A cup of coffee with my mom.

Well, well, well, well as I live and breathe.

Hi.

Hi.

How's everybody?

Great.

Well, living and breathing, I think, is the operative word right now.

Welcome back to the land of the what? Land of the living. The seeing?

The land of the seeing. Yeah. Oh, today was another red letter day. Tell me. Well, we went downstairs and

they had a buffet today. And for the first time, I went, when I say we went downstairs, that means a hallway,

an elevator, another hallway, and another hallway. Pretty good walk. I went down without using my

roll later. I've been using a walker and a roll later for the past three or four

months because I've been a little unsteady, a little unbalanced. But today, for the first time,

I went down without my roll later and I made out just fine. I didn't have to

hold on to anybody or grab hold of anybody, and that was good. That is good. I need to ask,

though, what is a roll later? I think I know what it is, but I'm not sure. It's a fancy walker. You

know what a walker is? You've seen old people lean on walkers,

and they have two wheels in the front and gliders in the back. Well, a roll later is just an

upgraded version of a walker, and it has four wheels that turn very easily. It's like they're on ball bearings. And, well, I'll tell you,

I missed my role later today, not because I needed to steady myself. It has this wonderful seat

on it that lifts up, and you can store so much under there.

Chuck, you don't understand. In the world of unintended consequences, the rollator occupies

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