I m now confined a wheel chair, they brought me a hospital bed and a potty chair to go by my bed.
My kids are providing daily care. They are the best kids in the world..Lory came over today and fixed a way to get over the bumps in doorways wth my wheel chair. That makes all the house avaiible to me except the back door, the laundry and the mud room.
So my dogs are on the market. Hate to part with them but if I can’t let them out and in it can be a problem….
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I took a tumble Sunday evening. I was using my cane but it help much. I finally got to push my button and “I’ve fallen and I can’t get backup”. Nothing was broken but they did x-ray’s any way. That plus a cat scan of my head.
It turned out to be a small cut on my eyebrow, a few scrapes on my hands. Their write up says “Fall”. Of course all this took forever.
This and signing up for county help is quite a wake up call.
The oncologist said I didn’t have to see her anymore. So I think I will just see my general practioner from now on.
I don’t have the energy to finish this. Will try to write more just now, might send a picture of my black eye….
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I have given in to my daughters and my doctors. I have signed up for the county help for seniors. I got my first “meals on wheels” Friday. It was delicious. Of course in made me two lunches. It’s good I only asked for them three days a week.
This county is a nice big square with a square bump on the top west. I live in that bump. The meals will be warm, not hot, when they get here, about 10:30 in the morning.
It’s hard to accept help and I had to fill out papers about as snoopy as getting on welfare.
I have a sinus infection. You know how you hold your nose and force air into your ears to clear them? Well, last week something went pop and air was coming out of my ear. The doctor says it will heal once we get the infection cleared up. The anti-biotic doesn’t seem to be working.
I am getting a grab bar installed in my bathtub tomorrow. It’s nice to have a plumber in the family. My son-in-law’s brother. My s-i-l stopped by today to check measurements and ended up playing with Rascal. She likes to get a toy and have you chase you for it. I don’t have the energy for that. Tim does. When they got done her tongue was hanging out. She needs that every day.
The school shooting was so sad. We need more help for people with mental problems. There used to be institutions for people like that.
There was one near where I grew up. They ran a beautiful farm and a lot of the patients happily worked on it. Then the State decided to close it. If no family could be found, those poor people were turned out on the street.
Okay, enough of gloomy stuff. Sleep well.
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Sorry for the use of the title of the TV show.
First you need to hear my circumstances. I graduated from high school a year early. Mainly because I could and I wasn’t having much fun. My Sunday School teacher also taught at the school and her daughters were my main friends.
My parents sent me to business school in Columbus, OH for a nine month course in how to be a secretary. I lived in a boarding house along with twenty-nine other girls. I shared a room, got one-eighth of a refrigerator shelf, shared a bathroom (I don’t remember with how many girls).
At that time there was an Air Force base nearby, I think it was called Lockbourne. Some of the girls had been there longer and were always looking for a blind date for some guy. I went on some dates with different guys. Several of them talked about “Brownie”.
They talked about borrowing money from Brownie. So I asked to meet Brownie.
His circumstances were that he was far from his home in Vermont and already not so happy with military service.
The business school was having a halloween party and one of my girlfriends was going with her Air Force boyfriend. They arranged for Brownie to be my blind date to the halloween party.
We danced well together, we both grew up on farms. He was from Vermont and had three sisters. I had a brother and two sisters.
He was in the process of having his lower teeth replaced by dentures, I already had a full set of dentures. Later we joked that all our children were born toothless due to this.
At one point he asked to get out and the driver stopped and let him out and drove on. He eventually turned around and went back and got him.
What I didn’t know was that Rod had a girl back home and they were engaged to be engaged.
That took a while to resolve. I told him to make up his mind and let me know when he had decided. In the meantime he had wrangled an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner at my house.
This was a time in the past when a young man in uniform could hitchhike safely and quickly. I rode the bus home, about a three hour trip. He went with me when I got on the bus and met me when the bus arrived.
I had explained to him that my family didn’t do anything special for Thanksgiving, but he said it would be better than cafeteria food.
So he met my family. The way potatoes were served at our table, they were peeled, boiled and put in a bowl on the table. Each person took one, mashed it with their fork and added what they liked, mostly butter and salt. My sweet little sister quickly counted the potatoes and people and concluded that there was one for each person and one extra.
We dated week-ends and sometimes Rod even borrowed a car. We spent time in Isaly’s ice cream shop with one coke and two straws. He bought a miniature chess set and taught me how to play.
He finally wrote the letter to his girl back home breaking up with her. She was friends with his Mother which didn’t help my case at all. It eventually resolved itself.
I received my engagement ring on April 1st and we were married on May 18, 1958. You kids came along in 1963, 1966, and 1968.
That was a really really long time ago. Maybe this is already…
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What have I been doing? Taking naps. Taking pills. Feeding dogs and letting them in and out. Taking naps. Eating. Paying bills. Watching some Great Dane service puppies grow up - http://explore.org/#!/live-cams/player/great-dane-service-puppies-indoor-puppy-room. They are getting big and are already eating solid food.
We have had a lot of rain, we need all we can get since we are in the middle of a draught area. Of course if it’s a thunder storm the dogs have a problem.
My hair is growing slowly. My beautician daughter tells me it grows a quarter inch a month. The aggravating cow lick is still there. I’m still wearing hats as it is cold.
I was never much of a person for hats. Back in 1957 when I went to business school we were instructed to wear hats and gloves. We were told if we had to pick something up off the floor we should crouch done, not bend over. Always wear hose and sensible shoes.
We did two hours of typing every day, Friday was two hours of timed tests. This was all done on manual typewriters. Hands got strong. In the ‘80s I interviewed with Manpower on an electric typewriter. It wasn’t so bad. I got the job.
I made all my kids take typing. I think they call it keyboarding now.
Times change and we have to change with them.
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Okay, I’ve been avoiding you. Sorry, I’ve been told if you don’t something good to say……
The anti-biotic doesn’t seem to be working. My legs are swollen to above my knees and there is a rash on them. My appetite has improved some. I’m still eating left over turkey. I woke up in the night with a very sore throat. It gets discouraging.
So there you have a few of my complaints.
My kids brought me a bunch of paper work about signing up to get all kinds of help from the county. Stuff like meals on wheels etc. I haven’t called them yet. They want all my financial info. Let’s see – dividends, .47, interest 1.42.
So I’ll try to mix the bad with the good after this and not just leave people hanging.
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