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I was Wrong. It Wasn’t the Estate Sale After All.
I guess it’s good that we don’t know how things will turn out, going into them. Sometimes being naive is a blessing, I guess, or you would never agree to do things you do. I wasn’t going to blog today, but here I sit. I’m thinking about the recent events and how taxing and stressful they were. I’m thinking about how family, who is supposed to be the tribe of your people to have your back and have their support, is not always the ones who do. I know we are talking about some who are possibly with the onset of dementia or losing reality, others have their own set…
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A Couple of Surprises – followed by Pizza and Busy Week
A Couple of Surprises Followed by Pizza Yesterday we had to get up around 5:30 so we could get Mom by 7:15 and get her to an appointment at Centennial (across Nashville in rush hour) by 9:00 a.m. We did it with a few minutes to spare! Mom’s surprised everyone with two things yesterday. 1) She told the nurse practitioner that her UTI was back and she’d had symptoms for a week and a half. 2) She asked for Christmas ornaments from her house. So number 1 is pending and number 2, quite frankly, is concerning. It’s making me think she is really losing her memory. When I told her…
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Life Reset: The Week I Tried to Get My Life Back
The Week Everything Blew Up Coming off of a very busy time period in which my Mom had two heart procedures, a LOT of appointments, two hospital stays, home health care interviews —-> that morphed into a move to assisted living, and going through her house and prepping for an estate sale……I decided to reset my life, enjoy doing some things we wanted and needed to do, and get our life back and then THIS HAPPENED. You can watch it here. All is well on this Saturday morning. It’s raining cats and zebras here and flood warnings are out. We don’t have to get out until later today. I hear…
