Visiting Aunt Helen in 2004
On Thursday I phoned my Aunt Helen and had a good talk with her. She is my only living Aunt (widow of my Dad's youngest brother) and coming up to 91 on November 15. I was thinking of calling on her birthday but called Thursday to see how she fared with Hurricane Sandy. She lives in Delaware which was right on the path of the storm. They did fairly well where she is with about 3" of rain and some tree branches down but not major damage. Her son already had that cleaned up. She did not have a power outage, but her daughter had a flooded basement from the power out for the sump pump. Areas with a lot of wind and flood damage were not far away from them.
Aunt Helen is still doing quite well. She said she did decide to quit driving, and her son drives her to appointments or for groceries. She said she can't get up into his truck so kept her car so he can drive her places in it. She is very thankful for her relatively good health. She said her main concern is her eye sight, but treatment for macular degeneration is helping keep fairly good sight in one eye.
We had a very enjoyable talk for about half an hour. I should try to remember to call Aunt Helen more often.
