OMG askye, that's a danger to everyone else on the roads! At least my mom is only endangering herself ;p.

My internal screaming might have helped. She did take a Tylenol after I vented massively and (shockingly) felt much better when I checked on her an hour later. Now she wants to shower in the morning (an all-day exhausting task IIRC) then do a qigong class before round 1 of physical therapy in the early afternoon. And the she thinks she's gonna do a couple zoom meetings in the late afternoon. Yeah right. I'm super concerned that she's gonna be so wrecked after the shower that Pt will extra awful. But there it is, I dragged my feet on making her shower today so tomorrow morning it is. I'll be getting up extra early to allow myself time for coffee and sustenance before embarking on that particular onerous task. Today I was up and down two flights of stairs 5 times before I got breakfast for myself, I can't keep doing that without burning out.

Today I was up and down two flights of stairs 5 times before I got breakfast for myself, I can't keep doing that without burning out.

Take care of the caretaker! Coffee and breakfast and whatnot. Also some quiet downtime.

Oh dear, erin. All the ~ma and sanity to you. All of it. And may she listen to reason.

Laura, baby watch~ma!

Belated happy anniversary, Sheryl!

I assume you've been talking to her doctor about non-compliance, erin. You are in care-taker hell, for sure.

I was in a weird mode this weekend -- spent 3 hours reading through an entire book in one sitting, then spent another three hours later just playing Gardenscapes listening to music. Yesterday was a bit better in terms of actually Doing real stuff like cooking and baking and life-maintenance tasks.

Still on baby watch. Although she broke her water mid day yesterday she really hadn't progressed much by midnight so her doctor stopped the Pitocin and went home for the night. Told her to get some well needed rest. Yawn. I expect this morning we will have baby.

Erin, I hope today is a much better day.

Yay impending baby!

So far today is a much better day. She actually slept some so I got to indulge in some morning yoga and coffee before changing out the ice in her polar cooler (cooling machine). Then I spiked her disgusting green smoothie with some CBD tincture. It already smells like swampy perfume, it'll be interesting to see if she notices. Then I reminded her that first shower will be painful and exhausting so eat up, take all the meds, and i'll be back in an hour when they have kicked in to undertake operation First Shower around 8:30. Should give a reasonable amount of time for recovery before leaving at noon for First Physical Therapy. Qigong can be done from her bed so i'll consider that recovery and meditation time.

I'll ask if i can record some of the physical therapy so that I can then replay for her when she "forgets" the therapist's advice wrt pain management tomorrow. She's been seeing this PT for some time and respects her...so that might be a help. Fingers crossed!

eta: hopefully the Physical Therapist will allow me (as caregiver) to observe...still don't have results from my Covid test but i've been asymptomatic for the last four days and never had a fever and will have a p2.5 filter in my fabric mask for what that's worth....

Good grief, erin. You deserve some kind of award for what your mother is putting you through. What are her thoughts on ibuprofen -- that's what my doctor has recommended for pain.

Shower~ma!

another weekday, another day I don't want to work.

I've done my morning report and gone through emails, so I've done something.

I have a small stack of papers that I did not get through on Friday, so I will deal with that, but first, shower.

Other non-work things I am going to tackle today - making anther tele-therapy appt with a diff counselor, doing nails, more laundry.

I weirdly woke up about 4am, tried to go back to sleep, tossed and turned for another hour or so, and finally got up before 530. Who AM I? I made breakfast and cleaned up and ran a load of laundry and it's not yet 8am! (Er, notably I did NOT log in to work early, which I normally do at 8)