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8:33 p.m. - 2006-02-06
We're just goin along for the ride

Mom's still here

Thanks for asking about me Laineyducks. So far Mom's still here and everything is still the same. we haven't had anymore bizarro episodes like wandering the basement in the dark, just the run of the mill, hiding food and hiding her purse, money or check book and not remembering where she hid them.

Mike has been trying to get ahold of her doctor since last Wednesday (GP's are hard to find around here and most are so busy it takes days to get back to you). The Doctor just called as I am typing this and Mike is talking to him now about running tests, diagnosis, and what we can expect. Of course we want to keep her here for as long as it is safe for her.

Mike found a way to jam the door shut so she can't open it so I think we have that problem settled for now. He took her to visit some relatives the other day and she could hardly wait to get back to her little room, feigning illness in order to get taken home early.

Another relative who works here in Elgin asked Mike if he would drive Mom and meet her for lunch sometime at the casino boat. Mom says "Oh, you don't have to drive me honey, I'll take a bus." That made us want to laugh but we just played along and said that the bus doesn't run to the casino. Don't want her to be getting ideas in her head.

I'll tell you...the thought of this just creeps me out. That your brain can alter reality for you. It's downright scary as well as sad. This is stressful.

I haven't entered anything in the past few days because I have been really sick with some kind of sinus and bronchitis thingy that has sapped everything out of me. I had to go to work today and have a meeting with our auditors tomorrow but come Wednesday, if it is no better, I'm taking a day off. Last night I was so cold I slept with a flannel nightgown, flannel PJ's over that, a robe over that (polar fleece) and socks with big fuzzy slipper under a sheet and big fluffy quilt. I was still cold. This sucks, but I will get better. I always do.

Thank you, everybody for your kind words and well wishes. Mike just got off the phone and I guess the doctor is going to order a cat scan to start and a visit to a neurologist to read the cat scan and go from there.

I've given up wondering how long we will be tied down and what the poor woman is in for...what we're in for...it's in God's hands...it's God's will, to fight life on life's terms would be futile.


P. I. Yarnsmith

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