Posted on 01/31/2008 3:36:33 PM PST by mattstat
Cats are wll known to have contact with horrible beings... from ‘outside’.
Ugly weather, here.
Sprinkles, wind, ugly clouds....:o[
I’m SO ready for summer!
Afternoon! 40’s and drizzly; I turned up the thermostat so Anoreth would stop whining. It was 67 in dining room, and it’s not my fault she insists on hiding in her room!
I had an email from my mother yesterday. She said Dad recognized only a few people in some pictures they had from their recent trip to Missouri. She said he even thought his own picture was actually his father! (Although maybe he just doesn’t think he looks so old :-).
Not very encouraging, all things considered. We’ll see them both in May at the beach, if nothing disastrous happens between now and then. I wish we lived somewhere closer to Florida!
When I get too cold, I go crawl between flannel sheets and turn my electric mattress pad up to 4. After about an hour, I can get up without shivering!
It’s always hard to see a parent go through things like Alzheimer’s. Although they may not realize they’ve lost part of who they are, we do, and that sense of loss is often very great, even though our parents are still with us.
I have a friend whose mother has Alzheimer’s, and I think the mother doesn’t realize her memory is going. My friend cares for her, but she (friend) gets VERY tired of the constant stress.
I’ll keep you and your parents in my prayers. {{{TC}}}
Thanks! Mom said she’s looking into getting a home health aide, at least when she’s going to be gone overnight. I hope she will; she deserves to get away sometimes!
We also found out today that a highway bypass may be coming right by us! Probably won’t be usable until 2020, but try selling your house once the route is approved!
When it comes to Alzheimer’s the best thing you mother can do for herself is get some home care for your dad. She may also want to check into adult day care for him. He would even be eligible for transportation, and if he only went one day a week, it would give her a needed break.
Ohyah...sell that house while you can!
Kearen has the best outside reception of any cat I have seen.
And she listens to the voices well.
Dad goes to several activities a week with his friends - golf, gym, card games, and so on. He doesn’t need full-time watching, yet. However, I think it would be good for Mom if she arranged a full day each week when she didn’t have to help him. I sometimes wish I could get a full day off, myself :-).
Unless we get a great job offer with moving benefits, we’ll just stay in this house until we die, bypass and all. The information I could find put the actual road at least 1/2 mile away - but they can always change. Just when I thought we might be able to move (someday) without a loss on the house!
And our church is having to move, too.
No, she has enough mass that she doesn’t need to.
She’s like an omnidirectional antenna.
It’s good that your dad can still get out, without too much “watching.” It might be a good idea if yer mum looked around now, for day care centers. The best place to check would be with the county, and the day care center(s) that is “sanctioned” by them.
Word of mouth is most likely the best, since folks tend to bad mouth places with that don’t “care.” Also, check with the local transportation system, since they will have the inside scoop on all of the above.
(There MUST be a “paratransit” systen in effect, in conjunction with the bus system, running consecutive hours, within 1/4 mile either side of any given bus route. ADA laws are very strict about this, and since your dad qualifies as “disabled,” he is eligible for service. Yer mum would need to request an application from the transit system, but I suspect the determination would be a given, because of the diagnosis.)
What kind of “work” does DP do?
LOL, almost. My stay in Bangalore was like a visit to Seattle summer. It was nice to get back though... but...
...bad news. Site head has pre-empted my office for some new hires for her team. I can understand the issue of needing to have them close by her office, and she raised the point of moving as delicately as possible, but the choice of office spaces was slim -- either open "pods" downstairs or one of two interior offices upstairs. I've chosen one about the same size as my current, though with potentially better layout, but under standard lighting it's a grim cave. (The irony is that of anyone in the building, I've come to rely most on daylight, detesting artificial light.)
But with some creativity in layout, lighting and decoration I think I can turn that ugly room into a very attractive if offbeat office.
I lost my father-in-law to Alzheimer's (pneumonia did him in), and my sister's husband, younger than me, is pretty far gone now. It's horrible. Prayers, T-C!
I noticed, mostly because of my avante gard views on life, love and S-E-X, whenever “we” were forced into a new pod, mine seldom got more thasn 5’ from the Supervisors’.
Of course, I made them eat all the paperwork they generated in my behalf, and let them know I may be gone but NOT forgotten!!!
It sounds as if your “site head” neads an attitude readjustment. That, or a change of venue.
I’d be most happy to render my “services.” I didn’t spend 20 + years in customer service fer nuthin’, y’know!
;o]
Customer service?
Of course then, you know best that the customer is ALWAYS right...right?
Der Prinz is a digital network engineer - highly technical computerizing something something something. He could find a new job, but we’d rather not move if we absolutely don’t have to.
My parents live in a very large retirement community in central Florida, “The Villages.” It’s about 50 miles north of Orlando. Since the whole place is organized for old people, there are bound to be plenty of resources for assisted care for Alzheimer’s sufferers. Mom just hasn’t looked into it in detail so far.
She joined an Alzheimer’s support group at her church a few months ago, and they arranged the resource seminar she attended last week. I’m looking forward to hearing that she got lots of useful information, and is following up on home assistance or day programs. There’s a day center for the elderly near us, in the wilds of suburban Charlotte; in a place like The Villages, elder care is an obvious economic opportunity!
Dad doesn’t think he needs help - says leaving the stove on was just an one-time oversight. Just like my grandmother - lived alone until she was 89, even though Dad told her he would hire a companion/medical aid for her. She didn’t have Alzheimer’s, though.
I just wish there was more I could do!
For all I'm a "direct report" to her, it's an organizational issue (i.e. if I didn't report to her I'd be officially a German employee with German workplace rules for all I'm in the U.S.) -- and the new office is as far away from her on the "other wing" of the upstairs floor as is possible. Little traffic goes through there, so I won't be bothered much -- I expect I'll be able to do my job with fewer interruptions. (I really have few interactions with folks in the building, I could as easily work from home if policy allowed it.)
The only thing I'll miss is having a window.
But with the door closed I may be able to play music through speakers without bothering other folks, unlike my current office where I can hear everything going on in the lab, conveyed through the overhead plenum.
I can see supporting your need for a projection system you can use to prepare your presentations.
If that dark office, you can have any kind of window display that makes you comfortable.
Standard answer to any inquiry: That’s the intro to my upcoming presentation in ___________ (Fill in the blank).
Yepper! Until they walk away from me. Then I can say, under my breath, exactly what I think. BUT! I will always try to appease the customer...”just in case.” And usually, in writing!
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