Grossed out and need to vent—I just caught Mom using my toothbrush to comb her hair!

A strong person knows how to keep their life in order.
Even with tears in their eyes, they still manage to say "I'm ok" with a smile.
Even when they're tired of being a strong person, they keep putting one foot in front of the other.
Send this to a strong person. I just did.
Change is coming. God saw your sadness and said hard times are over.
Be honest and send this to anyone who made you smile this year.
It may surprise you how many you get back.
Thanks for making me smile!
Live, Laugh, Love

Good Morning Caregivers!

Glad to see that you all are here.
cuz, thanks again for the jokes. How's your mom?
How's our Uncle?

Peachie! glad you went to the doc and I hope you start to feel better real soon!

True! Whatta nightmare! You are a good daughter, Elizabeth, and your instincts were right on about that sleazebag insurance guy. Hopefully they can be stopped before they pull that crap on hundreds more.

Rossella! Glad you are ok with your meds and I get it that you are working WAY too hard like most of our caregivers. I wish that you could just lay down in a featherbed and have servants to bring you what you like and you sleep and sleep until you are ready to get up and roll over and sleep some more.
You and Linda! both!
Linda! Hope you are getting some rest too. I love to hear abour Pa's big bright eyes!

Jen! The boat is indeed calling your name! I know that it's crazy wierd over there and any time you can get out..... Rip has my phone# and we'll see if we can get you onboard to sleep and recover.

Miz! beautiful Miz and your golden heart. Just about another week and a few days! A few things happened yesterday with the boat refit that put her ahead of schedule by about a day....

Maxine!! when you coming to the boat?? you know this is a comfortable boat with no ladders, just a few stairs and a real comfortable spot to snooze and read! Sure would be fun to see you!

Chillout, I know you had a tough day yesterday and here's hoping today is better. Stay in tough with us. Crazy but it works!

Headbanger! you're a scream and keep venting!! My mom once dropped a deuce in a wastebasket at a friend's house. I had never seen or heard of such a thing and was horrified. I tried to get over it but jeeze.... random poopings is really hard to 'get over'!

Kuli! how goes it today?
ddotal! where are you and how are you doing? i think of you very often!

SSK! things any better so far today? I tried the wine not that long ago and I'm still allergic to the stuff. pukin sick. You feel better yet? Bless your heart, stay with us kiddo and vent!

Angie!! where are ya? how are you and your mom doing? Aside from freezing your patooties off....

Pirate!! check in and let us know if you're ok! we miss you and love you!

Christina! good advice to True! Lord, set us free from the ones who want to hurt us and steal from us!

DEEF!! take it as easy as you can get away with! lol, and i know you can't because you are the master juggler with 19 balls in the air! thanks for always being such a terriffic voice of reason!

Flex! how are you feeling? stay warm and screw the idiots!!

Rip!!!!! hope you're feeling better and will write again soon. I know how it feels to just not wanna. We love you and tell Sir we said hi.

CC! how goes it? let us know so we can gripe with you! sure glad you're here with us and not suffering in isolation!

Ted!!! check in! we're worried about ya!

LRoye, thanks for checking in with some technical data! we can always use that and hope you drop in more often. thanks!

Jam! how goes it?? col being the col?

It's raining its nards off here and more rain tonight. I know I should get out and put the biodegradable soap all over the boat but, eh. I don't want to get wet.

Okay, the cargivers I missed, please check in and let us all know how you're doing. I hate it when i screw up and miss someone, just like I would like to be remembered, I know that we all want to be remembered too.

Oh man, here's the my cousin vinny train again. empty ore cars headed north. the boat shakes up on the jacks but not like when the ore cars are full and headed south. Then it's martini time!

more later,
lovbob

Good Morning Everyone. I hope this finds you warm and at least somewhat relaxed. I know it's difficult and often impossible to be relaxed in your situations but take a little time for yourselves if you can. I used to take my smoke breaks and that helped. Any kind of 15 or so minute escape even if only in your mind is a good and helpful thing.

Wooo Hooo Bobbie!! You're right, it's almost here and that's very good news about the boat. I'm so excited!!

K, gonna get some stuff done around here. I promised myself I'd get thank yous done this week and clean the house really good next week and then it's off to the boat!!

Love yous!!

miz

Morning Captain!! Just came in for coffee and a bite to eat. Been shoveling for an hour after I dropped Mom off at daycare. So happy they didn't shut sown because of 2" of snow!!!
Mom is on cipro and feeling a little better. Not so agitated and confused. She is a handful when not sick, but a UTI sends us both over the edge!
No place left to put the snow out front, so it's push it up the 75' driveway to the backyard. Another storm coming Thursday and more next week. God I love New England! Everything is covered in white and looking so pretty! Gonna see if I can get some good cardinal pictures later today.
Well, coffee and food, then back outside for more cleanup. Then it's on to bigger and better things before Mom comes home.
Hope everyone of you have a great day!!!

Captain, Miz, Deefer, and the INfamous Cuz--(ooh, Cuz, U weally BAD this morning! heehee)
I can tell you had coffee, Bobbie. Woke me up! i am taking that 15 minute respite Miz, between 7:15 and 7:30, but I was up every hour last night. Finally had to turn the baby monitor off for a couple of hours--does that make me bad? we will see doc tomorrow about adjusting Mothers meds. No one can live like this. Bed at 8:30 pm, up at 9, 9:30, 10:45, 11:15, 1:45, 3, 5, then I turned it off. I'm on cipro now, after being so sick for a week and snot turning green. I think that's an infection, doc.
Going to help an older friend with HOA problems today--she's in Leisure World,( which they renamed Laguna Woods), a retirement community. Somebody just dump me out if the wheel barrow over there in a few years if there's no more room on the boat. Deefer, you're in my prayers and thoughts all day. What a job. Rosella, Linda, True, Chill, Headbanger, Jen, Peach, Cuz, Pirate, Ted, Maxine, CC. Hope I remembered everyone. Have a really superb day, stay warm if it's cold where you are--I send you a big, hug, and will think of each of you with much LOVE all day. HUGS, christina

hi everyone, I'm feeling much better today! Even took a walk in the snow. Bobbie, I don't know how you can remember us all! but it's great. Deef, your area is really getting snow this year! I'm looking forward to seeing the cardinal pictures if you post them. Hi Christina, Miz, Jen , Rip True, Peach, Ted, Cuz, Jam, Linda, CC, headbanger, bobbie, Angie...well, I'm glad my brain is in working order this morning. In some ways I have it easy with my Mom, she will stay in bed (usually) until I go in and get her up. And she will cooperate in the shower and toilet. Maybe I'll try to take some pictures of birds around here, mostly ducks around now.
Hope you have a good day and can get some rest if you need it.
ssk
ssk

Sue, Jam and Selfish Siblings!!! BIG HUGS.
Love, christina

I'm so glad you're feeling better, {{{{{{{SUE}}}}}}}}}

sskape, Duck pics would be fun!!

HEY CHRISTINA! Cute & truthful joke! Thanks for sending it to me to post here! BIG hugs to ya!

For all of us who feel only the deepest love and affection for the way computers have enhanced our lives (!?!), read on....

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX),Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated,

'If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.'

In response to Bill's comments, General Motors issued a press release stating:

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.........

Twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6 The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation' warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new road car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off.

PS - I'd like to add that when all else fails, you could call 'customer service' in some foreign country and be instructed in some foreign language how to fix your car yourself!!!!

Please share this with your friends who love - but sometimes hate - their computer

Hi guys Maxine here True colors on the info about that insurance company sound like a scan when I get calls that do not koser I tell them my local DA does not like his people scammed as Christina is right about the D -when my husband was seen by a doc for 2 hospital visits after he was in the funeral home I was in another county and calling Medicaire was a waste of time AARP supplement was intereted but not Medicaire, when I have problem like I did getting my husbands pension I called them 3 times a week-one lady said if yiu call again you are gettin nuttin did you hear me nuttin so I called 4 times that week, We had a 3 in. dusting today big storm is comming tomarrow. Take care all of you-I have had very good help with AAPR supplement -no co-pays but it is expensive and they really lost money on the husband he was a professional paient.

Good Afternoon Captain & Crew!

Thanks everyone for your hugs, encouragement, good thoughts & prayers! Everything's gonna be O'Tay!!! I'm not worried, just tired!

I feel relieved just knowing that I went to the doc yesterday & they've started brainstorming to figure out the best plan of treatment! Hopefully they'll call today or I'll call them tomorrow & we'll get everything taken care of & I'll be on top of the world again! You can get a really great view of the BOAT & the Cousin Vinnie Train from there! smile! Jen, I can hear it too!!! Hope the rest of you can too!!!

I know me feeling better will destress hubby & his tremors will subside again! He loves me & gets anxious when I'm under the weather & he can't "fix it"!

He's had a difficult last few days. Hurting in his right leg, headaches & the tremors have been worse. His symptoms "cycles" up when he gets stressed, frustrated or tired. Gotta get me better so I can focus on him more! He's such a gem!!! He's one of the good guys!!!

Thanks again!
Love & BIG 'ole hugs to my FAMILY!!!
Peach

Hope everyone is having a good day. Blessings to all.

SelfishSiblings!!!
Thanks christina! who else is on our radar?

ok... going back to read the posts.
lovbob

OK, "VET" update for the Peach...(Yes, I said "VET"...I've been feeling like such a Dawg!!! LOL)

I just got a call from the doc's office & she said that I'm VERY, Extremely anemic, which isn't a surprise. She did say not far from needing a transfusion, but not quiet to that point, yet! So to keep me from needing that they're prescribing Provera (sp?). I'm to take 1 pill today & she'll check back with me on Friday & if I'm not better by then then I'll take another 1 pill & then we'll go from there. She's also talking to a specialist to see what we need to do long-term. Relief feels REALLY good!!!

Well, I hear that boat a'calling! It's floating "round the bend! And I ain't felt so good in, I don't know when...

got the chest xray back , they called to tell me that his chest is not any better . so gotta keep him on another round of antibodi and takin him back to dr again monday . :-(
prayers plz .
happy tues you all xoxo

Praying Linda! For everybody!

A lawyer dies and goes to Heaven. “There must be some mistake,” the lawyer argues. “I’m too young to die. I’m only fifty five.” “Fifty five?” says Saint Peter. “No, according to out calculations, you’re eighty two.” “How’s you get that?” the lawyer asks. Answers St. Peter: “We added up your time sheets.”

Last night, it was so cold, the flashers in New York were only describing themselves. (Johnny Carson)

87.Two Irish guys are fishing. The first guy reels in his line and sees that he’s snagged an old bottle. As he’s taking it off the hook, a genie pops out and promises to grant him one wish. “Turn the lake into beer,” he says. The genie goes “Poof!” and the lake turns into beer. He says to the other guy, “So what do you think?” The other guy says, “You jerk. Now we’ve got to pee in the boat.”

HAHA, Pee in the BOAT, get it!?!?!Good One Peach. I'm waiting for my girlfriend to send ma a good Yiddish joke and I will pass it on. When I told her this morning about my night, she said, "Oy vey, my little meshugana, what can you do? Can you call your sister, the Goika? I said, Goika, Schmoika, what good will that do, she is shlepping already at the mall. Never mind. I should do everything myself, as usual.

MARTHA STEWART'S RULES FOR REDNECKS...since I are one, I think it's ok for me to post this! lol

1. Never take a beer to a job interview.

2. Always identify people in your yard before shooting at them.

3. It’s considered tacky to take a cooler to church.

4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it is time to change the sheets.

5. Even if you’re certain that you are included in the will, it is still considered tacky to drive a U-Haul to the funeral home.

OK, that's all for now...Got housework to do...Think I'll start with vacuuming, uuhhhh, changing the sheets! lol

I have been riding under the radar for a while....but trying to keep up with everyone. Took col to dr yesterday for review of meds.....stopped prozac, now cymbalta and aricept. add extra dose of oxybutynin....i think she is just being lazy and won't get up to pee. screams every time i turn on the bidet to clean her butt....says it's too cold.....whenever i stick my hand under the "self-clean" spout the heat is almost too much. Dead ass perhaps....lol. Has an attitude today, can't quite put my finger on it.....keeping my distance except when that's impossible, because I really don't want to yell at her. Got in car yesterday and the first thing out of her mouth was "where are we going for lunch"....uh, no where, dr appt remember? so now we have to pout for awhile. on the way home, discussed how she needs to let dog stay outside long enough to do his business.......got told he's too cute and can't stay out long when he is pressed for time......bout drove in a ditch on that one... Anyone else know a dog who was "pressed for time"? Still cold out today, but sun shining and maybe a little snow is melting.....supposed to be in the 40's on Friday.....heatwave! Hope everyone's day ends on a peaceful note.......Hugz to all!

OH, Peach!!! I am of Jewish heritage, and a blonde, so I can tell both jokes!!! Ah just LOVE REDNECKS, ya'll. My husband is one, only I tried to citify him. He was a bull rider in the rodeo for years (Ellensberg, Rip!), and a motor cross competitor, and had 23 pairs of exotic skin cowboy boots. I'm serious. That was in 1983. When I met him, I asked him if he did drugs, because if he did, I was dumpin him like a hot potato. I said, "Just say 'no" to crack"! You know what he did? Hoisted up his Levis. One day I said, I think we need some new patio furniture. I came home from the store and he had moved one of the sofas out onto the front lawn. That boy, he's changed a bit from then, but the thing that made me the maddest is when people ask him how we met, and he says he found my phone number on the wall of a restroom. Oh ma GAWD!!!He is SOOO BAD! It was not on the wall, it was on a bar napkin!

Peach, I am very glad they are doing something for you to make you better and I am SO very glad you went to the doc when you did. It sounds like it could have really gotten serious. I hope you start feeling better really fast.

Linda, I'm sorry your dad is still sick. Both you, your dad and Peach are in my prayers.

Had a pretty frantic day at work today. The lady that works in the mornings has been out for a couple of days cause her daughter's sick. Had a snippy customer this afternoon. I hate that. No one has to be snippy. Do they think I am not a human being with feelings?? or just a robot. Anyway, that's over now but it plum wore me out.

Bobbie, please don't make that wish that the Irish guy made in Peach's joke. LOL. ;) I guess we CAN pee on the boat. Just not in the dinghy. Hubby got his boat shoes today. They're cool and he got a good deal.

More later. Love you all.

miz

Miz, don't let Hubby PEE in his shoes. got to keep them nice for the BOAT!!!
(Hey Miz: BOAT!!!) You are BLESSED!
Love, christina

What did Kenny Rogers say when he was driving down the street and his tire fell off??





You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel!!

Hahahahaha.....good one. Actually there are lot of good ones on here. Thanks guys.

Hello! Many good jokes tonight thanks I needed it! I am nervous and tired and my dream is a good bed where to sleep as much as I want, (yes, Bobbie) the sunshine, the sea. The thing I like most in life is take the aperitif in a café on a terrace looking at the sea. And sleeping on the beach.
Linda I hope your father gets better. My mother is going through a bad period, too. Thanks to this site I know I am not the most tired woman in the world, and it helps you to accept the situation and deal better with it.
Love you all... I have to work, now!
Gosh I had to translate the Criminal Minds episode which you have already seen (the one where a crazy professor sacrificed people and their animals, too, with those cults like macumba) and I could not watch the video! I translated just the script and it was already enough. Blahhh

Hello to all. Thanks for all of the hugs, well wishes and concerns. I'm a little better and so is dad. So grateful for all of you. Peach - hope you feel better real soon. Linda - will keep dad in my prayers. Miz - glad boat time is coming soon. Don't mean to forget anyone here. Please know that I ask God for blessings for all of my AC friends because you all have or have had your burdens and deal with it or have dealt with it with grace and respect and, if for no other reason, deserve God's comfort and love. Love and peace to all, Kuli By the way - Cuz - OMG the jokes are fantastic. Thank you so much for the giggles and the smiles. You are a blessing to us all!

If I had just one wish it would be that Mom, back when she still had her wits about her and her health, could go out to lunch with 4 of her closest friends and then Mom and I go to the mall and do a little shopping, which we both loved to do, and Dad would be at home waiting for us tending to his perfect lawn or maybe inside reading a book... Just one wish...