Dreams
This morning TGP called his Mom to find her in tears. Apparently she had just gotten off the phone to discover that her sister-in-law, Plotnik's Aunt Margie, is dying and may not last out...well, it could happen at any time.
It's stranger than that. All night long, before she got the phone call, Mummy P. dreamed she was holding Aunt Margie's hand. Margie was lying in bed but wouldn't speak, though Mummy P. kept asking her to. Whenever Mummy P. closed her eyes, there Aunt Margie would be.
The dream spooked her. Then the phone rang.
Plotnik told his mom that if she ever dreams about him lying there that she is to kick him hard, wake him up for God's sake.
Aunt Margie was 14 when she met Mummy Plotnik, who was dating Margie's big brother, Plotnik's father. Margie is 86 now and as you know Mummy P. is a few weeks shy of 95. These two women have been friends for more than seventy years, through deaths and illnesses, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Just last year, when Aunt Margie was moving into an assisted living apartment, she tried to get Mummy P. to become her roommate. But Margie lives in Southern Orange County, and it was just too far away for Mummy Plotnik to want to commit to it.
The idea was Margie is younger, she could take better care of Mummy P. But it didn't sound like a good idea to Mummy Plotnik, thank goodness.
Friends for 70 years. Wow.
posted by DAK @ 10:32 AM
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I can't think of one single person that is not family that I have stayed in touch with since I was 14. It is amazing that they've had 70 years.
That sort of dream would keep me up at night.
Lovely photo and a v. sweet and sad post. I'm sorry for your mom.
I'm so sorry for your Mom to have to go through that! What an ordeal, a bad dream then a bad phone call. Where is Mummy P?
Mummy P. is in SoCal, Mrs. That. She's feeling a lot better today, thanks. And you hit it on the head with the word 'ordeal' about those dreams -- Mom has had them all her life and she hates them -- they scare her. Not me -- I, who never have them, am intrigued by the whole concept.
A couple of months ago, I dreamed that my old house was empty and run down. In the dream, I was relieved to realize that I didn't own it anymore.
Last week, I found out that the couple that bought the house have divorced, the husband kept the house, but has now lost it to forclosure. And it now sits empty and run down.
Spooky....
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