first to my cousin, and the second today to my friend...
thanks so much for the pics, you all look super, and super happy as well...living well and healthy so good.on all of you and especially on your dad..what a fantastic man, but he definitely better start to move around even if it's just around his many acres of pathways...
Funny thing ';;just as i typed that...a not so funny thing happened...mac got very agitated, he had been sitting happily listening to jazz when he decided he must must have his coat and go out to see his mother..people were waiting for me he was saying over and over...i have to go home...i said, this is home and you can't go out it's cold and going to be dark...well no getting him to stop, and then he became really up tight and yelling, so i said, let's go downstairs and see what the weather and the night is like, - it was still light - but of course sundown already, well we got down, but no he was in the lobby, and yelling and telling me i was a liar....so the receptionist tried to reason with him, then the head nurse (male) tried to say wait 20 min i'll take you out...he did, but then mac didn't want the man with him..and was yelling out front..and came back in, then 2 nurses tried to give him a pill..no way, they brought him back to our apt. he settled down, but really furiously, petting the cat....i came in and he went over his misery and why....i called Gaye so he could vent with her, she is good at calming him...and she did..thank god... she said she would come over and get to the bottom of things for him...and he then said, no it's o.k. wait, it will be o.k. well now i'm going to get off this email and use it for my blog...sorry....and
i will think of what struck me so funny and write another email maybe tomorrow...
this is today's email
i'm missing you and hoping that all goes well with your parents...remember the help is the most important thing...i'm writing quickly as yesterday, mac and i took our long long walk, and then silly me decided to also do my grocery order ...too much for mac, i think, and although he was fine on the way home, by after dinner he decided he had to see his mom, and life became unbearable, as not only was he climbing the walls, but i had overdone myself in the walk process we sit where we can, and a couple of times pulling him up from sitting, i strained my left ankle and back...now i'm hobbling around like an old crone...so sitting with my leg up,
luckily mac is fine this a.m. after i got his special pill in him before bedtime...he absoolutely would not take anything from the nurses who wanted him on meds when he went kind of beserk last evening...but they managed to strong-arm him back to the apt. and thankfully the cat distracted him - he stopped and petted the cat and calmed down enough to do the usual bedtime procedures...brush teeth ...wash..and the preposee got him in p.j.s and i got him into bed. so remember...it's the help your dad needs the most...
the first email was about my cousin's dad who is over 90 and fine, the second to my good friend whose mom has the big A....now i'll put my feet up and ice on my ankle...there are no accidents' i must take care -bye.
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