Miles-blogging #30
Nov. 13th, 2011 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peteryoung
I know I'm well behind on updates for all sorts of things, including what's been happening with Miles, who was 2 years and 3 months old more than a week ago.
One thing that happened to me recently which put a few things into a kind of perspective was to have one of my passengers die en route to Los Angeles, somewhere over British Columbia in Canada on 4th November, while I was doing CPR on him. After 50 minutes we realised we had to call it a day, and he wasn't going to come back. When we landed the guy's wife had to phone their son in Hawaii to tell him his father had died in flight. Later in the hotel in Redondo I skyped with Miles and once again life impressed upon me how lucky we are to have such a perfectly healthy child (well, apart from that broken front tooth). It got me wondering about all kinds of shit relating to mortality, how I'll end up going and how Miles might end up going hopefully long after I'm gone, how he'll remember his dad and what kind of strange world he and maybe his kids will be living in in fifty years time.
He's been ticking along fine, with no great changes other than his latest addiction, Tom & Jerry, and he continues in his undeclared mission to commandeer all the neighbouring kids' toys. He's also now starting to talk about things from memory, such as what he did yesterday or last week, with a slowly expanding vocabulary. Not got much more to add really, other than that being a parent to such a great kid is a life-affirming thing.
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Date: 2011-11-15 05:58 pm (UTC)