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Home today with the aim of getting some housework done. Started off with sleeping too late. Somehow I missed the snooze alarm and hit the off button. Still groggy. No one did the dishes last night so I have the dishwasher running and I think most of the rest of stuff ready to clean.
Picking up Mom after she has lunch and she is going to help again. This is terrible that I need my 86 year old mom to help me clean. Actually I just want to hang out with her but she isn't the sit-and-have-tea sort. So I will work on getting some clothes washed for her to fold and I am hoping she will do some dusting while I do the floors. Or maybe we will cut up those apricots in the fridge and cook them into a sauce. (yum)
And we will talk. Mom is doing better. Her new geriatric doctor got her off the seroquel and her mind seems so much better. She isn't tired all the time and seems to remember current things better. At Wiscon this year I went to a panel where a whole group of women discussed dealing with our elderly parents/friends, trying to get them into better situations. The problem of over medication came up repeatedly. I was very happy when Mom's new doctor said she may be having many of her problems because of getting too much medication, (falling, dizziness, extreme grogginess, sleeping too many hours a day.) So now she is biting her fingernails again (a lifelong problem for her) but awake and lucid. Yay! Got my Mom back.
Jim invited a few people over for my Birthday Sunday so we have to get the house clean.
More good news. My dad is home from the Rehab place. He is able to uses his walker again and make it to the bathroom. He joked that he was going to get on the garden tractor. I wish. It bothered me that he was so slow a couple years ago, not dreaming it could get this bad. He did manage to do things outside. I hope to visit him again soon.
Temps in the hundreds. Madison was 105 yesterday or 106 depending on where you get the temp. Ugh. AC working overtime. I need to get a new filter in there. I feel very lucky we have AC. So many people can think of nothing but the heat. They have no cool place to escape to. I went out to walk last night at midnight. It was still 85 out there but bearable. Garden is totally dependent on me for water. So far it's doing well.
Back to housework! I wish it didn't get so bad. I was sick, then Alex was sick, Jim rarely has a lot of energy so it has been hard to keep up. Hopefully we will all be doing better now! Jim was joking that the only place that looked tidy and happy was the veggie garden. Right.
Picking up Mom after she has lunch and she is going to help again. This is terrible that I need my 86 year old mom to help me clean. Actually I just want to hang out with her but she isn't the sit-and-have-tea sort. So I will work on getting some clothes washed for her to fold and I am hoping she will do some dusting while I do the floors. Or maybe we will cut up those apricots in the fridge and cook them into a sauce. (yum)
And we will talk. Mom is doing better. Her new geriatric doctor got her off the seroquel and her mind seems so much better. She isn't tired all the time and seems to remember current things better. At Wiscon this year I went to a panel where a whole group of women discussed dealing with our elderly parents/friends, trying to get them into better situations. The problem of over medication came up repeatedly. I was very happy when Mom's new doctor said she may be having many of her problems because of getting too much medication, (falling, dizziness, extreme grogginess, sleeping too many hours a day.) So now she is biting her fingernails again (a lifelong problem for her) but awake and lucid. Yay! Got my Mom back.
Jim invited a few people over for my Birthday Sunday so we have to get the house clean.
More good news. My dad is home from the Rehab place. He is able to uses his walker again and make it to the bathroom. He joked that he was going to get on the garden tractor. I wish. It bothered me that he was so slow a couple years ago, not dreaming it could get this bad. He did manage to do things outside. I hope to visit him again soon.
Temps in the hundreds. Madison was 105 yesterday or 106 depending on where you get the temp. Ugh. AC working overtime. I need to get a new filter in there. I feel very lucky we have AC. So many people can think of nothing but the heat. They have no cool place to escape to. I went out to walk last night at midnight. It was still 85 out there but bearable. Garden is totally dependent on me for water. So far it's doing well.
Back to housework! I wish it didn't get so bad. I was sick, then Alex was sick, Jim rarely has a lot of energy so it has been hard to keep up. Hopefully we will all be doing better now! Jim was joking that the only place that looked tidy and happy was the veggie garden. Right.