Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
msbelle, so glad you're okay. Poor mac, that's a traumatic thing to witness.
lisah, that's hella sweet.
My birthday is next Monday, my present from my sister is not taking my mother to her psych appointment.
Current plan is to hire companions for Mom, so Dad doesn't have to deal with her all day every day. My sister even thinks they should live apart, but it seems unlikely to me that he would agree.
I imagine on Revenge all horse riding involves jodhpurs, too.
Consuela, that is a great present from your sister.
Every caregiver needs a break sometimes. When my quadraplegic grandfather still lived at home, the VA had a respite program where he could go stay there for a week or something, and of course he hated it, but my grandmother really, really needed it.
I imagine on Revenge all horse riding involves jodhpurs, too.
But of course!
We very recently changed ISPs here at home, and for the first time I posted to Live Journal with the new setup. LJ immediately sent me an email to let me know that someone had posted to my account from an unfamiliar IP address. That's kind of cool.
I was just watching Revenge and they were all wearing various kinds of vest for the shooting part.
The skeet shooting, anyway.
Didn't Bob have to spend a previous 'versary in Chicago as well? Dear Bob's work: why so mean? But yay, Kimpton!
Consuela, I think as much distance as all of you can get from the toxic is good. As much focus as has to be on your mom with her right-there-NOW demands, your dad should get his own focus too (and that doesn't mean to be from you- from the same coordinators at the new place who can point him in directions of things that might engage him. Things that are not of the crazy.) Also, it might feel like a mighty slog (it is) with no progress, but it is progress. I do think it will get easier. Your mother might not, but the coping mechanisms everyone is setting in place will mute the difficulty for the rest of you.
The skeet shooting, anyway.
Heh. Yes. Although that would be hilarious.
Yeesh, msbelle, that's frightening. The cyberpunk author Wm. Gibson's dad died from choking to death at a restaurant in the pre-Heimleich days.
Oddly, his family lied about it and said he had a heart attack and it was only when Gibson decided to get a full cardiology workup as an adult that they said, "No, actually it was a choking incident."