Day 218

Day 218

Saturday December 28, 2013

Physical:

The day started earlier than I would have liked; but after an initial frustrating start, he calmed down.  Today’s “subject” was cats.  He kept insisting that 2 cats got in the car, but then he lost them.  The “pretty one” (from his description, sounded like Maggie) jumped out of the car and he was sad about that.  There has to be some connection with the fact that Maggie has started hanging around his room again.  She really Loves his new soft fleece blanket!!

Once he was up he stayed up until mid afternoon.  I took him back for a nap when I left to go shopping, and got him up when I got home.  He ate a good supper (meaning he ate a lot, not that it was “good” – sausage dip and chips, potato salad, chocolate cake).  I think he ate too near bedtime again.  He didn’t wake up during the night, but he did have a hard time getting to sleep because of coughing and a lot of congestion.  It was later than usual (not by much, maybe 45 minutes) getting to bed; and once he finally got to sleep there was only one minor incident around 10:30 or so.  I had put a dishpan on the bed (going through multiple trials of ways for him to deal with coughing up phlegm); and he wanted a second one.  He got to sleep but woke again, and was calling for “mom”. L  He had thrown the pans on the floor (I think because he said his hands were full .. not really sure about that).  I picked them back up, and he did go on back to sleep.

He’s sleeping in so far Sunday morning .. chilly and very very wet (so still darkish). 

People:

It was another busy day, but only “super busy” for a brief spell.  For a short time we had all 4 of our “real” grandchildren here.  (Note: it’s not that I don’t consider TGF’s kids “real” grands .. but .. she is not married to DSS, and these boys were just thrust upon us a few years ago.  I call them “bonus” grands; but my son’s kids have been my grands since birth; DSS’s boys have been our grands since  very very young (the oldest boy who is now nearly 21) and since birth.)

With DSS and TGF as well as DS and DIL, plus 6 kids (including 2 of hers) it was crowded and noisy for awhile.  He coped with it pretty well; he has always been very attached to DSS’s 2 boys, and was very happy to get to see them again before their return to GA

DS and family were here until around 9:00.  DH did finally give up and admit he was ready for bed by a little after 8:00

DS tok me to pick up some refills, and to get groceries.  I didn’t print my list, and forgot a few things; but I’ll just have to manage for another week. (I’m a lot more concerned over trash piling up.  On Thursday they took some, but not much.  The outside can is full and – again – I can’t see well enough to see if they brought the other can back (I was told it was in the truck, and I *think* they were using the truck yesterday).  I have bags piled in the kitchen and in the front hall.  I’m not liking this trash situation, but othing I can do about it.

I got GCs for Chritmas, so at Wally I got a Scotty CD and some decent headphones (ear buds give me a headache). 

Emotions:

Confused. And really tired of the hospice people getting my hopes up for different things and then letting me down.  Tired of the boys helping lift DH, noting how heavy he is … and then not “getting it” that I do that by myself multiple times a day.

DS and DIL helped me look for my lost ipod (which they found).  DIL said she would spend some time with me either a weekend or spring break, to help me go through my “office closet” again.  I’ve made a huge amount of progress on it; but I’m still having trouble with finding things.  And I need to “let go” of a lot more.  I guess she doesn’t want to get stuck with doing that job someday when I can no longer see at all! LOL! 

I have enjoyed (and do believe DH has too) having company so much over the holidays.  It’s sad that it will soon come to an end, and things will go back to normal boring long empty days.  Finally being able to listen to books will help.  Getting my ipod back useable will help – except that most of my music has disappeared!  It WAS on this computer.  Now it’s gone.  DS still has my old one (was passed on to one of the grands when I got this bigger one) … the screen is broken; but he thinks my itunes is still on it, so he will transfer all data to an external hard drive, then see if he can transfer it to my lapto .. or at least download the missing music (there was a LOT).

(doesn’t it sound like I know what I’m talking about! Hahahahaha!)

I will have to start thinking about packing up the decorations .. in a few weeks I guess.  In the past this was when I got the upstairs cleaned out.  Since I no longer seem to have any help with things like that (that I did have in the past), I don’t know how much will get done.  I know I need to purge a lot of what’s up there; and again, it’s hard to let go of some things – and others, I can’t see detail and not sure if I want to keep or not.

It’s close to 10:00 AM now, and still dark and gloomy, rainy.  I keep losing my internet signal (no surprise there).  I still have more dishes to wash from yesterday; my kitchen floor is sticky (ewww); and I haven’t even gotten in the shower yet. I think I need to get this day going!