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That's me too - lots of achy joints but I figure if something hurts, I must be alive to feel it.
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getaclue said:
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Deb, don't forget to snag a little "me time" here, and there. It's important. Caring for others can be very draining. Once in awhile, you are allowed to remind grandma that no one else is beating down the door wanting to take care of her, and you are trying to, so she can just deal with it.
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I have mondays that i have scraped out as a day for myself. Its just been the last two months.... Two trips to the ER for grandma One for Me ONe trip to Ugent care for Grandma and one trip to urgent care for mom. I just have to try to keep positive. and realize this was an extraoridnary few weeks. I still managed to Get the farrier out to trim my horses feet Order up two loads of hay and get my neighbors supplies added to the delivery.

Mom is a random event Grandma you can throw a rock at a certain time of day and she will be there. Mom when she calls she doesnt say Hi deb how are you..... She says, "Yeah I need to..... The dog just exploded and ...... do you think you could take me to ..... I am all out of .... and desperate. Fill in the gaps for emergencies ... ranging from the vet to the grocery store or the pharmacy or the doctor. Or that thing she saw on TV that she needs becaus they say it does this..... What ever. Her garage is full of "But Wait" crap. You know those infomercials that go on and on and on then the bottom line But wait if you order now we will double the order just pay for shipping....

Latest "emergency" was gopher chasers.... The lady that lives next to mom is a new widow he passed about six months ago. She was wing nut before he passed away... She tells mom the Gophers are coming in her doggy door.... Mom says No your cat probably brought it in. She insists they are coming in the doggy door because they are alive when she finds them.... so she goes to the store and gets those Gopher things. they emit a low level vibration thats supposed to chase them away. Well guess where they went... Moms newly rock covered back yard....

I tell her i am too tired to take her. So I have my nap and when I get up I realize I need to get cereal for grandmas breakfast. 10 pm off to Walmart... Where I found the last two solar powered gopher getters on earth.... Yep she has to have the solar powered ones. Twenty bucks a piece. Around eleven oclock I arive at her house ring her phone no answer.... Yes she is up that late. I cant get into her drive way because the trash company dropped her can in the middle. So i get her car key out of my purse and drop the bag of gopher getters in the drivers seat.

Yep... They were still there three days later....
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Love my mom cant push her off a pier.....

deb
 
Peep_Show said:
deb --

Your relatives may be wearing now, but think of all the great literary fodder they're giving you.

Enjoy your Monday... You've earned it!
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LOL... she just called..... "Yeah I need one of those steel stake thingies to poke in the ground so I can put in the gopher thingies did grandpa have anything like that in his tools?" that would be a no and I am not digging to find it I thought it... I didnt say it... "I will get you one".

Its far better I shop for it than take her along because excursions for one thing are not in her power of self control.... There is always "By the way I need to go to.... and to ..... and can we go out to eat... or I am hungry... So a trip for one thing winds up with two or three stops and one stop at a food place.... at least two or three hours gone.

deb
 

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