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Musings of a woman who left her corporate career to become a caregiver for elderly parents, wrote a book and found her way back to corporate - with love, instead of fear, leading the way. Now working at my Alma Mater, UC Irvine, as Marketing and Communications Director for the School of Biological Sciences.

Friday, July 25, 2008

Groundhog Day Meets Airplane!

Mom is now at Carehouse, the skilled nursing facility in Santa Ana. We hope she will only be there for a week this time around, especially now that it's costing $128 per day for the Medicare Co-Pay. I'm thinking it would be best to have her come home and hire another caregiver to come in at night. The caregiver could watch over both Mom and Jack. Jack and Saint Norma the Caregiver said they would go see Mom today. My uncle and cousin went to visit her yesterday and I am so grateful to them for cheering her up.

Gary will have the angiogram next Friday to determine if he has an arterial blockage to go along with his bad heart valve. Needless to say, all this health and family stress is taking a toll on our summer plans.

HOWEVER, our kids listened to Gary talking about his "Bucket List" and wanting to do more camping and decided to go out and purchase a 28' travel trailer last week. They are going to let us use it in exchange for permanent RV parking on our slab adjacent to the driveway. Last night it only took two hours to park it. The process included tearing out a part of the side yard fence, destroying several perfectly good plants and me on a tall stepladder hoisting a carwash brush to push up the cable and phone lines so the RV wouldn't tear them out. Today I can barely move, even just to type. And to top it all off, our three year-old grandson, Keegan, ate one piece of pizza and proceeded to puke all over the dining room table and chair, whereupon Bindi-Sue (6 month old puppy) seized the opportunity to feast - but was instead whisked out the back door. UGH! I felt like the Lloyd Bridges character in the movie Airplane as I said, "I picked the wrong week to give up booze." Then I opened a bottle of red wine and things got better...

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