I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
I can personally attest that giving 10% doesn't guarantee that you'll get it back tenfold. I've had months when I make pretty much nothing at all. It doesn't matter how much I gave the month before.
I do give to my mother's church, because I agree with what they do with the money. I also like that my mother enjoys the church, so I do not mind putting in my widow's mite of support. But I can guarantee that giving to God does not bring things back tenfold, no matter what we read or are told.
From what I understand, those non profit agencies have to disclose their taxes if asked, or you can simply look them up online. I've did that with a few shady animal rescue's who beg for money to buy a $16,000 therapy pool for dogs but... post pics of their family in it.
For some reason I could not find any prune juice yesterday. I was in the juice section, thousands of different cranberry juice, loads of every juice imaginable but prune juice. I have bought it there before but now it's gone?... unless they moved it to the incontinent section? She's only had this problem one other time but I do envision it increasing as time goes by :( also... I did resort to magnesium citrate. The pharmacist recommended this route as it would be quicker to ease her discomfort. She should be fully eased since she woke up fully loaded!! LOL Once upon a time that would have bothered me, now however, I'd rather clean her up than see her straining, upset and pacing for days. Small price to pay. She doesn't have a problem drinking liquids, including water. She drinks more than I do that's for sure.
Man... I just realized I've been talking about poop for 2 days now. Really?
My favorite disabled vet "program" was done recently in Anniston. There was a vet who returned totally disabled (quadriplegic). The community saw his need and built him a home that met his needs. I thought how nice it would be if all communities could meet the special needs like this. It was efficient and transparent. Local companies also contributed, so building costs were probably less. What a great idea. Maybe we should look in our own communities.
Well, on a lighter gripe free comment, I am proud of me this morning. I kept reminding myself that the truck with the claw thingee comes on Mondays so I got busy early this morning and cleared out the attic and got all that junk on the curb for the man and right about the time I got it there, here came the truck and it is GONE!!!! I am so proud of me...NOW I have room to start moving my NH supplies for a clutter free area and am going to really get cracking on my projects like I have been wanting to do. Starting from the attic and moving all the way down to the basement, going to get rid of stuff right and left and make it easy to keep it nice and neat. Anyone who has pets also knows that when you have clutter you are just asking for additional problems because they love love getting into the stuff and either tearing it up and tee tee ing on it....I am feeling so much better already!!!
Well, all of those charity organizations should be required to send a statement with each request for assistance. Disgusts me that some folks working for non-profits actually live the high life. Either they have no clue or they just want to take advantage. If I don't agree with how they spend the donations I don't contribute.
Oooh, I don't like the nickels and pennies. It is an old trick to get people to open the wallets to "pay" for the gift. And I really hate the telemarketer fundraisers. The phone is quiet this morning, but tomorrow is Telemarketer Tuesday. They go crazy on Tuesday for some reason.
On a fantastically happy note, mom slept the entire flippin night!! Nothing like a good BM to make on relaxed enough to sleep :)
Pharmaceuticals were not available but they could be ordered from India. M had to open a local bank account and when he left had about $100 left andtold another aid worker they could have it. When she went to the bank to cash the check she was told there was no money. stealing is a way of life there along with corruption. foreign aid even if it reaches it's destination is simply seem as a way to turn the goods into income. These days we concentrate our charity on local causes like the local food banks or individuals we know are in trouble where we know it reaches it's
destination. Very very sad but at least we try to do what we can to prevent fundraisers from getting rich.
So CM stop contributing you pieces of mind to these people it's a waste of time.
Now don't get me wrong i have no problems with Irish people or mean any offence to other posters (My mother did not know if her father was Irish or Scottish!) A charming kind wife of a Senior Cardiologist in the South took me to a lunch meeting where and an Iris man was the featured speaker. At the end she wanted me to actually me the man whose views I did not appreciate so I went politely. So when the introductions were made I smiled and said very quietly " I come from the other side of the Irish sea" We both kept smiling and finished shaking hands and I returned to my gracious hostess. Well rambling as usual but it does feel safe here to express my views.
id like to rest today instead of sloshing around in the slush and light snow , but -- crack - y wants to work ..
When I bump into the guilty copywriters I give them a piece of my mind (assuming they're too big to go over my knee). The trouble is that too many of them are young and callow and have no emotional understanding of what they're required to write about. Their campaigns are then signed off by people who just want something that looks nice and gets the money in. I hate it, hate it, hate it.
youtube/watch?v=wqK1NEpNBic
Hurry and look... if it's too late just youtube it. Yes, I got sideswiped but... just look.
You have every right to complain, whine, cry. Plus your mom is in a NH with alz/dementia?
Whine and complain all you want. That's what this board is all about! It's hard to watch our loved ones hurting.
Hmmmm.....so, he cleans the pool while your not home if it's dirty? Does he use it, too? I don't know what I'd do about that. Is his primary illness cancer ? Can you talk to him about not cleaning the pool because you are worried about him falling in?
I'm thinking that answer is 'no'?
nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/assessing-cognitive-impairment-older-adults
As usual, replace the DOT with the real thing. And preface it with the usual
I watched a documentary on this disease earlier today.... seems like there is more studies going on over seas than here. Perhaps they'll get very serious when they realize this is the NEXT big cure they need to find.
No, nothing pretty here lately, unless you like being up all night helping your mother poop. If I wasn't so tired I wouldn't mind it so much, it makes her feel so much better... but d*mn, I don't have much to chat about at 5:00 A.M. aside from "push it out mom".
Aging Care has a preview of a song someone came out with to raise money for Alz.
I'm hoping that at some point there is a way to at least stop this in those who are younger. My MIL started when she was fifty. I cared for her, too. I was the one who didn't work, I stayed home and did nothing because I had three small children and her 'children', my ex's brother and sisters worked.
Yeah. And that was before anyone knew what Alzheimer's was. 1981. There were I think three books on the subject and no internet.