Mom & Me Five Archive

    ...and bittersweet. In order to get myself back here I decided it was necessary for me to disengage from my involvement at Daily Strength's caregiver support community. In order not to repeat myself all over the web, here's the post at Daily Strength in which I explain my change of direction. Ahhh...sad, but, it's good to be back.
    As usual, I've got a load of items backlogged in my mind I want to post about, so, here's my partial reminder list, partial, that is, to my memory:

• A few nights ago Mom called out to me from Dream Land. First time she's done this;
• Comparison of Away from Her with the story from which it was adapted, The Bear Came Over the Mountain. The story link is to the 1999 publication of it in The New Yorker, by the way...if you enjoyed the movie, you might want to read the story; if you click into it and you get a mishmashed paged with an advertisement stationed and stationary over it, refresh your page and the story should come through;
• Short factual review of my mother's 90th birthday celebration (the one that happened here during the week of her birthday and the one that happened far away on the day of her birthday);
• Flu Shot Day (last Saturday);
• How Mom's been doing since her second blood transfusion;
• Early Thanksgiving, this year, including a visit from MCS & MCBIL this weekend;
• Interesting article in the most recent edition of Take Care!, the NFCA's snail mail newsletter...think "healthcare nightmare" a thousand times worse than anything I've experienced while medically advocating on my mother's behalf;
• My delighted reaction to Karma giving me a friendship award!

    Got a blood draw to make tomorrow, and I need to "do" Mom's hair so that it'll look "halfway decent", as she puts it.
    Sooner than later!