Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day!

I did Mom's side of the fam yesterday, John will hit Seneca next time he comes home. That hill scares me. What a way to go!

Mom is settling in. Hopefully her at-home therapy will help. She is still very weak and tired. I don't know what I expected at rehab, but an 84 year old woman who had a cancerous mass removed and had staples in her for over half the time at rehab . . . and who had been  bed bound for months before that, well clearly my expectations were ridiculous. Hopefully her at home therapy will help. Her blood pressure is low, the nurse is trying to line up some blood work and then we will evaluate with her GP. Her appetite is good. I'm glad we got the hospital bed. It makes things easier on everybody. Except Mom and Joe can't really work it. I find mother in interesting positions sometimes. I'm sure they'll get the hang of it eventually. LOL I don't get what is so hard about the up and down arrows, but like John says, everybody needs some way to pass the time. Just like the TV remote, mom likes to work it upside down. Oh well. 

The bath aide came today, a lovely, sweet girl. But Kathleen can only take so much of that. She called and said she was at the front door but nobody was answering. We really should get a doorbell. Anyway she says "I'm running a little early, I'm here but no one is answering." I said well, we were expecting you at 2:00, but come on in! LOL I mean it was 12:30!  She told me she meant to schedule us at 1:00, but she is running ahead. OK. Fine. She comes in mom's room, mom is dozing, and she asks how she is doing, is she tired today? I told the aide Mom ate a good dinner (I made pot roast, we always eat early on Sundays), and the aide says "Oh good! She had a good meal when I was here Friday too, I found a tomato in her bed." OMG What must she think!? LOL I got the giggles over that one.  Then I left to go drink a couple beers at my friends' house. I don't know what happens here when I'm at work, but whatever! Mom and Joe get along just fine.  LOL She has OT, PT and bath aide this week. That is the busiest schedule any Morris Mallaney has had for a long time.

I went and sat and drank a few beers with my friend yesterday afternoon on her front porch, had a few beers with another couple this afternoon, good friends, and having lunch with another friend tomorrow at the park. Praise be, covid social isolation sucks! I'm glad things are starting to get back to normal. On the plus side I only need 2 beers and I'm done! Yikes. I remember Mom and Dad sitting on the front porch at the farm, and thinking how boring it was. I'd love to sit on a front porch with them now!

I got new license plates, and went out to try to change them. OMG I couldn't budge the screws. I mentioned it to the maintenance guy at work, and he sprayed some razzle dazzle stuff on there to loosen up the screws, and got one out, they were stripped and rusty and a mess, but then the other one broke off. He was kind enough to drill it out for me and find new screws and put on the new plate for me. Its too bad the new plate came with the sticker on or I would have stuck it on the old plate. It ended up being a pain in the ass. Not for me really, but for him. But anyways if you have an older vehicle (mine is a 2010, and I can't remember the last time I got new plates), do yourself a favor and give your bolts or screws or whatever they are a turn when you put on your new sticker. Save yourself (or a kindly friend) a headache down the road!

Have a good week all!

Kay