Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I was just wondering the same thing as you posted your comment. I would imagine with this being her first holiday season without her mom it's probably especially hard on her and their family.
I was just thinking of her this past weekend. 🤔
They are planning to introduce a COVID vaccine.
Every now and then I think about an incident that happened many years ago at Tulane’s primate center on the north shore, (Covington, Louisiana) some of their monkeys escaped and ended up in people’s backyards!
I knew that they were working on a vaccine. Tulane wants at least 60 to 70 percent of people to be vaccinated here.
Her mom was a terrible hoarder. I am sure that is an awful mess to clean up afterwards.
She said that her mom had a reverse mortgage on the home so I suppose the mortgage company now owns the home.
Her mom had gambled her savings away at casinos. So sad.
I appreciate that. Prayers are always welcome!
His oncologist says so far, so good. Radiation treatments should be completed near the end of January. He still has hormone injections and another MRI.
We are both very grateful that even though the oncologist described his cancer as ‘aggressive,’ the cancer is contained so it is treatable with radiation.
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Wishing you and your dad the very best outcome with his chemo.
You are very fortunate to be able to accompany him. That’s fantastic!
We are still waiting in the cardio dept and so far they have called back 4 veterans who all have the same first name as my dad LOL! Must have been a popular name in the 40s & 50s!
I am thrilled for you to close the door on that chapter in your life.
I am a firm believer in changing our course in life if it becomes a burden to us or we simply aren’t fulfilled by it any longer.
You are truly wise to not make your life miserable by feeling as if you had to remain where you were.
I think it’s wonderful that you and your family moved on.
Enjoy your dad. He is so very blessed to have your family and it’s completely obvious how much you love caring for him.
Your dad means the world to all of you. Anyone can see that by reading your post about him.
He sounds like a very special man that raised a lovely daughter.
Congrats on the sale!
Please keep us posted.
The assisted living facility that I had considered for my mom was owned by a group of 20 people in the community.
It was assisted living but no memory care. No independent living either.
They had a couple efficiency units, but mostly one and two bedrooms, a full kitchen and laundry on every floor.
There was a guest suite for rent for families of residents. Out of town visitors used it frequently instead of renting a hotel.
It had a hair salon, lovely dining area, swimming pool, beautiful landscaping, walking paths, exercise room, game room with pool tables and card tables, library, shuttle service to doctor appointments, religious services in a chapel, arts and crafts, on and on and on.
I would live there in an apartment!
Another one that I toured was corporately owned. I heard that one changed throughout the years. It was independent, assisted living and memory care. They had activities but it wasn’t as personal as the independently owned facility.
There are many other facilities in all price ranges. But I had it narrowed down to two and really liked the privately owned one the best.
Some had Happy Hour with snacks! My parents never drank.
I do remember that my grandpa would have a cocktail at Christmas parties. That’s the only time I saw him drink.
Sending you prayers and Hugs!!
I didn’t make a post about it. It has happened kind of fast, he was diagnosed in October after having blood in the urine & had surgery within 2-3 weeks after that. The blood in the urine is from the cancer believe, or irritation from the stent they put in his kidneys Chemo is so far so good. Turns out dad has bladder cancer (I thought it was prostate but the tumor is/was on the outside of the bladder). The chemo is injected in to the bladder and has to be held there for 2 hours! Dad has had frequent urination since his surgery in late October and didn’t think he could hold it 2 hours so we weren’t sure he would go through with the chemo but he did it! I timed it with a stopwatch and he made it an hour and 50 minutes! It’s a 40 minute drive to the VA & we went through the McDonald’s drive thru and picked up a drive-up order at Target AND got gas on the way back and he made it home without an accident! Woo-hoo! It’s been about 3 hours and no side effects yet.
Prostrate issues are very common in men so it’s understandable that you suspected it to be that.
My daddy had bladder cancer. He beat it.
Prostrate cancer is the most common cancer for men.
Later on daddy had his heart issues and his stroke. Still, he lived until he was 85. Mom has him beat by 10 years. She’s 95!
I was not aware your dad had cancer. So sorry to hear this.. My brother at the time of his diagnosis of bladder cancer was in his fifties and his surgeon got all the cancer. We were so worried but they can do so much today. He is closely monitored and has been cancer free for 4 years and doing very well. Hope your dad does well and praying for a healing. Please keep us updated. Hugs to you.