SUE

 SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED

A lot has happened since last time I blogged. 

Darling fell again.  Did not mess up his face like last time.  No cuts or bruises but his nose did not stop bleeding for about six hours.  He could not remember to sit up (to keep his head above his heart), also could not remember to keep his head tilted back so the blood would not run out his nose so badly.  Since he could not remember all this he kept wanting to go to bed.  I kept trying to keep him up so head would not be level with heart and head not tilted back.  I finally gave up about 1:00a.m. and said go to bed.  Once again, he bled all over his pillows, the sheets, blanket, pillow covers, mattress cover, not to mention carpets from living room to bath room.  I threw away his pillows this time, they had already been through the washer/dryer twice.

  As I said before blood is impossible to clean up; so if you are planning to murder someone, don’t let blood be involved.

   I have been told that each time they fall, they don’t seem to come back up to the level they were before the fall.  This seems to me to be the case.

Tonight we have been watching the news and he asked me where Sue (his sister) lives.  I had to tell him she had died about 10 years ago.  He wanted to know what had caused her death – heart attack?  No, she had scleraderma (sp).  What is that?  A disease of the connective tissue, and tried to describe how it works.  Has Boyd remarried?  (He remembered her husband’s name.)  No, and I said something about their children and he was really surprised they had children.  How many, how old are they?  Where do they live?  I gave him a complete report.  When I finished, he said “thank you for telling me”.  I had the feeling he was rather embarrassed that he had not remembered.  Was that my imagination?  Don’t know.  Entirely possible.  They must have to really trust the caregiver. 

So sad.  Heart breaking.  If I were a crying person, I am sure I would be crying.

OUR DAUGHTER MADE US RICH, WELL AT LEAST COMFORTABLE

Did I tell you my daughter made me rich?  And it did not cost a cent.

A few years ago when James let me take over the bill paying again, I noticed money was tight.  I kept taking money out of the Money Market account until that was all gone.  Then I started cutting back.  Reduced our channels on Direct TV, started asking the doctors for free samples of the meds we take to cut down on medicine expense, even started cooking at home more, (yuck).  Yes, most of us, at sometime in our lives, have been poor enough to know how to do this even though we might not want to. Finally faced up to the fact that our monthly income simply was not enough to cover the way we like to live.  I was telling our daughter, Missy, this and she asked about the CD’s that used to be in the bank, did we still have them and couldn’t we dip into theses?  I said yes, we still had them but I did not want to use them – I was saving them until we got old and might need the money.  Her mouth started twitching and then she chuckled and then the full blown throw her head back and laugh. And then I joined her.  Okay, so we were old and needed the money; the time had come; I just hadn’t noticed it.  Son of a Gun!!!!

So now about every six months I take out some money and add it to the bank account to be used in our regular life.  It really works out well since we are required to take out a certain amount from the IRA’s.

Aren’t our children  wonderful?

RECOVER FROM FALL

Well Darling is all healed up from his fall.  I really did not know if he would ever look this good again.  The eight stitches are out and there is just a little line where the gash was.