The Rose of the Wind

Wow. I just read the last update I posted. Last Saturday, wasn’t it? It feels like a year ago or more. I have to sit down and really...

Hello y’all. Things are—well, I hesitate to say improving, but sometimes, just having knowledge is an improvement over not having it. The...

Yeah, late again. New Year’s Eve was fine, very relaxing, but the day after New Year’s, things began to come unwound. Place K called to...

The family has been trying to keep me away from mom, for fear seeing me would agitate her more. I’ve been torn about it, because while of...

It’s happened. Sort of. Kind of. Not really, to be honest, which is why I haven’t been able to blog in so long. Mom was scheduled to move...

Operation Place K is moving along. I had a brief but intense freak-out on Monday when I called mom’s doctors to make sure they were...

Okay, I did it. After my last blog post, I called and set up an appointment for a nurse from Place K to come and evaluate mom for memory...

Facebook saw fit to remind me the other day that it had been a year since I started blogging! How is it that time can seem to fly by, and...

Place K was as nice as I remember it being; very clean and neat, with pleasant staff who interact well with the residents. The lobby’s...

Not much to report this go-round. Group home visit cancelled; mom’s sitter was sick again, poor thing. So it’s been another week with...

Mom’s slept pretty well the past few nights. The only problem with that is increased wrangling during the day, which makes it darn near...

The past week has flown by, even though some parts of it felt like they were years long. First assisted living visit was last Wednesday....

Among science fiction fans, there’s a thing known as the con crud. Invariably when you go to a sci-fi convention, somebody there has some...

Saturday was a day to be thankful for all around! The caregiver showed up early, for starters. Her name is Valerie and she is as sweet as...

I knew it was going to happen sometime, and this past week it finally did. Mom eloped. I’m using the word in the sense we use it in...

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Americans! And a good Thursday to the rest of the world. I was going to write about my gratitude jar, it...

Mom had a horrible night last night. She read her pill schedule over and over for 2 hours and kept asking the same questions. I can...

This morning I put a roast in the crock pot. Mom never used a crock pot when I was growing up; she cooked a roast the old-fashioned way,...

Mom woke up amazingly chipper and bright, and ragging on me for being in bed at 6:30 in the evening. Unfortunately, it was 6:30 in the...

I know it's dumb to say, but when I bust my hump and spend all day and all night taking care of mom, it does still pain me sometimes for...