Book Board Chat

Good evening everyone! Got a lot more rain. Wet chickens [just put them to bed]. Rusty isn't ovely happy either -- that much rain makes him Clean but I just told him that he could have fun getting dirty all over again.

antsy My Dad passed away just after my 45th birthday. He had dementia. I took care of him 10 years, plus a few years before that dealing with what might be going on. If something had happened to me [or perhaps he did something to me violent during one of his violent episodes] in the beginning it wouldn't have mattered because he still knew how to open the front door and he'd just leave [he liked running away, a whole other issue, but he always took the dog with him]. Basically, I am saying I was young and healthy. Would your mother be able to [or bother to] call the doctor if you needed it. [can she remember to dial 911 if she sets a fire?]. If somethng happened to you while you might be out [shopping...] would she open the door to anyone that came to check on her? Would she be able to convince them she was able to take care of herself while you, say were being treated in the hospital? My dad wouldn't have been able to convince anyone once I was with him full time. I had a aide coming 3 morning a week to help with the morning routine. I had a sitter come other days so I could do things, get out, or deal with other family issues. [When I started taking care of my father, there were 5 family members over the age of 80. By the time he passed away, all of them had died.] I put my dad in a nursing home once a year so I could have a week off. [or go up north to do the last minute in the hospital, burial stuff]. Get a sitter -- one that smokes perhaps. My sitters would take my dad out for rides and to go places [he liked car rides and was pretty much taking them until the end]. My 'old' sleeping patterns never re-established themselves after my Dad passed away. I still get up 1 1/2 hour to 2 hours after I go to bed [doesn't matter what time] because that was bathroom trip time.