Hi Mom & Susan,
I just got back from a trip down into the Rift Valley--good expedition. Hope all's well with you. Here's Sanford's latest memory--I enjoy them even here! Roger sent to mary and susan
2001
Subject: September 6
Nathalie's Birthday (and also a nephew's birthday Hi Doug) and has been a nice day here --scads of cards and phone calls from friends, visit to
the doctor who thought I might live for a while yet and took one medicine off my list --should have gone to him last week before I sent in my last order for new supply of medicine-- 30 bucks shot rats!!! got two shots (flu and Vitamin B)-- one in each arm so a little sore that way tonight. hope the flu shot doesn't do like a typhoid shot I had in India --ended up having typhoid and spending a week in the Khagpur Hospital and then 6 weeks with Nathalie and the kids in Land our where the kids were in school --great--- only problem whenever we went any where up there they walked while I rode in a "dandy" (chair carried by for men) (and did I get razzed by the other men--and my own kids) and now I am sitting here beside two open windows and finding it COOL. which is nice for a change. and my first week for 75 years not being able to drive a car. NO CAR and NO DRIVER'S LICENSE. life does bring changes when eyesight begins to fail or at least blur so I can't see a car clearly whether it is coming toward me or going away. I might have done like my first day to drive in India --the Mission had an old Ford that barely ran but I started down town and lo and behold I must have thought I was in America and started down the right side of the road where all the oxcarts and people on cycles were coming toward me. sure scared a couple oxcart drivers, and after ten years of driving on the left side of the road we came home and (I shouldn't tell this but) Nathalie went to take her driver's test and lo and behold she started like she was in India and the man giving the test simply said "that flunks you right now" for some reason all the other cars were coming toward her on that side of the street. so she had to go back and I will say she never again made that mistake. you know it is sort of scary when you are driving down the street and all the other cars are coming at you on the side of the street you are on.. I Know! nuf said about that. anyway a period of life is over, and I will just have to face walking to the grocery store or to any place. and right now I agoing to walk to the bedroom so will say Night to you all with lots of love and a [missing last line?]
9/7/2001