Keep a personal wellness journal on DailyStrength to track your health and communicate with friends. http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:46:40 +0100 DailyStrength RSS 0.11.3.0.6833 (FeedCreator 1.7.2) http://dailystrength.org/images/comprofiler/avatar/118115/1218857811.gif http://dailystrength.org/people/118115 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1455723 This afternoon my fathers doc called me, said the pneumonia is overwhelming his lungs, the antibiotics weren't working...he is on morphine...time to stop treatment...keep him on morphine...let him go peacefully. My daughter is with him tonite to say her goodbyes...she is hurting.  She ... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:42:41 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1455104        Went to visit my dad last night.  The hospital he is at is so nice!  People walked by and offered us refreshments.  I was standing in the corridor waiting and someone offered to fetch me a chair.  Wow! His infection is definately MRS... Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:41:11 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1449374 This afternoon my 13yr old is attending the funeral of his friends' mom.  She was driving home from work Christmas Eve when a drunk driver crashed into her car.......I don't think people will ever learn to really care for their fellow humans.  Maybe not all people, but way too many... Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:05:35 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1436568 And so this is Christmas, and what have you done?  Another year over, a new one just begun.  So merry, merry Christmas, and happy new year.  Let's hope it's a good one, without any tears. This morning when the family was opening  gifts I couldfn't stand it, I bur... Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:07:51 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1435694 Monday morning we decided to drive over to the nursing home and find out exactly what is going on as well as do the necessary paperwork.  That day my father was sent to a mental hospital on a 5150 hold.  Seems  the neighbor woman has been telling him tales about her mean husband, and ... Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:57:11 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1431311 I'm back home, been here more than a week, just been too upset to do much.  I put my father into long term care at a nursing facility.  It's a good place as far as those places go.  Good record, good ratings, Dr recomended. I left my home, my family, to care for the old m... Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:23:41 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1381529 Wrote a long story about what's happening in my life and it went poof!!!   What's up??? Been staying with my dad, he's 95 now, he's got dementia and mean!  Keeps insulting my dead son.  Boy oh boy I wish I could just let him have it but I can't, He's ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:48:34 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1381518 Wrote a heartfelf entry but it got lost in cyberspace.  Miss my son Mark.  Wishin he was here with me.  Wishing everybody happy holidays.  Gonna go cry now................................. I'll try again. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:20:49 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1310747  For just about a month now I've been staying with my dad, he's slowly recovering from his broken hip.  It's been hard.  He's 94, will be 95 in October, and VERY set in his ways.  In LA county there's a service that provides nursing, and PT, and social se... Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:29:18 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1261396  This is Mark's Thug look.   Thanks to a certain fabulous member of DS, Maryghostmom1, I have begun posting pics of my son Mark.  I needed a kick in the behind, thank you.  Hope you all enjoy viewing the pics, to me he's beautiful. I used to be so... Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:06:15 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1256702     You would have been 25 today.                                        ... Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:37:17 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1254722 "It's not what you don't know that scares me; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so"Will Rogers Injustice anywhere is a threat to jsutice everywhere.  We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garmet of destiny.  Whatever... Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:50:55 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1251264 Read the paper first thing this morning, been doing that since about 20 years old.  The Sunday paper is usually the best of the week.  There's the usual pages,  the national news, the local news, the life section (with all the advice columns, love dear abby, the med advice, the sh... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:47:50 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1247870 I'm having such a hard time getting through my days recently....I'm not thinking of hurting myself or anything like that...just having a hard time, want to go to bed and stay there. Want my other life back so badly, want to cry a river, want to go to sleep and not wake up until everythi... Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:41:09 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1232468 I've spent the last few weeks being sick...again.  I must have picked up a virus hanging around hospitals.  It started out as a cold, then became the cold from hell that just wouldn't go away.  Finally last week one night I woke up about 4a.m. with horrendous chest pain. ... Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:39:23 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1206622 Today I'm thlinking about Mark.  He would have tuned 25 this August.  I looked at the myspace page of his murderer, it's callled "free".  He's trying to sell his music on myspace.  The murderer's brother callls himself "mike hawk", say it fast ... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:17:46 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1198443 I remember back in the day when the fact that it's Saturday was wonderful.  Not so anymore.  It's just Saturday.  Government business is closed.  There's a huge swap meet near my home so there's loads of traffic.  At least my neighborhood is quiet.  I ju... Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:24:51 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1190765 I had jury duty this week.  I went in this a.m., sat along with 3 hundred some odd people, and was excused for a year from jury duty.  I'm in my 50's, this was my second jury summons, that's not so bad.  So I did my civic duty, yea for me. Otherwise it's hot, ever... Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:51:09 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1122417 Love, love, love this this: Viva La Vida I used to rule the worldSeas would rise when I gave the wordNow in the morning I sweep aloneSweep the streets I used to ownI used to roll the diceFeel the fear in my enemy's eyesListen as the crowd would sing"Now the old king is dead! Long ... Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:32:41 +0100 http://dailystrength.org/people/118115/journal/1117186 Since I am sick, and contageous, with Fifth Disease, and required to lay around the house, and bored, I decided to find out about diseases one thru six. Diseases One thru Six refer to the six childhood diseases associated with rash.  They are: First Disease -- measles, it's caused... Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:49:15 +0100