Please Wait

01/06/2015

If you have cable television you may be able to relate to this problem. You are watching your favorite program and you get a black screen with the words, "Please Wait" in white in the center of your screen. The first time this happened I did give a passing thought that I could do something constructive in the time I was waiting. Then I realized that if I stepped away from the view of the television and the program came back on and I did not hear it than I might miss a key point of the program. I end up sitting on the couch and staring at the black screen and wait.

If you have NetFlix® you could be watching a movie and then you get this message, "We are experiencing temporary technical difficulty. Please try your program later." So you hit chose OK on the screen and exit that page and wait.

According to "Google Answer ®" the average person spends 45 to 62 minutes a day waiting for something. Waiting for the coffee to finish, waiting for the toast to pop up, waiting to cook your eggs, waiting in traffic, waiting in lines, wait for the train, wait for your nail polish to dry, I could go on and on with things that we wait for. If you take the high end of the average it means we wait for 377 hours or 15.71 days a year for something to culminate at the end of our wait.

Lately I have spent hours waiting in the waiting room of the V.A. for blood work results, cat scan results of the brain, x-ray results of the hip, lunch to be delivered, dinner to be delivered, doctor teams to meet with, and on and on. What is really bugging me is Alzheimer waits for no one. Alzheimer moved in here with no warning. Took up a whole floor of my house and took my Father away. The only thing that I can see culminating at the end of this wait is when JW passes on. I think that stinks.

If patience is a virtue than when I pass please submit my name for canonization. I'll wait.

Phyllis