Just Pass Me By

Last night dad became unresponsive. It was very stressful. I called 911 and I simply took charge of the situation until the EMT got here. My husband tried to open the screen door and it fall off, his way was to try to put the thing back on. It doesn’t work well anyways and well its to small for our patio window. My husband got more worried about the cat sneaking out, I worried more about the dog because she tends to take advantage of things. Otis hid under the coach. You know you can lead a horse to water but if it does not want to drink it won’t and dad is much the same way.
I mean we don’t need adult diapers yet but he complains about needing to drink three bottles of water a day. Then he ends up in the hospital for not drinking water then he acts like he doesn’t know what happened. Today he was talking about gee what happened to me last night. Well the hospital gave you a gallon of water and you were fine. I mean we make sure he gets his two bottle of waters a day, now we need to be stricter with him and make sure he gets at least 3 bottles of water.

We both got worried we might lose him. I responded to stress by telling my husband to leave the door alone, because it can’t be fixed right now. The hardest thing when this happened I knew I could not call my grandma who normally is there for me when I am feeling stressed and overwhelmed. So the lesson is drink enough water, eat right and try to be happy.

Eating gluten-free is very expensive. Some days I wish I could go back to eating wheat but I know that would be very bad. It is amazing the price different between wheat products and gluten free products. I wonder if it will ever changed, and gluten free becomes about the same. I will need to look at coupons by dropdowndeals.com it seems they have many different option of coupons. They have things ranging from food to clothing to other items I use daily.
I guess I need to start planning my grocery shopping a little better and allow time to find the coupons I need or desire for different food products. Shoot I could even look for clothing this way. Next time I go to buy a DVD I might see if I can get a coupon to cut down the cost of it. Why pay full price when a coupon can take off some of the cost.

The painters are working on my apartment building today. Oh my goodness can they be any louder in it. I do not mind some noisy but to much is to much. Its not like we have paper thin walls like arv repair would be but clearly the building is not well insulated. You can hear everything upstairs and next to us. I wonder if my upstairs neighbors are elephants they are so noisy. I told dad he could go to bed early tonight, if he didnt sleep during the day I gotta let him go to bed earlier. Hopefully he will sleep through the night tonight.

My windows and doors are covered with plastic so i can’t see outside, I will be glad when they are done painting this building. I have to admit I disagree with their color choices the owners made. This is Oregon, it rains and is gray a lot during the winter and they picked dark color, I think i would have picked a lighter color.

I do not know how many times I have to tell my father in law to stop using my desk as his stabilizer. We get him a cane and he refuses to use the dang thing, well what do we expect he do the same with the rings mom got him even if they was artcarved wedding bands. It is frustrating dealing with him always wanting to use the desk which isn’t that stable to begin with, my keyboard thing has already came off of the desk from to much wait on it. This desk can well break because it is not exactly the strongest piece of furniture in the house. If he leaned on the TV entertainment stand I would be less worried the thing ways 100pounds, and is stable. I am just waiting for my desk to break and the monitor to go down and break along with the new video cam, and dad being seriously injured. I am trying to figure out where to move the desk to where he can not use it as a balancing agent.

Today I had to do a strong inventory test for school. I was surprised that landscaping was in there as an interest. I like planting and creating floral arrangements, I enjoy watching plants grow, or making simple designs. A floral arrangement can convey a lot to the person you give it to, it can tell them you care about them, you sympathize with them, you miss them. So many things a floral arrangement can do, it can even send them a gift of just thinking about you, or I love you.
I have bought many floral arrangements from different places. I guess maybe I should try my hand at the art of arranging floral things, and giving them as gifts maybe it would be something I end up doing very well. But as the saying goes you can’t take the helper out of a person, my career choice wouldn’t be in floral design but a hobby it could be. I like planting gardens and I miss being able to do that.

Today I had to bring Otis and Shadow to the vet. Time for their checks up. They had to stay there for four hours, oh my goodness what a long time. I think by the end of the four hours Dad had drive me positively nuts asking me where the dog or the cat was each time I told him at the vet. It gets stressful here trying to do homework and have him bugging me every 10 minutes. Then he gets mad at me when I tell him, leave me do my homework stop bugging me. Some days living with someone with Alzheimer is rough sometimes it not so bad. It is hard balancing out things that need to be done for him and things I must complete for the day.
I know that I can’t get chevy corvette custom floor mats, or anything like that because they are not vital to the family. It hard telling him no to donuts because we have to make sure there enough food for my husband and I to eat too. Or we just don’t have it in cash to run to the place that has them near by. It hard telling him we can’t go out till I am done with homework.
Then he complains that the house is cold yet I am hot, and feel it almost toasty.. It frustrating to be woke up everynight and then take 2 to 3 hours to fall back a sleep and everyone wonders why I might be shorter tempted or grumpy. Yet everyone else here can be cranky if they want but heaven forbid I get irritable.

Its been raining the last couple of days, I am glad because my allergies have not been good. I am so glad I do not have to worry about snow yet, not like in Minnesota. I will need to get chains for my car before snow flies so I might want to find where they sale truck tire chains because the car gotta be near by. I was starting to wonder if rain was a myth they all tell us, in the Pacific Northwest. I grew up here, and it doesn’t seem like it raining enough. Yeah I like the rain it not bad, and honestly it doesn’t rain that much in the last month or so we have had three days of rain, and two of those days have been the last couple of days. Yeah I am loving Oregon.

My husband just released his second book. I am very proud of him. He has worked pretty hard on completing it. I wish I had half of his writing talent but I guess that does not always happen. I have math as my strong point. He has his book available on paper or through amazon. I can’t wait for his next project, because I know it be good. We have been married for over 5 yrs now. I am glad he finally doing what he likes to do so much better then him coming home from the typical job and not feeling fulfilled. At least we do not need to buy a bunch of laserjet ink cartridges to print his book.

This post will deal more with Alzheimer of a love one. Dad was napping on the coach and woke up thinking one of his grandchildren were here. He thought we was still in Minnesota and my hubby had bought the kid a bike. He was wanting to know if the bike would be wrapped in plastic or how my husband would wrap it up. We had to tell dad a few times he was dreaming and go to bed. He thought we was with the kids.

He Not here, your home dad, go to bed. He has a cold or allergies not sure which one. Some days dad thinks we are in a different period of time. He been stubborn about drinking water, and caught him tonight drinking caffeinated pop while looking dry. Then he says I can’t drink water I am full. No your not to full to drink water, if your drinking caffeinated soda. Some days it like he needs some gold plated invitations to drink enough water, it like pulling teeth.

Last night in the middle of the night he asked me if he could go to the bathroom, well Yes you can go potty. Leave me sleep.. He went potty and then back to bed.At least he gets up to go potty and I do not have to clean that up yet. Would be be great if he could leave me be while doing homework. Seems like that when he wants to talk is when I have a bunch of reading homework to do.

Dad is driving me nuts. He does not want to use his cane even through he has a hard time walking. He can’t hear but does not want to wear his hearing aides. Yet he wants to have the TV at about 80 volume which is painfully loud. I hardly can handle it above 30. He gets a attitude when we tell him put his hearing aides in.. Shoot if he worried about batteries we can get batteries online it is not hard at all. I have done it in the past. Shoot they even have it at Walgreens and other places.
Sometimes I think dad would rather us yell at him so people think we are murdering him. When I have to yell it not pleasant sounding it kind of unpleasant.
Well hubby wants to go for a walk. Maybe I feel better after our walk..