Last night Mom calls me to tell me that her leg is swollen above the knee and very painful. I asked her "Is it the same one that the foot is bruised?" Of course it was, so we spent today in and out of doctor's offices and labs. Yes, friends you guessed it -- she has phlebitis. She asked me what it was and I explained that she has a clot in the ( Read more... )

Okay, the house is really out to get Mom! I haven't decided if it wants her to rest or is just pissed in general and she is an easy target. She was looking for something in the kitchen closet when a can of beef stew fell from a shelf and hit the same foot that was hit by the Frozen ham. She thought that it was safe to wear a soft house slipper ( Read more... )

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It had been a long day, just had gotten the heavy sneakers off my feet and was headed for the pain meds when the phone rang. My father (the newly named local panic merchant) shouts in the phone "I need you over here quick, it's your Mom!" As I grab for shoes and start running across the street with Sam meowing and following, I am sure she's had a ( Read more... )

Today was a very strange roller coaster day. My Mom's next door neighbor is letting her home go back to the bank, since she can no longer live alone and can't sell it or continue to make the payments. She has lived there for more years than I can remember. When our extended family first came to visit Island Grove (in the early 60's), she was ( Read more... )

Well, they are moved. Earl and Janet are spending their first night in their new place. It is in the country, quiet and peaceful. The cats were really a hoot -- being like children, the one they expected to freak out and stress over the move was the one exploring everywhere as soon as he was allowed free rein of the house. The other cat was the ( Read more... )

For several days now, I have known that I was going to have to remove and leave my wedding rings off for a while. The palm of my hand has been painful for a few months, improving and then becoming more painful. (It all started when I tried to use my hand as a hammer to push some boards back into their rightful place on a gate I was repairing. ( Read more... )

I had been telling Mom that I was going to talk to some of the ladies in our Eastern Star chapter because I really didn't want to be the Worthy Matron next year -- I wanted to not be tied down. I was getting all my reasons together and getting my nerve screwed up and then it happened ( Read more... )

I had gone to a Daughter's of the Nile dinner meeting (my favorite kind of meeting) with my Mom. We were gone a couple of hours, she drove. So----we get home and I tell her to park at her house, I will walk across the street to my house. We open the car doors and what do I hear but the infamous Sam yammering at me as only he can do. As I walked ( Read more... )