The family plan is to praise my father for his efforts at helping my mother during her recovery. It’s some sort of reverse psychology attempt to change his behaviors. My mother doesn’t remember anything about her entire hospital stay. She has no idea that I was there every day while my father wasn’t. I guess […]
“Whatsamatta? You bothered that you’ll have to get out of bed in the morning?” Apparently I didn’t react correctly to learning I am picking up and taking my mother to a doctor appointment tomorrow morning at the same time that Amy needs to be taken to school after spending most of today getting her home […]
Stuck in a sandwich today.
My mother needs to get out of rehab soon. My father has gone from complaining about his laundry to making death threats against her cat. It’s a good thing her dog is still staying with us.
“I can’t believe they aren’t letting me out of rehab this week. Chat, chat, chat and I fell out of my wheelchair this morning. Chat, chat, chat, but I bumped into something and ripped my leg open today. I didn’t know it until the physical therapist saw the blood everywhere. Chat, chat, chat. I just […]
“You shouldn’t have any trouble using your mother’s Sam’s card. Except for your hair, you two look exactly alike now.” I’m going to use starch on his drawers for that jab.
“Oh, I don’t want to bother you by dropping off my dirty laundry at your house. Maybe you could just look at it when you clean the litterbox.” I can’t decide if my father is suffering or celebrating my mother being unavailable to cook, clean and wait on him like a toddler. He seems to […]
I think it would be easier to just do my father’s laundry than to teach him how to do his own. I also think it would be easier for him to just visit a cafeteria with all the other seniors than trying to teach him to buy groceries and prepare his own food. Update: Latte […]
Do you think that Steve Austin and Jamie Sommers went through a grief process for their lost limbs even though they were given stronger, newer appendages?
My mother has moved from the hospital to a rehab center. The place is immaculate and designed to look more like a hotel than a medical facility but it is way on the outskirts of town (far west end of farragut). I am making daily laundry runs to her and cat feeding runs to her […]