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.
Sigh, Ms Madge. Wouldn't it be nice to get these decision-makers all into the same room together and make them explain themselves?
got mom's notice of her social security benefit for next year - despite the whopping 2.8% increase, she'll actually net $50 less a month due to Medicare premium increases
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An anti-whine from me today: The first grad student roommate is lined up for the new place. It's taken me too long because I'm being SLOW about it. But, now I have one great future roomie who's moving in mid Dec. She's earning her MS in nursing. She seems like a really great fit for the kind of person I was wanting to get in here. Now to go find another good fit... But it's not a rush. This is all bonus for me since the rent here at the big 3 bedroom place is same as the previous 1 bedroom. I'm thinking ahead to saving money and planning some career reinvention at some point. I'm also extremely happy where I'm working at currently so I may stay there for a couple of years, who knows. No bad options for me right now. I'm thankful.
"GRANNY ROBBED JEWELRY DEPARTMENT WITH STOLEN NERF GUN - RELATIVES NOT YET FOUND"
There could be a very unusual plea bargain going on in that case.
As if - hugs to her from me :)
Or maybe I just let the police take her for a day. That'll give me a break. Haha.
Seriously, Polar - is there a Dementia Friends scheme, or anything like that, in your area? Popping a discreet little badge on her coat lapel to help people be aware that she's not - how can I put it - quite herself might spare you an awful lot of blushes.
My mother is now a bonafide kleptomaniac,
She has to swipe or try to swipe something whenever we go to a store, from a candy bar, bag of chips, pack of gum, etc. And she does not eat ANY of them. Last week, she swiped a (fake) diamond necklace, and a sample perfume bottle. Ugh!!!!
I try to watch her like a hawk and put back what I find in her purse. Sometimes, she succeeds without me knowing/seeing. Then when we get home, she takes out whatever it is that she swiped then gloats that her son gave it to her.
I will have to insist she leaves her purse at home before going out. That will be another battle as she is literally attached to her purse.
My kids don't mind the candy bars and chips so much, they even suggest that I take her to the bank. Haha.
When my mom could not walk well anymore I began to notice the barriers for the disabled, stairs, steps, curbs everywhere. I do like the trend of walk in showers instead of bathtubs in new homes, but a friend that has only showers in her home misses a tub.
Can you make the floor less slippery?
Glad,
We have wind, the Santa Ana winds, kicking up dust still.
Ali,
One step at a time, you go girl!
I'm much improved today and that's great. It's still a few days until I'll be able to walk up stairs in the normal way. I'm doing the old "step up-then-step up" method right now, where you do one foot on one stair then the other one on same stair. Ugh. It's so tedious but I'll live. And I'm TRYING to remind myself to be grateful I don't need to walk this slow and careful all the time, that it's temporary. It definitely makes me appreciate the movement/ambulation issues of others.
You can get ibuprofen gels to apply direct to the sore place, you might be better off doing that.
I think perhaps you'd better get someone to check this isn't a ligament tear, too. If you look up online where the Achilles tendon attaches to the calf muscle, you'll be able to see whether it needs attention.
And then I tore a muscle in my calf this morning just from taking a step. That leg had been bothering me for a couple of weeks but I figured it would heal. I think this tear plus my back sprain 2 months ago means I have a deficiency again, something that used to bother me 10+ years ago and I would get sprain after sprain, mostly in my back.
So I'm taking magnesium, potassium (from bananas), electrolytes (coconut water), and a bunch of ibuprofen. I iced the leg today and am hopeful I can hobble into work tomorrow and it won't be too painful. I can sit behind the bar and do some station work instead of running around.
I feel like my body is a big disappointment sometimes. lol But this is something I can work on and I'm really hopeful that by adding supplements like MSM back into my routine, I won't get these muscle tears any more.
Everybody have a nice and peaceful Thanksgiving!
Anyway tell her the turkey DH purchased was a first cousin to Peas and Carrots and although it has been executed is entitled to a burial with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetary.
sorry you you caught in a spot
if I understand, you are taking care of hubby's gma?
Where are gma's children?
Mine came in the mail yesterday. I have not started reading it yet.
I think I did it to get attention. My Mom was always at work it seemed and I was getting bullied, my brother's mental illness was coming to the forefront more and there was so much stress in my life. Why I chose to start starving myself, God only knows. I still battle with unhealthy eating habits to this day. I think it's like being an alcoholic. Even when you stop drinking you are still an alcoholic. I think it's like that with anorexia as well. I go through stages where I become addicted to exercising and overdo it and then have to stop for a while.
I haven't ordered that book yet Magnum but I'm going to go on a book site right now and see if I can find it.