I have successfully bed panned my mother all by myself and she went.
It is the little things in life, you know.
Things you don't want to tell your mother: Mother! Ladies do not throw bedpans." The nurse laughed. (That was one of the unsuccessful times.)
Pastor Todd was right. THe quickest way to calm her down is to sing an old hymn to

I timed it. I got 26 minutes of sleep last night. She did not have a good night. Kicked and screamed alot, foaled up her I.V., wet the bed, tried to bite the nice nurse and had enough "calm down" shots to subdue a 200 pound biker,.(to quote the nice nurse ( Read more... )

You know that life has really changed when you enter a hospital(as a caregiver, not as a casual visitor) you are issued a laptop for your communication needs. I suppose the staff was just tired of fighting people who needed their commuter "for just a moment" so they could check their e-mail ( Read more... )

Over the weekend, our youngest daughter became engaged. YEAH!!!! Much excitement should ensue. It was sort of cute. The Keithinator called on Thursday to basically check it out with us if it was okay, made us promise to drop no hints, insisted that I would approve of the ring. He asked her on Friday night. On Saturday, when I was at the ( Read more... )

It seems that I have no gotten around to posting for a very long time, more than a month, I think the longest I have ever gone without posting since I started this blog ( Read more... )

I am home from a two hour trip to the dentist. It didn't exactly hurt as I asked for "happy gas." But two hours (two crowns and a cavity) is a long time to keep your mouth open with four strange hands in your mouth. I feel a bit beat up and a tiny bit woozy. So I will just relax and recover. In an hour or so I may even change my clothes and go ( Read more... )

A weekend recap ( Read more... )

I haven't posted for awhile. It is that time of year. Life piles up. Choir has started again. I want to exercise but there is no time. I want to sew but there is no time. I would love to read, but ... you see the pattern ( Read more... )

It was the start of high school football last night. Now through most of our married life, high school football meant packing the kids in the car and heading off for an adventure. When they were wee babes, it meant the long, winding trip to hills of Crystall Falls, the perennial class D champions, where we the entire school excelled at what they ( Read more... )

Well. we are back home again and I am into my third load of laundry. I am totally confused as to what day it is and what time of day and where exactly I am so I guess it was a good holiday ( Read more... )