Wednesday

                                             
         

    It has been a long week.  And it isn't over yet.

    After being in the hospital for a couple of days
    my dad started feeling better.  The doctor
    wanted him to stay another day or so, but 
    being the idiot my dad is, he came home any-
    way. This was Tuesday morning.  He knew by
    the time I got him to his house that he had
     made a mistake and should have listened to
     the doctor.  He tries to tough it out but he
     is having a really hard time breathing so at
     about 6pm Tuesday I took him back to the
     ER.  They gave him oxygen and some 
     steriods and his breathing started getting
     better.  I stayed with him until they 
     decided to re-admit him-- this was around
     11 pm.

      Today dad says his breathing is worse.  It
      was all I could do NOT to say "well if you
      would have listened to the doctor and not
     went home you might not be having it worse!"
     Two of his sisters from out of town came to
      see him and to tell him to listen to the doctor
      this time!

      I am exhaused.  I spent half of Sunday in the
      ER with dad, half of last night back in the
      ER with him.  I have been running here and
      there doing things for mom (she doesn't drive
       any more).  I still need to take care of some
       banking for dad.  It is just going to have to
       wait until tomorrow.

       Other news......my neighbor 2 doors is a prison
       guard, or WAS one I should say.  Until he
       got arrested for having sex with inmates! 
       His wife had left him before he was arrested,
       but I can just picture her now.  And how does
       she tell their daughter about why daddy was
       arrested?  It was in the newspaper with his
       name so they can't exactly hide it.

        My uncle has decided to get the pace maker.
        I am not really sure when the surgery will be.
        I have been to busy with dad to keep up.

        Hope all of you guys are doing ok.  Hope you
        can read this ok.  I love this ivy background.

                      
 

What a way to spend a Sunday

Mom called me early this morning and asked if I could do a favor.  Sure.  Take your dad to the emergency room.  That got me awake.  She said he was having problems breathing.

So I hurry and get dressed.  Got to the hospital and they took dad right back to major.  They gave him oxygen and some meds.  One doctor came in and asked a ton of questions.  Then he disappeared.  Hours go by.  But dad is starting to breathe better.  Another doctor comes in and asks tons of questions.  Not really sure what is wrong but narrows it down to 2 or 3 things.  He is ready to admit dad to the hospital.  But wait, he needs to get in touch with dad's regular doctor to see what he wants to do.  Huh?  I am so confused at this. 

I leave the ER to go grab something to eat.  When I get back dad is not where I left him.  So I track him down.  They are going to admit him but don't have a bed just yet for him.  So he is in a separate part of the ER for people waiting to get a bed.  And since he had been at the hospital so long they brought him something to eat.  He was feeling better and told me to go ahead and go home and he would call with the room number as soon as they moved him upstairs.

Hours later dad calls to say that they moved him to the old ER (they had remodeled and expanded in the past year or so) because they still didn't have a room for him upstairs.  Can you believe that the hospital is so full they are keeping people in the old ER?

So anyway it has been a long day for me.  I know that they are taking good care of my dad but I really wish they would get him in a proper room.

Meanwhile dad's brother is in the hospital in Virginia in bad shape with his heart.  The doctors want to put a pace maker into Uncle Bill but he doesn't want it.  I think the man is crazy and should listen to his doctor.

That's it for now.  Please keep my dad and uncle in your prayers.

 

 

check this out

This is so cute.. Make sure you have your sound on!

                

 

Pictures of Sadie

It's Saturday!  I love Saturdays.

I have some pictures to show you.  I am not the best photographer in the world, but the subject is the cutest thing you will ever see!

Here is Sadie in her Santa hat:

Sadie in her little sweater:

With the hood up:

 and this is how she drinks water out of the tub:

Catching up

       I have put off writing an entry because I can't get what
      is in my head to come out on the keyboard.  I can think it
      but my fingers just can't key it for some reason.  Ever have
      that problem?

      Dallas (my 19 year old cat) has made such a recovery I can
      hardly believe that I thought I was going to lose her just a
      few short weeks ago.  So glad that I gave the meds a chance
      to work.  And Sadie is pretty happy to have Dallas feeling
      better also.

      My aunt.....she is slowly getting worse.  The other day she
      was walking down the hallway asking for help.  When asked
      what she needed she didn't know.  I don't know how dementia
      goes, but Aunt E is getting worse I believe.  She seems 
      happy enough where she is now.  She doesn't ask to leave or
      anything.  They seem to be treating her ok.  We go visit at
      different times on different days (and usually twice a week
      if not more) so if they were doing something I think we would
      catch on to it.

      Yesterday I went to visit my Aunt Betty.  She lives about an
      hour away.  Se knew I couldn't get there till about lunchtime
     so she made my favorite ---- fried sweet potatoes.  Yummy.
     She made enough for me to bring home.  So good I have been
     eatting them cold right out of the fridge.

      When I go to visit Aunt Betty I have to go on this bridge
      over a river.  Bridges over bodies of water are like a phobia
      to me.  I hold my breathwhile crossing.  This particular
      river is always brown and muddy looking which for some
      reason makes it worse.  Wonder why it stays muddy looking?

      As you know my pastor left us for another church.  Some of
      my Sunday school class is going tomorrow to hear him
      preach at his new church.  I have been wanting to go.  But
      I am not going to be able and it just makes me so mad.  Why
      can't I go?  My anxiety problem is kicking into high gear.  I
     knew it would show it's ugly head but I didn't know that
      it would be this bad.  There is no way I would be able to
      go tomorrow.  Sometimes life just stinks, ya know?

      Saw my doctor this week.  He is so proud of me.  I showed
      him the chart I got from Curves showing my progress and
      he was really impressed.  Doc says he has other patients
      that goes to Curves and that he recommends it.  My 
      blood pressure was way down and he said if I keep it up
      in another few months he may be able to cut back on
      my blood pressure meds!  Yeah!!

      Sadie is sitting her on my desk falling asleep.  She is soooo
      cute.

      Here is a neat graphic for you.  Be patient for it to load it
      is really funny.

      


     

Stuart wants our help

I got this in an email from Stuart this morning:

Alerts   please pass this on to everyone you know in journal land and get them to leave a comment and a link to their Journal.   It is important  

As this is important to him so please hop over to his place read his entry and leave a comment.  

Thanks everyone,   Kathy

 

I'm back. I think.

Hello everyone.  Sorry that I haven't updated in awhile.  
                                                                        

What has been going on?  Where to start?  Ok, I told you that I joined a place called Curves in order to lose some weight.  I weighted/measured for the 1st time to find that I had gained a pound!  However it must be muscle and not fat because I have lost 1.5 inches in my waist!  A total of 2.25 inhes overall.  Not too bad.  I need to do better.  I go back to the doctor this coming Friday.  Have to see what he has to say.

The home that I have my Aunt placed in has been on my back to move her.  I really didn't want to move her, and finding a good place for her was starting to become impossible.  Then the home goes and does what I think is just wrong.  The doctor there changed her status from needing a nursing home to needing a assisted living place.  That means that Medicaid won't pay for her to continue to stay there.  We HAVE to move her and the sooner the better.
We found another place that is closer to where we live (only about 5 miles or so away), the other place was on the total other side of town.  Things are in motion and hopefully my Aunt will be moved tomorrow.  I have to go to both homes, get transportation for my aunt, do tons of paperwork.  I really dread it.  I also worry about how the move will effect my aunt.  I have been told that it can make her mental state worse.

The doctor has been messing with my meds and I have the mood swings to show for it.



Ok, the graphics don't have anything to do with today's entry.  But I like them so I thought I would through them in.

The graphics group is going slowly.  I don't know, maybe I didn't explain the reason for the group or I expected too much.  The group is to SHARE graphics, NOT learn how to make them.  I was hoping everyone in the group would do a send once a week or so.  Most seem to be sitting back and waiting for everyone else to share I guess (I know some are really busy with real life and other things.  I am NOT poking my fingers at anyone.  I am just saying what I am feeling.  I will try to do more sends so maybe more will get into the sharing feeling.

                  

My oldest niece (that lost custody of her little boy) is being evicted and is losing her little girl now.  I would have thought she or her live-in boyfriend would have gotten their act together so this wouldn't be happening.

My middle niece just left her husband.  She let him have their daughter for a visit and now hubby won't give her back. She's going to have to get a lawyer.

That's it for now.  I'll try to update more laters.