I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Its Tuesday again,so were heading to the beauty shop at 1:00.Mothers hairdresser says Mother is too fragile to wash her hair,so its just a comb.Mothers hair has always been very important to her and she wears it high on her head in an old Victorian style with lots of curls around her sweet face.Growing up,its how I could always find her in stores,etc.Anyway.......
While I don't particularly need most of them, when Mum was last taken into hospital I still had all the printouts of her condition at that time for comparison as well as her discharge summaries going back years and the paramedics said it was so helpful to have a full picture as mostly they are merely going on what they can see with no comparison available to them.
You may not need them - they might be trash (to her) - but then again they belong to your mother's care and who the hell is she to just dump them. Im sure if you tackle her head on she will back down or at least get some spark of her attention going - grrrr that makes me so cross.
Failing that just stamp on her foot hard - she will remember to tread lightly around you next time!!!!!! no no bad girl falcon....what the heck do it!
Gershun and Shar, there is nothing more tranquil than floating down a river. Since it's been a very dry hot summer the rivers are low and warm which makes for PERFECT floating. You tie your tubes or what have you together...and sit back and enjoy watching nature. You can do a 2, 4 or 6 hour float. Lots of little islands you can stop at and have lunch...we have a lot of Bald Eagles here and it's always such a delight to see them flying overhead... deer, beavers, minks, ducks, geese are all over... I'm really bummed I wasn't able to go this summer. I'm to scared to go alone...and it's really not recommended. Oh well... there's always next year.
Lucky, your hospice people always seem to shock me. How dare she go through YOUR hospice papers pulling out ANYTHING. Too me, that is such bullsh*t. Maybe that's why I seem to be public enemy #1 to my family. I just don't take there crap anymore. Not that I'm a know it all, but geeze, common sense to them seems to be missing. Again Lucky, I really am sorry they aren't treating you better. Hospice is supposed to be a welcome relief to you and your dear mother.
Hey, I DID have a good weekend, sorry if it sounded like I didn't. It was more about why does someone say we should do something this weekend then just disappear. Yep, it's all overrated lately. I have learned this summer how to entertain myself and trust me, I do keep me entertained. Example ; a young man was selling his "pocket bike" (google it so you can see it) he was trying to earn enough money to go on a school trip to Washington D.C., so me, being an advocate of teens and education, bought it. So, when I'm really bored, which isn't that often, I ride it around the back yard chasing my big girl or she chases me on it. LOL I'm to chicken to take it out on the street, that little bugger is FAST. Really, I'm such a tomboy it isn't funny. I'm more into outdoor things than going to the mall or out to a bar. Sure I like those places but...nature is more exciting.
Going to the psychologist today for some grief counseling. I just want her to tell me what the hell happened this past 3 years. Then perhaps I can move on without feeling like I did so many wrongs that made my brothers seemingly hate me so much that they barely saw mom for 2 years. Mom was always so LOVING and CARING to all of us... doesn't matter that she didn't recognize them or that she was a bit nutty. It hurts me so bad that they abandoned us like they did. See? I'm crying again just thinking about it. This has got to stop...I want to remember fondly of my parent's without breaking down crying all the time....
Gersh dear, sorry you are not feeling well... I wish your dear mother was there to nurture you back to health. I understand....
You see, as caretaker for my mother, I apparently transformed into a serious no fun person. My priority was my mother. Apparently she thinks I have always been that way. Uh no. I do have a problem now socializing after being pretty much alone for 3 years... one day
But there was an article in the Washington Post where a reporter signed up onto that website some time ago to see what it was all about. Since the hacking she wanted everyone to know that if the list of members is made public or reachable view the internet and people see her name, it was just part of her job as a journalist.
Wish people would learn from other people's mistakes... unless they think they themselves are invincible.
Of course my parents are thinking once I am behind the wheel it will be road trip time to Target, doctor appointments, etc. I'm sure they have a long list ready. Except they are forgetting I won't be able to fold up Dad's rolling walker nor be able to lift it into the car for quit some time, if at all [I'm not spring chicken so healing takes longer]... nor will I be able to climb into the backseat to snap their seatbelts.
You could almost hear The Queen's, "Humph!"
I am so sick of her abusive, mental illness. Plummeted daily with her crazy behaviors I find my patience and compassion whittled down to zero.
Hey anyone out there know what I mean? ha
Katie..Mama has been coughing a good bit..I can't tell if it might be that respiratory thing going around, or the extra secretions...those little patches do help that for sure...and I have used them since the first weird episode, with none of the former suspected side effects...who knows what that was about....there are definitely some bugs going around...I hope she gets to feeling better soon...
Lucky, the minute I saw your post and the mention of that woman, I felt my butt muscles tense up...I am trying to be more dignified lately, but I swear, I'd have to drop kick her behind over the moon. Who the heck is she to go through YOUR things and trash anything....I agree with Falcon completely and I love the idea of stomping on her foot...and other things....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.........grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
CM... re AM...totally agree. While I do feel so much sadness and sympathy for those who were the innocent bystanders who had not clue...the ones who are guilty of "looking for ways to cheat???" ...meh..not so much....yep, if you can't do the time.....
had to run a couple of errands today and just got home to have a car pull up and a man get out and call my name. I couldn't see him for our row of hedges, but it was our chaplain..but he came at a good time. We had a nice visit. Mama even woke up a short time and he had never seen her awake...
We are having our first glimpse of true fallish weather and it is heavenly...so nice and cool..definitely know I'm a fall person...no doubt about it.
Jeanette...oh how I'd love to go floating down the river or wherever...that would be so much fun... you know, I'm with you re lucky's nurse....grrrrrr....I still wish I could put a Miss Piggy wrestling move on that woman....the nerve of her..
Hate that wires got crossed with your hospice nurse and the trip...why can't folks just at least let others know what came up...little turkey... :)
I've tried every which way to explain to my mom that we are also getting older and know our limits. So, no, I'm not doing the full blown holidays and family gatherings, but simpler versions, and yes, I'm aware that that's "not how we usually do it." I don't do things that will hurt me so please don't attempt anything that could cause you to fall because I can't catch you and I'll be calling 911.
It really hit me recently when I mentioned I'd be 60 on my next birthday and there was this silence, then a surprised reaction. I think for the first time, she'd realized the Everready bunny has battery issues.
I'm still recovering from an ailment. Don't know what it is. I've had a pounding headache for days now and feel generally rundown. But I shouldn't complain. I've got it pretty good compared to some of you. Ta ta for now.
As far as that gentrification issue. Have any of you watched I Am Cait? That new Bruce Jenner show. Its quite eye opening. I can't stand the Kardashians but I admire him for what he is doing now.
Not that I think you can't be a tomboy and still be a girly girl. I'm a real girly girl but I always got along better with the boys than the girls. Girls could always be so mean.
Gershun, your mom sounds like she was as sweet as my little old grandma. She always made sure we had our favorite cookies in the house when we came to visit. And she starched and ironed the sweets.slipping into bed always felt so comfy, listening to the train horn off in the distance.
Hope, I am curious about Ashley Madison too, but they said they leaked the list on the "dark net" and I am so good, I wouldn't know how to get there.
Gershun, to be honest, NO, I have not nor will not watch Caitlyn Jenner. I have for years blipped in and out of the Kardashians tho. Sorry love, as much as he/she can supposedly show the world how hard it is to be a trans... well, he wasn't the first, neither will he be the last. To quote D.L. Hugley, (which is a smart man much more than a comedian ) the average man dies at the age of 75. Bruce/Cait is 67 already.... it isn't so much bravado to come out as a transgender with millions in their back pocket as it is so much as "crossing it off on his bucket list". Sorry if this offends anyone.... I happen to agree with D L Hugley. I am NOT saying I do not condone gender issues, hey, we know who we at a very YOUNG age. Okay, long story short, Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner did not have to make another kamillion dollars for me to understand life and to be kind to one another..................crap, share your millions ms./Mr. Jenner! he he...