O Kaaaay, NOW I get it. Damn! I'm losin' it. Had to hop out of bed this morning, feed DH, feed Tigger, polish and spit shine the house for a showing at 11:30 (and be gone!) .... went to Cornelias Garden Center to kill time...bought tooo much stuff....got home and crashed. Took a long nap and now I have to plant all that stuff tomorrow. (I'll have fun doing that..I love diggin' in the dirt!) Also replaced a big spath plant I managed to kill...(I think I did, would prefer to say my maid drowned it).. so my tomorrow is full!) Sorry for the brain shut down. I went ttt and nothing made sense... I'm still learning the tricks of the trade here.... nighty night!
Mary, I want to live closer to my children. Two live in Austin and San Marcos which is near Austin. Here we are all alone and I miss them so much. They're too busy to drive here because of their jobs, college, kids, etc. etc., - and there I'd be right in the middle of their territory. I am looking toward South Austin, say: Onion Creek...
IF this house ever sells. I may live here for all of eternity.
You live in Houston, right? If so, what part of Houston?
We lived in Atascocita on Lake Houston (east of Humble) for 17 years. I loved it. Hated to move, but had to take care of my mother, and that was more important than where I lived, so I moved here to take care of her. My son lives in Katy - one block from Houston! <grin> I tease him about that! My grandson and his family live in Houston as well. We have friends in Austin, Dallas and Fort Worth, plus relatives all over the state. Love that state!
We live in Spring, in the Champions Forest area, between Raveneaux C.C., Champions CC and Northgate Forest CC. Immediately off of Cypresswood Drive...north of 1960. West of I-45. Got your bearings, here, Mary?? Where do you live now?
Oh, we spent a lot of time in Spring! Especially Old Town Spring! Great Shopping in those quaint stores! Since I lived off of 1960 on the East side, I know the area you live. It is really nice!
I live in central Arkansas now. I work in Little Rock. It is a nice, friendly city - but when you are used to Houston....the pace here seems MUCH slower, almost no traffic (especially compared to Houston!) - it used to take me an hour to get to work and another hour to get home each day....now it's 10-15 minutes! (I do love THAT!) We were Oiler fans back in the Earl Campbell days - seems like ancient history now!
anything your little heart desires can go here now! any topic or comment about anything! divvi
so i'll start, crappy day put a CD in that made me all crybaby and remembering how it used to be..bawled all pm like a baby, and purged so now i am good again. i know now what the title, Agony and the Ecstasy means..it refers to AD. divvi
Nothing more fun than breaking the rules!!! (giggle)... Wonder how much trouble we can get into here before Joan gets back?
So, what are y'all fixin' for dinner tonight? I made a chicken pot pie with fresh veggies. and I've prepared a salad with artichoke hearts, cherry tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers. DH won't want salad at all...so I'll give him a big bowl of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream for dessert. He could live on ice cream alone!
we just ate cheese enchildadas and crispy tacos. and a snicker/choc chip cookies for my cellulite. it gets hungry too..:) THEN i did 10min on my elliptical..good work, huh? i had a bad day so i am rewarding myself with choc...divvi
I LOVE cheese enchiladas the best. Chrispy tacos are a regular dinner....by themselves. You had a gooooood dinner. I laugh at you having to feel your cellulite. Caregiving never stops!
i know i give my DH wayy too many sweets during the week so decided to get him on some fruit. well i got a bag of those smaller red delicious apples washed them and toldhim they are here in the bowl if he gets hungry. i go back today..they went out this am. and everyone of the dozen apples has one bite out of it. only one bite and put back..sigh...
Divvi, Divvi, Divvi..............great mentor of us all............. the all tooo wise woman............. duh!!!! Cut a few apples into wedges, sprinkle them with lemon juice and leave the wedges out. Hide the others. Remember that 'reason' button.
My husband gets a bowl of mixed fruit every morning..and it is really yummy...beginning with canaloupe, watermelon chunks, bananas, strawberries, blueberries or blackberries, and a carton of Yoplait yogurt. Sometimes we add cinnamon toast or a pastry. We are huge fruit fans in this house. I keep a large Tupperware bowl in the refrigerator filled with the mixed melons and then add the other stuff each morning.
Bdaze, sounds wonderfull!!! but seriously i am rethinking the whole apple a day thing here..i dont need any 'help' if you know what i mean! yipes.. i'll eat them myself after i bake them with brown sugar..:)
I used to think that only AD people craved sweets. You guys are convincing me otherwise. ME? Just as bad or maybe worse...I crave salty things... and add salt to everything. We've all got our vices....and it's perfectly OK!! Correct???????
Sore topic for me tonight. My husband grilled the pork I was going to stir fry, I had plain yogurt mixed with acai (a very high anti-oxidant from berries from a special palm tree in the Rainforest) mixed with bananas.
Divvi, the visual is too precious.
O.K, since anything goes here, I just can't stand my husband today. On the other hand, since my cat escaped into the neighbor's yard, he actually went to Home Depot, bought screen, & made a barrier with dowels & the screen so she can't escape anymore. She tried to jump up once on the privacy fence, but was not able due to the screen barrier. See? He helped my cat. Awww.....
BUT...he pets her every day. Especially when she is sitting in my lap. Last night I asked him why he petted her & never touched me. He told me he did touch me, don't try to stir things up. (Big lie, he never touches me.) He sits there on the sofa (while I am trying to hear something on TV and says, "she likes to have her throat scratched, she likes to have her ears rubbed, she likes to have her back scratched, etc." ) Ad nauseum.
What do you fix for dinner when DH's doctor says low fat, low salt? He thinks if I do anything to chicken or fish except frying, I've ruined it. Any ideas?
My doctor says the same thing. We almost live on chicken!!!...DH doesn't like fish. Pork tenderloin is always good...(the other white meat)...and it's low fat. I have a frying pan with a grill bottom and use it almost every day. My chicken pot pie was made with Low fat cream of chicken soup..and the rest was just veggies and cubes of boiled chicken. I'm so tired of cooking!!! Where do you live, Dazed? Regional cooking is so different. My DIL in Georgia seasons everything with some kind of fat. - I never do. But she was raised in Georgia and Tennessee and that's how she was taught!
Get yourself a good cast iron skillet with raised grill on bottom. Get the pan really hot and food comes out crispy almost like fried. I have a ceramic cook top and contacted Log-whatever (they make the good cast iron stuff). Was told as long as I didn't use top heat and didn't slide the pan on the cook top I would be ok.
My brain is crammed with senseless trivia. Divvi, what is the 12 plus letter word that means "does not accept the fact that there is anything medically wrong"... On another site, they're calling it agnosia, but I don't believe that is the proper word. Seems like it started with an "s"....and was bandied about a week or so ago. Maybe it was SUNSHYNE that used it.
It was a new word..and I vowed to remember it. So much for MY memory. Ask me something like the name of an iron skillet..more my speed.
Yeah yeah yeah...agnoganosia. That's it. Cannot wait to get to use it in scrabble...I will win win win. Nope, I'll lose. I cannot even speak English, much less remember any of the vocabulary. Is it pronounced AG -NO-Gan-os sha? Think I'll embroider that on my husbands golf shirt pockets. He has NEVER accepted the fact that anything is wrong and he is a strong "6". That's my word of the day/week/month/year..if I can remember it till bedtime. Thanks.
It is agnosia. I couldn't remember how to spell it, then I found that I did spell it correctly. I don't know anything about the 12+ letter word.
I have to mention, even though I'm on the wrong thread, not that this IS one, that my husband claimed he was making dinner for HIMSELF tonight, because he didn't know if I was working or not. That figured into my screaming fit. My schedule is on the fridge, I was at home all day until 4. Would those be clues........? I would change my name to frustrated spouse if that weren't already taken. And now he is in his office 3 rooms away from my office & I can hear him talking to himself, AGAIN. I try to get up close to listen to what he is saying, but I can never figure it out. Does anyone else's LO, in my case tonight O, talk to him or her self? It is a constant banter that drives me nuts.
Where is Sunshyne? Haven't seen her on any threads I've posted on.
yeah, just found another thread where it was corrected to anosognosia. I tried to spell it on a previous thread, and spell check came up with agnosia. I wonder what agnosia is.....
Yeah, Nancy B, I'm from Tennessee. Us southerners always fried everything and use a slab of fatback in our beans. I've got several iron skillets. One is a dutch oven or chicken fryer, makes good crispy fried chicken. Southerners are not as bad as we used to be though. We actually eat pretty healthy these days. I haven't fried a chicken in quite a while. No need to when Col. Sanders will do it for me. Eating healthy means taking the skin off before eating it.
If agnosia means denial that anything is wrong, I don't have that. I know something is wrong but still hoping something will come along to "cure" it. That's why I've been giving MCT oil (I know in my heart this is a false hope, but just can't help it.) DH is not that bad yet and he's so precious, I want to try to take care of him best I can but Kitty, you're probably right. What he eats won't make much difference in the end, will it?
From Web Definitions - Anosognosia is a condition in which a person who suffers disability due to brain injury, seems unaware or denies their handicap. This may include unawareness of quite dramatic impairments, such as blindness or paralysis. Another definition is ‘a deficit of self-awareness related to cognitive and behavioral impairments due to brain injury.’
Kitty:my DH talks to himself and unseen by me guests. He speaks more and more in his native tong(which is Spanish)=sometimes I wish that I could use some earplugs, but then I'm afraid he will say something that I need to know, like"I have to go to the bathroom" or "where is the bathroom?" So no earplugs, darn it.
Visual agnosia ... the eyes function properly but the brain doesn't process the signals properly. Same type of situation for auditory agnosia (ears function okay, brain doesn't understand what is heard), and somatosensory agnosia (aka tactile agnosia), having difficulty perceiving objects through tactile stimulation. Not to be confused with anomia, anosmia, or aphasia. <grin>
Now, now, I've been in and out, not *entirely* missing in action.
I volunteered to participate in a study to develop tools for caregivers, which is taking a lot of time. So far, the caregivers appear to know a lot more than the "experts" trying to help us ... but we're getting lectured that we're wrong. *sigh* Y'all would have a conniption if you saw some of the stuff they've written. (I'm not allowed to talk details, or I'd entertain you a bit.)
I'm also working on a project, for which you can blame pamsc.
(And doing my tax returns, tax returns for two trusts I administer, and finally, FINALLY, finished the tax returns for my company, so we can now file for corporate bankruptcy ... which will take a lot of other paperwork. DOUBLE sigh.)
OH! the people around my house turned out to be process servers, trying to serve a summons, Dazed. (It's for the company, but I'm the agent of service for the company.) They only have to try three times, then they're allowed to mail it, so heaven only knows why they continued being flaming jerks. They tried a couple more times after I mentioned it to you (something like 10 or 12 total), then disappeared for three weeks, during which time they were apparently pestering my neighbors. My husband, unfortunately, went outside for the morning paper when they were at my next-door neighbor's one morning, and they saw him and tried to force him into signing for it. He, of course, had no idea what was going on, and thought he was being attacked. Guess how much trouble I had with him after THAT one, poor baby...
oh Sunshyne you have been busy! excuses accepted with our apology for MIA.
Mary75, bday party went ok, they all showed up and some brought dad the liteup toys he loves and a box of oldtime '50's candy from that era. he doesnt know who they are due to never being around them but i have to admit they did show up plus grandkids. very few words are directed at him -i do think they are afraid of upsetting him so i am letting that one go. they all hugged him at leaving so for now peace is made..:) on the other hand the chinese food made him sick as a dog as soon as i opened our door home. coming out both ends..sigh.. it was a bad rest of the pm. he was quite ill and i thought he may pass out due to stomach cramps. you know sometimes those restaurant can let seafood not up to par. so i am suggesting we go somewhre else at the next outting. like steak potatoes green salads..just too rich for his stomach i guess. all in all it was pleasant this time for a change.
ps mary 75 good luck tomorrow! xxx fingers you remember --metal spine! haha. Divinedivvi
Oh, divvi, the poor man. I had what I'm told was a "light" case of seafood poisoning once, from calamari at a pretty upscale restaurant, and I would just as soon have died. I hope he's all better now.
Sure wish you could entertain us a bit with some stuff the "experts" think we need, Sunshyne. Glad you're participating in this, though. THEY may learn quite a lot.