Hi ya all!
Hope everyone is doing well. I have hardly had any time to write an update lately sorry. I am so thrilled that Thelma and Wayne are back up here. Welcome back to two of the sweetest people.
Jeanne, Naomi, and I are still staying with mom, so she has someone here 24 hours a day. The positive thing with mom is that she has gained about 12 pounds now. She eats fairly good most of the time. She shakes pretty bad now most of the time (probably anxiety), and gets confused still. She mostly watches her shows on the Hallmark channel during the day and night. We had to start giving her the anxiety medicine she takes a little more often because of her shaking, and because I have noticed a little obsessive/compulsive behavior, and because of the nightmares she has at times. Yesterday she took 4 showers, and gets confused as to what her body has to do sometimes. She also can not always express what she is trying to say because of the confusion. Now I know that some of you will disagree with what I have said here about her behavior, and anxiety, yet we are here all the time, and no one else is, to be able to observe what mom does. Mom does enjoy visits from relatives especially. She doesn't talk much, yet she sure enjoyed seeing Evan, Thelma and Wayne when Thelma and Wayne first got here. If any of you would like to visit with her, that would be great just as long as it is not a house full, and kids tend to make her more nervous. She laughs at shows like Mash, Everybody Loves Raymond, and The Golden Girls, and does try (and does get some answers right) to answer questions on Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune when we all play it each night. She is too anxious to go out of the house any where, so she is here all the time, except when we take her to the doctor. If you call and the phone doesn't get answered, it is either because I am away from the phone, or taking a nap, as I get so exhausted myself. Sometimes mom answers the phone, yet she does tell me when she remembers, that she doesn't like to talk on the phone. I do give the phone to her any way when especially relatives call, as she needs to talk to family -- it is good for her.
Naomi, Jeanne, and I talked today, and I will be moving into the house here, and selling my house, as it is just too much for me to worry about both places, etc.. A friend of ours will help us build some kennels for my cats behind the house, and I will pay to have a chain link fence put up around mom's property in the back yard for my two dogs. Jeanne and I are going to help our youngest sons (Andy and Chris) get their own apartment as well. I fair better at mom's house any way, as there are not as many stairs to go up and down as at my house. Jeanne sold her house already, and we wanted to get a place out in the country, yet we have to wait, as it all depends on mom, so we can be here for as long as she needs us. We can always move out to the country another day. So, within the next month we will be moving some of my stuff down here to store, and getting rid of the other stuff. I will be selling my house to my son Chris' boss, who is a contractor, who buys houses, fixes them up, and rents or sells them. This will be good for my son, as then he will get $500.00 for finding them the house, and will get paid $10.00 an hour working for them, and fixing up the house. It will be good for me as well, as I can't fix up anything, paint, etc. to the house myself, so now I won't have to -- just move. I better run for now, and go home. Take care all!!!!
I will try and write an update sooner than last time, this next time.
We love you all.
Take care, and you are all in our prayers.
Bev
