Midwestern days
Participating in the care of a dementia/alzheimers patient is teaching me way more than I ever wanted to know about the workings of the fading (but amazingly creative and defensive) human mind.
I've put a lot of things on hold until I can figure out the personal side of this. Plenty of people cope and create while caregiving.
I have set up some relief to attend a poet's gathering in KC starting 6Aug which is E's birthday. She is flying in from Cal and I am driving over after a night at my bro's in STL.
So far the weather that everyone here in NorCentral Illinois is complaining about is heaven to me. Cool, wet & green everywhere. No need for a/c. Easy breezy. On the way to the hometown, my sis & I spent four days in Chicago for the Taste festival and Art Institute walkabouts. We metro trained it up to Highland Park to see my niece and grand-nieces.
I left Chicago on the Amtrak train for the first time. Very nice. Very cheap at $18 one way compared to a hired car at a $100.
Watching Cubs & Sox (how about that perfect game!)with the old man. Chasing him around the yard and trying to keep him out of his garden. He's had a couple mild heart attacks now but the new meds are doing their job for him to the extent he wants to do all the opposite things the doc allows. Too bad he can't remember from day to day what his instructions and limitations are. So we hover and piss him off.
In the meantime I cleaned a virus from his computer and my sister has solved a couple garden watering problems. My daughter has the wi-fi my sister bought working here. At 80, Mother is doing a great job keeping med records and doing BP checks on him. I'm trying to get her into eBanking at least for statements and transfers. In their 80s, their group insurance comp
I'm reading Arthur W Knight and John Bennett books. Outside of facebook bites, this blog is the first writing I've felt like doing in a long time.
Frank Andrick took my latest poem for his _WTF_ antho. Thanks buddy. ~m
I've put a lot of things on hold until I can figure out the personal side of this. Plenty of people cope and create while caregiving.
I have set up some relief to attend a poet's gathering in KC starting 6Aug which is E's birthday. She is flying in from Cal and I am driving over after a night at my bro's in STL.
So far the weather that everyone here in NorCentral Illinois is complaining about is heaven to me. Cool, wet & green everywhere. No need for a/c. Easy breezy. On the way to the hometown, my sis & I spent four days in Chicago for the Taste festival and Art Institute walkabouts. We metro trained it up to Highland Park to see my niece and grand-nieces.
I left Chicago on the Amtrak train for the first time. Very nice. Very cheap at $18 one way compared to a hired car at a $100.
Watching Cubs & Sox (how about that perfect game!)with the old man. Chasing him around the yard and trying to keep him out of his garden. He's had a couple mild heart attacks now but the new meds are doing their job for him to the extent he wants to do all the opposite things the doc allows. Too bad he can't remember from day to day what his instructions and limitations are. So we hover and piss him off.
In the meantime I cleaned a virus from his computer and my sister has solved a couple garden watering problems. My daughter has the wi-fi my sister bought working here. At 80, Mother is doing a great job keeping med records and doing BP checks on him. I'm trying to get her into eBanking at least for statements and transfers. In their 80s, their group insurance comp
I'm reading Arthur W Knight and John Bennett books. Outside of facebook bites, this blog is the first writing I've felt like doing in a long time.
Frank Andrick took my latest poem for his _WTF_ antho. Thanks buddy. ~m