life

Today I have a few minutes to write and recap life in the last few weeks. As you may remember Ed was on his way to Tuscon, AZ. He had a good trip which turned out to be almost 2 weeks long as things were going slow with the testing on the A-10. He loved Tuscon so much so that he wants to go back and take me with him....hmmm maybe he is really thinking retirement one day! I could live almost anywhere and I do love the west. While he was gone my computer crashed and the only way I had of checking my email was on Natalie's little laptop. That was a real bummer. I am glad to say that we got the computer back this week and it is working like a charm.
I have been very busy with Mom lately. She has so many skin tares that it is awful. She had a really really bad one last Friday and when I saw it on Sunday her hand was twice the normal size. I freaked and told the nurse to get on it, I was pretty upset. She called the Doc and they ordered an x-ray to check for fractures or a break. That was done Monday a.m. and there were none. One of the nurses managed to get Moms ring off that morning and strange as it sounds the swelling went down within an hr. Yesterday when I saw her the swelling is still gone but her hand looks so sad. The skin tare is really deep and jagged and I worry about it. I have asked them like for 3 months to get the Jerri gloves and now I demanded it on Monday. They have ordered them finally. This should hopefully help with the tares. Her skin is breaking down and I know this happens so I am just trying to manage it so it will not become painful or infected. She picks at everything and takes the bandages off all the time. She has managed to take alot of the rubber rail coatings off her bed rails too. It is a hard time again with her and I feel she is going down hill at a fast rate right now. However she is Amazing Grace, she may recover and turn things around at any moment who knows. They are taking regular urine samples so I do not know if that is to look for the kidneys shutting down or infection or what. I just go and love on her as much as possible and pray all day long for her. I call them angel prayers sent up during the day to keep her safe and I pray for those taking care of her for the day or night to be loving and kind to her which I know most are. It is a real balancing act to care for my family and Mom and work and volunteer and to see Jerry thru this last year of high school. I am doing much better these days as I have learned to listen to my body and to take care of me first. If I am not rested and feeling good then I cannot care for others. Take for instance yesterday which was Thursday...I was so sleepy in the a.m. and barely got Jerry off to school. I drank a cup of coffee and went back to bed about 7:15. I think I must have died. Natalie came in at 12 and asked me if I was going to get up and I said yes, then fell back asleep till 2! After that I got up and took a shower and hit the road. I stopped by the office for an hr then headed up to CV to see Mom. I stayed for a long time with her and sat thru dinner with her. She ate about half of a half of a baked potatoe. Then she ate about 1/4 cup of diced peaches and drank her boost. All in all I say she ate maybe 1/2 to 3/4 cup of total food not including the boost. This was really good for dinner time for her usually she refuses to eat at all but will drink the boost. Today Mrs.Barrow turns 106 years old. I talked to her last night or tried to. She is an amazing pioneer woman of this area. I am getting ready now to go to work pain and all. I have been very sore lately and very achy all over, even my back has been hurting where I had the back surgery a few years ago. I think the fibro must be acting up so I will consider adding an extra Lyrica today to see if that will help. Oh the pangs of growing older!!