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At first it was a quiet afternoon
Posted by doggonedmysteries
DH and I spent yesterday recharging our batteries. We were both tired. He had a good nap in the afternoon while I curled up in my chair with my Kindle and read a couple Wizard of Oz books. I have 15 of them on the Kindle.
Patty snoozed on the couch and Gavin snored in his chair. All was quiet and blissful until around four when Gavin’s belly alarm began to go off. He got up, wanted out, and then Patty did the same thing. I wasn’t allowed to settle back into the chair. Gavin stood in the kitchen, stared at the counter, and barked.
“It’s not time yet!” I picked up my Kindle.
Gavin barked again.
I put my Kindle down. “Quiet or you’ll wake your Daddy.” I chased him out of the kitchen and put the gate across the doorway.
Patty decided it was time to bug Gavin. She grabbed his collar and began to drag him across the room. He freed himself and jumped on her. She escaped his clutches and leaped to the couch where she proceeded to do a bully run from one end to the other. The house rattled.
I heard movement upstairs. “Alright you two now you’ve done it. Daddy’s up.”
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It was not a good day yesterday
Posted by doggonedmysteries
DH and I went over to the nursing home for their “care conference” and, once again, they had the “conference” in her multi-patient room. At least this time they were ready for us because I made a rather loud remark at the check-in desk about how they screwed up last time. As we walked to the elevator, we heard the receptionist page them to the phone. It was amazing to find three staff members hovering over Mom when we came into the room as if they’d been waiting for us. I might have believed it if we weren’t early and if two of them weren’t a bit winded.
They hate it when I come in with DH. I pull out my notebook, “Before we start I want your names.” Then I make a point of checking my watch and putting the date and time in my notebook before they speak. All the while they are talking I take notes. It drives them crazy and keeps me happy and sane to do this to them.
It’s rough on DH and brings me to tears. Mom is not there mentally and these past few weeks she’s gone rapidly down hill physically. They finally have the DNR on her chart. We feel that as far-gone as she is, it isn’t fair to her to have them prolong her agony. (I swear I am going to have ‘DNR’ tattooed on my chest!)
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Make it quick for me
Posted by doggonedmysteries
This afternoon we are going to what we angrily call a ‘no care conference’ at the nursing home. They had us come to one of their “care conferences” last month and it was pure BS with a topping of crap. (Yes, those are air quotes, people.)
It seems to me that if they want to present a professional front that they’d actually hold these “care conferences” in an office. Oh, hell no. Last time, even after confirming the appointment with us TWICE, they “forgot” we were coming in. Then they had us stand in the middle of a four patient room and gave us a trough of horse crap about nothing to do with the MIL’s care. (OMG and this place has a US Government ranking of three and a half stars higher than the one my Mother was in!)
If the day comes, that I am mindless and dying a slow death, I hope that one of my friends will have the kindness to push me in front of a speeding bus or put a bullet through my brain. I want a quick death not a lingering one.
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Things not to say when…
Posted by doggonedmysteries
If you are trying to sell, give away, or junk a huge chest freezer, you don’t tell people it will easily hold six bodies.
A cop pulls you over, you don’t ask him A. Where is the nearest bar? B. How fast was I going? C. What’s your favorite drink?
Yes, that’s all I can think of this early in the morning. I haven’t gone to bed yet and I am beat from another Wednesday of clearing the crap out of the MIL’s house. The brain isn’t functioning at 100%. Maybe if I have another cup of coffee…no, too wired as it is.
Y’all have a good day. I’m going to bed.
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EEKS I went and did it.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
For those of you that don’t already know, I finally took the plunge and joined Facebook. I have been very reluctant to do so for many reasons. However, with the possibility of books going to publishers in the future, I’m told that it was a wise thing to do.
Those of you who are wise in the ways of FB will have to excuse me for a while as I learn the ins and outs of it. (Shut up, Dave.) I spent most of the night last night exploring and testing things out. I’m sure I’ll make many mistakes, but what better way is there to learn?
I will now post simultaneously on WordPress and FB. If you are reading this on FB, come over to my WordPress site and look around. There you will find a few samples from my works in progress. I have pictures of our dogs and gardens in there too.
Today I am going over to the MIL’s house and work again. Wish me luck on dealing with the house of horrors. I truly dread going back into the garage (AJ and I were in there on Sunday); there are far too many spider webs in there.
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Tags: Author, Bones, books, Books on writing, Bull Terriers, Care giving, Caregiver, Craft of writing, Dead, Disability, Doggoned, Family, Fiction, Home, Life, Love, MS, Multiple Sclerosis, Murder, Mysteries, Mystery, Novel writing, Post A Day, Post A Day 2011, Writer, Writing
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