OK folks......get ready for a whole new me. Well maybe not a whole new me, but a new screen name and a new blog.
From now on I will be known as: a.soaring.turtle
And my new address will be: http://turtletoesoup.blogspot.com/
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
could it be an actual post? lol
I haven't posted in forever. I have been really busy (and tired) with dad. But he is doing amazingly better and hopefully will get to come home in a couple of weeks. He hasn't been home since March 16th! Whew! He has been through a lot and so have I.
I have been thinking about changing my screen name and starting another blog. Starting off fresh. After mom died I felt it was time to leave One Summers Day behind and I started Chasing The Wind. The AOL does what it does best and I am here at blogger. Don't worry, for the few of you that read me I will post a link to the new improved (?) me whenever I make the change. It could be awhile or it could be this week. Who knows?
Last week a local member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club was murdered here. The funeral for him was this past Saturday (I think it was Saturday). He was buried in the same cemetery as my mom. Now don't get me wrong, I am sorry the man is dead, but you would not believe the traffic and all the cops that were out and about that day. If you were in traffic you had waits you wouldn't believe. Something like 500 motorcycles and 100 cars attended the funeral. City police, county police (sheriff's office) and state troopers were all out along the route from the funeral home (same one we used for mom, strange huh?) to the grave yard (which is about 2 miles or so from where I live). According to the news some regular people started gathering across the road from the cemetery to wait and watch the motorcycles, or was it really to watch the Hell's Angels? The funeral went off without any problems -- other than traffic. Now the police are left to figure out who murdered this guy in his own home.
Kathy
I have been thinking about changing my screen name and starting another blog. Starting off fresh. After mom died I felt it was time to leave One Summers Day behind and I started Chasing The Wind. The AOL does what it does best and I am here at blogger. Don't worry, for the few of you that read me I will post a link to the new improved (?) me whenever I make the change. It could be awhile or it could be this week. Who knows?
Last week a local member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club was murdered here. The funeral for him was this past Saturday (I think it was Saturday). He was buried in the same cemetery as my mom. Now don't get me wrong, I am sorry the man is dead, but you would not believe the traffic and all the cops that were out and about that day. If you were in traffic you had waits you wouldn't believe. Something like 500 motorcycles and 100 cars attended the funeral. City police, county police (sheriff's office) and state troopers were all out along the route from the funeral home (same one we used for mom, strange huh?) to the grave yard (which is about 2 miles or so from where I live). According to the news some regular people started gathering across the road from the cemetery to wait and watch the motorcycles, or was it really to watch the Hell's Angels? The funeral went off without any problems -- other than traffic. Now the police are left to figure out who murdered this guy in his own home.
Kathy
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Sunday June 21 Father's Day
Happy Father's Day to any dad's out there.
My daddy is doing really well. It's been a little over 13 weeks since his surgery. Hopefully he will be rehabbed enough to come home in a couple of weeks. Keep praying for that.
I am exhausted from taking care of dad's cats, house, bills, cars, visiting dad (at least twice a day), and making sure those that are supposed to be taking care of him are actually taking care of him. I don't like where he is now so I feel I must go as much as possible and raise a little Cain when I feel it is needed.
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of my 39th birthday. Yup. Tomorrow it will have been a whole 10 years since I turned 39. Can ya believe it? Me neither.
My daddy is doing really well. It's been a little over 13 weeks since his surgery. Hopefully he will be rehabbed enough to come home in a couple of weeks. Keep praying for that.
I am exhausted from taking care of dad's cats, house, bills, cars, visiting dad (at least twice a day), and making sure those that are supposed to be taking care of him are actually taking care of him. I don't like where he is now so I feel I must go as much as possible and raise a little Cain when I feel it is needed.
Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of my 39th birthday. Yup. Tomorrow it will have been a whole 10 years since I turned 39. Can ya believe it? Me neither.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Today, Sunday June 14
Today I saw:
A rabbit beside my dad's house.
A robin with a worm in it's beak.
Cats sleeping in the walkway at a neighbor's house.
A rabbit beside my dad's house.
A robin with a worm in it's beak.
Cats sleeping in the walkway at a neighbor's house.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Saturday May 2nd
I just needed to share this with someone.
For the past 2 days I would have sworn that dad said he wanted to die. Today I KNOW (because I repeated it back to him several times) what he was saying. He sad he wanted to die. That he prayed that God would take him and me -- the both of us. He said if I didn't love him he wouldn't be here now. I am not sure how to take that part. But he took my hand, squeezed it really hard and closed his eyes and said a prayer (at least that is what I think he was doing.) He asked me to bring my Bible and read it to him tomorrow.
The nurse said that a lot of people in ICU say they want to die because they have never been so sick before and just want it over with. Maybe that is dad's problem, but I feel he is really depressed and I am worried about him. The doctor has started dad on an antidepressant but who knows how long it will be before dad feels the effect from it.
I just don't know how to handle this. I told dad that he still has things to do here on earth. That I need him (but of course he is praying that God will take the both of us) and that Nina (his grand daughter) wants to get to know him and wants her kids to get to know him. But nothing I said did any good. I even said what would happen to our cats if we both died? That didn't impress him either. I had taken new pictures of 150 and Sara (his cats) in to him today and he started crying as soon as he saw the pictures.
So we are all crying here. It's what I do, I know.
Pray for daddy. This really bothers me -- the way he is talking.
Oh, and tomorrow is the first anniversary of mom's passing. Next weekend is Mother's Day too.
Kathy
For the past 2 days I would have sworn that dad said he wanted to die. Today I KNOW (because I repeated it back to him several times) what he was saying. He sad he wanted to die. That he prayed that God would take him and me -- the both of us. He said if I didn't love him he wouldn't be here now. I am not sure how to take that part. But he took my hand, squeezed it really hard and closed his eyes and said a prayer (at least that is what I think he was doing.) He asked me to bring my Bible and read it to him tomorrow.
The nurse said that a lot of people in ICU say they want to die because they have never been so sick before and just want it over with. Maybe that is dad's problem, but I feel he is really depressed and I am worried about him. The doctor has started dad on an antidepressant but who knows how long it will be before dad feels the effect from it.
I just don't know how to handle this. I told dad that he still has things to do here on earth. That I need him (but of course he is praying that God will take the both of us) and that Nina (his grand daughter) wants to get to know him and wants her kids to get to know him. But nothing I said did any good. I even said what would happen to our cats if we both died? That didn't impress him either. I had taken new pictures of 150 and Sara (his cats) in to him today and he started crying as soon as he saw the pictures.
So we are all crying here. It's what I do, I know.
Pray for daddy. This really bothers me -- the way he is talking.
Oh, and tomorrow is the first anniversary of mom's passing. Next weekend is Mother's Day too.
Kathy
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tax day 2009
Great news! Dad's head CT scan didn't show anything! Well, there is a brain in there and it looks like there is a spot where he had a small stroke (so small he probably didn't notice it) that has been there for a little while. It isn't something new. Whew......that is a huge load off for me.
Now dad is still running a low fever and they aren't sure why exactly he has these twitches. Thoughts are that the twitches are coming from all that medicine working its way out of his system. He has been on a lot of medicine for quite a while. Tomorrow will be 4 weeks of him being in ICU. That's a long time.
Because of the low grade fever they are taking cultures from everyplace and anyplace that has a tube. Also because his central line has been in for 13 days the doctor wanted it taken out and a pic line put back into his left arm. The PA is the actual person I talked to. She said that they don't like to leave central lines in for too long because of a greater risk of infection.
So this is where we stand right now: Dad hasn't had anything to happen to his brain since being in the hospital. Blood pressure is under control with a drip. Low grade fever --so they are still culturing every possible thing to see where it might be coming from. The PA did mention maybe doing a test on his liver to make sure it was ok and holding up under all the medicines dad has been getting.
Baby steps. Good days and bad days. We are in this for a time to come it looks like. I am so hoping dad will make it home before summer but I am trying to stay in the moment (which is hard) get things taken care of and the live one day at a time thing.....
Keep those prayers going up for dad and me.
Now dad is still running a low fever and they aren't sure why exactly he has these twitches. Thoughts are that the twitches are coming from all that medicine working its way out of his system. He has been on a lot of medicine for quite a while. Tomorrow will be 4 weeks of him being in ICU. That's a long time.
Because of the low grade fever they are taking cultures from everyplace and anyplace that has a tube. Also because his central line has been in for 13 days the doctor wanted it taken out and a pic line put back into his left arm. The PA is the actual person I talked to. She said that they don't like to leave central lines in for too long because of a greater risk of infection.
So this is where we stand right now: Dad hasn't had anything to happen to his brain since being in the hospital. Blood pressure is under control with a drip. Low grade fever --so they are still culturing every possible thing to see where it might be coming from. The PA did mention maybe doing a test on his liver to make sure it was ok and holding up under all the medicines dad has been getting.
Baby steps. Good days and bad days. We are in this for a time to come it looks like. I am so hoping dad will make it home before summer but I am trying to stay in the moment (which is hard) get things taken care of and the live one day at a time thing.....
Keep those prayers going up for dad and me.
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