Fritzy: Who's that?

Frank: The, the, the brothers.

Fritzy: Yeah?

Frank: Remember when the father, and how the mother got?

Fritzy: Well, she, see my mother's not. But my mother's been sick. My mother's got a little diabetes, a very little bit.

Frank: Yeah?

Fritzy: She's got a little heart trouble. You know?

Frank: Uh-huh.

Fritzy: But the blood pressure went out of line. I, I was takin' her the night before last. It was 207.

Frank: Uh.

Fritzy: But the idea is they, they gave her injections. They gave her everything. They must've knocked her down from maybe close to 300.

Frank: Uh-huh.

Fritzy: Must've been 280, 300. Who knows what the hell it was? So now they're...

Frank: ...hear about her in the hospital.

Fritzy: Yeah, I, I know, but meantime, if they would take... Wha?

Frank: Sorry to hear about it.

Fritzy: I know. I know. Well, at least we could take care of her better, ya know? I turned around, I says, "Well, we, I was goin' every night over there, for two nights." "Don't change her environment," they says. She forgot everything. She forgot. "What day is it? What this? What that?"

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: Ya know? Well, you know, you got your mother there...

Frank: I went to see her yesterday. She's bad.

Fritzy: She don't remember nothin'.

Frank: Nope. She's just layin' there suffering now.

Fritzy: Aww. I don't want to see my mother that way.

Frank: Nah, forget about it.

Fritzy: I don't wanna see her that way.

Frank: She's like this for a while now.

Fritzy: Well, she's got her head. She's got her senses. They're givin' her blood thinners. They give her all the other medications, plus the blood thinners, uh, plus different things. They gotta keep that blood thin.

Frank: When did she go in? Yesterday, Freddie?

Fritzy: I put her in this mornin'.

Frank: Oh, this mornin'?

Fritzy: Yeah. No, I just put her in. We were, we were waitin' for a private room.

Frank: She had a slight stroke?

Fritzy: Well, we were sleepin'. Yeah.

Frank: Huh?

Fritzy: Yeah. We were sleepin' over the house, ya know?

Frank: Uh-huh.

Fritzy: We were stayin' there with her. So, uh, eh, whattya gonna do?

Frank: How you feel? Alright?

Fritzy: I told ya, I, geez, I was drivin' this mornin' and I says, "Ya know, I can't remember if, ya know, that I could...

Frank: [UI]

Fritzy: ...that I felt this, ya know..."

Frank: You were in such a rut, you, you figured that's the way you gotta feel.

Fritzy: That's the way I gotta feel, alright?

Frank: In other words you say, "Well, I'm gettin' older now. That's the way you gotta get."

Fritzy: Alright. [In Italian, all the pain], remember, I was tellin' ya? All the pains, one year, the pains.

Frank: Uh-huh.

Fritzy: Well the, uh, pains. My shoulders, my back.

Frank: Nothin' bothers you now?

Fritzy: Nah, I got my little, uh, back a little bit. My shoulders don't bother me. My shoulders and my...

Frank: Your blood pressure's good now, huh?

Fritzy: Sure. My blood pressure's readin'...tell Baldy my blood pressure's 120 over 80.

Frank: That's good.

Fritzy: Tell him like that.

Frank: Yeah.

Fritzy: And it's not just for a day, it's been consistent. Now I'm gonna do my... [Aside to his wife] C'mon, let's do it now, Carol. Let's see, maybe I'll be full of shit. I'm gonna let her do it now, we'll do a test.

Frank: Yeah. How's your food? You watchin' it?

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