Update
Well, today it has been exactly a month since Mike passed away. Sometimes I just wonder what he is doing up there and what wonderful things he has seen and heard. I don't really think that he thinks about us because that wouldn't probably be comforting to him. Of course, what do I know???? I'm thinking of him as he was before and I know that he would feel like such a failure to have left us to figure it all out.
God knew that I liked a challenge and there are certainly quite a few of those these days. I am trying to wade through the car insurance thing. I hate all those details and having to be so "up" on stuff so that you get what you need but not more than you need.
Grandma seems to be a little better these days. I thought that not too long ago and then she started in again, so who knows!! I stay ready to defend myself.
We had a situation on Monday that was a little comical but yet scary at the same time. In the early morning I heard Grandma call me and went running up to find her in the floor where she had scooted off the end of the bed. Because of her mastectomy so many years ago, she has no muscles to speak of in her left arm. Because of the arthritis behind her knees, she can't put a lot of pressure on them. So, how do you get a lady out of the floor under those conditions? Well, you have to roll an ottoman in behind her AFTER you have gotten her up on her knees....oh my....it is too much to go into but take it from me it was no easy task!
A couple hours later I heard a crash and ran up to find Grandma in the bathtub with her feet sticking straight up, holding onto the shower curtain, still on the rod that had bent almost double. Now, that was quite a sight. She had on her gown and robe and her sweat pants and panties were down around her ankles. We worked and worked and finally got her sitting up in the tub but she thought she should try to get on her knees so we worked on that a while. I love a challenge, as I said before but this one had no answer! I thought about it in every way I could think. Finally, I decided that there was no way I was getting her out of that tub. I dialed 911 and timidly told them I had an elderly lady down in a tub and not hurt(Gma insisted that I say that because she didn't want to go to the hospital) and needed help to get her out. Soon enough an ambulance showed up with two young guys and a girl. The two guys got in the tub and lifted grandma under her arms and under her legs and into a chair that we had brought in there. They then very kindly helped her to her recliner. They let us know that they were tax supported and that trip would not cost us anything. Transporting her anywhere would have cost. That was very kind of them to tell us. So grandma agreed that was the most excitement she has had in a while.
I worked the rest of the day getting a rail on the side of the tub and a seat to raise the commode for comfort for her. Hopefully we won't have another incident like that.
Tonight I am going over to Julie S. house. Her husband and older son are out of town tonight and so she invited Melinda and I over for supper.
Friday night, the guy who is buying the business comes to pick up the files and let me show him my bookkeeping system. I am very excited about that.
Next Tuesday, I will be going to the Blue Owl in Kimmswick for a luncheon for Jennifer Murr. She and her family live in North Carolina. She sang in my ladies trio and taught Maleah piano lessons and cheerleading. Tim, her husband, was Shawn's basketball coach and also taught Bible to the kids in high school. It will be good to see them again after all these years. I have many pieces of video of Shelby and Kaycee, their girls.
I have made it for one month so I'm sure in the next month things will smooth out and I will slip into a regular pattern. It will be good to settle again.
Psalm 37:23-26
"The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed."
God knew that I liked a challenge and there are certainly quite a few of those these days. I am trying to wade through the car insurance thing. I hate all those details and having to be so "up" on stuff so that you get what you need but not more than you need.
Grandma seems to be a little better these days. I thought that not too long ago and then she started in again, so who knows!! I stay ready to defend myself.
We had a situation on Monday that was a little comical but yet scary at the same time. In the early morning I heard Grandma call me and went running up to find her in the floor where she had scooted off the end of the bed. Because of her mastectomy so many years ago, she has no muscles to speak of in her left arm. Because of the arthritis behind her knees, she can't put a lot of pressure on them. So, how do you get a lady out of the floor under those conditions? Well, you have to roll an ottoman in behind her AFTER you have gotten her up on her knees....oh my....it is too much to go into but take it from me it was no easy task!
A couple hours later I heard a crash and ran up to find Grandma in the bathtub with her feet sticking straight up, holding onto the shower curtain, still on the rod that had bent almost double. Now, that was quite a sight. She had on her gown and robe and her sweat pants and panties were down around her ankles. We worked and worked and finally got her sitting up in the tub but she thought she should try to get on her knees so we worked on that a while. I love a challenge, as I said before but this one had no answer! I thought about it in every way I could think. Finally, I decided that there was no way I was getting her out of that tub. I dialed 911 and timidly told them I had an elderly lady down in a tub and not hurt(Gma insisted that I say that because she didn't want to go to the hospital) and needed help to get her out. Soon enough an ambulance showed up with two young guys and a girl. The two guys got in the tub and lifted grandma under her arms and under her legs and into a chair that we had brought in there. They then very kindly helped her to her recliner. They let us know that they were tax supported and that trip would not cost us anything. Transporting her anywhere would have cost. That was very kind of them to tell us. So grandma agreed that was the most excitement she has had in a while.
I worked the rest of the day getting a rail on the side of the tub and a seat to raise the commode for comfort for her. Hopefully we won't have another incident like that.
Tonight I am going over to Julie S. house. Her husband and older son are out of town tonight and so she invited Melinda and I over for supper.
Friday night, the guy who is buying the business comes to pick up the files and let me show him my bookkeeping system. I am very excited about that.
Next Tuesday, I will be going to the Blue Owl in Kimmswick for a luncheon for Jennifer Murr. She and her family live in North Carolina. She sang in my ladies trio and taught Maleah piano lessons and cheerleading. Tim, her husband, was Shawn's basketball coach and also taught Bible to the kids in high school. It will be good to see them again after all these years. I have many pieces of video of Shelby and Kaycee, their girls.
I have made it for one month so I'm sure in the next month things will smooth out and I will slip into a regular pattern. It will be good to settle again.
Psalm 37:23-26
"The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed."
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