Rabbit Rabbit
(it's a new month, so I gotta type Rabbit Rabbit)
Sigh... I feel for you, Terry. I get that all the time in whatever business I'm running. Save a little here, oops, this broke and drained the savings away.
In other news, MIL is doing well. She's starting to look at the clock when the daughters are over, and 4 pm, she locks up her phone in the "safe drawer" and gets her wrist-stretchy-bracelet with the apartment key, then sits staring at the girls.
D#1 "Do we need to leave, mom?"
MIL "Well, it's 4 o'clock."
D#2 "Must be time for supper..."
MIL "The girls are saving me a seat in the dining room"
Ds "Bye Mom!"
They laugh about how she has adapted to finding new friends and making sure she gets her meals on time. Things she seldom got right as a diabetic living by herself in the middle of Rural Corn and Soybean field Indiana...
Now, to my mother with the AFIB. She made it to the Cardiologist early because of a fainting episode when the visiting nurse was there....
The cardiologist wants to treat with meds, not with heart shocks. Sister pressed him and said he was guarding his speech in front of mom. But, her heart doesn't sound strong enough for the cardio-inversion.
Translation, we're in the last year or so with mom.
She's still having short-term memory issues. But is proudly announcing when she made the bed, walked down to laundry, that sort of stuff. My sister who checks on her daily says Sundowners is becoming more noticeable.
So, we're attempting to get our minds around that.
In other news, I'll be heading out to get GREEN paint to get rid of the yellow fence today. Just need to wait on the fence to dry out following last night's rain.
Oh, and I'm expecting the book with the railroad guest stars back from the editor this week. Once I get the final revisions out and back from my beta readers, you three (Willie, Smudge, and Sherrel) will get a message from me with a link to download a copy before it goes on sale. The question isn't just "Whodunnit?" but also, who has the biggest and fanciest railroad-themed BBQ Smoker?
My mum and dad both passed unexpected as did my father and mother in law, knowing you are going to lose someone seems very hard to me, mine were a shock but at least I was not left in the position of biting my nails waiting for the inevitable. knowing I was slowly seeing someone I love disappear in front of my eyes just seems…hard.
losing someone you love is hard…period.
My dad believed in ghosts and was convinced my mother could come and visit him, she never did, despite some truly eerie stuff when she was a live, 30 years without her, in his last days he said he would not mind dying as he would be reunited with her. I just hope that is the case, wish I was more religious, faith gives a lot of comfort.
1. she told my dad whilst she was in hospital he had to come collect me from school and we were not to go down the usual road under any circumstances, ok he said to ‘pander’ to her, then there was in the paper that that day just after school finished a lorry ran into the gates over a factory we would have passed, my mum never let anyone forget it either.
2 she predicted the death of a family friend a young man. she woke up in the middle of the night c,aiming this person had died and she had seen this happen, my dad went off to work upset that she should even think such a thing, came home early, I was off on college holiday, within the hour, he had arrived and heard this lad had died that night, we had not be close to these people, my mum died 30 years ago so no internet or other goofy info, coincidence? well if so she won the lottery of coincidences,
3. again whilst in hospital she had a seizure of sorts and for a week or two she was giving the newspaper seller tips for winning horses, she was not a betting person had never even looked at betting or such, the guy apparently won on every tip she gave, she did not always offer up the winner either, sonetimes she was saying 2nd or 3rd place, anyway a couple of weeks later she was given some drugs in the hospital which cause a second incident, and the betting tips stopped, much to the newspaper sellers dismay, he wasasking her to give him a tip and she said she could not do it anymore, he asked my dad why she wouldn’t help him any more and my dad was pointing out she had never ever done this before.
4. She also claimed on many occasions to see peoples guardian angels, she. Told me mine was a young red Indian with s single feather, why a red Indian I have no idea as I have no US connections at all. she would say she would see the angels before momentous happenings in people life, they would float behind and above the person, well I always thought it a quirk or hers, but more often than not soon after she would say she saw one of these floating apparitions, something would happen to them, the last time she ‘saw’ mine I had a bad car accident, luckily I was a walk away, barring a massive bruise on my thigh, but it was in the days when safety belts were not compulsory but she had been warning me to be really careful and I had worn the belt. A car ran into me from the side.
Now I have never seen anything eerie, and if someone else described any of this to me I would think them totally nutty, and frankly if you think what I am saying sounds total bullshit I would totally sympathise with your opinion. in fact when she was in the hospital when she did the racing predictions she was acting so strange they took her off the drugs they had given her, and admitted they were trial drugs, and my dad had not been asked permission, he should have sued.My aunt and my cousin both claim to have seen her as a ghost, but frankly if my mum was capable of reappearing she would have visited my dad or possibly her kids, she barely spoke to her sister or niece. Weird, there were other incidents but more complicated to explain. It is what makes me think there is more to life than we think, but other than her interactions my life has been nothing more or less than normal and mundain, and to be honest I prefer the mundane.