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The phone rang just before ten am. A nurse that I have never met asked if I was a part of GM’s family. “Yes” I replied and felt my heart drop and heard the click of the receiver as Mother picked up the other line. “I’m sorry to have to call you like this…” Heart [...]
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I recently completed reading the new Carrie Fisher autobiography. I say “new” as I really count her Postcards from the Edge as being the first, but this latest is post her adventures with ECT (electroconvulsive therapy). I found that her sharp edged style of writing was a bit more smooth, but her wit and observations [...]
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Yesterday’s morning visit to GM was the worst thus far. We got off the elevator on the 2nd floor and spied her at a table in the day-room doing one of her most favorite activities: smoothing a tablecloth. Mother and I waved and grinned and danced over to the chairs on either side of her [...]
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Warning: PG related photo Hard post to write as the feelings and emotions are jumbled, complicated and bittersweet. Tomorrow morning GM will move into her new home and things will be oh so different. Yesterday we had a sitter for the afternoon and Mother & I ran around collecting various necessities that GM would need. [...]
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So the headline is that GM is in a nursing home right now. I have been set up in a comfy chair next to her bed and am blogging to you from the rehab wing of the nicest nursing home I have ever been in. Seriously. Right now there is a woman wheeling a cart [...]
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The weekend is already over. Why, oh, why, do the two days when Mother is home to help full time always seem to fly by? Our weekend was, well it was pretty interesting. We are now in the thick of a murder mystery. At some point between bedtime Saturday evening and wake up time Sunday [...]
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I know it is early and as soon as I click “publish” on this post I should go outside, turn around three times and spit, but I think it might be a good day today. I am aiming for a better day. The fact that I could see my breath when I was out with [...]
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GM went to bed at a pretty normal hour for her last night. She was cooperative in her pill taking and almost a familiar sweet version of herself as we called Mother to say goodnight (something we do every night). I got her tucked in and she seemed to doze off immediately. As I left [...]
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After realizing how many of you read me in a reader I have decided to turn off the summary option on the feed. This means that you should be able to see full content of posts from now on. I know this just totally made your day. heh. If you can’t see the full post [...]
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