good am

Well no alarms were needed this am. The rain took over. Did it pour.
It was a long day yesterday.1st Em at the vets,then a day of work ending with Em again. In between I pulled a muscle in my back.( how I did it is any ones guess). Bad enough I was crying trying to take care of the guys and their cages.

My husband and daughter came through. The cages are connected to pens. They had to be cut apart.So cleaning, disassembling, and moving into the house was an event.

I am so happy with my vet, she is a very concerned about Em. She called later with ideas to help. So we increased her meds, and are doing hot compresses.
I am very happy also with Em she just laid there and held her own hot towel.Picture posted.
She is sitting here on the sofa with me this morning looking much better.

Well on to dad. He really has no clue how bad Em is. He knows something is up, he just laughs. This is not to be taken as not caring. Dementia comes out in many ways.
Parkinson's obviously affects the brain. The shaking every one sees is just the beginning. If it was only that.
They are now saying that people (dad) can not process facial expressions or the tone in your voice. So you may be pissed off while he stands there staring at you with a blank face or laughing. Your first reaction is more anger. How dare he laugh at me. Then you remember he has no idea your angry. His brain could have just said "wow look how much fun she is having"
Another 10 deep breaths!
Dad has another issue that drives me insane. FOOD /////////
He either attempts to eat an entire cake at one sitting or complains the pasta is to tough. This is after munching on a bag of Doritos. Go figure.
So last nite I here him in the kitchen complaining to Brian the chicken legs had to many bones(Now Brian is taking those deep breaths).

So I quickly joined in and complained how tough the creamed corn was.

9:14 at nite

Good evening, yes it is nite time. This will be short tonite. I thought I would reintroduce myself to you. I am 55, married, and I have 3 kids. Meg 23,Erin 13 and Bill 83. Meg is away at school and Erin is almost in high school. My husband Brian is a carpenter.

Bill has Parkinson's dementia, so we live with confusion most of the time. It does make for an interesting Household.
We live in a beautiful S Calif city. The weather is great, the beach beautiful and the neighbors cool.

We work hard. When we are not working we are home people. This actually works out well now days. Who can afford to go out. The cost of dinner and a movie is almost as much as rent. Add a club, and you don't eat for a week. (great for diet)
Little extras we have, 2 rats, 2 turtles, and 3 rabbits.
Now I don't think I have to tell you who takes care of the pets. This job usually goes to a parent.I have a poll off to the side, lets see what you think.

Another big thing is I have been sober now for 1 year and 4 months. I think this is pretty amazing. Life, especially mine is pretty rough when you are drunk or with a hang over. We started taking care of Bill with 1 month of sobriety under my belt. What was I thinking ?

Well I have survived and so has my family. We I work early tomorrow so I must end. Have a great nite and be safe ! PS: I hate capital letters !!!!!!!

Sat AM

Good morning, up early today as usual. This appears to be my only time for being alone. This does not always work. One day I feel I will be getting up at 3 am to accomplish this. But then they will know what I am up and get up at 3 also.

Ok so now you are wondering who is they. 1 husband who I love deeply,1 13 y/o daughter which I love just as much. Though being a 13 y/o I want to kill at the same time.Then there is my dad--a wonderful man who has the luck at 83 of having Parkinson's dementia.

Oh we then have to toss in the rabbits and turtles. There is one more 23 y/o away at school. Just as wonderful. If she gets up at 3 am we know the world has stopped rotating.

So this is my life for the moment. Not a bad life mind you. But one that keeps your brain spinning 24/7.

I have started this blog to help myself and maybe others. One thing I have found is there are always others like you, and they need a blog to. Humor I have found saves us. Now days we so need allot of it.So if you can grab a bit of it here by all means do so.

Well now I need to sit and think where should I go with this? For I know I do have 1 reader.