Yesterday I wrote about a colleague’s lament that she was tired of all the bad economic news and a Slashdot poll that revealed not only a remarkable amount of workplace sloth, given the times, but another dose of grumbling.
While reading the 250-plus comments on the Slashdot poll, I came across one that took my snark away and touched off an internal debate about whether to share it with you folks (it didn’t “fit” with yesterday’s post). It was titled “Retired, but working more than ever.” Here it is and here’s where you can read the replies of Slashdotters:
Snugly nestled into our new home near the beaches we love and more than ready for retirement, my wife and I learned that she has inoperable cancer. The last seven months have been a cascade of mostly bad news and setbacks, the most recent being a spontaneous fracture of the right femur, but with enough good news to keep our hopes high.
As a former firefighter/paramedic, I am able to do all of my wife’s in-home care and provide transportation to care which has to be done at the hospital. I also do most or all of the cooking, shopping, household cleaning/maintenance [the plumbing in the new house sucks and I refuse to let the same jackass who installed it repair it], yard work and car care to save money, such as a recent brake job.
While I’ve had to put surfing, fishing and beach combing on the back burner, I have no complaints. We’ve been married 38 years and I’m very happy that I am able do this and shower her with nothing but love and affection. She is very strong and fighting with the courage and determination of a warrioress and doing remarkably well.
I’ve got to find a way to complain less and hug my family more.
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