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.
Ashlynne - a kitty! I wish we could share pics here. We could have a pets only thread and share all our pet stuff.
Discussed the trip situation w/my ex again, and now he says youngest doesn't *want* to come here because he has a girlfriend there. Um...I'm only asking for one week! I didn't quite believe him, so I asked to talk to youngest himself to get it directly from him. Unfortunately....ex is right. :-( So now I'm not having problems with ex over it...I'm having to convince my own son to come see me. He's 16...it's the age, I guess. Sucks.
In a NH now she's a shell, barely eats and is down to slop. Today I put together home made broth, veg and so on to take her. Got busy and forgot it until it was about to burn. I've thrown cold water in it and left it. I'll see how it looks/smells in the morning before I decide whether to add noodles or chuck it out. Why bother? I really don't know. Maybe I just feel for anything/anyone that is so down.
A bright spot. Friends found a tiny kitten on a back road trying to eat road kill and took her home. They have animals coming out of their ears, can't keep her and were going to take her to a shelter, which means she'll be destroyed. Nope, not going to happen! Poor wee thing has struggled to survive this far and she so deserves a good life so she's coming to join my crew.
She'll have a large dog crate in my sun room for a day or two so she can do a meet and great with the crew in safety, then it's off to my vet for a check up and see what she needs. Mentally I've called her Baby :)
Cap meet you in Oneills bar in Seville on saturday the 13th at 9pm local time!! wear a red cornation on your bandana!! That gives you a week to get there get someone to mind IKE!! Dress code casual BUT stunning!! LOL
If my, I guess she is a step neice, can fly with two little ones, she hates to fly, you can too!
Thanks SKY TV for putting "devious maids" on at this time youve really messed up my life!
Friend read my cards so its looking good for "romance" HA! i keep saying its like riding a bike? ill get back into it???
Mums not really bothering me this week as maybe im too excited that nothing can bring me down!!
Theres a spanish guitar festival on while im there so i cant wait as i love this music and would love to learn to play it but had better learn guitar first i guess i mean its something you could learn while being a caregiver will get myself a guitar soon!
I expect that, like me, you're only half joking about the bubble wrap - and actually, if she's going to make a habit of chucking herself down access ramps, you could think about those hip protectors, maybe? Admittedly my mother would have me certified if I tried getting one onto her, but I do browse the mobility catalogues sometimes and wish...
Friend did card reading and travel and holiday romance came up!!! Yipee! cant wait to have a week of "normal" im scared i may not come back!
She's had some wicked bad falls. One resulted in a chipped tooth and permanent mark on her shin where she hit it (not a scar, more like a dead tissue area). The worst fall she's taken was when Dad was in the hospital just before he passed away. I was up in the room with Dad, answering questions from the doctor, knowing Mom was waiting for me to come get her from the parking lot with a wheelchair, but I couldn't get away fast enough, and she tried to walk in on her own. Big mistake. She made it as far as the sidewalk ramp, and her steam just ran out - she couldn't lift her feet anymore and caught her shoe on the *very* small incline on the ramp and fell flat on her face. She completely avulsed her toenail from the nail bed, banged both knees hard on the concrete, and worst of all, slammed her face right down on the concrete. She almost broke her nose, scraped her face up, blackened both eyes and had a huge lump on her forehead.
I swear, I need to wrap her in bubble wrap.
I swallowed my pride and *some* of my anger at my ex and called and left him a voice mail asking him again to allow my youngest son to come visit me here. I assured him that: 1) YES, son will come back to live with him after his visit - he will not be staying here; 2) Son will be with me 24/7, so no opportunity for him to get into trouble (he thinks I will "let" him get into trouble); 3) he will not have to even lift a finger or spend a dime for son to come up here - I will come get him and bring him back myself. Reminded him that our son has family up here that hasn't seen him in 2 years now, because I haven't been allowed to bring him back up here due to older son's shenanigans, which my ex blames me for. Guess I'll wait and see what his response is tomorrow....if he bothers to call. He likes to conveniently "forget" to call me.
I just pray she dosnt suffer and goes peacefully in her sleep. I dont feel she has much time left as her will went along time ago. So sad. all i can do is never end up like this and enjoy life no matter what it takes!
Susan your mum sounds like mine just happy to sit and watch TV all day and night and be served meals all day! Ive given up trying to get her out and about much as she just dosnt want to go? they say the home is thier "comfort zone" its where they feel most safe so i dont push her anymore as i know my old mum would have gone anywhere as she loved getting out and about. Yeh have to push her a bit to get some "vitamin D" on her bones shes better this year than last year and is doing a bit of gardening? well? making a huge mess in the garden but im done caring ill clear it all up in the fall? as long as shes outside i dont care.
Its so hard to watch this as they are so young gosh i hope to God i am travelling at this age and having fun life really is short!
Mom's best friend will turn 75 in a couple of weeks, and just goes, goes, goes! She's on a plane to see her daughter in another state, then she's babysitting her great-grandkids, then she's off on a road trip to a friend's wedding, and she is employed part-time as a "classroom grandma" at a local elementary school. My mom, by contrast, sits here in the house day after day, and only goes out if I take her somewhere...she can no longer drive because she can't get herself in and out of the vehicle - so her independence is completely gone. She couldn't do the classroom grandma thing, because she requires too much assistance with her mobility, and her patience for dealing with young children is also gone - she doesn't tolerate them very well for longer periods of time. She won't even go outside to sit on the deck in the sunshine unless I push her to do so. She is completely happy just sitting here vegetating in the house - which is why I push her to do more - go outside, walk up and down the wheelchair ramp at least once a day to keep her legs moving, just get herself moving a bit and get out of that darn chair now and then!
My sister and her friend are minimizing contacting me about dad. They did take dad to the assisted living place he is moving into tomorrow and asked what if he doesn't like it there? But he probably doesnt remember
saying that . I am sure I will get all the details later today when back home.
Sodonewithsal. POD took me all day to work out but I think it is "post op day #2"
What is Pod #2? It has a sci-fi sound to it.
Kazzaa, MIL just turned 81. Apparently if you make it that far, you'll live d*mn near forever. If she were to fall down the stairs and break her neck tonight, I'd not only do a hula, I'd twerk like a crazy woman.