Tempus fugit

It has been a year and a half since these photos were taken (Christmas 2007). Lucia was living at the überfancy Stratford in Lafayette at the time. It was a brand new assisted living residence that was more like a luxury hotel than home. They had a fancy chef, a couple of salons, a gym, their own movie theater and a lot of other perks.  They treated Lucia like royalty, but she’s a little too country for the whole cruise-ship ambience.

After a couple of major health setbacks —that had nothing to do with living at the Stratford but nevertheless landed her in the hospital—she moved to the wonderful Williams Family Care home, where she still lives as of now.  But she lost a lot of weight along the way (she now weighs 92 pounds) and she no longer is willing to wear her false teeth, so she looks really different.

Seeing these photos really makes that evident. (I ran across them while deleting extra stuff from my digital camera.)

Yes, time flees. Or flies. Depending on how you see it.

F U N E M ?

Lucia with some of her great-grandkids ~ Christmas 2006. From left: Sadie Mae Alan, Sarah Grace Gordis, Grandma Lucia, Piper Lane Alan, Benjamin Philip Gordis.

On some of those days when I faked sick and stayed home from school, Lucia would play word games with me. She would write stuff down and then say, “Can you read this?”

Today I wrote this one down and asked her if she could read it:

FUNEM?
SVFM.
FUNEX?
SVFX.
OKMNX!

She said:

Of course I can read it!

And then she did. She remembered all of it, even the accent. Good stuff.

Do you know how to read it? Click this link (or hover) to find out: FUNEM?