Posted 1/24/19 Entering the nursing home brings me to an almost muscle memory autoexcursion through the labyrinth to try to quickly get to the back where the memory unit awaits. I go on autopilot as I walk through most days. I am trying to learn to be more observant for all of the folks there…
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A Gem
Posted 1/23/19 Two days ago Pam shot this wonderful video of mom playing the piano and singing! 🙂 She drifts in and out and she really rocked it that day! 🙂 Today mom had another day where they found her in the floor. Not necessarily from a fall? No damage. Too tired from a night…
“Lernt Somethin”
Posted 1/22/19 “If you stop learning, you start dying.” -Benjamin Franklin or Mark Twain or Albert Einstein or Master Yoda (reversed) or maybe The Rock. Wiki isn’t even sure, but whomever coined it was a wise person. Nice visit with mom tonight. She is doing fair. Her terrible forehead bruising is turning yellow, a stepping…
Bad Moon Rising?
Posted 1/20/19 I hate full moons. I am not even a little superstitious, but mom has had some of her worst nights during them. 🙁 Hoping for a blood-free moon. #EndALZ
Still One Day at a Time
Posted 1/16/19 “One day at a time sweet Jesus That’s all I’m asking from you. Just give me the strength To do every day what I have to do. Yesterday’s gone sweet Jesus And tomorrow may never be mine. Lord help me today, show me the way One day at a time.” Mom loves to…
Teepa Snow
Posted 1/15/19 Another rough day for mom…another fall. Pam is sick and I am quarantining myself just to be sure in advance of an important business meeting tomorrow. Sigh… #EndALZ
Watching and Looking
Posted 1/14/19 Fun facts: Did you know that modern insulin, as used by the vast majority of patients with diabetes, was made by essentially corrupting the DNA of E.Coli into a usable chemical? Botox, a very helpful therapeutic and cosmetic drug was created working with botulism toxin. What, were no rattlesnake fangs available to milk…
Fire in the Hole!!!!
Posted 1/13/19 “Red Flanders, why don’t you get back in here and put on your pants!” -Sadie Flanders “I can’t, I ain’t got my pants no more! The dang Baldnobbers stole em’ …” -Red (standing on a ladder, in his long johns, with his house burning) -Most memorable line from Fire in the Hole (Vintage…
R.I.P.
Posted 1/12/19 Sadly, 5 of the original Sweet 17 have passed away in 3 months. 🙁 A few more seem close, but I am not a doctor. 🙁 #EndALZ
Fading Bruises
Posted late 1/11/19 A couple more cute pix of mom after her starting to feel better today…and a cute baby picture of us to boot. She looked worse after the falls, but the bruises are starting to fade. #EndALZ