Update day is here a day early. I’ve kind of got writer’s block so I’m turning the blog over to you a day early. Also I’d like to welcome a new member to the blog family. She has posted a couple of messages on the blog under “All over the Map”. I’d like to welcome and have you welcome redwhistle to the blog. Here is the first message she posted:
redwhistle_2000@yahoo.com said...
"I feel I should join this group. I too felt trapped and have no family. Am an only child, wasn't raised by my parents, never knew my grandparents, have never had cousins and am single! Being an only child is really hard and gets harder as you get older. Geez, talk about holidays being tough. I too understand. I've been following this blog but never posted. 2009 has got to be better and I agree with Bill, I'm not going to be here another snowy winter again. It's too hard to be house-bound for that long.” She did say in a second message that she didn't mean to go on about being alone and wasn't looking for sympathy and that those with families should feel lucky. We knew she wasn't looking for sypmathy, didn't we? And it sure didn't come across as a plea for sympathy did it? I thought it was a very nice introduction to the blog. Welcome redwhistle and thank you for taking the first step in getting to know us!
Before starting my update I just want to mention how incredible the pilot was on the jet that ended up in the river in New York. One passenger with two broken legs. A few with mild hypothermia. NO DEATHS. Let’s hear it for Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III.
As to me my update is pretty slim. The big news of the week is that because of the snowstorm they delayed my start on the job until the 26th instead of the 19th. A lot of companies had key accounting employees that weren’t able to make it to work during the snowstorm. W-2’s didn’t get done. Other important tax statements didn’t get done. Can’t do tax returns without those. I do have to attend a pre-tax meeting on the 23rd.
The other big news is that my Mom will turn 93 on the 21st. I’m having a hard time trying to decide what to get her. She doesn’t want a party. Should I refuse to listen to her and schedule a small surprise party at a local restaurant? I’m kind of leaning that way. It would only be with my nephew, one caregiver, two married couples that mom knows and mom. Also what do you get a 93 year-old woman anyhow?
Monday I went to Hillsboro to pick up all the state forms I needed to do my annual and quarterly payroll tax reports. From Hillsboro, I went to downtown Portland to pick up the forms that I needed to do the federal quarterly payroll tax reports. At the IRS I couldn’t help but think how things have changed since I first started out in the business. There never used to be any security, you went to the building and walked in. Now a picture I.d. is required. You have to through the scanner. You have to take your shoes and belt off. I made it through in flying colors! The security started before 9-11. It started with the Oklahoma City bombing.
Tuesday I did all the reports and also roughed out both my corporate and individual tax return. I’m getting a refund! Now I have to wait for the software update. Oregon is always late with their forms due to being shorthanded. The software company is shipping the cd on the 19th. Wednesday I went to Mom’s and spent the day there doing her books. We did fit in a couple of games of Scrabble. I’m getting better, we split the two games. Yesterday there was a few hours at Mom’s playing Scrabble again (we split) and taking her to the Dollar Tree and The library. She returned several books and picked up four books to read “this week.”. After Mom’s I was able to fit in a movie, GRAN TORINO. The rest of the week is unplanned! I miss the Sunday breakfasts with Ted but he has been in Palm Springs since before the great storm of 2008.
I did make the decision to start going to the comedy classes again. Every Wednesday Comedy Sportz has a couple of classes that as a graduate of their beginning and intermediate classes I can attend for five bucks. With the job I may not be able to go every week, but, I will get a few weeks in. Do you want reports of the classes again?
OK, it is your turn. Tell me everything, ask me anything. If you are new to the blog or if you have been reading the blog for a while and haven't posted follow the lead of redwhistle and join the group! OK, everyone what was your last week like, what do you expect your next week to be like?
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Welcome to the blog, redwhistle! Don't worry about looking for a little sympathy here -- we have bunches of it, and we ask it of each other all the time. I'm also an only, but was raised by my parents. It must be very hard for you to have no known relatives at all.
My father died at only 55, when I was 21; my mother is still alive and will be 103 in February. She's lost almost all her memory and is, to put it mildly, confused about just about everything, but mostly she seems fairly contented. Except in the evenings, when she gets agitated and tells me lots of things to do, most of which I don't understand. I thought we had this problem under control with a change in timing of meds, but the last couple of nights, she's at it again, so we'll have to see if it's just sunspots or something or if she needs a little heftier dose of anti-depressant.
That's more or less my update, Bill. It has been a fairly busy week, and I'm off to the eye doc for a checkup soon, but no problems there at the moment. Dinner/birthday party tomorrow for the daughter of my night caregiver. I decided to get the daughter a pretty scarf, as I seem to be throwing money at this family lately and didn't want to continue that with a gift card.
I'll join you in kudos for that pilot. What an amazing performance! There is, of course, a little speculation that birds only got into one engine and he shut down the wrong one, as is apparently common when pilots do simulations. I hope that turns out not to be true, as it would somewhat tarnish an otherwise absolutely heroic deed. Whatever, it was a stunning landing and a miracle that the river was unbusy and they didn't hit anyone coming down. Also that there were people right there to help. I heard the passengers were rescued within 5 minutes, which is nothing short of amazing. Kudos also to the rescuers and to the flight attendants who got everybody out with such dispatch.
Wish I could help you on something for your mother. We suggested that for Walt's mother's 95th birthday, people write (or record, since she can't see) messages to her that she could play over and over again. Jeri sends her messages all the time and it is a great spirit-lifter to her.
As for updates here, it's the same ol' same ol' -- puppies getting getting bigger, still no home for our neurologically impaired dog, surgery prep for me and terror about someone cutting into my only working eye.
And I am in 100% agreement with you over the skill of that pilot yesterday!
Hi Pat
I didn't know that your father died at such a young age.
I'm sorry to hear your mom has been back at again, could she have possibly forgotten to take some of her meds?
Let us know the results of the eye exam and how the party goes!
The plane crash in New York could have been so much worse! Even if he shut down the wrong engine he still saved a ton of lives!
Bill
Hi Bev
I love the idea of the recorded messages.
I just bet the puppies are adorable.
We will be praying that your eye surgery goes well!
Bill
Welcome redwhistle. There is nothing wrong with expressing how you feel. We all have good and bad days or monements!
Bill - I would vote for the small party for your Mom. Folks seem to always say they don't want a party but enjoy them once they are there. I think the older we get, we feel we don't want to put people out.
My weekend will be busy. We are hosting my daughter's 8th birthday party at a roller skating rink! We have 13 girls so far. It should be fun. Her actually birhday is the 26th. The 8 years have FLOWN by. It is so bittersweet. I miss the baby she was but enjoy the girl she is.
Hope everyone who is frozen can thaw out!!
Hi Kim
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KIM'S DAUGHTER!
I am leaning towards a small party at a restaurant. I think about seven to ten people.
You are going to be around 14 8 year-olds? Wow you have more courage than I do! lol. I hope the party is great and I know it will be!
Bill
To All: Thanks for the welcome as I really wasn't looking for sympathy I only wrote the second email thinking perhaps I sounded like I did. Emails have a funny way of being misunderstood sometimes. Actually I am fine, happy, healthy and have thrived - not to worry. But, thanks for the nice welcome.
Bill, I have a friend who has 5 children. They each had different gifts where a picture was somehow inserted on them when they were each young children on her 85th birthday. Each child gave her several different kind of gifts with those pictures and she loved them. Each child also wrote a letter to her thanking her or whatever they wanted to say and the letters were put in a special silver box with her initials engraved.
Pat, my father also died when he was 54 but I was raised by strangers who ultimately became surrogate-like grandparents to me. I had to leave them however when I was 8 years old and to this day believe they are somehow still with me watching over me.
Sounds like you have a nice group, Bill. What's Section 16? And Whats the Compuserve Women's group?
The sun is shining and hopefully will be this weekend. I hope everyone gets a piece of it to enjoy.
redwhistle
Hi Red
Before AOL there was an online service called CompuServe. They were known for their forums and message boards, at the time they didn't do chat rooms. There was an authors forum where you could exchange messages with authors like Ann Rule. A sports forum. There was an Issues Forum. That is where a lot of the ladies here came from. The Issues Forum was broken down by section. Section was Men's Issues as an example. Section 16 was Women's Issues. So Section 16 was the women's issues section of the issues forum on CompuServe. Aol bought out CompuServe and CompuServe went down hill fast after being bought out. We all left CompuServe. Bev, Pat, Ellen, DanaRae, Sian, Shirley, were all posters on the old Section 16.
You will find here that if anyone doesn't understand your posting or are afraid they are not sure what you are trying to convey they will either ask you or error on the side of caution and support you. Never worry here about your postings being misunderstood!
I love the idea of a picture inserted in gifts. I usually write a letter to Mom on Mothers' Day telling her what she has done for me.
I also believe that those that we love are always watching over us!
Bill
Thanks Bill for the updates, etc. All the gifts were small. There was one gift it was a pen. They got 5 pens and on that gift the picture was inserted on the top of the pen. She got 5 pens with 5 pictures of her little children. She would use the pens all the time and had them in a silver cup all with the pictures looking up at her. All the gifts she got were like that somehow. I wish I knew exactly what the others were but I know they were inexpensive but meaningful. I bought her tupperware because that was what she wanted...real original I know.
Have a great weekend.
Hi Red
Those pens just sound like a treasurer. That is something that would probably be handed down through time to other family members.
Bill
Hello redwhistle. I'm an only child too. I spent most of my childhood thinking there was something horribly wrong with me and my family, and it didn't help to be teased me unmercifully by classmates for being so different from them -- just because I didn't have any siblings. I only lost that when I became a teenager, I guess at that stage, you kinda celebrate being different. It was only when I went away to college that I appreciated being an only because my parents could afford college because there were no other kids to raise.
But now, having to deal with elderly parents, being an only child is coming back to haunt me. There's only me to do the work. I am envious of people who can get relief from siblings. I think that's the hardest part of dealing with elderly parents for me, that there's no "reprieve", no handing over to someone else just so you can take a little time out.
Now for the update. I don't think I updated around Christmastime. We had invited my parents over for dinner on Christmas day but dad refused to come. I think he didn't want to sit at the edge of the festivities, with food that he can't eat. He's off the feeding tube now, but still needs his food to be put through the blender. So I was worried that he was going to withdrawl into his shell again. Mum was worried that he would just sit in the house and mope, and must have nagged him to death about coming over because on Boxing Day, when the festive dinner was safely over, they did come. I guess they had a good time just playing with the dogs. For mum, I think it helped her to be out of their house.
Next weekend will be Chinese New Year. The dinner on the Eve is usually a big thing, where all the family members gather for a slap-up meal, much like your Thanksgiving. We invited them again, and this time, there was no hesitation, they are coming. So I'm glad that dad is starting to come out of his shell and enjoy visiting us. (Actually, I think it's the dogs they want to come and play with.) And not only are they coming to dinner, they said they would stay over the night. It is mostly so that mum won't have to negotiate the way home later that night after dinner. We're delighted to host them. The next day, on Chinese New Year itself, we will go with them to their house. That's also because it's customary to visit your elders on that day. So because of all that activities on that day, we don't know when we'll be free to visit my mother-in-law. My husband called her to warn her that we may be visiting her later that day (we usually go by in the morning). She said not to worry, we didn't have to rush things, we could even come by the next day instead. And she told my husband to tell me to "enjoy my parents". This is the woman who lost her husband three months ago. I think I have the greatest mother-in-law.
Hello Snug
I love the women of this blog. There are so accepting and you see Redwhistle you already found two women that have something in common with you.
I also absolutely love hearing of Chinese culture. I would love to know a couple of things, Snug. What date is the Chinese New Year and what it is the year of.
Even though I have siblings do I ever understand you not having breaks as 95% of the time that is where I am at. Sis does come when she can but it is still my burden.
Yea to your Dad for improving to the place that he is going to come to your house for the New Year. Yea to the dogs too. They have done studies and found that animals help elderly people, they keep their blood pressure low. Good for you Snug to knowing that animals help! And kudos to your mother-in-law!
Bill
My highlight for the week was going to Lauren's baby shower today! If you visit my blog, you can see some of the pictures. She looks so cute pregnant : ) but then, I am prejudice a bit...
Hi, Bill. To answer your questions, my mom would totally forget her pills, but the staff told me both nights that she had been given her pill. Last night, she was all calm and fine again, except that she has a cough. The nurse had come by and recommended breathing treatments 2 or 3 times a day, the ones where you breathe an albuterol mist. They're going to give her antibiotics, too. She doesn't seem ill, except for the cough, and was in much better spirits, so I guess maybe those two "wild nights" were just a glitch, maybe due to some bug or other. Fingers crossed.
As to the eye exam, nothing new, which I knew already. I'm sure I'll be the first to know if anything goes south. And I think I'll resist the extreme dilation and photos next time, as my eyes were still dilated when I drove to see mom at 6:00 in the dark and home again at 8:00. I could see to drive, but all oncoming headlights had bright halos around them, so I had to be extra careful. Fortunately, it's less than a mile, and on side streets. The upside? Venus was up and very bright in the sky, and looked extra-pretty with fingers of light shooting off from all sides.
I haven't heard any further speculation on engine failure, and that pilot is everybody's superhero, so I hope it stays that way. The rest of the crew are getting their share of admiration, too.
Snug, I hear you on the drawbacks of being an only child with needy parents! But most of the people I know who have siblings are pretty much dealing with it alone, too, which is deplorable. Still, they have someone who'd have to take over in an emergency. I imagine even the sibs hiding out would come forth if they had to.
I agree with other Bill, think you should go for a small get-together for your Mom. I'm sure she'll enjoy a little extra attention on her special day.
Hallo Redwhistle, waving to you from the UK. Welcome! I don't often post here, but do drop in now and again and feel right at home so I'm sure you will to.
Bev, thinking of you with the upcoming surgery and sending healing vibes for a quick recovery.
Pat - sorry your Mom had a couple of bad nights but hope the antibiotics etc help her settle. And great news that your eye exam went OK!
Update from me - not a lot really. I'm busy trying to finish work projects at the moment so not much energy for anything else. A storm brewing outside so going to turn up the radio and hide under the duvet (comforter?) for the night.
Night Night everyone!
Ooops - fingers are tired, sorry for the typos in last message, by y'all know what I mean - tee hee!
Hey Bill, I agree with you and others on the pilot of that aircraft. That was just amazing he could put that monster down so well in the water. The pictures of the people standing on the wings in the water just amazes me.
I also agree with most here on the small get together for your mother's birthday. I think she will love you even more for it.
Bev, sending even more prayers for you on your eye surgery and quick recovery.
Pat, I feel for you with your mother...but I think if I was 103 I might just be agitated in the evenings too! But prayers are with you all the same. Sounds like we might have something in common. All the women on my mother's side of the family were up there in age too. My grandmother was 104, oldest daughter died at 99, next one 98..then 92...only with my mother was it earlier....she was the youngest and died at the earliest age.
Snug, glad to hear your dad is coming about. Sounds like you will have a great day, and sounds like you do have a great mother-in-law.
And Redwhistle, welcome...I think you will love the group here. I cannot tell you how much support I have found here and am sure if you need any you will not find a better bunch to give it to you.
Nothing much on my end to report for an update...other than, even if you are not an only and you do have sibs to help you with your parents...sometimes you still don't get a break....even in an emergency. Like Pat said..it sucks.(actually she said deplorable...but I am bitter about it! ) :)
Geez, Bill, it's all I can do to update on the regular day, let alone early! (Obviously). Sounds like you had a good week, time for Mom, time for you, time for some tax prep. Yes, kudos to the pilot who set the plane down in the Hudson.
I'm with the others on a small party of close friends at a restaurant. Another thought is lots of cards. You might check and see if some of the folks from the assisted living facility, both staff and residents, might send a birthday card to you, which you could present to your mom at the dinner.
Yes, please, please tell us about the comedy classes. I've missed your reports and the entertainment since you stopped taking them.
Redwhistle, welcome! I didn't see your msg as a bid for sympathy, altho goodness knows I've come here looking for that and empathy and support myself. Hope you check in with us often.
Pat, sorry to hear your mom had a couple bad evenings, but glad to hear that seems to be under control. Hope the inhaler and antibiotics help her. Please keep us posted. Delighted to hear the eye exam went well. You do have one of those little grids you look at each day, to be sure lines aren't wavy and so forth, right? Mom's doc considered (considers) that one of the best ways to determine for yourself if there's any change in vision at all.
Bev, prayers for the surgery. This is cataract, right? I can only speak from my experience and Mom's (and hers was on her only "good" eye at the time), but we're absolutely delighted with the results. I hope same is true for you. When is surgery scheduled?
Hi, Snug - sounds like you've had a busy time and a busier one coming up, with the Chinese New Year. How wonderful that your folks are coming and even spending the night. And, yes, it sounds like your m-i-l is a jewel. Enjoy it all and please report on the Chinese New Year "doings."
We've disucssed the differences between "onlies" and those with sibs and I have to agree wtih what Pat and Bill say. Having sibs doesn't guarantee you'll have help, as several of us here can attest, particularly if there are geographic issues. In most cases, there are no breaks, you're on duty at all times and the only difference is you sometimes are treated to long distance advice and directives from sibs who have no clue what's going on day to day. I think they're the ones missing out, quite frankly. (It appears one of mine has had a sudden epiphany about this issue, as I'll report later).
Sian, stay warm and cozy, please!
My week's been... interesting and enlightening. Sat and Sun I got Christmas put away here and endured the colon prep. Monday was the colonoscopy, which made it a write off. Tuesday was the first aquacize class and I've 14 new students in the group of 27. Tuesday, Mom admitted her knee had gone out twice Monday, once that morning. From pool class to her house. Called the ENT to tell him the sinus meds were doing no good. Went across the hall and told Sue we'd take her up on her offer to borrow her old power wheelchair, moved furniture in Mom's apt and taught her how to use it. Mom said youngest sis was talking about coming for a week the end of Jan/first of Feb. Weds I did the pool, instead of line dance, as it took less time. To Mom's to gather some of the Christmas stuff she couldn't get to in the chair, because of excess furniture in bedroom and she can't get it in the spare room (more excess furniture). Picked up her grocery list and did her shopping and got the prescription from the ENT. Talked to her about a "transport chair" as right now she's confined to quarters with the power chair, which can't be put in the car, and she can't do the distance to the front door on the walker. Fixed her lamp.
Thursday, as temps dipped to the twenties, the furnace went eccentric. Works out the installers stuffed the package of warranty information and such into the air intake shaft and it has been blocking air intake for eight years and finally worked loose and blocked the intake to the point the sensors turned off the furnace. I have no idea what this has cost us in extra utility bills, but we'd better not get an invoice for the guy coming out and discovering the problem! Stopped at Mom's after the pool class to do some more gathering and verify we needed to rent a wheelchair for a day to get to the Comm on Blind. Friday at Mom's, moved more boxes and had a long heart-to-heart with Mom about transfer chairs, the necessity, the research I'd done Wednesday and Thursday. Ironically, youngest sis had called day before and raised same issue, saying they needed a chair when Mom visited her in AZ -- news flash for Dana: Mom plans on driving back to AZ with Deb for a month or six weeks. Had been to local drug store and they don't rent transport chairs and the ER RX for a chair was no good as (a) equipment RX is only good for seven days and (b) it had no diagnositc codes. They referred me to supply store in Greer and Al and I drove up there. They had one (one!) transfer chair and it wasn't what I needed (seat too small, other issues), but I did get a lot of questions answered and, ironically, the guy said the best chair was one I'd checked on the net and thought would be best for our purposes. Came home, verified one on net, called Mom. She agreed I should order it, so that's done and could all of you hold good thoughts it arrives before late Wednesday afternoon, so I don't have to rent and manhandle one of the 75# monsters to get Mom to Comm on Blind Thursday AM, please? Hot tip (originally from Pat) - if you need medical supplies that Medicare might not cover, check the net! The chair the guy recommended and offered to order for us was between $450 and $499. I went on the net and got the very same chair for $179, free shipping and 3-5 days delivery.
Today, I spent the afternoon at Mom's dismantling, folding and packaging the tree, hauling boxes from LR to spare room (no, I didn't put them in the closet!), gather odds and ins and running to get her dinner. She remains in the power chair, as attempts at the walker have not been successful
Meantime, very long conversation with younger sister last night, who called me. She'll be here for 8 days the first of Feb and will be driving Mom back to AZ, then Mom will fly home mid March (so much for Mom's contention she would no longer fly). Mom will not be renewing the lease on the apt in June, as she and Deb will be moving in toghter. Somewhere, as yet undecided. I'd like to see Deb move here, as I know how much easier it is to have family support and she has none in Phoenix. However, I don't know that dhr can sell her house, even if she wanted to, so it appears there's a strong chance Mom will be moving to Phoenix the end of May and Deb will take over caregiving, at the same time she tries to break into the at-home medical transcription business. Nothing is firm, but that's my gut reaction. Not sure how I feel about it. Not at all sure Deb understands what she's getting into and why she may need some help or relief or family nearby. Time will tell. I did say to Mom today that it didn't matter how we eventually stacked Christmas and such in the closet or store room, since it would all be moving somewhere else in four or five months and she quietly agreed, but made no other comment. Bottom line is that she'll let Deb make the decision and the rest of us will live with it.
Whew, Long post. Lots going on. Felt strange to realize that after four years, today was the last day I'd pack up the Christmas tree, for instance. My preference would obviously be for Deb to move here and the family be closer, but I don't know if that's financially feasible for her and there's also the issue that she thinks she and Mom need to be closer (10 hour drive) to my middle sister and the grandchildren. Interesting week, folks!
Hello Symply
Always good to see you! I did look at the pictures, she looks beautiful and glowing!
Bill
Hi Pat
Good for the staff for paying attention to your Mom's meds.
I'm glad your Mom was calm last night but am worried about the cough. I'm glad they are giving her meds for that before it turns into a virus.
I am glad your eye exam went well. Didn't they give your dark glasses to wear? I always go to a movie after my eye appointment. Gives my eyes a chance to settle.
I think everyone that had anything to do with the NY Plane, pilots, crew, passangers, first responders, etc are heros.
Bill
Hello Sian
Hope things are great from across the pond. A small get together it is.
I hope your finish your work project and I know you will and it will be great!
Hope the storm isn't to bad.
Bill
Hi again Sian
Don't your dare worry about typos on the blog of the Typo King.
Bill
Hi Dona
I don't know if the NY plane crash makes me feel more uncomfortable or more comfortable flying!
Looks like a small get together it is!
My family has a long life line too. Dad was 92, Mom is 93, Grandma was 97. Looks like we all come from good stock!
As you know I relate well to what you said about having siblings. And you have the right to be bitter! Bitter is an honest emotion.
Bill
Hi Dr
There is no time schedule for my blog. You post when you can!
Lady DR said...
A small party is getting all the votes. Mom gets a ton of cards. I think last year she had calls from sixteen states and cards from about 20 states.
All the people that Mom knew at the assisted living center have either died or moved out. The facility filed bankruptcy and families took their elderly relatives out in droves.
I am glad you got Christmas put away! That really is an accomplishment.
What were the results of the colonscopy? How did teach the first class go? 27 is a pretty large class for one teacher.
Has your Mom's knee improved at all? Glad she had access to a mobil wheelchair. Did they change he sinus meds?
What a heck of a time for the furnace to go out. What idiots the original installers were. If you get an invoice from them let me know we will give them some publicity on this blog!
Wow it was nice of your Mom to let you know she plans on driving to AZ with your sister.
I am holding out all the good thoughts and prayers that the the chair arrives Wednesday!
I hope the trip goes as planned as it will give your a much needed rest and it will give Deb a realistic look at what is going on with your mom.
I also hope Deb moves to your locale so you can support each other. However, I share your concerns. I also know there will be some separation anxiety for you.
Very big week for you!
Bill
Hi Bill,
Chinese New Year this year falls on Jan 26. But the celebration really begins on Jan 25 with what is called the Reunion Dinner on the eve. It falls on a different calendar date every year because it follows the lunar calendar. This year will be the Year of the Ox.
Have a good week, everyone.
Thank you Snug!
I was really curious.
Bill
Don't get colonoscopy results for another week. The class went... okay. Twenty seven is too many, although I used to have up to thirty-eight. Talking still and issue and I'll simply ignore it, unless I get complaints, then I'll buy a very loud whistle.
Mom's knees aren't better, in terms of her being able to use them, but better in that she can stay off them, weight-wise, with the chair. She uses the power, but walks along with them, so she's moving the legs and I suggested she do a couple of the PT exercises off and on throughout the day, to avoid problems with atrophy and the like. ENT changed the meds (nasal spray), but so far we're not seeing a difference. Going to check with pharmacist to see if she can use OTC Afrin, which is the only thing that helps Himself.
Yes, the trip will be a good thing, for all the reasons you list. I'm hoping Deb can rent a power chair out there, so they can see how that works at the house. Like you, I suspect Deb is going to opt to move Mom to Phoenix, so she can keep her house there. Time will tell and I'll roll with whatever.
Hi Dr
When you get the colonscopy results of course we want to know the results.
I'd set the tone on talking in class right from the start.
Great suggestions for your Mom to stay kind of active to avoid atrophy. I hope the new nasal meds start to work for her.
The prescription nasal that I use is called rhinocourt and is really pretty good, what kind is your mom using?
Bill
Gosh, lots of reading on this update blog! To answer questions and such:
Dona, your "it sucks" is a far better description for unhelpful sibs. I bow to you.
DR, yes, I have a couple of those grids, but never use them. I read so much that that's my test. Once in a while, I try with only the bad eye to see if it's changed. In fact, it has changed for the better, which is not supposed to happen, but is very welcome. I'm crossing fingers that your chair arrives in good time!
Hi, Sian, nice to see you here.
Bill, I always have dark glasses available, esp. after eye appointments. They didn't offer, which they probably should have, but I was prepared anyway. Oh, and since I didn't mention it before, I also look forward to your class reports, so do plan on keeping us informed when you take a new class.
Hi Pat
The response to this update has been almost as good as the response when we did a getting to know you session!
Bill
DR - sending good thoughts to you with all that you have going on. Although you may enjoy "getting your life back" I'm sure it will be a huge wrench if/when your Mom moves. Especially as you have been the main care-giver. and I thought you were getting someone in to pack up Christmas??
Bill - DO tell us about your comedy classes if you take them up again!
Hi Sian
If I take the classes the first one would be the 28th. Can't go on the 21st as that is Mom's birthday.
Bill
Happy birthday to Bill's mum!
Thank you Snug
Believe it or not I printed out your wishes and will give them to Mom at our dinner on Wednesday!
Bill
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