Dad the caregiver

I asked Dad what were some of the special things he did for Mom while she was sick.  These are the things he told me:

She enjoyed going in her wheelchair to the Coast Guard Station at the beach and sitting on the end of the wooden ramp.  She enjoyed watching the tide come in and out.

Mom enjoyed eating breakfast in a restaurant at the pier.  She would sneak biscuits out of the restaurant to feed the seagulls while in her wheelchair.

Mom liked to go to the grocery store because she liked to see her friends there.  It was a social gathering.

She enjoyed sitting on the back patio while watching the bird feeder and listening to the chimes.

They drove near the base of one of the bridges and sat in the car out at the pilot boat dock so she could look out.  It is beautiful there.  Pelicans and seagulls sit on top of the old wooden pylons, and the sun sets behind the pylons.

On one of the last trips to the Mayo Clinic, instead of taking I-95 back home, they took A1A up the Coastal Highway.  They also rode on the car ferry. They went to Fernandina and ate at Spanky’s Restaurant on the water on the marsh side.  They sat on the deck for a long time.

She loved watching the squirrels eat the sunflower seeds he placed on the window seal by her bed.

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