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.
We're staying home and will visit at another time, when she's cleared of C-Diff.
Susan, totally stay home a few more weeks, knowing people would understand your position and not be offended by it.
I get what are probably mild flare ups of sciatica, and have found that sitting "Indian style" and reaching my arms forward as far as a I can really helps stretch those glutes :)
We had planned to visit a relative in a nursing home about 4 hours away this weekend, but I just found out she has C-Diff - she's had it for about 3 months now. Having dealt with that nasty bug with my Dad, I know how hard it is to get rid of, and how dangerous it is for the elderly. This relative's daughter says it's ok to visit - that we would have to come in direct contact with feces or contaminated bedding, clothing or her hands in order to catch it. I'm still concerned, because Mom is in good health right now, and I'd like to keep her that way. My sister was going to go with us, but she works in a hospital kitchen and needs to be careful of what she exposes herself to as well, or she will have to take time off from work to be sure she's cleared of any possible infection before she can work again.
Would you make the trip under those circumstances? I'm not crazy about it myself.
were going to place one monster stone , about car hood size , way up near the top of the chimney . it'll be a treat for having to crook your neck to look up that high .
lotta fun -- lotta hard work ..
my helper may have already secured herself fulltime , longterm work on the farm . shes a bit ocd and cleans up incessantly . with 6 - 15 men out there making one horrific construction mess after another she has landed in the right place at the right time .
wish all of you the best with your aches and pains . ive started taking one aleve gel cap each day for the arthritic hands and it seems to be helping .
Well, life is ever-changing, right? Daughter showed up Friday with kids in tow, claiming to be done w/her husband, and when I asked (many times) if she was *sure* this is what she wanted to do, she assured me it was. 3 days later, she's decided to go back and give him "one more chance". Throwing my hands in the air - I'm done. This was a major stressor for me, and I (and members of my family who helped in various ways) put a lot on the line to make this happen for her so she could get away from him. This is the 3rd time I have stepped in and rescued her from a bad situation - 3 strikes...I'm out, I guess. I don't need all this hassle on top of my work and caring for Mom.
To top it off, I stepped away from my keyboard for a while, then came back and tried to use my keyboard, only to find it was tipping to one side, making typing an exercise in balancing and typing, deleting, typing, deleting, as the tipping screwed up my spelling. I looked like an idiot with my head cocked to one side, looking at the underside of the keyboard as I raised it up, only to find that one of the "feet" had snapped off and was lying in pieces under the keyboard. How the heck does something like that happen?? I don't have proof, but the 15-lb cat looks very guilty and was found playing hockey with the broken keyboard foot not long ago.....
hellloooooo mr. rum n' coke.......maybe I'll drink it out of my caregiver helmet.
Finally saw my eye doctor after being away for 2 years... she asked why I didn't come in last year.... said I am dealing with elderly parents... she understood because she had been caring for her Mom who had Alzheimer's for ten years until she passed.
At least get checked out now, as you have been advised it is really experienced.
Seriously - could be something going on there that needs medical attention, not just age. Swelling is a sign of inflammation or a reaction to something.
my mom developed OCD in her last year or so of life . its one of the few things we " clashed " over . my work just simply stomps me and on my time off im not likely to be obssessively cleaning a house or lawn . the line between quirky and demented doesnt seem to exist , just another stage of mental unwellness that is likely to affect your own mental health . you dont have to read very much about mood disorders to find verification of what im saying . mood disorders primarily ( and negatively ) affect relationships .