[Jackie07]

I bought a bottle of fish oil and something else a couple of weeks ago. Haven't taken any because I have not worked it into my routine. Old habits die hard. And it seems unless we are pushed into the corner, we don't want to 'change'.

I was just thinking about my late Mother-in-law who had left us January 6, just 1 1/2 months short of her 82nd birthday. She was only 5', was born premature to a mail bride (her Mother was 48 when she was married first time to her late cousin's husband in Florida.) Her Mother kept her warm in a shoe box by the stove. Her Father died of diabetes when she was 13 and her Mother ended up moving back to Texas to stay with a younger brother, bringing my Mother-in-law and her two older step sisters.

Oh, almost forgot about my point. My Mother-in-law developed diabetes in her early 50's and started taking meds to control it. By the time I was married to her youngest son, she had turned 61 and was taking more than 15 pills at different time of the day. She drew lines in a notebook to check off the pills she had taken.

She had retired from a teaching career for more than 30 years. Then she started to sell Avon to people who live in her neighborhood and a town of 3000 15 miles away. She was bitten by a vicious dog while visiting a customer. She crashed her car half year before she had a heart attack and underwent quadruple bypass. She had to treat her ulcers on her legs caused by diabetes... She had had congested heart failure.

I could just see her face. She took those pills without ever a blink of her eyes. She's got so many of them to take, she just wanted to get them done so she could get about her business and go to bed in time.

I never have problems with taking my pills after I had known 'Addie Belle', my wonderful Mother-in-law.