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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6nfpxZ2Nz4
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I shall defiantly look up alternative JM snippets
Apparently you are allowed to listen to this (Joni) over there. There are pics of the performance, anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRQNGvHhmS8
i think you should see MM2
its fun and there are a couple of surprises in it
and the lads are good looking too
Fleetwood Mac
earth wind and fire
As a teenager, I used to love the song: Seasons in the Sun. Then one day, I watched this movie in the TV. It was a woman who was dying of cancer. That was her song. After that, I cannot listen to that music without feeling so sad that the person on that song is dying of cancer. I automatically change the radio station when they play that song.
There's a 70's song that plays in the radio that triggers mine and fave sis' childhood memory. Reminds us of hiding under the table, terrified. Trying to be as quiet as possible and hoping that 'they' don't pull up the cover to find us there.... I don't remember the music. But whenever it plays on the radio, it triggers that terrible childhood memory. Then after memory of being terrified, I usually end up with such deep sadness. Thank goodness it's a 70's song and is rarely played.
Must have been the Paris connection - thank you, D!
I adored Triumph too. "Nothing in my pockets, I got nothing up my sleeve....I keep my magic in my heart....."
He's the singer who sang "Last Christmas".
Last Christmas
I gave you my heart
But the very next day you gave it away.
This year
To save me from tears
I'll give it to someone special.
I indulged on a Sunday afternoon and sat and watched it
I'd say not so much didn't know as weren't bothered, actually. It's not like it was a shock, is it?
Me personally, I feel the same as you, I wasn't bothered by it, nor did it change my opinion that he was very talented.
Jumary, so sorry that this is happening to you. Welcome to AC. There are many experienced caregivers here that can provide you knowledge of their own experiences.
If folks rescind the POA who would they assign. Do you have POA for both of them? Let the attorney that prepared the POA's know what is happening with your folks. That attorney or any other would have to make a judgment call about whether the folks have the mental capacity to make a change.
You could also tell folks to find someone else, save yourself the stress. If they don't appoint someone then when the time came they could very well become wards of the state.
Or find a geriatric care manager that would be an impartial person to evaluate the situation. Sometimes that is a help. Are you sure mom isn't also developing dementia?
Too too bad there was no cheese with that, MsMadge. That is why balanced meals are recommended. Is your Mom always sensitive to grapes?
I am quite sure my mom is also developing dementia. I called the doctor at the facility where they live and told him my concerns. I hope he will check her, because she won't go on her own. My parents want me to manage the finances and let them handle the doctors and where they live. I can't allow that of course, because he will not be safe if they are managing anything. Thanks for listening
When I found my parent's Power of Attorneys. they had each other as their POA, which was ok. But with their failing health, and Mom's failing eye sight and lack of hearing correctly there was no way they could represent each other. I found a really great Elder Law Attorney who suggested that they keep other's names, and add my name as a back-up POA.
I’m 21 years old, in grad school, and live with my parents in order to care for my mother. My father has multiple escapist hobbies, including home-brewed beer. We have two refrigerators (due to the dietary requirements of sickly mom, I need space for all ingredients). This summer, dad decided to engineer a hole in a fridge for cold beer. Something went wrong and everything in the refrigerator came to room temperature. I frantically moved everything to the working fridge (with no help). Three months later, things are still spoiling despite his assurances that he fixed it. Today I went to grab my mom some ice cream and it was totally liquid. In anger, I poured some out on the carpet(that I immediately cleaned) to show that the freezer wasn’t freezing. He called me over dramatic and pathetic. I cried and shoved two freezers worth of food into one. Yes, I was over dramatic. But the $100 of meat that I bought on my grad student salary and was spoiled wasn’t pathetic.
Whine moment over.
The cottage we rented was perfect for us. Clean, well furnished, very nice maid service. Will definitely consider going back there - perhaps for a longer stay the next time. We’re hoping that now that I’ve got surgeries behind me we can do the traveling we have wanted to do.