Thanks, FIL update, and a mini-rant
Just want to thank all of you for your incredibly kind words of encouragement when my father-in-law had his stroke almost three weeks ago. He's hanging in there -- there were a number of times when it looked as if we were going to lose him, but the last couple of days he's been sitting up and actively communicating. My brother-in-law says he can
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Re your mil. Aging parents who resist all reasonable remediation is a tough one. I've been there. And done that. For both parents. I empathize with their stubborn insistence on holding on to their dignity and right to choose for themselves. But when so much of how they identify their dignity and independence results in compromised safety and the extreme inconveniencing of others... Oy, indeed.
Re reading. My parents didn't come to Canada until they were in their 30s. English, and English-language books were terra incognita. So the recommendations went in the opposite direction. My father only read the newspapers. But my mother would pick up books I'd just finished studying - Jane Austen, George Eliot, even Henry James. Not bad for a native Polish and Yiddish speaker. (She gave up on James in a fit of exasperation. One night she actually threw The Golden Bowl across the room and said, "Why does he have to say everything twice!")
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