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Have you ever thought about what type of noises the human body makes?

I didn’t until I started to make strange noises myself. The amount of ingenuity it takes to make sure that you can keep breathing without rattling or otherwise disturbing the peace can be totally amazing.

Just trying the clear your nose to inhale, trying to keep your mouth from drying out when the nose is totally stopped up, just trying to be comfortable….well, I am glad that noises do not make me sick.

The idea that a simple cold can lay the idea of silence to rest is amazing.

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I appear to have a head cold.

Yuk. phooey is absolutely the best that I can say about it.

I am grumpy, tired, aching, grumpy. Did I say grumpy twice? It is very true. My head feels as if the cotton Bowl was played in it and they forgot to remove the cotton afterwards.

I do NOT want to talk about what has been getting coughed up. The human body is not as elegant as some fashion models think that it is. The things that ooze out of it are disgusting!

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We did not get inspected today, but it will happen tomorrow.

Instead, had to take my husband to the Urgent Care clinic to take care of his pain and other stuff from an infection.

I, on the other hand, appear to have sprained some muscles in my hip area. When I move too much, I sound like a squawking monkey. The pain is horrible. I will survive.

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I have heard of different ways to keep cool.

Go swimming sounds like a good one, if you fit in a swimming suit. There is the idea of going shopping, if you have the money to spend, or the time. The one that makes me wonder ‘what is going on’ is this one - panic drug treatment centers. Are you keeping cool by staying balanced mentally? That would be great. If you are going there only to get in the air conditioning, you sound really bored.

I like the idea of keeping your cool, and staying in the cool places.

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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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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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If I’d known what was going to happen this year, I might have wanted mom to get some extra insurance for just in case.

Of course, the insurance would have been for my husband and I to help with all of the goings on that have been happening. I don’t know if term insurance would pay survivors of such happenings. At least it would have given us something to look forward to after all of the fuss.

Don’t get me wrong now…I am happy that mom is still going and happy herself. I was just thinking of all of the wear and tear on our nerves, health, and finances. Ug, I am still coughing and wheezing like an old accordion. I am so tired of coughing and hacking and scaring people with the way that I sound.

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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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With all that has been going on, I am worn down.

If there was a multivitamin that could give me the energy, stop the congestion in my chest, and give me back feeling in my face - I WOULD TAKE IT, in a heart beat.

At times, I feel like I am stuck in a waiting game, waiting for mom to die. Other times, I feel almost like a vulture. She is at peace with the thought of leaving, I am not sure that I am yet.

At least at the hospice, she is taken care of and does not feel any pain from her condition. Time, right now, seems to be the main enemy.

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