Family History
We’re making a stir fry for dinner tonight using riced cauliflower for the first time. I set a bowl from my childhood on a simmer plate over a small BTU burner, set on low, on our gas stove so we’d have a vessel to keep things warm in as they came off the wok. My […]
Accident 7 ~ Anxiety Attack
First, my apologies to those I should be telling this to in person. While in a deep uncomfortable dream state, at three this morning, I realized my respiration was too fast. I woke enough to make a run to the loo, and found myself shaking. The house was not correspondingly cold enough to explain the […]
Accident 6 ~ Rental Procurrment
Mom passed the test my classmate, Wanda, put her through. The rental car is worth about $3000.00, and will not make its owner weep if it gets totaled. Wanda shared that she challenged mom (by phone) with, “Now, sometimes people your age have diagnoses of dementia or Alzheimer’s, and I can’t rent to anyone with […]
Accident 5 ~ Misc and Car Rental
I talked to mom last night. Among other things, she thinks: * The residual on the car will be about $12,000.00. It pegs out somewhere between $3-5,000.00 less her deducable. * The car wasn’t in too bad of shape before the accident. * The Honda has Dixie Cup construction. […]
Accident 4 ~ Letter to the neighbors
Dear Friends and Neighbors of my Mama, You all know by now that my mom wiped out the mail boxes late afternoon on New Years Day. Insurance has been exercised, both for the property damage to the mail boxes (my understanding is they will be repaired on Thursday) and the car, whose fate we are […]
Accident 3
Today, both the first business day of the year, and first business day post Mailbox Mayhem, has been busy. In the last 24 hours I have spoken/corresponded with: Three of mom’s neighbors multiple times, One of mom’s friends, Her insurance agent multiple times, Her insurance adjuster multiple times, The Island’s only rental car business, owned […]
Accident 2
*Deputy’s Rendition: Mom did indeed hit the mailboxes head on. The deputy had to collect mail that was all over the road and return it to the post office. He could see that mom was cognitively impaired and will send the driver re-evaluation form into the state, filling out the half of the […]
Accident…
I got a call from one of mom’s amazing neighbors telling me mom ‘took out the mailboxes’ in the twilight. Mom is OK. * Neighbor’s rendition: The car is probably totaled, all the mailboxes (about two dozen) are down, mom is ok, he needed mom’s insurance info to give to the deputy, […]
3rd Blogoversary
Today is the third anniversary of this blog, and my grandson’s third birthday. Time streaks by at an astonishing rate. Some stats: 246 posts.5418 page views.Readers in 10 countries: US Canada Switzerland France Russia Germany Romania Ukraine China and Poland Viewed via 10 different browsers, including operating systems Unix and Linux. My hope, aside from […]
Confession
I did not take the early boat off the Island. I enjoyed most of four solid hours visiting with Tim, Cindy, their son, daughter-in-law, and charming granddaughters. Tim and Cindy have known my folks for more than 50 years, and me for most of that time. It’s been in the last 16-ish years that we’ve […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 