I managed to take care of Mom duties while fighting the flu across two weekends but by the second weekend my flu had turned to infection on me and I would up in urgent care with one left eye infection, one left ear infection, a sinus infection, the beginnings of bronchitis and just for kicks and giggles one cold sore on my upper left lip in that ( Read more... )

I know, it has been a while. I confess to getting sucked into work stuff and Nanowrimo November and well here we are ( Read more... )

So I survived physical inventory another year. And got in my car Saturday morning headed west. Spectacular drive through the fog more or less all the way to Eudora. Fun stuff ( Read more... )

Thursday October 16 went well. And short. Really. I met my attorney and the guardian ad litem (who didn't have to be there, but was because she had something else in the courthouse shortly after the 10:30 court time). We went into the courtroom. Waited on two people ahead of us and went to sit at a table with the judge. He read the pleading ( Read more... )

So I switched up the schedule a bit this week because Mom's Guardian Ad Litem meeting was Monday. Sunday I went to Mom's and did the usual check in. I got there in the afternoon. She was napping (door unlocked) and not interested in going to the store until I told her she was out of Hershey's kisses. Well! That prompted action and next thing I ( Read more... )

So on my last visit to Mom I brought along some 'presents' for her ( Read more... )

It's been a bumpy week or two ( Read more... )

I have spent the past couple of months going through every paper in Mom's filing cabinets; scattered across the vanity, and strewn across the bar between the kitchen and living room, not to mention anywhere else I found stacks of stuff. I found myself numerous times sitting on my sofa with giant cartoon question marks above my head as a muttered ( Read more... )

I emailed the attorney late last week as a follow up to sending her the paperwork from the neurologist. She said that the form should have enough to grant me guardianship and by now the paperwork should be filed with the court. So we go back to wait mode. At some point a guardian ad litem will made a visit to mom. I seem to recall that I am ( Read more... )

So last week Mom began talking about the car again. and Wednesday or Thursday declared in my morning phone call with her 'the car will be ready on Friday.' Okay. I pass this off as something she's made up. Until, late Friday afternoon at work when I found a message on my work phone saying.... you guessed it, the car was ready ( Read more... )