Posted 4/30/20 Hi all! Happy 48th day of being “in the hole”, Shawshank-style…a.k.a. in lock down from getting to visit loved ones in nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities. You may be plus or minus a little in the number of days, but you certainly feel the same pain. What particularly saddens me is the…
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Opening Day
Posted 4-11-19 Today, April 11th, marks the home opener for the Springfield Cardinals minor league baseball team. This year’s lovable birds enter their home debut with a less than lovable 0-7 record, making me wonder what the “magic” number is (already) for them to be mathematically eliminated in the first half of the two-part season….
Undercover Nausea
Mom started today off waaaaaay better than yesterday. No nausea and she slept well. How she can go so quickly from yesterday’s super-soaker to today’s vocal and pretty happy and walking around? My theory makes me sad. She may have been sick for a couple days and it took the nausea to help her feel…
What You Don’t Know…
Posted 3-8-19 “So long as I know it not, it hurteth mee not”. According to the The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, this phrase that we translate as “What you don’t know can’t hurt you” originated…wait for it…200 years before the founding of America, in 1576. The citation claims that its sister phrase is “Where ignorance…
Recovery
Posted early 1/11/19 Mom is back awake and generally better so far this morning. Pam and I will check on her often today. The flu/stomach bug stinks…but even more so with a compromised brain. 🙁 #EndALZ
Melancholy
Posted 12/30/18 Mom was melancholy at best today. Sprinkled between fighting meds is getting stomach sick potentially from the meds….or from the stomach plague that is spread through the Sweet 17. Go figure…it is hard to enforce hand washing recommendations to folks that cannot remember their own names. We figure it is something she caught…