Yoda
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Some of you may recall a note I posted earlier this year about my 90-year-old WWII fighter pilot ace father-in-law, who took a shot at a burgler in the middle of the night with a .410 shotgun.
I credit him with yet another victory, but of another kind.
He's now taking some anti-siezure drugs, and they give him vivid dreams. The past few nights, he's found himself waking up after walking through the house, and he's even carried on conversations in his sleep with my wife/his daughter, telling her that he's going dancing. He also says he's had some nightmares. Last night, he walked outside and woke up after he fell into a garden.
My wife and I talked things over, and we decided that we'd have to take the two guns out of her father's room. If he had the wrong sort of waking dream, someone could get hurt. We also decided to put some alarms on his door to wake someone up if he left his room.
So, where is the "victory?" Before we could talk to him about removing the guns, he came to us and asked us to put them somewhere else, and to be sure they were unloaded, so he wouldn't accidently hurt anyone. So, maybe the drugs give him some pretty "rough" nights (his words), but in the light of day, he can still think safe and sane.
Score another one for the old man.
- - - Yoda
I credit him with yet another victory, but of another kind.
He's now taking some anti-siezure drugs, and they give him vivid dreams. The past few nights, he's found himself waking up after walking through the house, and he's even carried on conversations in his sleep with my wife/his daughter, telling her that he's going dancing. He also says he's had some nightmares. Last night, he walked outside and woke up after he fell into a garden.
My wife and I talked things over, and we decided that we'd have to take the two guns out of her father's room. If he had the wrong sort of waking dream, someone could get hurt. We also decided to put some alarms on his door to wake someone up if he left his room.
So, where is the "victory?" Before we could talk to him about removing the guns, he came to us and asked us to put them somewhere else, and to be sure they were unloaded, so he wouldn't accidently hurt anyone. So, maybe the drugs give him some pretty "rough" nights (his words), but in the light of day, he can still think safe and sane.
Score another one for the old man.
- - - Yoda