this week I am a clutz

I am dealing with a little pain this week. You see, I sort of fell through a ceiling a couple of days ago.   I was up in the attic above the rec room pulling wires to install some speakers for up coming conferences when I missed a step and fell through the ceiling.  I did not go all the way through to the floor which was a good thing.  I managed to catch myself and ended up with only one leg punched through the ceiling.  There were several people in the rec room at the time and it scared the sh.. out of them.  I managed to pull myself out of my predicament and went ahead and continued my job.   It was later when the bruises started showing up.  I have one on the inside of my knee about the size of a grapefruit. and seveal smaller ones farther up the leg.  I really did not feel much in the way of pain until today. For some reason it waited until today to really kick in. 
So I guess you can just call me clutz from now on.  :)

Trees blooming

I was headed to the car to go get parts for a project when I looked up and saw this.   I keep a camera in the car these days so I grabbed it and snapped a picture.  It is beauty like this that makes me appreciate where we live even more.   
   Later in the day I noticed a tenant just standing and starring down the driveway towrds the same direction the picture was taken in.  They did not mve a mucle so I went to make sure evrything was ok and that they werenot in some sort of medical emergency.   When I gt close and asked tem if they were all right the gal never even looked at m she just aked. " isn't that te most beautiful sight you have ever seen?"   I assured her it was and seeing that she was okay I wet on about my business. 

Mom is doing much better

Well tonight is goingto be a decidng point.  Mom is going to stay at her apartment tonight. For the last few days she has been staying at her place during the day but at night she would come over here.  It was like she was afraid to stay in her apartment overnight.  She announced to Laurie and I last night that she would be going home today.  I took her to the store earlier  to get groceries and she stocked up some.  It is a good sign.  When I took her medication to her this evening she had heated up a can of spaghetti O's and had ate the whole can worth.  This is something she generally would not do.  When I arrived she was eating ice-cream and a banana and toast.  It is good to see her eating this way.  She took her meds while I was there so that I knew she took them.  She seemed to be good, watching tv and eating away.  Later I took over her final med of the night and she was watching tv and reading the newspaper.  Again, another good sign.  I let her know if she needed anything that she could call or come over anytime day or night.
    I have even had a couple of her friends ( tenants) come tome and tell me how much better she is doing. They cannot believe how much she has improved this last week.
  I am glad to see the improvement myself as it has been a very hard thing to deal with. I have realized that I have been totally off-track from my normal routines. And I have missed a couple of birthdays in the process. 
I promise that I will make them up!  
Hopefully things will continue to get better with mom and things can get back to normal.  It is not fair to the other important people in my life for me to get so involved with taking care of my mom that I totally loose touch with them.  I hope you all will forgive me. I'm sorry!!

Update on Mom.

Thought I had better give you an update on Moms condition.  The last time I made an entry she had had a very bad night.  Since then she has been doing progressively better. We figured out that it was the vitamins she was taking seemed to be reacting to her medicatons.  I took the vitamins away and she improved.  I am totally in charge of giving her medication now.  She still has some memory issues but nothing like it was the night we had to take her to the hospital.   I hope I never have to experience that again.  I have met with her doctor and we had a discussin about the issue.  Needless to say the doctor was not exactly happy with me!. 
We have had mom living with us since the first incident.  She might be able to go home later this week if she continues to do better. 
   I was surprised that when I took her in to have her cumidin tested that she had went ahead and told the doctor there everything that had happened.  I am very proud of her for doing so, and I have told her so.  I do not use the kid glove routine as I nee to make sure she understands how seroius this whole situation is.  She knows that the hospital wanted to commit her into a dimentia ward.  She now understands that it was a mixup with her medications that caused this.  We have her on a pretty regular eatng schedule and medication cycle and that is just how it is going to have to be from now on. 
I am just glad that I am here ad able to assist her.  I will wrte more soon.
I promise

I had to Laugh

It is 5 am here.  We have been up since 3 am with Mom.  She had a bad night.  Anyway after we got her settled down a little I grabbed Lauries computer and checked Michelles blog.  I busted up laughing when I saw that they are all headed to "Snow Country"  It just brought all sorts of funny images to mind :)
I really needed that today.  Thank You

ANother Tattoo

Lauries Latest Escapade

For Christmas both Laurie and I were given the gifts of a free tattoo.  I choose not to have one but as you can see Laurie decided to have this one done.  It represents our Grandkids.  One rose for every one of them.  The white one is for Jacob.