Canasta

And he's got the one with stage four prostate or not prostate pancreatic cancer.

And then we had those moments where we're cooking him great meals, right? And he's sitting, he's up at the table and we're playing cards, Canasta, you know, one of our favorite card games from when we were kids.

And, you know, we're laughing.

And there are times when we're in the hospital and...

You know, that's the way it is.

My grandmother was, I guess, a Canasta shark because she, if anyone didn't play, I don't know, to her level or the kind of Canasta she played, she would be like, oh, that's baby Canasta.

Well, I'm going to tell you now I am playing Baby Canasta.

I'm doing it for fun.

I have not played a lot yet.

I mean, you know, and my goodness, there's so much in life that you have to be competitive about when you're working out in the corporate world and everything.

Why can't we just go out there and have fun? But again, if that's what she likes, hey, go for it.

Well, Sally hasn't played Canasta in a very long time, if you know what I'm saying.

And he was a hit.

Ollie was a charmer, a champ at Canasta, and king of the television room.

He had stories and always, always a smile for the ladies.

But

She didn't want to be in babysitting mode.

She wanted to see the grandkids for like a couple hours and give them a hundred bucks and then go back to her regular life of Canasta and Pool Zumba or whatever it is that she enjoys doing in her retirement, right? Sudoku, making art, right? So that was a wake up call for her that she thought she really wanted to be a grandma and all the responsibilities that come with it and all the joy that comes with it.

But she really was like, I don't want to take care of anybody at this point.

But that also proved to be untrue because she's happily married.