That’s the Jack I am missing. That’s the Jack I wish would saunter in the door with stories about his flight patterns and jokes he’d heard along the way. That’s the Jack of my heart.