Let me tell you about the "Six Broads Abroad." [View all]

this was a disparate group of women who came together in support of our friend, Barbara. Her husband had been hit by a car when he was out jogging. He suffered a massive TBI but was saved and lingered in a state where he couldn't recognize anyone he had known and was in a long term facility.

Several months went by and several of us suggested to Barbara that we all take a trip together and somehow Lisbon was selected. We went there to escape a terrible reality for just a week. We bought fresh bread and local wine and each evening would go to the hotel roof and eat the bread, drink the wine and schmooze. We were all so sad but Barbara didn't want us to sit and cry. So we didn't.

He was developing pneumonia from lying in bed and was treated for it until treatment for his constant bouts with pneumonia was ended and he died peacefully. It was a decision made by his family and the doctors at Yale New Haven Hospital.

The six of us broads never got back together. I just saw Barbara last week. Every now and then we go to eat at a Turkish restaurant we both enjoy. She and her daughters had received a very large payment on his life insurance policy. It has made their lives going forward somewhat easier. She now has grandchildren and shares latest photos with me.

I will never forget our six broads abroad trip.