Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I am exhausted. I kept telling myself that I was fully prepared to face the time left with mom in hospice.
Now I wonder if that is true. The last couple of days, I find myself going from frozen or numb to losing it and I cry and cry watching a skeleton with flesh covering it. It is horrible to see a person become skin and bones.
Maybe tomorrow will be a bit easier.
I just want to go lie down and turn my mind off for awhile. I need to rest.
Thanks to all who offer support on this forum. It is very much appreciated.
Be gentle with yourself. We are all here for you. Hugs!!!!
I appreciate everyone’s thoughtfulness.
Strokes are hard. My dad had a stroke and was never the same again.
Didn’t your dad die years before your mom like my dad did. My dad died in 2002. Mom misses him so much. They were married over 50 years.
I can’t believe that I will be married 43 years on the 22nd of this month!
Happy 43rd Wedding Anniversary!♥️🎉
I was reading online that the moratorium on evictions specifically excludes anyone in the household who is a personal safety threat to others. But again, if the housing courts are backlogged with cases, even if I have a legit grievance, I'm just not sure that I could get my case heard in housing court any time soon.
I hope that I don't have to do anything more. I'll know tomorrow.
It's enough for me right now to gear up for the new school term starting this week. Onwards and upwards.
Thank you for the wedding anniversary wishes.
You were young when you lost your dad. Gee, your mom was a young widow. Sad for all of you. We never know when it’s our time to go.
The only thing mom said to us about daddy’s stroke was that he had it after his heart surgery. Surgery is a risk but he would have died without the surgery.
It takes a lot of work for a person who has a stroke to recover, rehab and speech therapy.
It is interesting that there are different types of strokes. Also how some are very mild (mini stroke) and they don’t require any rehab.
How are you feeling since you were sick? Better, I hope.
I really don’t know the answer. Perhaps I should but I don’t. I don’t think mom ever mentioned what type of stroke daddy had.
I hope that you start to feel better soon. Glad that you are seeing specialists to help resolve your health issues.
Nice walk along the beach, but a tad windy today. We met each other, as teens, at the beach.
Had a nice lunch together. Simple, basic day. I like that.
It is helping me now as I navigate next steps.
https://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/caregiving/2018/02/prepare-to-care-guide-english-aarp.pdf?intcmp=AE-CAR-P2CGD-ENG
I don’t like driving in the bad weather.
One is Kentucky Derby Day!
Then watched comedy on youtube, called DryBar.
Now I am having a non-alcoholic drink: Ginger Beer. I can never remember the name correctly, so decided to call it root beer. (Ginger is a root).
Other times,we'd hang them on someone's door and ring the bell and run.
At school,we had a pole we circled around on May Day too and I think we sang some song.
May Day was like a holiday then~
I've been carrying my binoculars on my walks in hope of adding to my life list (I scored an ovenbird the other day, yay!) and I made myself a lemon meringue pie (just the kind that comes in a box).