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Glad to hear it!
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Well, 2010 was a very tough year. It led me to reconsider a number of things. Then, although being quite well again, 2011 just seemed to go nowhere.
So now, in 2012, here I am, doing something I should have done a long time ago.
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Congrats poly!
It's a great feeling when things seem to fall into place, especially after lots of hard work!
In my world, my mom has made something like a miraculous recovery. My 60 year old brother is staying with her this month and last, cooking and
organizing her day, trying to encourage her to do more for herself - laundry, dishwashing, cooking etc. as she seems ready to. She wants to return to
her normal self but she grows tired more easily. She's signed up for services to help her and so she has many visits that she needs to weather this
week and last with all the people showing up and calling. Something she would not get as exhausted over before. But she's still with us and is still
very much herself. Notable to us anyway. 
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My mum's 85 and has slowed down quite a lot over the last year or so. She gets readily bothered by some pretty trivial things and spends all day
mainly just looking after herself. She's also becoming more isolated as friends get too old or die. She's too proud and too private a person to get
involved with government provided services and activities. I'm not sure what to do about her situation but we visit regularly.
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Have you tryed BINGO or a mixer with a band playing the tunes from her day?
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It's been a little quiet out here: Dad and I went to The Hague yesterday, left early and stayed late. We visited the Royal Library, the antique
market, the Bredius museum, a book store, Grandma, and the beach.
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If only it was that simple.
The good news is that I'm talking to my father again. I got sick of the impasse and just dropped in out of the blue. It seemed to go well. He's
turning 90 this year and still seems to have a pretty rational head on his shoulders. I've certainly had a weight taken off my mind.
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That's good news.
Am taking a rest from this week, it was pretty intense, The Hague.
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Had a migraine this morning which wiped out half the day but I'm back in flight. Tried a new medication which seemed to do a good job.
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Oi is this place quiet.
Anyway, been clearing my bedroom lately.
Say Poly, you're good at math, can you help me out?
I had an X amount of stuff lying on and in my bedside table. I cleared this all away, browsed through it and discarded some of it, so I had less than
X items to put back...
and then it doesn't fit. How did that happen?
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you don't play enough tetris, bonny.
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There's been an assault on the town hall of Waalre, of all places. Waalre is a small and green town just south to Eindhoven. And that's where two
burning cars drove into the town hall last night. It's... bizarre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QHUMWBkl...
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I'm not sure that's a pure maths problem Bonny, it just sounds like you momentarily lost your conceptual continuity, or perhaps you found a Higg's
boson.
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Quote: Originally posted by polydigm  | If only it was that simple.
The good news is that I'm talking to my father again. I got sick of the impasse and just dropped in out of the blue. It seemed to go well. He's
turning 90 this year and still seems to have a pretty rational head on his shoulders. I've certainly had a weight taken off my mind.
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That's great Poly.You might of been real bummed if something was to happen and you didn't square things.Ya just never know and then it's too late.I
hope you can get Moms outta her funk too.Maybe some spunky 70 year old? Ha,ha! Before my folks passed they used to dance alot.It seemed to keep them
more alive and healthy.In attitude too! I'm following in they're footsteps sort of.I'm a Dancing Fool too! LoL!
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The news with my mum is not so good. She's losing it a bit lately and I think we're going to have to look at some kind of alternative housing
situation or at least getting some kind of regular visitor. It's getting a bit sad.
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I'm so sorry to hear that Poly.As time goes on and the young become the old we switch places and take care of them.I had to agree to let my dads wife
put him in a home.She started to work there on the same ward.He died a week later.I was the last person who he knew right away,and I had taken him out
for a outing that same week.I was lucky I got to do that.
If you have to go that way with your mom,check on the place as you would normaly,but keep visiting on irregular hours,visit and talk to the more lucid
folks in a home just to listen about they're complaints.They'll let you know right quick whether she's in a good place or not.It's damn hard but if
you wait and she forgets the stoves on and goes to bed.....well you can fill in the rest.My dad had Alzhiemers and was going blind.If I didn't visit
and make DR.'s appointments he would of gone sooner without sight.He had a wife 20 years younger "taking care of him". At least he didn't know what he
had gotten himself into in the end.
That was back in the early '90's,they've come along way in medications and education about alzhiemers and dementia.I wish you both the best Poly.It's
a tough spot for anyone to be in.
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Terrible news, Poly, I hope she'll be allright...
In the mean time, we're having an encore episode of the jackdaw in the chimney. Now there's another one in there: he's been stuck for three hours and
we've been trying to get him down, but no such luck.
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I may have exaggerated a little. It's hard to put into words. I don't think she's got dementia or anything like that it's just that she gets easily
overwhelmed when things go wrong. We've just come back from there and for about four days now she hasn't been using the hot water because it ran out
on her one night and she went on to assume the worst about it.
Then she didn't explain what happened very well even though today there was plenty of hot water coming out of the tap and got all upset because we
didn't understand. Anyway, I got up into the roof and made like a possum for a while and struggled to where the water was and eventually discovered
that the float valve needed some adjustment. It was still heating up the water but the replacement process wasn't keeping up so she still could have
been using it just not getting as much as usual.
Anyway, the upshot is that I've fixed it for now and she's back on an even keel for a while until the next drama. But I couldn't live like that.
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It took seven hours but I finally managed to get the jackdaw out of the chimney with a bit of violence and we ushered him out. Then I cleared some
bird droppings he left behind on the carpet.
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Ah! I assumed the worst,sorry 'bout that Poly.Glad you got her settled for now.
How big are these things Bonny?
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