What do you as a caregiver want in your Christmas stocking this year? Be funny! Be serious. Be ridiculous if you like. Be sarcastic!

12 cases of wine, that should hold me over from Christmas Day to New Years Eve! Then what? I have no clue!

A week by myself ( yes all alone) in a hotel,, it doesn't have to be a luxury one,, just a nice one with cable TV and internet, and good room service,, so I can just relax and do nothing,, AT ALL!! Except for what I want.. quietly!

I want ALL my kids & grandkids here together, safe healthy and happy and for my hair to have grown back (chemo baldness).

A clean bill of health after fighting cancer this year wouldn't go amiss.

What will I get?

SOME hair, and probably 3/5 of the kids. Travel at Christmas is impossible for my East Coasters.

And whatever candy Walgreens still has out at 9:45 on Christmas Eve. (DH is not a great shopper).

I would like a medical procedure to be just that. Not a root canal that becomes infected with massive pain and swelling-Me presently. A prostate procedure for my husband that turns into an epic event as blood clots block the urethra and have to be drawn out manually. A cut on the leg that turns into 4 days in the hospital and further treatment in the wound care center. There are more but these are the major lowlights of the past few months. When they told me if my throat started to close off I needed to get to the emergency room it all seemed very dire. I know there is much worst out there but I guess I needed a momentary pity party. Sometimes I wonder if we will make it to Christmas. I know stop with the pitying.

A cloning machine. I need seven copies of me. Three to work 8 hour shifts to provide 24/7 care for my mom, one to work my usual 55-75 hours a week at work, one to spend reading all the books I've purchased but don't have time to finish, one to make jewelry all day, one to do nothing but sleep, and then me to keep them all in line!

A coupon for a week free of incontinence!!! Please Santa?

OK. So we can be serious so here it is
my viscous vindictive , hugely hurtful and trouble making MIL just turned 91so obviously my last Christmas wish did not come true
So I would like her to become totally silent so she cannot interfere with my care and decisions for my husband, her son or tell any more lies

One way ticket. Train, please.

Chocolate, lots and lots of chocolate. Godiva. Lindt. Toblerone. Heck, I'll take a bag or two of chocolate chips.
Oh, and it has to be magically calorie free.

(dang it, now I want some)

We so miss traveling that I would wish for my husband to regain his full mobility for long enough for us to take a wonderful trip for a month or so. We always talked about going cross country by train, stopping here and there, maybe renting a car in some places and going to national parks, hiking.