I talked to my mom today. Dad has had a bone marrow biopsy, but won't see his doctor till Wednesday. They said in their last letter that he has low grade lymphoma. This is after the several letters before that he had been saying that every bug that came around, he'd caught. He'd had pneumonia and was generally weak. Mom says sometimes he feels good ( Read more... )

I couldn't sleep.  Finally I decided maybe because I'm cold.  So I closed the window closest to my bed and added another summer blanket to the one I had.  Yesterday evening when I checked the kids, I saw they were curled up against the cold.  I took out their flannel blankets and added those to their summer blankets.  Now I'm wearing a sweater and ( Read more... )

I was able to relocate the stray cat Perci and her three kittens yesterday.  The woman I had been advised to talk to about finding homes for the cats was really nice.

What amazes me is how different Sweetie is!  She had been staying outside mostly for some time now.  I figured she was avoiding her offspring, since they always tried to suck on her ( Read more... )

A came into my room when he should have been in bed. A sign he was scared to go to sleep, although I didn't pick up on that until later. He always wants to hear scary stories, but he is very affected by them. "I see you're reading a new book," he said. "Oh, it's not so new. It's one of those from G's mom, that I was too scared to read, but now I ( Read more... )

Thanks to the moderator who told me about the lj group in support of people who are victims of those with NPD. I found out about NPD when I googled "Gaslight" to check the name of the movie that gives an idea of my life with my husband. It had a link to an article about gaslighting and the people who do it--people with Narcissistic Personality ( Read more... )