Posted by: Ann Doyle ®
01/04/2003, 08:57:51
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We could have a regulare Pity Party the second Sat. of every month. I can't remember if I told this bb about a self pity saying I heard.
Self pity is like a wet diaper, It feels nice and warm at first but after awhile it starts to stink. Ann who just got over a pity party two weeks ago and isn't quite ready for another one yet but is getting there. Botox didn't work as well and finance guy of ours is coming to explain what went wrong and what we can try to do. YUCK!
Well at least Ohio won. Now I've made sure I made a lot of enemies. Actually I'm a Notre Dame van (meant to type fan but I've put on so much weight , it fits). Ann Doyle--modified by Ann Doyle at Sat, Jan 04, 2003, 09:00:28
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Posted by: Shirley-Arkansas-USA ®
01/04/2003, 16:50:39
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Hi June,
Thanks for asking about me. I've been having the ole depression problems again and eyes have not been doing well. We're still trying to take care of my dad here at home and it is extremely frustrating not to mention really sad watching him deteriorate mentally as well as physically before our eyes. What with struggling with my eyes and trying to care for him, it can be a bit much at times. I'm rebounding AGAIN as some of the "Christmas" pressure is off so hopefully I'll be a bit more talkative and find humor once again in things. I have to be able to laugh or I don't handle things very well.Shirley in Arkansas who has to watch her daddy very closely or he will wind up wearing two pairs of underwear. :-)
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Posted by: June in Toronto ®
01/04/2003, 17:02:15
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You've got a lot on your plate, Shirley - we know that. You will never regret doing what you are for your Dad. I was 3,000 miles away when my parents passed away and my guilt took a long...time to go away.Here's hoping you find more humour in everyday things (I'm looking also) and the depression lifts. Hugs from Toronto - June
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Posted by: Delaine Inman ®
01/04/2003, 17:17:46
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2 pairs of underwear..... not too bad even though it does increase laundry. Wearing underwear outside his pants or wearing no underwear, well that is another story. I know you will laugh again, but now it is not funny. I watched 3 grandparents spiral down and it was not funny, but some years of distance can bring back some smiles. I was Director of Nursing in the Nursing Home where my Grandmother lived for 10 years. She threatened to throw me across her lap a few times when I tried to get her to do things she didn't want to do ......like take a shower. By the end of 10 years she didn't even know who I was and that hurt. I longed for a good fight with her then, but she had lost all her spunk. My Christmas decorations are still up.....Christmas won't be over until I say it is. My son will be her Jan. 7th.
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Posted by: Ann Doyle ®
01/04/2003, 18:14:53
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Shirley, I had forgotten that your dad came to live with you. My mom lived with me for 2 years but I didn't have this bleph/Meige at the time. She was in fairly good health and wasn't too bad mentally. She broker her hip and we found out she had cancer while she was in the hospital for her hip.
She was in the hospital 8 weeks until she died there so I was blessed that I didn't have her at home when she was really bad.
She was a people pleaser all her life but for a week or so it seemed like all her anger of 82 years that had been stored up came out. It was terrible. She threw things at people, the wall. We could't keep anything near her and she yelled. All of this was so unlike her.
When I got out of the hospital, I yelled in the car with the windows up. God I can't stand this much longer. The next day she was back to her normal sweet self.
I really had it easy. The 2 years she lived with me I could leave her alone for a couple of hours at a time and the first year, my husband and I could go away over nite and my daughter would check on her. She had just reached the point where I couldn't leave her alone (left the burners on the stove) when she broke her hip. I had it very easy.
Blees you, Ann Doyle
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