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.
Mally, Failing mobility is such a hard thing to watch. My Mom had such a struggle for so many years with her bent leg and arthritis and bad hip. It hurt so to watch her try to walk but she somehow did for many years until she couldn't.
Took MIL to doctor for the knee today. She made it down the steps with a few howls...I had forgotten what a yowler she is....She yowls before anyone even touches her, or going over a bump in the car...she has always done this, even 30 years ago.Drama queen. Trouble is, it is hard to tell if she is just anticipating pain or if it really does hurt at times....she had water on the knee and the doctor aspirated it after the x-rays. She says she called him a liar after he said there would only be one shot and he gave her two....She is a difficult patient. My Mom was so docile and such a good patient but her mobility was worse. MIL being difficult won't make things easy....
My Mom had quite a dislike for doctors who were females, as Mom would say afterwards "she doesn't know what she is talking about"... [sigh]. Mom was from the very old school where men were doctors because they were smarter. Also Mom wasn't a good patient, oh those nasty looks she would give.
On the other side of the coin, my Dad was the best patient any doctor could want. He listened, he never complained, and was thanking everyone in the office afterwards.
Great grandma does see spirits and his mother does have some psychic abilities. Time will tell.
He comes up with all sorts of unexpected abilities. Gamma has one of those keyboards that when you select a tunea light comes up over the key you hit next. Well that little tyke taught himself how to play that. He just gently touches the key doesn't hit them the way most 2 yr old would and wants everyone to sing along with him. He sings and sways to the music and is in perfect time. He really is an amazing kid and very stubbon. "I'm tired Mommy, time to get in the car and go home. Got to let the dogs, which he names out. I'm tired time to go to bed." He gets into bed as soon as he gets home and straight to sleep. GGma was absolutely exhausted when I talked to her a couple of days ago. She had baby sat Jameson for the previous 2 days and he is in constant motion. "Come on Gma gma lets go and look for animals in the trees" or "I ride tracter now" His pediatrician was totally amazed when she tried to look in his ears. and he said "NO" She tried again and he said "No I told you I don't like that"
I made the mistake of lying down briefly and now there's no way I'm getting back up. The bags under my eyes say it all -- I'm TIRED. But I don't know why I'm tired. I'm on a regular sleeping schedule, best it's been in many years. I'm taking thyroid meds and they do help, but not enough, I feel, to give decent QOL.
I've been exercising for an hour 3x a week for several months. It helps, and yet... TIRED. I'm so stinking tired all the stinking time.
Well. I'll have to figure it all out another day, or likely keep plowing on in the same way I am now... and truly it's not all bad, I'm so grateful for work I can do and I'm making it, but there is just no energy left over.
So I'm going to bed at 6pm. Good night!! lol
We ALL need a real vacation away from home/caregiving. Too bad we don't live in a fantasy land where we can wave a wand, freeze everyone in place in our local area, hop on a plane and enjoy a vacation, then return, wave the wand to unfreeze everyone.... Or have magical powers to open a dimension, step in for a one month vacation, return back - and time only passed 5 minutes. Earth's 5 minutes = unknown dimension's 1 month time frame...
Mom just said, "Sounds like that Mucinex has helped you" as I'm sitting here coughing and hacking lol. Ugh, can I just go back to sleep now?
You've been through more trauma than anyone can possibly bear this past year
Is the layout of the home workable for a recovery ? If so, you'll be more comfortable perhaps there
If not, and you opt for rehab, can you still hire a private caregiver to get you extra attention during the stay?
Look on the unit for a manufacturer's name and a unit serial number. Go online and research what's in this unit - could it be a refrigerant of some sort leaking, I'm wondering?
I know I live in a country where frankly people who use air conditioning are being a bit precious and shouldn't have painted their windows shut, then, should they; but all the same I wouldn't take any chances with this.
This is the first year that my house has a very musty smell due to way too much rain.
Also there was an RCMP vehicle behind me in line, so in my head as I was pulling up to the window, it was all: "don't say you forgot your wallet don't say you forgot your wallet don't say you forgot your wallet...."
I couldn't have stood the strain. I would have got out of the car, gone to the nice policeman and confessed all, preemptively.
Did you get your dinner okay?
I said I forgot my debit card and apologized profusely. Then I pulled away SOOOOO carefully, watching the RCMP in my rearview the whole time....