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Just too much....I hope Tenn gets em good, all the poop tales have me determined to die young, PirateQueen is are only Pirate and what ever you want to use is good here Pirate, Christina don't worry bout times it comes and goes one time you'll be swamped and have to sign off other times it's an empty blog...
I hit myself in the face with a grocery cart trying to pull the damn de-icer off the bottom rack and I sooo don't want to live in this climate anymore......got a bruise now. lovely....
fart pants got back from Adult Day Health all too soon for me AND my mother who tells me all the time he is not all that swift and he is addled never the less snaps at him when she has to tell him for the 42cnd time that his bus id is not a bus pass and too stop shoving 3 cards in a wallet slot made for one..."Well that's so they don't fall out!" he snaps ...O l d m a n they ain't like yer teeth the cards are not gonna fly out when you sneeze you wrap a rubber band around your wallet for God sake...hey maybe he could attach his dentures to his gums with a rubber band contraption as he refuses to use any kind of bonding agent...
Yes she is really enjoying her "vacation" now and it will only get better as time passes, if he doesn't...
Gerry Rafferty died, love that music, 63 and yet fart pants is still here going on 90, oh what the hell for?!
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OMG Momsnotafavor. Wow. Yes, it is very hard to watch. I am thankful my mom wore underwear and then the Kroger brand of overnight Depends. What a horrible thing for you to go through at the hotel. I am almost speechless.

Welcome to our thread. I hope you keep posting. This is a safe place to vent, to share or whatever.

miz
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I've got skin cancer but it is the basil cell cancer and they ussually hit it with liquid nitrogen to freeze them. Some of the bigger ones they lazer off. They told me it was from to much sun when I was a kid. Got to go Thursday and have some lazered off.
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It is really hard to watch, a once really put together lady, go down this path. My Mom In Law, 77 visited and pooped down the carpeted hallway all the way to the bathroom. Some times she is really with it and other times completely out of it. She blamed it on the dog. My Mom the same age, 77, refuses to wear underwear. We were staying at a hotel when we were moving her from her home to my sisters and waiting to pay the bill when she pooped on floor at the front desk. With as much dignity as she could muster she shook her tush and left leg and said in a matter of fact voice. "Excuse me young women, you have a clean up in aisle two" I was a thousand shades of red.
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My mom had that really thing paper like and dry skin too. She didn't like anyone putting lotion on it cause she said it was cold. She had lots of moles and I know she picked at one on her back. The doc said they were harmless. She had had skin cancer in her younger years. She was very fair and a natural blond. It was amazing. Where her skin had been exposed to the sun it was very withered and dry and scaly. All the other parts, such as her tummy were smooth as a baby's butt. At 92 years old. :)
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pat u were talking about cancer on the skin . they need to come out . my dad has had cancer all over his face and arms . they hurt and he is all the time picking at it

Oh Mama picked the livin' daylights out her arm, that cancer started right near a sore she got by snaggin' it on a wall molding nail, then one day she pulled off the band aid (she changes 'em like I change channels), and it took her hide right plumb off with it (she's got that reeeeal thin onion skin like skin).
She constantly worried the hell out of it (threats of Tabasco sauce on her fingers did absolutely no good, she always calls my bluff..never play poker with this broad), but it finally healed, but she kept on scratchin' away on the area like a scab junky...she' always been a scab worrier by the way..runs in the family.
Now maybe a year ago, I found her a General Practitioner that makes house calls.
No really, I ain't doin' mushrooms I swear, she, yes, it's a she too, she comes once a month, and she's a freakin' gem, why Mama ain't even called her a name yet, and even yucks it up with her sometimes..anyway, the doc noticed this new spot right next to the spot of the old sore...I so totally missed it (told ya she was a gem!).
Mama said it didn't hurt at all, and it didn't bother her except the itching.
This thing on her chin didn't bother her neither, she said one of the cats tagged her a little (we have one, a certain Mr. Downtown Buster Brown, that "pets" you back), and it was just a little scab, hell barely a scab, and it hadn't been there long enough to think it was anything else but a little cat poke...but she did scratch at it a bit, like scraping off a dry scab kinda thing, but again, not painful...or wasn't yet anyway.
So that's the new thing she's dealing with...did your daddy's hurt right off the bat, or were they there a while before he felt them?
I know this, Mama always has had a high tolerance for pain, she's one o' them nuts that pulls boiled potato's right out of the hot water, and then peel 'em with her hands, faster & easier than using a peeler she says...I cry like a wussy sissy baby with splashing too hot(ish) tap water...hey watch it now, that ain't funny!
So when your daddy got his first spot of skin cancer, did they then start just poppin' up all willy nilly like, or more like all at one time or in a short period of time.....?
The skin doc won't/can't really give me much more than vague answers about such things, but I know there's probably really isn't just one answer, but I'm still curious.
But then again also, this gal (another gal doc, I love gal doctors for Mama, ohhh sooo much easier), though she comes highly recommended, the top of her class, snappy as a whip, bright, articulate, seems very sincere, total professional, and has a really great manner, she is SO young, obviously talented, yes, loads of real time info from years of experience, that she can pass on to me, eh, not so much.
I mean, and don't get me wrong, this ain't a knock, but I got highly questionable as to the origin of certain stains on concert t-shirts, that are older than she is.
She can talk technical and technique loaded with lots of jargon with the best of 'em, but I have a feelin' they don't teach them in medical school, to answer curious question from the likes of me, and she hasn't really seen enough to pull off a good wool job to ease my stress...and I'm just a tad bit *tic* *tic* ticky on a good day.anyway.
(I kinda gotta feel for her, she certainly didn't know what she was getting into when we walked in the door ...on the other hand, I might just be one of them there whatcha might call, "learning by doing educational experiences" :-) )
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ssake, it's going okay. It keeps my mind occupied and that's a good thing. I just wish I got paid more and for my time off, but I'm part time with no benefits. We get the difficult customer now and again but mostly very nice people. Yesterday was crazy busy and today was pretty slow. I think my job is good for me. Gets me out and about and it's something I HAVE to do. Not like putting off thank yous or mopping the floor. :)

love,
miz
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thanks miz, how is work going?
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I'm so glad, sskape. That's a very good thing.
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Hi everyone, I've been reading but haven't had much excitement here, which is a good thing. I even got out and walk/jogged today. It helps the mood. My mom is doing well, she likes having the different caregivers come in and has been cooperative. It's all good, just for today.
ssk
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I'm back to the house unscarred. I have come to beleive that the mayor could possibly be a victim of Alzheimers. Right now it seems like shooting fish in a barrel-too easy.I had some extensive meetings with alderman-way to intersting.Mayor s not playing with full deck-awefully spiteful though.Atleast he will have a excuss when questioned by the big dogs in Nashville-Good thing I don't live in that town.This part of the country has always been lawless,but now there are outsiders moving in and they need to change the way they play.One of our elder alderman spoke up and said I have always broke the law-its just the way I am I can't change now,everyone nodded. Ya'll probabally understand why I don't watch TV now-this crap is better than anything you get on TV.Sadly the alderman want me to kick the mayors butt out,atleast I have moral support-worst mayor we ever had..The only person that is supporting dude is wife and brother-in-law-He's acting like a nasty tempered little boy-not thinking things through thats why I think he may be demented.He does like to have his picture in the paper.I'm tired and dirty,time for shower and bed-I'll try to read whats going on with you guys tomorrow.
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Hi Ted , Good luck with your sister troubles. Glad you checked in with us!
ssk
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Thanks, Miz, that's what the doc said, she actually laughed when I explained what was going on and said she had two sister's that should sink in the same boat as mine.
It is still freaking me out that she is gonna try to start all sorts of trouble for mom and me when we (I) am having such a hard time already.
Gotta go, Love you all!
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Christina, you so much remind me of me. Very sensitive, easily depressed. I feel it, girl. You're not alone. You are such a sweetheart. Try not to worry. It's all good. :)

love,
miz
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Ted, if your sister does not have Health Care POA then the doctor's office should not even talk to her without your mother's permission.
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Hi everyone! Sorry I've dropped out of sight, My internet is down and will have to stay down for a while, I just wanted to let you all know how much I miss you and that I am alive.
I am also beginning to see signs of what my sister was threatening to do. It seems she called my mom today, for the first time in a LOOONg time, and ask mom what her doctor's name is, she said she was going to make an appointment for her. I have know idea what that is about, it's like my calling the child of someone I haven't seen for 20 years and asking the name of thier dentist because I want to make an appt for them.
It's scary, she has already stolen most of what my father left me in his will and I can't see any other reason for her to be doing this now unless she plans on trying to steal something else or cause me trouble so that I don't persue my inheritance. I called mom's doctor to warn her, and I'm going to call social services in the morning to let them know what's going on.
I might even ask them how I can make a complaint of some sort.
Wish me well. Ted.
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Oh I wear all kinds of hats, hell, I got all kinds of hats, it's pert near hat-o-matic I put on a hat, I'm a mad Pat in the hat maniac is what I'm sayin'!

That's a really good rib recipe, and I've had 'em, and done 'em like that before, but I'd suggest makin' one little change, try Dr.Pepper!
I can't say right off the top of my head what I ever got out of the Lone Star state worth repeatin' (at least in mixed company), 'cept maybe using Texas Dr. Pepper for a pork rib marinade, deeeelicious!
I use to smoke lots of pig for a bit of living,, whole hog roasts, turkeys and such, but for my ribs I just dry rubbed, and I'd spray apple cider on 'em when they needed a little spritz bath. ('cause a smokin' pig just loooves to feel appley fresh of course)
Sometimes I used apple butter with a smidge of vinegar, a touch of tomato paste, and a few of spices, for a glaze, but my signature thing, is a Hillbilly Teriyaki thing I make, with honey, soy sauce, onion & garlic powder, and crushed red pepper flake.
That one always went over pretty swell, well, except maybe that guy that had some kind of allergy to honey, or so he said...I think he was really just a whiny crybaby troublemaker, I mean those itty bitty hives looked more like zits to me.
The moral of that story is, always read the menu sign BEFORE shovelin' vittles down your pie hole...fairly simple concept really, if one were to ask me..of course he didn't :-) !
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omg--I forgot I got a crockpot for Christmas! Obviously haven't used it yet. OK--Good Answer, PQ. YOU are on a ROLL today!
It's a big one, too, so will probably hold 4 racks. Yay--I'm excited.
Thank you.
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Heck ribs are so easy in the oven....what I do is buy Grill Mates marinade and just use it as a dry rub...Chipotle or Mesquite are good for ribs or the Bourbon Brown Sugar one as well. I like all three, they even have more flavors but I use these 3 a lot. You can throw them in the crock pot with the dry rub as well. Oven at 350 for about 3 hours or crockpot on low for about 6. They are a million ways to make em....good luck!
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Pat THE Hat--is that a party hat, or a chef's hat? We want to know. Also, do you have a good recipe for RIBS? I'm fixin' some for the colts/jets game party at my house this weekend. I soak racks in a 2 liter bottle of Coke overnight, then do a dry rub, then bake slow at 300 for 3 hours, then put on the grill outside to glaze. Do you have a better idea? Thanks! christina
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" Hope y'all are having a great day! (I pretend I'm southern) "

Well you spelled "ya'll" correctly, so your way ahead of about half of my kin, but then we're bona fide Hillbillies.
Weez jess hain't gots no needs fer sech embellishments, whilst hunkerin' on down fer snazzy writ down palaverin's, is what I'm sayin' :-) .
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Miz do not fret over the notes it took my from July til time for Christmas cards to do mine-then I was too worn out to do Christmas cards Christina we are open 24/7 I use to post in the middle of the night and so did others and as my mothers says it's 5 o'clock somewhere Tenn does you state have FOIA freedom of information act if you do they have to give you the info ask someone at your local newspaper they will know how to get info.
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miz - I'm going on mad adrenaline right now......then after I take COL's doggie to vet I'm coming home putting on comfy clothes and pour myself a nice glass of rum and coke and get back on this computer. First I will call my son and tell him how much I love and appreciate him, just because I do and he needs to hear it.
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Family squabbles oh Joy! If only folks realized how short life really is and it's not all about them!
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whew--no, really, I'm OK today. Just hungry. But thank you for the support. I don't do FB--not yet, or "toda via no" as we say close to the southern border-- and those other 2 things sound very nasty. heehee Caregivers are so wonderful. After going 96 hours straight through the NY weekend alone with Mother, I have more appreciation for them:) That is one reason I am so wasted--from lack of sleep, rest and focus. It's not 5 o'clock here yet, so the chardonnay is at the same level it was last night. Hope y'all are having a great day! (I pretend I'm southern) HUGS, christina xoxo
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CHRISTINA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are loved and wanted and we WILL NOT allow you to sink into the black hole or the foxhole for that matter. Baby doll, you are having a very hard time right now but we are here with you....I read your posts as well as all the others sometime around 8-9 am. central time. Today I'm keeping myself going on just pure adrenaline....wanna borrow some? I posted elsewhere in earlier posts about the 2 daughters that chose to not speak to me years ago....well today I am finding out just how much they do hate me.....the oldest has been sending horrible, horrible emails to my daughter-in-law all morning.....and I hurt for my dil because she never did a thing to her. OMG the things she is saying, it makes me embarrassed that she is my daughter even though she hates me. I really wish I knew why....my son's heart is breaking because his sisters are being such vipers and he tries to act like it doesn't bother him, but momma knows. The freakiest thing happened a little earlier today...was standing in the living room talking with hubby and I have several pics on top of a bombay chest.....right in the middle is one of my mom..it just fell over and knocked over a pic of myself and granddaughter and one of myself holding my little chihuahua...do you think mom was telling me she's okay?
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Well that was the last caregiver that fried the toaster...the new one is whom lost the keys...just talked to her she still can't recollect where she put them...she had to have them yesterday when she got in yesterday.....
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Fried the toaster huh?...hmm, perhaps you've found the keys ;-)
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Dang it, what is with these caregivers...from frying the toaster to loosing keys, to breaking plumbing to screwing up the washer...what is with these folks...geeezus! She better find that key! Harumpf.....I can't wait for when I no longer need a caregiver for mommo! They are worse than her sometimes!
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I think you should keep christina it's a lovely name!
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