(Daughter Nancy Bachman and husband Dick bring us up-to-date on Margaret)
"In October we celebrated Margaret's 90th birthday with a small gathering in Balboa Park. Happily, we hadpicked a date between storms. Margaret is living as independently as poor vision will allow. She has a driver that comes by twice a week to chauffeur and run errands. She goes to an exercise class once a week. Twice or three times would be better, but all-in-all she keeps pretty fit.
The day after Christmas Margaret was admitted to Kaiser Hospital with a very rapid heart rate. She spent three nights and wasn't too pleased with the culinary offerings. Upon release, the doctor's orders were to keep off the caffine. Needless to say, this was not welcome news to the lover of coffee and chocolates. A visiting nurse made three home visits before releasing her from the home care follow up program. Upon questioning the nurse about the restrictions to her diet, the nurse asked, "Mrs. Hines, how old are you?" Margaret replied, "90." The home nurse said "sc_ _ _ the doctor." Margaret's reaction was "Isn't she a nice little nurse?" Son, Bill Hines, almost fell off his chair laughing. Margaret is back to her morning coffee, afternoon chocolates and feeling fine."
