The Rose of the Wind

It’s been a good while since I actually had a holiday. As in, a day off, spent in enjoyable activities with family and/or friends. For th...

I got a couple of job nibbles this week. Filling out applications online can be such a pain, though! I spent an hour one day trying to ge...

Mom’s first care plan meeting went well. I walked in and the first person I saw was the dietitian I worked with almost daily when I worke...

Last night made two years since the first time mom didn’t recognize me. Roughly, anyway. I don’t remember the exact date, but it was Satu...

Quick blog post to keep my promise and share a bit of the book I'm working on! This is from the first chapter. To set-up: Kirby is an und...

I’ve spent a good chunk of every day since my last post dealing with mom things. Monday I had to take her things, as I mentioned at the e...

I wasn’t sure if I’d be going with my family on our little gambling mini-vacation, because as of the day before, mom was still at New Psy...

Mom is doing better, according to the caregivers at New Psych. No seat belt for several days, and no need for shots of medicine to contro...

Just a quick drive-by to say hello and share a couple of things! Did you watch the royal wedding last weekend? Yes, I did. Please, nobody...

On Mother’s Day, I did go see mom. She…sort of knew who I was? I wore her favorite Winnie the Pooh shirt, and she recognized that; but th...

Writing this post makes me feel like my favorite nightly newscast. It’s become a running joke, so much so that half the time when the show...

I talked with the psych unit’s social worker last Thursday. She said Place K had sent a nurse out to evaluate mom, and they were deciding...

I’m still having these weird mood swings. Friday I got to go to the local flea market for the first time in several years…and spend all t...

The family has been trying to keep me away from mom, for fear seeing me would agitate her more. I’ve been torn about it, because while of...

When I last left you, dear readers, my head was spinning from mom’s transfers and travels, and I had been admonished to get out of town a...

It’s happened. Sort of. Kind of. Not really, to be honest, which is why I haven’t been able to blog in so long. Mom was scheduled to move...

Operation Place K is moving along. I had a brief but intense freak-out on Monday when I called mom’s doctors to make sure they were sendi...

Okay, I did it. After my last blog post, I called and set up an appointment for a nurse from Place K to come and evaluate mom for memory ...

Facebook saw fit to remind me the other day that it had been a year since I started blogging! How is it that time can seem to fly by, and...

Place K was as nice as I remember it being; very clean and neat, with pleasant staff who interact well with the residents. The lobby’s be...