Good lesson for us - thank you for sharing and I"m very sorry about you MIL.

Let that be a lesson to all of us. 2016 as I immerged from near death heart failure, as the months passed, the little I could do began to expand into more activities available to me. I began to say to myself, do it now. That was the lesson of the moment. I was the one who would say, "oh, I'd like to see that lake as we would approach the turn off, I'll see it later." I realized, there may not be any "later". So I forced myself to do the thing I wanted to do. Driving south on 395, is Convict Lake in the Sierras (terrible name), I said, "now". We took the turn west and drove around it and walked alittle of the shore. It was so beautiful. And then Juno Lakes, again, so beautiful. And then the turn east to Bristlecone Pine at 10,000. I knew my heart wouldn't let me stay for long at that altitude. Slow uphill haul to the summit, but what a different, remote forest. It's been 3.5 years and I'm so much better, and have slipped alittle into my old habits. But covid19 has stopped those travels. But we do have a comfortable home we moved into about 3 months ago, and invited our divorced underemployed daughter and 14 introverted granddaughter to live with us. I doubt I would have taken such a leap into the unknown before heart failure but now, open to movement into the future.