[Ipg-smz] Looking for opinions/experience

[Christine Hall]

Great story. I moved to my current location 22 years ago from 
Winston-Salem. I currently live about 17 miles from Winston-Salem's city 
limits. I grew up in Greensboro, a larger (and in my opinion nicer) city 
30 miles to the east from Winston.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 11/14/19 2:45 PM, Stephen Satchell via Ipg-smz wrote:
> On 11/14/19 11:06 AM, Christine Hall via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> My mother smoked until the day she died, a couple of months back at 
>> 87. The last couple of years she could barely breath, was hooked up to 
>> oxygen most of the time, but puffing away every time she could get her 
>> hands on a cigarette.
> 
> My mother, a Southern Belle from the great State of North Carolina, grew 
> up in Winston-Salem.  Daughter of a fire-chief dad and an orthodontist 
> mom.  Trained to be a dietitian, then when WWII broke out she joined up 
> and was stationed in a Santa Fe hospital, where my dad was sent after 
> getting shot up in France.  Yep.  Married there.
> 
> Clara Louise took up the smoking habit fairly early in her life, and was 
> a two-pack a day smoker when I came along.
> 
> Back to Santa Fe:  at the wedding, my mom slipped on the rice and landed 
> on her knees.  This started a gradual breakdown of her right knee to the 
> point that a knee replacement was needed.  This was still considered 
> experimental surgury at the time.  Seven years later, the second knee 
> got replaced.
> 
> (Now we get to the buried lead.)  Mom's last cigarette was just before 
> she got in the car to go to the hospital.  Quit cold turkey.  NEVER 
> caught her sneaking one after she came home; she even had to leave the 
> room when Dad lit up.
> 
> After my father died (hospital infection) she sold everything and moved 
> into a no-smoking nursing home in Pennsylvania, where she spent her last 
> 12 years of her life.  Met her grandkids, as my brother and his family 
> was just across the state line and visited her regularly.
> 
> She could never kick the "As The World Turns" habit, but the smokes went 
> right out.
>