Tag: alzheimers
member name: flit .
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February 19, 2007 12:06 PM EST --
This is the letter that I have written to the nursing service which was supposed to have supported us in taking care of my mother in law at home... (although the actual letter, of course, includes . . .
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February 17, 2008 04:09 PM EST --
So, I told you already how independent ma was inclined to be. When I first got involved, she was still not only staying home alone while R was off at his store (8 - 10 hours a day, 7 days a . . .
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June 29, 2007 11:41 AM EDT --
So many things I should be doing but am running into one snag after another... soon going to just say to heck with it and chuck it all and do what I really want to do which is to get to work on my YA novel.... . . .
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February 23, 2007 07:49 PM EST --
That's what she said to me the other day - my sister-in-law - the one who lives a 10 minute walk away from us, and who ~helped~ us take care of her mom. When, that is, she couldn't avoid it. And . . .
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February 25, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
I am supposed to be writing a paper today.
The Use of Sexuality to Evoke Terror in the Gothic Novel
That's what I have so far! Well, not really. I have gone through both of the novels I am to use . . .
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March 02, 2007 08:58 PM EST --
The girls are here - well, 2 of the 3.... they have packed up ma's clothing - decided what has value and what is garbage.
And now they are divvying up the elephants - the herd that once my mother . . .
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March 08, 2007 11:51 PM EST --
As I hadn't heard anything in response to the letter I sent about the lack of support we received the evening my mother in law died, I followed it up with an email .... this is the response I . . .
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April 27, 2007 12:00 PM EDT --
...life was going to be fair? I used to say that a lot. Back when I worked with disabled kids - and then with children with behaviour problems. And then, of course, when I had my own kids. I worked . . .
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May 05, 2007 06:13 PM EDT --
As those of you who read this article know, I recently went to visit my Dad, who's been diagnosed with Alzheimer's ....and who, because of problems with his second wife, I haven't seen in about . . .
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June 23, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
Went to Niagara Falls yesterday to hang out at their (very old, poorly laid out & decripit-looking) hospital with my dad & his wife. Stayed over at a hotel and went back this morning.......
Tongue . . .
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June 25, 2007 03:24 PM EDT --
After a stressful few days, the news coming from the Falls is much improving...
Not only are things ~moving~ again .... Dad's legs are back to fully functional, he's up and walking for short periods, . . .
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February 08, 2007 07:40 PM EST --
I called home today – after one class and before the next. Asked how ma was doing, and hubby told me:
“She’s having a good day today,” he said. “She’s drinking . . .
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December 14, 2006 10:14 PM EST --
Today was one of those days...
no, not one of ~those~ days...
one of those increasingly rare
few and far between totally special
days when she forgets that she forgot
how to walk and she gets up
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February 04, 2007 10:19 AM EST --
Yesterday, we had our first visit from home nursing care.
She was quite clear about ma's chances of recovery - no big surprises, but having some one else tell us certainly made the prospect of losing . . .
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February 17, 2007 08:05 AM EST --
"Well, that was a lot of work for nothing!" hubby said this morning.
He didn't mean it, of course. It wasn't nothing. We've been taking care of her - his mom - for a . . .
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February 23, 2007 08:26 PM EST --
Happened to catch a segment of an All Stressed Out contest on ~my~ talk radio station today .... one of the themes of the entries from this week was caregiving.... seems many of the people who entered . . .
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February 17, 2008 03:12 PM EST --
It has been a year since the day I sat here in my living room with ma beside me - but not really - and wrote It's Over . Hubby & I haven't talked about the anniversary thing - don't . . .
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February 09, 2007 07:13 AM EST --
It's 7:00 a.m. I've been up for about an hour - was having nightmares so gave up in frustration before my alarms even had a chance to be annoying.
Hubby told me last night to wake him up . . .
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June 21, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
Well, that was a short ~holiday~
Have been so looking forward to having time off starting today at 1 p.m.
Finished my exam; got my Tinker Bell paper back ...got 91% ...woo hoo...finally broke . . .
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February 13, 2007 06:13 AM EST --
I heard my alarm as soon as it started to make it's annoying chirping sounds this morning. Don't actually know why it was making annoying chirping sounds ...usually it makes extremely annoying . . .
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