But over the past few years, she and Dave repeatedly coped with the deaths of their friends and relations. They were all of an age--an age when human bodies began giving up. Dying. Face it--they were old!
Plus, I’ve coped with all the secondary illnesses that waltz along with these problems, including osteoporosis, gastroparesis, cataracts, gallbladder failure, impacted bowel and chronic bleeding.
But I hope-i believe-they will in their own way be able to cope as well as my grandfather coped, and learn the lesson my grandfather taught me all those years ago.
They coped with each other for the prize.
He coped with the embarrassment subtly.
