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Hi to all. Sorry I haven't been posting lately but always read all posts. Bobbie - I was a diva for Halloween - took a nap - what a luxury that was! Dad's been off for about the past week but seems a little better today. Even he says he feels more with it today. Every day is a journey with an unknown destiny. Love and best wishes to all for a peaceful and restful evening!
Bobbie, so nice to hear from you! I am so sorry you worried for me. "I wanna die" is an expression that we use here not seriously, we use it one thousand times a day. It just means: "I am so tired" or "pissed off". It does not really mean that you wanna die. Sometimes we even say "I wanna die right away". I understand that sometimes the difference in the idioms can cause some misunderstanding. When I went to USA the first time I translated from italian into english the Italian expressions and people laughed a lot because it seems I said absurd things. Sorry again to made you worry. In fact I am tired and I have the same problem Miz has; I am not too patient and when I spend 5 hours running with my mother asking the same question, that is in my case "When are we going home?", after 5 hours I snap (because anyway it hurts that she does not want to stay with me, in spite of everything we (me and the girls) do for her). We all know that it's the disease, but sometimes it is hard to stand a person who always complains. I am lucky because I have to stay with my mother only a few hours a day, and most of the weekend, because the caregivers here cost much less (anyway, they have a salary per hour which is higher than mine as a translator). So I have to work hard to help pay all the expenses of this house - my mother's retirement pension is not enough).. Austin, it seems to me you said (sorry I don't go back to check, otherwise I lose my post) that you talked with the patients about their past and they remembered a lot of things. I would like to do the same, but we would enter into a minefield, because my mother would remember all the relatives she has lost and she would tell me " I want to go to see my parents, my siblings" and so on, even more than she does now. I try to keep her mind far from the past, because I know what happens next. Okay guys let's continue! We have no choice. Jen I am glad you had a nice Halloween. I would like to do "trick or treat" even if I am 53!
I work in a surgery center and the medications we give make people forget when they ask the same questions over and over and over again. I try to remember that I maintain my patience with them when my dad has the same behaviors at home without those drugs. But it sure is harder at times to maintain my patience with him. Sometimes I have to think if I was dreaming about some of the same conversations or if we truly have the same conversation several days in a row (like who's the confused one in this situation). It does help me stay patient with dad though if I make myself remember that this was exactly how he NEVER wanted to be. And when he has his really lucid moments it must be so depressing for him to realize he is what he never wanted to be. I don't know whether to hope he stays at the same mental level he is at now or if he becomes less aware as time goes on. I really thought I knew how this would go but continue to realize I had and have no clue!
Hey Everybody! Hope you're all having a great evening & have had an easy day!
Captain Bobbie!!! Glad to hear from that you're OK! We all get concerned when we don't hear from you! How fun that you're traveling about! I'm sorry that Nik isn't there with you or you with him. I agree with Linda...they (his family) don't know what they're missing by not including you in their lives. How is Kitty taking the move? Please come surprise us on FB sometime. You're always welcome...you're our Captain!
Kuli, hate to hear that your Dad has been having a difficult time, but glad that he had a better day today! Been wondering where you were! I'm like you in that I may not post everyday, but always read them everyday.
Miz, thanks for the insight! How are YOU doing??
Rossella, glad to hear that is just a saying for you! How is your Mom doing with the fireplace? Did you come up with a screen to go in front of it? Did you get a mattress for the floor in front of the couch? How are YOU?? Are you getting more rest? I know you stay so tired caring for your Mom & trying to work, too!
Tenn, SO glad that the brothers are getting a taste themselves! Please keep us updated. How are Lil Tenny & you doing without Nola? I know that you miss her. I've really been thinking about you two!
Rip, Linda, Angie, SS, Pirate, Diane, Castoff, Kathy you're in my thoughts, too!
Hope everybody is having an easy night & will get some much needed rest!
Georgia, the problem of the stove was solved by Daniela, one of my girls, who is a little genius in finding solutions! In the past week, she has cleaned the stove but she has not cleaned the glass. The glass has become so black that you don't see any flame inside! It was the Egg of Columbus. I would have moved all the furniture. I have no practical intelligence! My mother has no more organisation in her life. Sometimes she goes to bed at 8 p.m. Tonight, (it is almost 5 in the night/morning), she is still on the couch watching television. I have decided to let her do her own way. The stove is on, every now and then I go to check on her... She does what she wants. It is the only freedom she has left!
The ramp should be done by Thursday evening, just in time...and then he fell in his room, no injuries but I will be sore from hauling him up and I have piss all over me now....yes, wonderful, when is this over? Hope everyone is doing OK....Take em for all they got T!
Bobbie,glad you got the cards.What is over whelming? Do you need the crew to kick someones booty?ARE you heading north or south,I guess pet kid hated to see you go. I just saw Pam's Marine-he is much better looking than my marine.I know she is very proud of her boy and rightly so. Mine just had her birthday-they grow so quick. The tax people are the ones who are responsible for the lastest upset,they get everything wrong around here then one must pay for their mistakes. My dad deeded me 17 acres about six years ago and they added the 17 acres to what I already have,but did not subtract it from the 400 acre tract on the tax card.We were paying double tax on 17 acres plus it showed untrue acreage,because the tract is 388 acres or something. I told everyone about this years ago,but my lawyer didn't listen-their lawyers didn't listen-they act as though it was a secret and they figured it out.They are a bunch of poop heads.
Overwhelmed because I am lonely here and that's no one's fault but my own and right at this moment the only human contact I have is with people who see me as a paycheck and we know how that goes.
The boat is almost finished with this part of the refit!! ALMOST. i was going to move her but have decided to stay at this new marina for another 2 weeks and then on to an anchorage for awhile where I can celebrate Thanksgiving. I'll roast up a nice turkey tittie for the Cat and I.
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2 days ago I found out that the cat can swim! I have let her out on the foredeck and she started walking the teak handrails and making me crazy. I knew that she didn't realize that the boat moves and that she could lose her balance. Thank God that I was right there, and I turned around just as she was strolling along the big rail and then she tried to make it to the skinny rail, lost her balance and went right over the side and splash. I took my glasses off thinking that I had to jump in and I looked over and she was swimming. Cool. I literally shouted to her: Go to the back!! and she did! By the time I got to the swim platform (seconds) and looked up the port side where she had fallen, she was no longer there. I hollered out KITTY!! WHERE ARE YOU?? and she howled louder than a foghorn. She swam her own boat! She had made it all the way around the boat and was between the dock and the boat and was not leaving her boat! I lay flat on my front and reached out with both hands to get her because if I just reached down to grab her by the scruff I would have pushed her head under water. I grabbed her and hugged her to my chest and her heart was pounding and she yowled again and I made soft noises and brought her back on the boat. After toweling her off she looked like she had backed into a 220 outlet. I spent the day brushing the sea water out of her coat and she's ok. It had to happen and we are both very fortunate that it happened when it did. Slack tide and no wind. No current to carry her away and no wind to push her under the dock. Amazing. just another little reason I believe in God. Cat is now very respectful of the railings and hasn't walked one again. Hope she sticks to that!
Another day more coughing and bs...last night when my mother suggested helping her father dress I told her this was getting very close to my cut off of what I am willing to do care wise for her father. (the disgusting old pervert) left that bit out. She said I know...in such a way that she truly did not, and walked away...what ever. sick this morning just plain sick. She wants me to look up nursing homes by atty general grade and call for brochures, yes anything to take it outa her hands. fine what ever. Can I get you an appointment so you can go place him NOW!
Good for KC that she or he I can not remember can swim because sorry to say cats do ot always remember not to do something that gets them in trouble.When I first got Benji he slept so close to the edge of the bed he would fall off more than once. J I think you are right to tell your Mom you have had if she wants to change she will I would go to look at nursing homes the ones near me are getting scared because hospitals here have low censes so they take rehab pts' for 21 days and get paid by medicare so the NH have empty rehab beds they peobably would have taken my husband now no matter what the IV meds cost but the last time I was po'd and sent him to another anyway even if the first one was 10 min away.
Hey everybody! Been under the weather since I caught Mom's cold. She has been a handful as usual. Won't eat, clamps her mouth closed tight, won't pee on the toilet, sits there forever and holds it for the bed! Soaked through the last few nights! Miz, get used to repeating. It's what they do best. Rossella, I snap almost every day! I haven't had a night or morning away from Mom since mid June and it's really getting to me! I'm so close to snapping in two that it scares me. I'm usually so good at getting past issues, but they just seem to be getting to me more and more! Linda, no sugar! I only buy it for baking. Haven't used it in coffee or tea in 30 years. I guess that's a good thing! Hope they find a solution to Pa.s problem! Tenn and Lil Tenn, so sorry you lost Nola! It's so awful to lose a pet. Sounds like you may finally be getting things straightened out there. Good luck! Bobbie! A genuine cougar! Hot dog!!!! Good for you I think that's wonderful that you found someone so special! Hope you can get together real soon. Glad kitty is a swimmer. You are both very lucky! Maxine, my cat falls off the bed all the time! Jen, wow! that ramp is moving right along! Let's hope you can push Gramps right down that thing to the bus on Friday!!! Kuli, Peach, Diane, Pirate and everyone else, hope you all have a peaceful week!
Bobbie - what a hoot - a cat that swims. Now all you have to do is teach her how to fish and you two can enjoy a fish fry from time to time - ha! Glad to hear she and you are ok.. Deef, sorry to hear you've been under the weather. I had that same cold last week and a half and am finally feeling myself again. Tenn - hope you guys are coping without Nola. Hope things start going your way with the whole lawsuit thing. Rosella - just keep on hanging in there. So glad someone figured out a way to keep the stove on and your mom not freaking out about it. J - glad the ramp is getting done finally. GP, Rip, and everyone else - hope you are able to get a good night's sleep and have a day in which you can find some humor tomorrow. Love to all!
Hi everyone, I'm back online after having to set up a new internet making machine that I bought at a yard sale. It took a while to get it cleaned up and updated and all that but at least it works! I haven't had a chance to read all the good stuff that I missed, been busy on the planning board of a new Caregivers Respite Program and Support Group in my county (really, really good stuff!), as well as dealing with all the day-to-day BS and my own brain trying it's best to shut down on me (really bad stuff). Hope you all are doing well, I've missed you.
Hey Crowe, long time no read! Well I guess I landed but it feels more like I landed on my head. Seriously, I'm getting these wierd dizzy spells lately, mixed with a vague feeling of nuasea, that I'm hoping are just symptoms of all the stress and not something more ominous. If they don't calm down in a few days I'll have to go to the doctor and see what she says but I do think it's just a reaction to the end of a very difficult summer. How have you been? Write anything new I want to read?
Nope, I have not read anything new, but I have dug up some old poems written 30 some years ago. What I wrote earlier which I thought was a song is actually more of a reading which meaning is lost when I tried fitting it into the tune I thought would work. I've never had anyone read my own work back to me, but someone did this for me recently.
Ted, I don't want to scare you, but those symptoms sound like enough to just go on to see your doctor or an urgent care place about.
I'm still rather low functioning. My mom and step-dad's 2008 long past due tax forms have been filed and I hope 2009 will soon be done. My mother had a huge seizure yesterday and has slept all day today. Almost every muscle in my upper back, down the triceps in each arm, biceps and forearms are in pain at rather random times. I can no longer pick up a gallon of milk with my right hand and pour like I use to without my left hand helping although I am fine with my left arm alone.
I have to be quick because I slept, tonight, and now I have to check on my mother. Bobbie, the story of your cat is amazing. I don't know many cats who could do such a thing. She is brave and intelligent! I think she'll be scared of water now and whe will pay more attention; anyway, now you have seen that she can handle herself. Definitely, she wants to stay with you! A kiss to everyone else and welcome back Ted
Sleep is a good thing to do... I remember I tried it once or twice and really liked it!
Crowe, Yeah, I probably should just go see a doc- the thing is a few weeks ago I took a serious knock to the head (whole 'nother story) and It could be the remnants of a concussion or something. But, of course, I have no coverage and no one to take over mom if I need some time and, and ...
on the other hand, I did promise to be more selfish and take more care of myself so maybe I'll just get myself over to the urgent care and let the chips fall as they will. I'll see how it goes today. Sounds like you could use some TLC yourself. Maybe that sleep thing I keep hearing about...
Ted, do you not have medicare or medicaid coverage on yourself? If not, it sounds like you would qualify.
My good news for today is that my CPA called that they are almost finished with my mom and step-dad's 2009 tax return! Yeah. When it is finished, I want to take the CPA, his assistant who did all of the grunt work and my step-brother out for a celebration meal and send my step-sister a restaurant gift card because when she was in state, Anna got more done in those 10 day visits than her bother did for the whole year and I'd often have to call her to light a fire under him. He has no idea how many times I have called her since we started on this project in 2009 and thinks I'm the patient step-brother. ha, ha
Austin, I think sometimes my mom's questions over and over again are a type of OCD like she needs reassurance. Unfortunately her long term memory and her short term memory are bad. She "remembers" bits and pieces of her past but gets them wrong or acts like they are present day facts. It's hard to explain. The other night I had to again tell her that Dad is no longer living. That is always heart wrenching. She forgets or maybe she thinks it's earlier in her life, I don't know. Alzheimer's is such a terrible and odd disease. I just take it one day at a time and sometimes one hour at a time or one minute at a time. She had a bad night on Tuesday and a bad day on Wednesday. Today she is VERY tired. I need to change her but she almost seems disoriented. Scares me. Last night she asked me why I was trying to make her life miserable. She was having some gum pain and I had just put some ambisol on it. Wow that hurt my feelings. Hubby said she doesn't know what she is saying and I know that is true. But it still hurt. I love her so much.
Guess I'll stop rambling now. Got to get her changed.
deefer and bobbie, it's so good to see you. Well all of you of course but it's been awhile for deef and bobbie. Bobbie, I'm so glad KC is okay and that you saved her. We can add her to my two miracle kitties. :)
deef, i feel like i'm ready to snap too. black hole stuff. ugh!! And about the sugar, hubby has to have his sugar for coffee. If we run out he'll use the Equal but he doesn't like it.
Crowe, Yep, It's time for me to get my butt down to Social Services to get MY stuff straightened out, even just some emergency medicaid to deal with whatever this head thing is. I never did it before because I was waiting on dough from dad's estate but it doesn't look like that is coming anytime soon, if ever.
Miz, I know how you feel, every now and then my mom comes over to me all excited and asks where her mom is like she can't wait to see her again. Her mom has been gone for 45 years.
I think I've fiquired out my dizziness/nausea thing, just took my Blood Pressure and it was 150/90. So, yea, it's time for me to be the patient for a bit.
ted . u prob should go to dr about that .. my husband blood pressure was so high , it has alot to do with his heart . last feb he had an open heart operation . blood pressures begin so high all the time is something you dont want to gamble on . is there a free clinic where you live ? theres one in this town but its like only on 2 days a month , something like that , please get urself cked out . who will take care of ur mom if u do get worst ? or layin on the floor crying for help and nobody comes ? blood pressure meds is prob what you need ...
And then we had another trip to the ER. And yes, once again the Dilantin Level has gotten toxic. For some reason the doctor he sees is unable to find a dose between 200, too low, and 400, too high....hmmmmmthat is a hard one hmmmm something between 200 and 400??? What could ti be????MORON!
Any how., ramp may be done by Friday,but he wont be going to ADH due to Dilantin emergency again. I am just so sick and tired of all this. I just want it all to end.
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Okay guys let's continue! We have no choice.
Jen I am glad you had a nice Halloween. I would like to do "trick or treat" even if I am 53!
Captain Bobbie!!! Glad to hear from that you're OK! We all get concerned when we don't hear from you! How fun that you're traveling about! I'm sorry that Nik isn't there with you or you with him. I agree with Linda...they (his family) don't know what they're missing by not including you in their lives. How is Kitty taking the move? Please come surprise us on FB sometime. You're always welcome...you're our Captain!
Kuli, hate to hear that your Dad has been having a difficult time, but glad that he had a better day today! Been wondering where you were! I'm like you in that I may not post everyday, but always read them everyday.
Miz, thanks for the insight! How are YOU doing??
Rossella, glad to hear that is just a saying for you! How is your Mom doing with the fireplace? Did you come up with a screen to go in front of it? Did you get a mattress for the floor in front of the couch? How are YOU?? Are you getting more rest? I know you stay so tired caring for your Mom & trying to work, too!
Tenn, SO glad that the brothers are getting a taste themselves! Please keep us updated. How are Lil Tenny & you doing without Nola? I know that you miss her. I've really been thinking about you two!
Rip, Linda, Angie, SS, Pirate, Diane, Castoff, Kathy you're in my thoughts, too!
Hope everybody is having an easy night & will get some much needed rest!
My mother has no more organisation in her life. Sometimes she goes to bed at 8 p.m. Tonight, (it is almost 5 in the night/morning), she is still on the couch watching television. I have decided to let her do her own way. The stove is on, every now and then I go to check on her... She does what she wants. It is the only freedom she has left!
exactly right. and hilarious.
HB to lil Tenny! with all the love and hugs!
Overwhelmed because I am lonely here and that's no one's fault but my own and right at this moment the only human contact I have is with people who see me as a paycheck and we know how that goes.
The boat is almost finished with this part of the refit!! ALMOST. i was going to move her but have decided to stay at this new marina for another 2 weeks and then on to an anchorage for awhile where I can celebrate Thanksgiving. I'll roast up a nice turkey tittie for the Cat and I.
CAT STORY:
2 days ago I found out that the cat can swim!
I have let her out on the foredeck and she started walking the teak handrails and making me crazy. I knew that she didn't realize that the boat moves and that she could lose her balance.
Thank God that I was right there, and I turned around just as she was strolling along the big rail and then she tried to make it to the skinny rail, lost her balance and went right over the side and splash.
I took my glasses off thinking that I had to jump in and I looked over and she was swimming. Cool.
I literally shouted to her: Go to the back!! and she did!
By the time I got to the swim platform (seconds) and looked up the port side where she had fallen, she was no longer there. I hollered out KITTY!! WHERE ARE YOU?? and she howled louder than a foghorn.
She swam her own boat! She had made it all the way around the boat and was between the dock and the boat and was not leaving her boat!
I lay flat on my front and reached out with both hands to get her because if I just reached down to grab her by the scruff I would have pushed her head under water. I grabbed her and hugged her to my chest and her heart was pounding and she yowled again and I made soft noises and brought her back on the boat. After toweling her off she looked like she had backed into a 220 outlet. I spent the day brushing the sea water out of her coat and she's ok.
It had to happen and we are both very fortunate that it happened when it did. Slack tide and no wind. No current to carry her away and no wind to push her under the dock. Amazing. just another little reason I believe in God.
Cat is now very respectful of the railings and hasn't walked one again. Hope she sticks to that!
Love all you guys!
Off to work on boat.
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Another day more coughing and bs...last night when my mother suggested helping her father dress I told her this was getting very close to my cut off of what I am willing to do care wise for her father. (the disgusting old pervert) left that bit out. She said I know...in such a way that she truly did not, and walked away...what ever. sick this morning just plain sick.
She wants me to look up nursing homes by atty general grade and call for brochures, yes anything to take it outa her hands. fine what ever. Can I get you an appointment so you can go place him NOW!
Miz, get used to repeating. It's what they do best.
Rossella, I snap almost every day! I haven't had a night or morning away from Mom since mid June and it's really getting to me! I'm so close to snapping in two that it scares me. I'm usually so good at getting past issues, but they just seem to be getting to me more and more!
Linda, no sugar! I only buy it for baking. Haven't used it in coffee or tea in 30 years. I guess that's a good thing! Hope they find a solution to Pa.s problem!
Tenn and Lil Tenn, so sorry you lost Nola! It's so awful to lose a pet. Sounds like you may finally be getting things straightened out there. Good luck!
Bobbie! A genuine cougar! Hot dog!!!! Good for you I think that's wonderful that you found someone so special! Hope you can get together real soon. Glad kitty is a swimmer. You are both very lucky!
Maxine, my cat falls off the bed all the time!
Jen, wow! that ramp is moving right along! Let's hope you can push Gramps right down that thing to the bus on Friday!!!
Kuli, Peach, Diane, Pirate and everyone else, hope you all have a peaceful week!
I haven't had a chance to read all the good stuff that I missed, been busy on the planning board of a new Caregivers Respite Program and Support Group in my county (really, really good stuff!), as well as dealing with all the day-to-day BS and my own brain trying it's best to shut down on me (really bad stuff).
Hope you all are doing well, I've missed you.
Well I guess I landed but it feels more like I landed on my head. Seriously, I'm getting these wierd dizzy spells lately, mixed with a vague feeling of nuasea, that I'm hoping are just symptoms of all the stress and not something more ominous. If they don't calm down in a few days I'll have to go to the doctor and see what she says but I do think it's just a reaction to the end of a very difficult summer.
How have you been? Write anything new I want to read?
I'm still rather low functioning. My mom and step-dad's 2008 long past due tax forms have been filed and I hope 2009 will soon be done. My mother had a huge seizure yesterday and has slept all day today. Almost every muscle in my upper back, down the triceps in each arm, biceps and forearms are in pain at rather random times. I can no longer pick up a gallon of milk with my right hand and pour like I use to without my left hand helping although I am fine with my left arm alone.
Bobbie, the story of your cat is amazing. I don't know many cats who could do such a thing. She is brave and intelligent! I think she'll be scared of water now and whe will pay more attention; anyway, now you have seen that she can handle herself. Definitely, she wants to stay with you!
A kiss to everyone else and welcome back Ted
Crowe, Yeah, I probably should just go see a doc- the thing is a few weeks ago I took a serious knock to the head (whole 'nother story) and It could be the remnants of a concussion or something. But, of course, I have no coverage and no one to take over mom if I need some time and, and ...
on the other hand, I did promise to be more selfish and take more care of myself so maybe I'll just get myself over to the urgent care and let the chips fall as they will. I'll see how it goes today. Sounds like you could use some TLC yourself. Maybe that sleep thing I keep hearing about...
My good news for today is that my CPA called that they are almost finished with my mom and step-dad's 2009 tax return! Yeah. When it is finished, I want to take the CPA, his assistant who did all of the grunt work and my step-brother out for a celebration meal and send my step-sister a restaurant gift card because when she was in state, Anna got more done in those 10 day visits than her bother did for the whole year and I'd often have to call her to light a fire under him. He has no idea how many times I have called her since we started on this project in 2009 and thinks I'm the patient step-brother. ha, ha
Guess I'll stop rambling now. Got to get her changed.
love,
miz
I never did it before because I was waiting on dough from dad's estate but it doesn't look like that is coming anytime soon, if ever.
Miz, I know how you feel, every now and then my mom comes over to me all excited and asks where her mom is like she can't wait to see her again. Her mom has been gone for 45 years.
is there a free clinic where you live ? theres one in this town but its like only on 2 days a month , something like that ,
please get urself cked out . who will take care of ur mom if u do get worst ? or layin on the floor crying for help and nobody comes ?
blood pressure meds is prob what you need ...
Any how., ramp may be done by Friday,but he wont be going to ADH due to Dilantin emergency again. I am just so sick and tired of all this. I just want it all to end.