Posted 3-1-19 Mom’s sleep patterns, compounded by anxiety and constipation, have landed her in bed for a couple days straight. Today we got her up and around for a couple hours. Her neck and back were all kerfritz from laying around so long, so Pam and I played amateur Mr. and Mrs. Miyagis and loosened…
Author: Mark Applegate
Christian, husband, and dad...and a workplace chiropractic geek and cornbread chef on the side. I am also happily the Director of Systems Alignment for the SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging.
Memory Day!
Posted 2-27-19 Reports are mom had another good day with the Sweet 17 today. She has still untethered sleep and darkness, so who knows whether she will be awake unless I swing by again at 4am? Sundowners is some downer. 🙁 I had a very nice time at Memory Day today at Jefferson City. Met…
Happy Place
Posted 2-26-19 Another good day for mom. 🙂 She still needs to get the sleep worked out again, but all things considered, it could be much worse.Music is mom’s happy place, planted there by the subject of her songs. #EndALZ
Whack Probability
Posted 2-25-19 Mom did pretty well today, but was fading fast toward Slumbersville the second half of my time. Sundowners has her sleep patterns so out of whack that visits during the day are a 50/50 shot whether she will be up and ready for company. Sadly, she was so sleepy that she had a…
Good Day and Some Vids
Posted 2-24-19 Good day for mom yesterday. 🙂 Here are a couple videos from Pam’s visit the day before. 🙂 It is nice to be on a good streak again. I will get to see her either today or tomorrow. #EndALZ
Alzesthesia
Posted 2-22-19 Dateline 1990. I lay semi-slumbered on Dr. Witherspoon’s operating table, dutifully counting backward from 10 to 1 each second in a panic that this anesthesia mask wasn’t working…until I hit about 3 when the lights went out. Wisdom teeth removal surgery isn’t particularly fun, but all things were going exactly as the consult…
Bitter Pill to Swallow
Posted 2-21-19 The idiom dictionary in Writingexplained.org traces the modern usage of the term “bitter/hard pill to swallow” most clearly to 1730’s French historian Rapin Thoyras although tangent uses of pills being a challenge predate even that. Thoyras blurted “This event, which happened the 7th of September, N.S. was immediately follow’d by the relieving of time after,…
Shoes Off, Shoes On
Posted 2/19/19 Swung by to hang with mom for a while before the Sleetnado began. She was sort of melancholy and disoriented today. I wouldn’t say completely sad as such…more like empty. We spent 20 minutes playing the slow motion version of my favorite “take the shoes and socks off and put them on again”…
A Birthday to Remember
Posted late 2/18/19 We had the seniormost Sweet 17 princess celebrate her 102nd birthday this week. My kids are bewildered when I tell them of a world with no internet… Ms. E lived in the late 1910s. Lots of things weren’t around then. Her grandparents may have fought in the Civil War…Wowza. Mom had a…
Underdog
Posted 2/18/19 early I have dabbled off and on in semi-pro writing for over 20 years. The low minor leagues, if you will. A plump bat boy in the minor leagues at best. Even with my questionable grammar and my uber-liberal use of suffixes, prefixes, and oddball words, I have completed several thousand “How To”…