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.
Haven't you killed me enough for one day?
Mal ,'War Stories'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2012 4:27:06 pm PST #3081 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2012 4:27:33 pm PST #3082 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I imagine on Revenge all horse riding involves jodhpurs, too.
But of course!
Connie Neil - Dec 03, 2012 4:29:41 pm PST #3083 of 30001
brillig
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.
brenda m - Dec 03, 2012 4:30:29 pm PST #3084 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I was just watching Revenge and they were all wearing various kinds of vest for the shooting part.
The skeet shooting, anyway.
sarameg - Dec 03, 2012 4:33:50 pm PST #3085 of 30001
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.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2012 4:36:23 pm PST #3086 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The skeet shooting, anyway.
Heh. Yes. Although that would be hilarious.
DavidS - Dec 03, 2012 4:37:22 pm PST #3087 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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."
Sophia Brooks - Dec 03, 2012 4:38:44 pm PST #3088 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Scary, msbelle.
Also revenge has awesome costumes ( although there is something wrong with Nolan this season)
lisah - Dec 03, 2012 4:40:16 pm PST #3089 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
Every caregiver needs a break sometimes.
This.
Didn't Bob have to spend a previous 'versary in Chicago as well?
No, but we were in Florida last year and we missed the Xmas Parade. That was way worse!
Anyway, look how cute!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 03, 2012 4:41:35 pm PST #3090 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Spotted another mouse last night. Neither Kroger nor Wal-Mart had the catch and release traps I bought a couple years ago, so it's Madame Guillotine for any unwelcome houseguests from here on out.