The Good the Bad and The ugly

Today was in many ways a great day, in other ways not so great. For several days I have had an infected tooth. Causing me much pain. Were it not for antibiotics I would not have made it through. In desperation I called my friend who is a dentist and he gave me a time to come in to look at my tooth. I knew it needed to come out, but did not know if he could do it or if I would need and oral surgeon to dig it out. As it turned out, He was able to pull it with no problem. I have no insurance, so he did all that work free of charge. Not only that.... set me up with another appointment to do other work in my mouth that should not wait. How great is that? A good day by any standard. Then I get home and have some lunch and decide I wanted to make and apple crisp. I had all the ingredients and was half way done when my daughter in law came in asking me what I was doing. What I was doing? As though I had to explain my right to be there. I said I was making and apple crisp. She said well,..... I wanted to make cookies for work. I assured her that what I was doing would only take 20 mins. She seemed like I should have asked permission to use the kitchen because her stuff had greater priority than mine. Perhaps it did, but there is another example of being pushed off to the side, because the younger generations life projects are more important than anything the older generation has to do. After all they are the 40 year olds who now run the country with there know it all attitude. So what started out as a good day has ended again, in my feeling like I am an intruder in my own home. After all I was the one who sacrificed everything I own to get them to this place in time, and now I am the intruder.