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.
I receive at least 3 magazines every week that I never ordered and don't subscribe to - things like Glamour, SELF, etc - yeah right! I'd *never* read those. Then we get at least 2-3 copies of every Christmas catalog known to man - none of which we've ever ordered. I fill an entire trash bag every two weeks with the crap mail we get.
"… why is it no one ever sent me
one perfect limousine, do you suppose?
Ah no! - it's always just my luck to get
one perfect rose."
I feel I will be moving into assistant living before my parents do, just from all the stress :P
Someone would get a stern chewing out! - which would fall on deaf ears and things would more than likely continue on as they are. ugh.
Glad you father is ok. Maybe this scare will teach an old horse a new lesson?
I broke down and bought a nice bottle of Pinot Grigio... thought it would go good with my dungeness crab. I was right. So Lois - clink - cheers- here's to a speedy recovery for you and may you have a wonderful Holiday season!
Tony said Dad was shaking like a leaf, of course he was outside with no coat before Mom noticed he had fallen, my gosh Mom is almost deaf/blind.... he went looking for one of his canes he thought he left on the front porch and Dad lost his balance and fell into the bushes. He knows he shouldn't be outside without his rolling walker. You wouldn't catch Mom outside in the dark doing that.... men [rolling eyes.... no offense to those who have common sense].
It's hard to be alone on my birthday after 70 years of marriage, but once I get this compression fracture of my back healed, I'll make do. It happened on hubby's last day at home before Hospice.. 'Going visiting for Christmas and then two months with two of my daughters and families...
I'm keeping up with all you folks in your caregiving. I have lots of empathy and admiration for all of you! Keep it up with your heads held high!
Going to treat myself to a FRESH whole dungeness crab... Safeway had them on sale for 5.99 a pound. Win win.
So, all in all, it wasn't so bad being on this boat with a lot of you!
Boni.... now I am jealous! Sounds like SO MUCH FUN!! enjoy enjoy enjoy!
Off to crack some crab now and have the hot melted butter drip down my arms !!
hope ya have a fun time boni .
No whine from me tonight. My GRAND CHILDREN will be here in less than 48 hours! We found out the new one in the oven is a boy and they are naming him after my Dad.
I have 5 1/2 days of Dress up, arts and crafts, hugs, kisses, cup cake making, hugs, bed time stories, pajama parties, kisses, tickles, coloring, balloon blowing, hugs..............WOOOO HOOOO!
Not fishing for any happy birthday's, just trying to make it through another year without acknowledgement from anyone here. Which is fine. Just gives me more determination to be a better person and when the day comes that I can go back to my other life it will be with pride and accomplishment.
I remember how fun birthday's used to be, especially working at a school where we were all family. Nothing like getting homemade cards from all the children. The staff had a "Sunshine Committee" that did an awesome job for everyone. Even my boss/friend was fun. He'd always give me like $50 bucks or so and lots of us would go to "Chili's" to finish up happy hour and get the free lava cake. Oh what fun ")
Mom's in a pretty good mood and it's warmed up a bit outside. Rainy and foggy but not freezing, so maybe I will have her take me out to dinner at the fanciest place I can find in this small town. Although the Burger Basket at the Bowling Alley is pretty tasty and lots of people watching for entertainment!
Have a great day AC peeps!
One thing I have learned this past two years. No one, not the Dr's, not the ER people, no your loved one like you do. Even if it's medical, like your mother's leg, they don't notice those things. Gotta be ever so vigilant with those people!
Please take some time to breathe.... and keep us posted!
On the urine sample topic - I can completely identify with that one. Mom is a large woman, and there's no way in heck she can get a cup under her to take a sample. So we're in the restroom in the doctor's office with mom sitting on the toilet, me squatting in front of her and reaching up under her to try and catch the sample in the cup (yes, that was every bit as awkward as it sounds). Then she decides that she can't go - doesn't have to go. Stands up to pull her clothes up and promptly pees on the floor. Then they tried to tell her she had to bring back a stool sample from home, which she refused to do. (sigh)
Why they didn't take one look at this large woman and put a HAT in the toilet to catch the urine sample, I'll never know. I thought about that after the fact, and will definitely mention it to them next time.
Now about those exam tables... someone needs to resign those terribly uncomfortable tables. Even I have issues climbing up onto one... they are designed for someone over 6 foot tall. Design one with a hydraulic lift that moves every so slowly not to scare one.
And you know what else bothers me...so many patients, yes, lots of help, but nobody listens to you. She's got diabetes so I'm telling them she has to eat and take her meds at a certain time. They get the chart and say, oh yeah. Whatever. That nurse shouldn't have been walking with my mom. She should have been cognizant of the fact that this was a woman who was limping and she was telling her 'it hurt'. If I wasn't there, she would have had nobody speaking for her. I mean, gees. And so many people! So many sick people. I just kind of want to cry when I see all the people, older, and their lives gone. Personnel just treat them as 'next'!' like a fast food restaurant. I'm not saying people aren't 'nice' but they're not 'nice-nice'.