No one is smiling.

I have never encountered anyone in my life so deserving and so deprived of peace and simplicity as my mother.

Think of her, will you? She's having a rough go.

And so it goes...

A vacation ended by a jaw dislocation and a trip to the ER...Welcome
home! This picture was of course taken after two doses of morphine, a
dose of something the doctors described as "ten times as strong as
morphine" and a full out unconscious sedation to relocate the joint. I
then laid there for almost 3 hours unable to focus my eyes and saying
things that pete was kind enough to document, such as "when are
orchestra tryouts?? OMG I thought we were in high school...!"

The serious part of this of course is that this is getting worse every
time. Surgery is back on the table...Oy.