Wednesday 02/07/2024
Didn’t even think about a walk, though I should have. Did my laundry and while that was running, edited the Strollin video to have the right order of songs. And had an appointment with Leah, the in-house hairdresser.
In the evening we had a lecture by Prof Emerita Myra Strober, who says she has “flunked retirement three times,” meaning she keeps getting dragged into other projects, most recently a book, Money and Love: An Intelligent Roadmap for Life’s Biggest Decisions. She gives a good talk, amusing with lots of good stories from her own life.
One of her stories sounded exactly like stories we heard during the End of Life lecture series. Her second husband had Parkinson’s and was deteriorating; she got an urgent call to come to the hospital, where she was told the doctor wanted to insert a feeding tube. She said, he has a POLST that explicitly rules that out; the doctor said that the electronic copy in the records wouldn’t do, he needed a physical copy. She has to rush home and get the form in order to prevent unwanted care. Soon after she observed the problem, her husband didn’t have a blockage, he was actively spitting the food out: voluntarily not eating. They moved him to hospice care and he died soon after.
But that’s not the sort of decision her book is mainly about. Anyway, the event came off without any A/V hitches, so another one done.
Codgerville 