If you think you're so enlightened....

"If you think you're so enlightened go and spend a week with your parents. " Ram Dass

Two weeks ago I was told that my mother had just suffered from a heart attack and was raced to her local hospital for treatment.  Being a typical crazy morning , I was disheveled and chasing my tail.  Now this.

  You see mom has what the world would call Alzheimer's  and I call choosing to forget the shitty life that you've had. By the time I arrived on the scene, the doctors had already shot her off to a scoping procedure where they shoot die into the heart of the patient and take a digital film of the heart's functioning.  News wasn't good.  QUADRUPLE BYPASS.  The next morning at 6 we were all there  to see this very scared woman off to a very neccesary and scary surgical procedure.  Just the hopeless look on her face was enough to drive anyone crazy and I felt completely helpless.  I called on my lifeline...   to be continued