Archive for the ‘Caring for Mom’ Category
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Trains – Now and Then
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
My son Jacob and his lovely wife Becky, with their adorable two-year old Sofie settled into our home to watch Mom for four days. They had a little help from our beautiful 17 year old grand-daughter Tia as Kip and I boarded the Amtrack from Glenwood Springs to Denver. We stayed at the Hyatt Regency Convention Center, downtown. Aaron and [...]
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Walls Closing In
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
Ten months ago, the idea of having Mom live with me looked a lot different than it does now. I’m still committed, but I’ve had a major attack of “cabin fever”. Certainly it has a lot to do with being cooped up for days on end with Mom repeating the same things over and over [...]
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Mom and a World Class Artist
Friday, January 8th, 2010
Last night, Dec. 26 2009, one of my boys (the one married to the beautiful Sandra introduced in “What About In-Laws?”.) took his wife, Mom and I and our friend Diana to Aspen. Our first stop was a quaint little coffee shop called Victorias. It was hardly a coffee shop – all the yummie-looking goodies made [...]
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Worrisome Wounds
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
A few years ago, Mom fell going up the three concrete steps to her front door at her home in Ohio. It was amazing how long it took this wound to heal. It didn’t require stitches or a doctor’s care, but was scraped and swollen and badly bruised. This was during the time when she was [...]
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“A Memory That Doesn’t Remember”
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Mom’s lack of short-term memory is taxing and requires an infinite amount of patience. In normal, day-to-day living, this is a challenge. But recently family members faced serious health and legal issues. During crisis, her lack of remembering anything for even 60 seconds has sent me “over the edge”.
My husband and I have tried to [...]