tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34869500816206151492024-02-07T22:21:00.717-05:00Life with Mom (and me, Laurie)Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.comBlogger264125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-4755137017746200642018-12-31T10:48:00.000-05:002019-12-31T10:48:57.670-05:00testcan I update?Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-88158730326031900582017-10-22T14:30:00.001-04:002017-10-22T14:30:17.028-04:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mommy loves her flowers!</div>
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I've added real flowers to the artificial tulip bouquet.</div>
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And she's got some living potted flowers!</div>
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Her whole room is filled with light and beauty.</div>
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And my news: I ran a half marathon! </div>
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Came in just under three hours!</div>
<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-62597186466394605452017-09-25T11:50:00.003-04:002017-09-25T11:57:31.477-04:00selfie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-33420656313446622572017-09-24T11:45:00.002-04:002017-09-24T11:48:21.253-04:00More flowers . . . Life with Mom.<br />
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Just ran FIVE MILES! </div>
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Stephan and I dropped by Hope House today to see if the neighbor was in.</div>
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We need to talk to him about the sewer easement, but he wasn't home.</div>
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It wasn't a wasted trip, though. I showed Stephan where the TARDIS is </div>
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going to be placed at the edge of the back garden. I stood on the front porch</div>
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to see if I can see the signpost for "Northern Pike" from there, . . <i>almost</i>.</div>
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Then, I wickedly picked a bouquet of flowers from the yard. If this were a </div>
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fairy tale, my punishment would be to have to live at Hope House and <i>never</i></div>
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<i>return to Pitcairn again. </i>This is a punishment I'm willing to risk.</div>
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I gave Mommy the flowers, and she loves them. I think she loves them just </div>
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as much as Beauty loved the stolen rose from the Beast's garden.</div>
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I'm sewing and crotcheting curtains for the kitchen</div>
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and hit "refresh" and hit "refresh" on the email instead</div>
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of living life and taking care of responsibilities.</div>
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Her eyes shine when she holds them and looks at all my </div>
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a basic kitchen from Ikea as well? I'm full of dreams.)</div>
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She approves.</div>
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I think we might buy a house for Mommy. </div>
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This house.</div>
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A woman named Hope owned it for more than fifty years,</div>
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(Hopefully, many of those years with Mommy!)<br />
So, this was a house for Hope, and is a house for hope.<br />
Hope House is the proper name.<br />
(Special thanks to Jeanie, the bestower of the name.)</div>
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-46575282777239241542017-02-25T09:12:00.002-05:002017-02-25T09:12:13.341-05:00Shady Lane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She's really not easy to distract from the iphone as soon as I'm holding it up like a camera. (Even when I try and use stealth - lol)<br />
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So, I say: "Mommy, you look so sad. Are you sad?"<br />
She says: "Noooo."<br />
Then I say: "Are you happy?"<br />
She says: "Yes."<br />
Then I say: "Can you smile for the camera."<br />
She says: "I'll try."<br />
And the above expression is the best I get out of her.<br />
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It's really early in the morning. It's too early even for birds, but Mommy and I are awake. I laid her back down and now she's watching pretty scenes on her TV while we wait for the sun to come up. I don't take too many pictures of her lying on her side, but she does get turned on her side from time to time, and here is a pic to prove it.</div>
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The Hospice nurse suggested that we let her hold on to rolled up washcloths to help with the contractures she's developing in her hands. Mom's so cute with these washcloths. She examines them really critically and turns her hands this way and that to look at them, and then when she wants to look at her book or card or other object that I've got lying there to entertain her, she lays the washcloth carefully aside. Mommy makes me smile.Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-43247380882801376952016-12-07T18:16:00.003-05:002016-12-07T18:17:25.233-05:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She's really concentrating on the view out the window.</div>
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Here she is watching Stephan fill the bird feeders this morning.</div>
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The whole time she was getting her breakfast poured through the tube, she was just intent on this book, and she was so happily intent. She was just exuding a feeling of deep interest. (I'm not sure what she was looking at, but whatever it was, it's amazing.)<br />
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So, I decided to share with you, and as soon as I took the picture, she looked right up -- for the first time in probably a half hour. I think she's got some kind of "picture" radar. (The phone doesn't make noise. She just knows.)<br />
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When she looked up, I said: "I love you," and she said: "You do?" with this tone of amazement, and here is the picture of her saying that:<br />
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It's been a long time.<br />
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Soon after my last post, Mom was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and acute respiratory failure. She was dangerously ill, and I thought for quite a few days that she wasn't going to make it, and then there was so much going on that I didn't have the energy to think about blogging. Then we were home, and I had to learn to care for her with a PEG tube and even less mobility and communication than she had before. I got to know some wonderful home-health care and then Hospice personnel. Without their help, I don't know how I could have kept my sense of humor, let my sanity, but life seemed too overwhelming to blog.<br />
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After that, writing the post that I'm writing now grew more and more easy to put off as the amount of things I had to catch a reader up on grew and grew with every passing day, then week, then month.<br />
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Frankly, if I write a "catch-up post" with just the highlights of the last five months, it will be pretty long and cumbersome to read, let alone write. So, I'm just going to start as though I'd never stopped or as though this is a brand-new blog just starting fresh in the middle of life.<br />
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Mommy is watching space documentaries on Youtube today. She is just fixated on descriptions of stars and whether or not Pluto is a real planet or merely a dwarf one.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 19.32px;">So, it's been a terrifying day with mommy. She's having trouble remembering how to swallow properly, and her throat is irritated and filled with mucus. I was warned about this. The first visiting nurse who ever came to the house talked to me about it, but you can't warn somebody sufficiently for the feeling they will get when they are caring for a person who is having trouble swallowing little bits of ice. I sat on the bed for hours last night, dripping one after anot</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 19.32px;">her</span> into her mouth. Long story short. Called the doctor first thing this morning, and she's sending out a visiting nurse to evaluate mom and she's scheduled a speech therapist. (Apparently speech therapy can help with the complicated maneuvers it takes for a human to swallow). So, I'm doing all the things the MD told me to do, and Mom's room smells amazing thanks to my mom-in-law and her essential oil humidifier and peppermint (good for clearing all the mucus Mommy is accumulating in her throat). Prayers are so appreciated. Please pray for my mother. I've been thinking a lot about praying without ceasing since she came to live with me - I think every breath a prayer - and today I've learned the every swallow (without chocking) is a praise.<br /><br />I'm wondering if the new air purifier might be part to blame. As I was dealing with this today I realized that I've got a lot of mucus build-up in my throat, too, and then I thought about how I was sleeping in the chair in her room all night with the air purifier blowing on me. Then, I googled, and sure enough dry air is a contributor to mucus formation in the throat. Well, it's off now, and Mommy is not having much trouble at all swallowing her apple sauce. </div>
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Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-51073835337728358662016-05-13T10:24:00.002-04:002016-05-13T10:24:59.519-04:00Little Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-29741010540563321292016-05-07T21:44:00.000-04:002016-05-07T21:44:00.453-04:00sleepy breakfast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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She's almost too sleepy to figure out this </div>
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-47482678955023652582016-05-06T17:23:00.000-04:002016-05-06T17:23:44.915-04:00all clean and happy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's a clean day today.</div>
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-75714658416636561812016-04-28T18:18:00.000-04:002016-04-28T18:18:00.025-04:00looking so darling today!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-29191991019225331912016-04-23T17:38:00.001-04:002016-04-23T17:38:23.822-04:00Gettin' all cleaned up :)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-21317011290743975052016-04-21T21:05:00.004-04:002016-04-21T21:05:40.647-04:00so pleasant :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love being with mom in her room.</div>
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<br />Laura Petershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05864773744925600944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3486950081620615149.post-52245978000287659022016-04-19T18:37:00.000-04:002016-04-19T18:37:05.805-04:00Much happier now :-)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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