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We will be taking Cayden to Florida next month depending on how my doctors apt goes on monday, I have been having trouble catching my breath and I even quit smoking for the most part. Please pray that my trouble breathing is just my new meds they put me on and not anything more serious. Cayden is freaking out that when he wakes up tomorrow or any other...
Dan's surgery was a month ago and he's been in a nursing home for rehab for two weeks. I've seen Dan frustrated, angry, tired, connected to machines with tubes going into and out of his body. I have never, in 36 years, seen him this mean and hurtful. Not just to me, to everyone. He is verbally abusive to everyone at the facility, to Jeff,...
Well guys, I'm back home today with both eyes now done. The cataracts are gone, the lens are in, I'm dropping meds in both eyes and hopefully by Tuesday of next week I hope to be able to see clearly on any day or night. My follow up appointment is next Wednesday morning with a dental visit afterwards. All seems to be OK with the eyes but the right...
Mike and I have two vehicles both which are very inconvenient when it comes to riding more than two people at a time in them. He has a quad cab Ford Ranger pickup and I have an Isuzu Amigo which is only two door and is also a stick shift. He has, since the stroke and the wedding where he met a large portion of my family, become a lot more family oriented....
Well, the knee surgery went well, but the rehab got off to a rocky start. No weight bearing for a month is the problem. The way the knee feels, I know I could walk on it easily. That would destroy any new cartlege growing so I am doing what the dr ordered. I found out though that is not easy.
The knee operated on is my right non-stroke side. So I am now...
The knee operated on is my right non-stroke side. So I am now...
I ran Bruce ragged this weekend. Friday noon I got home at lunch, exhausted. After lunch and nap, Bruce refused his shower, he did his Estims, snack and mail, set the table for dinner. He channel surfed most of the afternoon and I was too exhausted to argue.
I planned out Saturday and Sunday, something to do both days even tho the weather was iffy. Our...
I planned out Saturday and Sunday, something to do both days even tho the weather was iffy. Our...
I have not been to see my brother since I posted a week ago. I had planned on going at least once last week, but I am just too exhausted
(in every way) to make the 2 1/2 hr trip up. So I have been keeping in touch with phone calls and texts. He is growing weaker every day, but is still aware when he is awake.
Mom has been doing ok. On Saturday, the...
(in every way) to make the 2 1/2 hr trip up. So I have been keeping in touch with phone calls and texts. He is growing weaker every day, but is still aware when he is awake.
Mom has been doing ok. On Saturday, the...
I have been trying to give time to my family when they ask for it but while still maintaining some independence. It is always a balancing act, isn't it? There is so much busyness in all our lives. When I was a full-time caregiver I gave very little time and thought to the family, now my time is my own I can spare them the time but don't want to get...
Hope you all are having great mothers day with your kids, I feel so blessed to have amazing kido even being teenager woke me up with kiss & hug in the morning & man my day already started with wonderful note & feeling like queen mom. He was like what do you want or breakfast mom & I was floored. I am so happy & greatful to be able to be...
Not realising that I could create a dairy here, I started one elsewhere. If anyone cared to read it there, and comment, I would be so grateful.
I also nurture a faint hope that someone (besides me!) might just find it helpful!
Please see: http://strokesurvivo....wordpress.com/
Ben
I also nurture a faint hope that someone (besides me!) might just find it helpful!
Please see: http://strokesurvivo....wordpress.com/
Ben
The ray of sunshine is my daughter who came to visit this past weekend. She lives in Michigan and comes 3 or 4 times a year. She is going to England (3rd time) with her boyfriend this month to visit his parents. It would be hard to visit her as her condo has BRs upstairs and only 1 handrail.
I had a project for her this visit (as usual). lol We went...
I had a project for her this visit (as usual). lol We went...
We are less than a month away from the 9 year anniversary of Gary's brainstem stroke, and I am finding it hard to believe that we both have survived this long. Doctors originally said "If he makes it through the first two weeks, he will most likely not live more than a year - 3 years at best." That may have been true if I had placed him in...
Hi Everyone: I think the blog part of my brain is broke because I just can’t seem to get it going! Not much has been going on except when my sisters came. I posted a picture of the 3 of us in my gallery – none of us look alike. The one on my right (Sonnie) is my half-sister who is 75 and lives in Michigan. She sure looks good and hasn’t had...
I just learned a new exercise that works for me :Nodding: if you own a cane :gym: that's great :Nodding: because all you need is a cane and a bed to lye in it :Nodding: first of all you lay down in bedwith your kneesbent and then you take the cane holding it in your hand :gym: and you simply lift up and hold then while holding the cane in your arm move...
Our trip south last week proved that the harder something is to accomplish, the more you grow as a result. Ray seems sort of sad to be home now with nothing much going on anymore, and no non-stop blabbing 24/7 (although I'm in charge of the neighborhood yard sale this weekend, so we're not totally vegetating). However yesterday, back here at home,...
Litterally, it's a blur. With so much to do, one day bleeds into the next and I forget how long it's been since I blogged.
AIR CONDITIONER: I have been trying to get an air conditioner/furnace installed for weeks, and delays keep happening. Everyday for 3 weeks I've been expecting them and ready, only to get a phone call with another...
AIR CONDITIONER: I have been trying to get an air conditioner/furnace installed for weeks, and delays keep happening. Everyday for 3 weeks I've been expecting them and ready, only to get a phone call with another...
This will be my first summer since' my major stroke july31. Can I swim, can I take. My kids to the pool? Can I get out of the water on our boat ladder with my weak left arm, I think I will discuss trying water therapy to evaluate how I do in a pool. I am Readyto try and see what I can do time will tell, I was just curious what everybody else's...
Thursday, I traveled to a doctors appointment on Access Link. What that is,is a public transportation geared towards the disabled and elderly. It was defined in the law of the Disability Act that areas that have public transportation, to have a service that follows the transit line, with fare, for those who can't do it unassisted....
This is a good caregiver/survivor song or just a good tune.
Terry
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