Spaghetti
The menu Sunday evening at mom’s AL community included a classic light Italian marinara with meatballs over pasta. When I was a child, my mother’s spaghetti sauce was a delicious thick amalgam of mushrooms, onions, garlic, ground beef or sausage, herbs and various dispositions of tomatoes, cooked to a perfection, over pasta. Of course, that’s […]
Snake Poop Water
My mom’s wonderful Island neighbor, the one who helped my parents with SO much for the last 15+ years, and is going to further remodel the grey water drain field for me, emailed the other day. He wanted to know if he could use the property’s original ground water well for agricultural water. He and […]
Mom’s Obsession III
A call yesterday from my daughter let me know, among other things, that mom ‘freaked out at her,’ but only for 15 seconds or so. Evidently this was precipitated by my kiddo’s facial expression. After telling her grandmother that she certainly wasn’t flashing pained looks in her grandmother’s direction, mom launched into her latest confabulation. […]
Reprise
It’s been amazingly quiet since the end of July. My husband and I find ourselves camped, in our antique trailer, on the coast, a state a way from mom. We didn’t have to postpone this trip, not once! The cat gave me pause the day before we left, however… Turns out he was simply being […]
Letter Revealed
On Tuesday, during business hours – after my early AM post, mom approached my daughter in her office to repeat a dozen conversations. Included was the fury regarding her Island doctor’s visit to her in her apartment. My kid, using ‘gentle deception,’ told her grandma that she’d spoken with Dr. G who, as it happens, […]
Mom’s Obsession – II
Mom’s Island doc sent the requested letter to my daughter. When I asked my girl if she’s shared the doc’s letter with mom, she said her grandma had had a good day (Friday) and she didn’t want to derail that by bringing up a solution to something mom wasn’t looking for in that moment. I […]
July 21 Island Trip – Day Four
Last night I managed to get to bed before midnight, and with a 7:15AM alarm, was stoked about the possibility of 8 hours of sleep. A 5:40AM text from a friend leaked air from my bubble, closely followed by a call, on the house phone, from Jack, who tried to let me know my Windows […]
Mom’s Obsession
My daughter called me late morning today to let me know that mom is obsessing, to the point of paranoia, over who sent her Island doctor to see her last week. Recall, dear readers, that her Island doctor did no such thing. Mom called his office, and they spoke on the phone. Mom has been […]
July 20th Island Trip – Day Three
I had a lovely dinner with Tim and Cindy last night, after which I caught the last of a live music-in-the-park show where I ran into neighbors. Today I: Met with the neighbor who can work the grey water drain field magic Learned there’s a 200′ deep well on the property waiting for a pump […]
July 19, Island Trip – Day Two
Yesterday afternoon and today, so far, I’ve: Met with everyone I expected to, including the neighbor who’s been mowing. He refuses to take money for his time saying that he told my mom he’d mow her place when he mowed his, and that was that. I am humbled. Made a short grocery run on my […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 