Jeannie Kranz and Jim Kranz

00:02 Hello, I'm Jeannie Kranz. I am 73 and 1/2 years old. It is May 14th.

00:11 I live in Boise, Idaho, and I'm with with my husband Jim.

00:16 Hi, I'm James Kranz. I live in Boise, Idaho. I'm 70 years old and today we are going to talk to our last recording.

00:31 That was for 30th anniversary 12 years ago.

00:39 Our anniversary will be buried 42 years, May 26th, so

00:53 The kind of recap a little bit about what what things are like 30 years ago. I think we need to talk about our children for where adults from h4227.

01:06 Grandkids five grandkids, they were teenagers and adolescents and one grandchild. That was not born with that point time.

01:18 Okay.

01:21 And and I think today the focus is going to be more on.

01:28 On the grandkids and all they have now become adults. We have the August 28th, and it just was married last summer. So we have three grandchildren that have not graduated from college. We have two grandchildren that are in college if we have the truck wasn't born who is a reflection now is seeing our next generation.

01:59 Grow up become a dolls and and reflection on them and how things have changed for us.

02:10 And the reason that I want to focus on our family is when we get our recording.

02:19 12 years ago. We talked a lot about our relationship with each other and you said some really

02:31 Really tender nice things to me and I think that as a result of listening to that a reed listening to that.

02:43 I see how that applies to our family into our kids. We have a really

02:50 Fortunate we have a really nice family. We all get along and not too weird. And we do so many family which has changed our family Dynamics quite a bit and

03:12 That's been hard for everybody some more than others, but we still managed to all.

03:20 Stay connected.

03:23 Yes, and of course now with the social discipline, but we have capabilities that we didn't have backed into texting and zoom and the internet has changed and certainly made that easier to just stay connected with the family. When I look at these grandkids. I just see the evolution of the family in the family values and how their parents have done some similar things raising their children.

04:03 Such as we did for them and and the outcome of what these children are like, you know, we buy And subscribe the idea that what you raise your kids with the values the food.

04:17 The music activities the cars that when they become an adult and get you those alien teenage years, they go back to the family values and I think that that's one of the things I want to express the day is that these adult kids they emulate their parents and they subscribe to the buyers that I got there. And I think that's an important lesson understand that then we're hoping to do because my great-grandchildren are high on our priority list with that I have to reflect on Genie and I think about that she has great culinary abilities and gets culinary tours around the world.

05:14 And we have these wonderful family dinners like the big Italian family or not. But all these kids subscribe to levels of abilities and passion. And so that's just an example of what you do as a parent or grandparent. That truly does Matt Irwin kids so mature adult let so I applied my wife and my kids and my grandkids for the successful college graduates the ones in law school that they become I hope they understand how much as our kids have learned and in and raised their family and in that type of of court.

06:10 No, I have to talk about Anna the youngest the 10 year old who thinks that she is the maker of the century and she is she.

06:23 Last year she get well for the last three years. She's designed her own birthday cake, and we always bake it together this year. We couldn't because we're

06:32 Separated socially isolated but she last year. She made a rainbow birthday cake all by herself. She I was in the kitchen with her, but she did everything all by herself except the dishes. She didn't want to do the dishes and she had a six layer birthday cake with the colors of the rainbow and it was absolutely beautiful. And so this year being by herself just home with her mom. She made a delicious them.

07:05 She like that Strawberry Shortcake cake and it was she brought us over a piece. It was it was wonderful. She's the she's The Shining Star of the family right now. Yeah, and I remember the conversation when she called me and told me that she designed the cake and she said, of course, I need you to kick love where it only grandma would have one.

07:29 Fusion confectionery sugar because my dad and and I said cuz you to just have to YouTube. Yeah, that's the difference in today's kids.

07:50 So I think we the other thing that I think I want to mention is we

07:58 The changes are the challenges that we've had the last 13 years. We we go along pretty well.

08:07 But the long and having a good time most of the time but we've had some dramatic health challenges with you and I

08:16 Andover, we all are fine now, but

08:21 It was the care when I was not doing well that you gave me and I'm sure it was the wonderful care that I gave you.

08:31 And then our oldest daughter.

08:36 Was diagnosed with breast breast cancer a year and a half ago and with she's made it through that and in remission now, thanks to

08:46 Thanks to the family and prayers and is doing well. But those things took a big toll on her family.

08:53 And I think changed some of our relationship as well.

09:07 When you

09:08 Were injured and then when I was sick.

09:12 We're both so independent and we had to learn to let I had to learn to let you take care of me, although I fought it.

09:22 And you had to let me take care of you. You are much better. You're much better patient than me, but that was a hard time.

09:32 Well, I know I see the

09:36 That this has brought our family and closer together that we realized that we all need the support of the family when I was

09:47 In that accident in wheelchair for not support and likewise with you. What's so not unexpected.

10:19 So what's the cancer thing with their daughter? Of course?

10:29 Then course it's unexpected support from everybody at all levels at choose see that think we all realized what a wonderful family important it is that most times a big that everybody steps up and does the extra.

10:52 Things in the Army and the compassionate leave it was all on

11:06 Let's pray until we learn from and Daya.

11:16 I mean, why wouldn't it be me? She was too young and I would I would at the time or still would have preferred it be me rather than her, but it was and

11:29 She did.

11:32 Extremely well with her treatment and left out on some types of treatment that she got and

11:40 It still in remission, which

11:48 Look at the old saying that the you weren't then pooped out live your children, and it's so

11:56 Really terrifying to think that you might and that you have to go through that pain that the committee is unequaled as a parent see with my patients if you've seen with their friends.

12:13 That's what I think when I look at idea for kids and their spouses in six game show me that we've never had a catastrophic accident or illness that we haven't been able to overcome and

12:32 Infant growth of accidents you and you're exactly as you know, but what else?

13:06 Well, I think about our age now.

13:10 When we get this interview 12 years ago.

13:14 I was so young right going to 60 and I look at.

13:20 73 and a half now

13:23 And I realize that

13:26 I have we we have a limited time left and

13:32 We need to take advantage of that.

13:36 Time with her family and with each other as best we can and this.

13:44 Old wood thing just freaks me up.

13:50 It could be one of us my

13:58 It just makes me nervous that you know, I think you'll live another 10 or 15 years maybe.

14:07 And I think how fast the past 10 or 15 years has gone my gosh. I know I should be nicer everyday because of that, but I don't know but I think the covid-19 my age has really

14:27 Welcome to me about the

14:32 Time moving too fast

14:35 Well, I certainly can understand more mortality issue giving already in the statistics of the Colbert then and how devastating can be for the elderly.

14:51 Does the number of friends and patients that have been working remotely? I've been isolated some of them into 11 long and they leave for several months now and they talked to me about the relationships that they are not having that has been in place and I think the people like seriously reflected on their life and their relationships in their life and and and I have also I look at relationships in my life and then I question the value and the benefits of it. And so I think that probably would have been a good thing that people people take a look at then and then stopped a relationship.

15:53 I was always envious of people especially people that function with great talent and then probably disappointed that I didn't have some wonderful attribute. Will it be music or Arts of mathematics or whatever. I kept hoping that this time we're done. I would see some latent attribute that I could be really proud of them being more. And that's the way I'm going to be but what I really learned a lot of all this is that

16:39 I have like you in a bunch of relationship.

16:44 I think everybody would attach the fact that I'm above average number of relationships. And the reason I have them is because relationships happen relationship and door because you have commonality people say I think she thinks just like I do or we think just to let go we like the same thing or we react the same way and that's why that's why relationships happened in a relationship.

17:22 The number of relationships. I'm blessed with the Silver Lining is that when your average you have coming out there with a lot of people and then if you're willing to

17:36 Foster those relationships you have things in common and so at the end of the day at the end of my assessment of relationships, I've been blessed to be ordinary into have all these relationships available to me because the world is full of ordinary and

18:03 That's why you have this great opportunity to have wonderful relationship and it was self-isolation and thanks. I think many of us are looking back to getting back to our normal relationship.

18:18 At the end of the day on Spotify.

18:22 You just irritates the hell out of me when you say your ordinary Jesus.

18:28 Jim you have the capacity to understand people and to heal people. Do you realize how many station thank you save their lives and we'll tell you that and tell me that and then you say you're just ordinary when you can see a patient that has been to multiple other Physicians and keep they can't figure out what's wrong with them and you figure out what's wrong with them and then you help them to get well.

18:58 Drive me crazy. You are not ordinary. You are extremely extremely above ordinary your compassionate your kind. You don't know it stranger.

19:13 If we go to a event or a party, you're just looking around the room trying to find somebody you haven't met before so you can go talk to somebody new and you're interested in people.

19:23 You care about people and I'm when I meet new people half the time. I don't remember their names and I won't remember him.

19:32 1/2 hour later a day later and you'll come to me and say did you know?

19:45 Ability to relate to people is extraordinary. So I don't I don't buy this chili stuff. I wanted some great day like music ability.

20:08 Okay. Thank you.

20:18 When you can identify with lots of different types of people letting people because you care so much about people, you know, that's the key.

20:42 Which I would like to think this is good for people.

20:49 Yeah, that's true, baby cooking set.

20:53 So in the future, what would you?

20:57 Tell her grandkids.

20:59 What advice would you give?

21:02 Josh eat dessert first ever, you know

21:08 I got a new year's card from my sister and it said take a look. Happy New Years and then it said take a look around you nothing will be the same in a year and I thought that's true, you know.

21:23 I'll be a year older. But then with his whole pandemic I'm thinking boy that is true. Nothing will be in a day. I think of the impact this has had on everybody in our family and we haven't suffered like so many but

21:42 This is up unprecedented time in our life.

21:49 I think

21:51 If we were to live long enough and could tell her great-grandchildren when they're teenagers. Oh, yeah, I remember in 20/20 such and such as like

22:03 Why are parents telling us when they walk to school 10 miles of 10 ft snow in the middle of the winter and all that stuff?

22:12 Well, I think that.

22:15 Tell him to

22:17 The adaptable

22:20 The future is changing. So rapidly that being happy and healthy and flexible the same time also think it's important that

22:35 That your core values so but I'm only what you been raised with the ethics and morality and

22:47 Goodness that.

22:51 That you see in the family room that he can never lose sight of that. But you have to be more flexible and adaptable to maintain your health and your happiness in the future.

23:16 Well

23:18 Is it hopefully will be around to see the Next Generation and maybe have a fall after this conversation another thing.

23:37 The other day said something about that.

23:44 You said well, they sure are getting all the time said isn't that the goal?

23:57 To see the Next Generation

24:11 Yeah, I'd like to talk about your family and

24:18 The changes that have happened with your side of the family this last year, so that's been

24:26 You're such a resilient person and you're such a stoic Cowboy, but I know that if it's okay you've struggled.

24:37 This last year

24:40 Okay.

24:45 Thanks to DNA testing and stuff that we would all realize that. Yeah, Dynasty age 51 and when I was 30 years old and that probably was life changing the fact that I was depressed and I

25:08 Really wondering why there is a future in this. Well, if you could die young like that, but it taught me to live life to its fullest everyday so that moving forward a lot of Adventure and electric cuz I've subscribed it to up that way but to live it and

25:31 What to bring that full circle losing my younger brother to pancreatic cancer last year having my sister just recovering from the pancreatic cancer surgery here to expel my other brother and sister quick answers pancreatic issues and one with two surgeries, and if so how to 7se

25:57 My father informal method

26:00 Subject to the pancreatic tissue, which is pretty overwhelming and pretty strongly so

26:09 So yeah.

26:12 The oncologist. Janelle sister

26:24 Still no effect of the majority must signal.

26:31 Your approach

26:34 Well, it's certainly Starling and certainly we can.

26:39 You can change your attitude that you do in terms of positive outlook on life waterfall what's in store for me personally and then whatever I'll be a victim of this to let me answer. You have to have to stop and get a dwelling that too much depression answer affect your fear of quality of life. So really try to focus hard on.

27:20 Putting up a negative Shadow on my life.

27:29 Appositive

27:33 Well, some of the younger people in the family is

27:39 Just a negative. I'm not sure what

27:51 You find out about other people that you're related to it.

27:56 And so Tuesday night 49 year old niece that I've never met that was given up for adoption and founded the family to the DNA testing and in conversation with her.

28:17 Lipstick as a master in nursing is getting the NBA nurse practitioner and a family and is embracing our family.

28:39 Way of the World malice in sestri., whatever it is

28:47 Very positive aspect of our weekend

28:58 You passed.

29:10 Okay, I think I'm good, too.

29:13 No problem.