Message 767

Yesterday I finished reading The Economist and did two loads of wash. It seemed like Sunday, so it is strange for me to realize that today is Tuesday, not Monday. Mimi and I are still seeing a lot of each other. She has to spend every afternoon helping take care of her mother in a nursing home in San Jose. She has Parkinson's disease and can not eat or walk, so she has to be fed through a tube through her abdomen into her stomach. One of Mimi's brothers is a doctor who lives in Florida. He insists on keeping their mother alive, so he and her other two brothers who are engineers in Silicon Valley pay to keep her in the nursing home and pay Mimi to help take care of her seven days a week. It is a hard job because her mother is pretty much a vegetable.