Taking Care of Business

Sussex House... mom and dad's last apartment.  (Side note: the Vercoe name ventures back to Sussex, England)

Where does the time go?!  I cannot believe it is three months this week since dad passed away.  I've been back in Vancouver/White Rock, taking care of dad's affairs. Catching up with friends, it feels like no time has passed... but in fact it has been 2 1/2 years since we left. 'It seems like it was yesterday,' has been the refrain this whole trip. Another reminder to not put off till tomorrow, what you can do today.

I took a stroll through White Rock last week, and didn't realise till I was on the move that I was walking past all the old hang outs with dad.  The hospital where he spent the last 6 weeks before we moved, the emergency room where we spent many long hours for various ailments, the store where we picked out his walker (joking that it wasn't quite as much fun as picking out a car), the notary public's office; where I signed the paperwork for the power of attorney and estate executor that got me into this position in the first place! There was the rolling sidewalk down the hill to his front door, where I constantly reminded him to take it slow, as his gait threatened to take over and he'd have a spill. (Which did eventuate, hence one of the trips to the emergency room for a busted nose.). So many memories.... plus the memories of mom. The garden out the front of their place is somewhat overgrown now. Mom would have had a say in tending to those plants.

With these sad reminders of all that dad suffered with in those last years, though I miss his smile and wave, I am thankful he no longer has to struggle with that disease. We laid dad to rest last week with mom, and it is a comfort to know they are together again.