My Mom came home from the hospital tonight. It's Carlos' birthday so I baked a cake and we had an awesome vegetarian lasagna that a friend of theirs made for them. Mom gave Carlos an iPod that I picked up for him. And I gave her a copy of Tiger Woods PGA Golf so that she would have something to play to keep her mind off of how bored she will be over the next couple of weeks. It's all so happy and sad at the same time.
As I write this I can hear Carlos' iPod Mini. While I was watching the Fog of War and Carlos was sleeping his machine was busy burning a copy of the Pearl Fishers. Which he then synced to the Mini and is now listening to on a volume so loud that I can hear it at the other end of the apartment with the door closed.
I mentioned the iPod idea to my Mom who hijacked my iPod to relax with classical in the hospital. I said that it would be around $200 for a small one. Turns out I was right and that it was the cheapest of them all, a 4GB iPod Mini. I felt bad but it turns out that Carlos is excited by what he has and is worried that he won't have enough space on his laptop to store the 4GB of tunes for his iPod. So I told him he could use it as an external hard drive if he wanted to do that.
I think the iPod will help out a lot with the long waits that come with this sort of thing. My guess is that Mom will share Carlos' or get her own pretty soon.
I'm going to say that I want more time, but that's just because illnesses make you realize what little time we have. I'm certainly not going to sell my Mom short. She is a brave fighter who will give it all she has.
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