Time to dig out my Nevermore dvds.
Aw, Mac! msbelle, that's awesome. Good for both of you!
Both my parents had a horror of "the workhouse," which is what retirement homes and long-term care were called when they were children. They were indeed places of horror, where old people whose families couldn't afford to keep them were sent to languish with appalling levels of care until they died. We kept my dad at home for eight years. It was misery, and none of us were happy, though suffused with the self-approval of martyrdom. Had I known, he would have been in a clean, supervised environment, given his meds on a reliable schedule, fed a diet appropriate for his needs, and in a place where the stimulation of many other people would have kept him engaged and content. I still regret it.
Mom resisted for far too long, and finally, on advice of her doctor, she never came home from a bout in the hospital. She went to a convalescent center, and from there to a lovely care residence. She complained once about the staff being bossy to her. But she blossomed there. Everybody loved her. She'd always been such a flirt, and they responded to that, and she just relaxed into their care. It was such a change for her to smile when she saw me, rather than get out her list of things wrong with her life that I was to blame for, and my responsibility to fix.
May you have a similar outcome, 'Suela.
Yay mac!
Cute foxes, cold offices, I am drinking oolong tea and trying to get myself to grade. oops.
I just got mac for a few days over winter break at his summer day camp place. Now I am filling out the forms to max out my FSA funds for the year.
I still need to put in for 3.5 hours of vacation some time in the next month, or lose it. I DO NOT lose vacation. hells no.
Also awesome is that he KNOWS this stuff is much more important to me than the grades, and he was so very very proud of himself.
That is wonderful to hear.
I had big work motivation this morning and powered through all the work I had plotted out for today. And now I'm stuck awaiting responses from folks with not much to do. And that motivation seems to have run away.
Go Mac, that is so wonderful. And yes, I'm with you on the comments being the big focus.
Go Mac, that's fantastic!
You guys, I am so excited about that Neverwhere cast list, it's kind of ridiculous. And it made me realize that I don't have the original version of the audiobook on my iPod, so I need to fix that tonight.
Grandma would call Aunt Jo dozens of times a day saying she was in a weird hospital and it was time for to leave and whatnot.
Hah! Yeah, that's kind of where we are, except my mother's angry at all the kids, so she's not really calling us. The staffer E just called, and said that Mom's sitting next to the door with her bags packed.
Still waiting on the haldol prescription. This keeps up, I'm the one who's going to need it...
The idea that Mac is recognising someone else's priority/reward structure and working towards that instead is so remarkably cool.
A little less remarkable but cool nonetheless--my manager has told me to go home, and I think I'm about ready to do that, considering how long it's taking me to type this.
The staffer E just called, and said that Mom's sitting next to the door with her bags packed.
People should start asking her if she's unpacked yet.
