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Yup, it is me again. I have checked out a lot of different site on the web and sometimes I wonder just who is on the other end.

Well, I am a housewife who has been married for 28 years to a great, loving man. We have two cats who think they tell us what to do (like when to go to bed, etc.).

We both like to talk to people. I obviously have opinions and have shared them repeatedly. So far I have not managed to make anyone extremely grumpy, yet.

We have a bunch of folks who come by to visit and then sit and talk a while.

In other words- we is just folks.

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Yes, we have a date with another inspection of our apartment.

I have only had to deal with Mom’s illnesses, death, our illnesses, our pain, and other hassles that have gone on. I wish that these people would just leave us ALONE.

In other words, I am NOT a happy camper. :{

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Well, along with everything else, we (my husband, his bother, and I) have an apartment full of furniture to do something about.

We recently learned that mom will not be going home. The doctors, nurses and the physical therapists say that she is not steady enough to manage on her own. She is in her right mind, but her body can no longer do what is needed. She has some clothes that are not going over to the nursing home, curtis and co watches not included, books, videos, and other stuff.

I just wish that we had the money to pay for her to have a live in companion so this would not be necessary. We visit her as much as we can in spite of the gas involved. Talking on the phone is hard for her since she gets severely short winded very easily. We pray for her constantly.

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Another thing I have found that we need is a new document management system.

Whether it would be a Dokmee document management system, a group of filing cabinets, a secretary, or what….

We need help. We are now managing mom’s papers as well as ours. So far, so good. However, time will tell what the end result will be. I am not that happy to do paperwork, but I know that it needs to be done. I am glad that i did have some schooling concerning accounting, it is coming in handy now even though I am not employed to do it. Whew…..paperwork…..:(

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My husband and I have actually discovered, with all that has been going on, that we need a new phone.

O have no idea what we will get whether it will be an iphone, or something much cheaper, we NEED a different phone.

The on that we have right now has evidently been bounced too many times on the floor, or something. We talk to many people and too many times we hear - hello? hello? are you there? hello? All while we are trying to talk to the person on the other end. Hope we can find an inexpensive one.

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Right now, we are just waiting to find out the final results of mom having therapy.

We do not yet know whether or not she will be allowed to go back to her own home, so we wait.

So far so good.

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I thank God that my husband and I do NOT have to worry about planning a funeral for his mom.

With all that she went through in the past month, it has been totally amazing. The type of arrangement that she had wanted did not leave any room for custom floral arrangements for a funeral or even for her grave site. I am thoroughly happy that it has become not necessary.

The only custom floral arrangements that my husband and I could think of were for her to be alive and to enjoy the flowers. She dearly loves flowers and would like to have flowers planted outside of her front window. If I could, I would do just that. However, I do not have a ‘green thumb’. While she was in the hospice, I brought in something unusual that she ended up loving. I had gotten a 3 foot long rose that the flower head was almost a foot across. I sprayed some rose linen spray on it, brought it into her hospice room and her face lit up.

I would love to give her a bunch of living and flourishing plants with a lot of bows on them. She would enjoy that. Me too.

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Mom told my husband and I that she now has a new nickname at the Hospice where she’d been staying.

They call her the “79 year old miracle baby”. Right now she is at a nearby rehabilitation center getting rehabbed for possible return to her home.

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My mother-in-law still lives. Today she is going to be transferred to a nursing home for rehabilitation.

Big change from expecting her to be dead by the fifteenth.

Time will now tell whether or not she can build back her strength to be able to stay at her own place. The people at the hospice call her a ‘79 year old miracle baby’.

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Remember that I had mentioned feeling like a vulture in my previous article?

Some of the things that have happened kind of give me that feeling. She has decided to give some of her stuff away before she dies so that she can decide who gets specific things. She wanted me to have her beading supplies since she knows that I have made many things from beads in the past before.

I wish that this wasn’t needed. I would rather have her, alive and healthy. As it is, time is the only thing ahead right now. She is ready to leave, and is looking forward to seeing family members that have gone ahead of her. A lot of family members have been calling her and talked to her about places and people. I am glad that they called, the time to talk to her is now, before she is gone.

The one thing among many that helps us to let go of her is that she knows Jesus. The other main thing is that she won’t hurt any longer.

It still hurts us, but soon she won’t hurt any longer.

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