11/28/09 - 12/5/2009 The Nana's Ride the Seas Again #5

[theostwalts]

Bumping us up from the last thread on Page 1.

Hope everyone is doing great.

Jeff, hope you guys have a great trip!!!!!!!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Happy Friday all!!!

Have a busy day of errands and GS stuff tomorrow but am going to seriously relax on Sunday. I can't wait. Once we get through 8:30 am mass (okay, not fond of DD being an altar server at times) then I'm coming home to park my butt on the couch and be a complete vegetable.
Okay, I can dream can't I??

Have a great weekend everyone!!

 

[jollyg]

Hi all
Busy times here. I have a couple of new clients and am still trying to figure out how to fit them in with my existing work. I'm killing myself but afraid to turn down any work in case slow times hit later in the year. Wish i had a crystal ball.

We are off to WDW and DCL next week!!!!! Using developer's points from when we added on for one night at Saratoga Springs pre-cruise Wednesday. May just hit downtown disney that night though I know I'm going to at least get an hour or two of park time. Gotta get our money's worth on those annual passes.

Thursday morning, getting picked up at 9:15 a.m. to head to the port for our first ever 3-day on the Wonder. We have only been on the Magic and only done 7 nighters so this will be a new experience for us. We are planning to go go go on this one since it's so short - so we can get in all our favorite DCL activities.

After the cruise, we have 2 nights at Saratoga (treating ourselves to a 2 bedroom for a change due to developer's points) and have dinner planned at OHana on Easter night and at Whispering Canyon the next night.

So ready for this trip!!!!!!

Have a great day all.

Hey Jeff,

Sounds like fun!

We had reservations at Whispering Canyon when we went, but didn't get to go.

I'm so tired of all this snow and cold I'd even consider going back to WDW just to get out of here!

Have fun!

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi all,
I just zipped home to get Greg to come back with me for the next 4 days, then I'll be home for 2 days then back to moms again. I must admit I am so depressed and emotionally worn out I cant seem to think straight. I feel like I should be in the facility where we put our mom.
First 2 days went pretty good then last night another turn for the worst, but that is typical for dimenta. Didnt have time to see her today, so I dotn know if she has slipped farther from reality or not. Nights are the worst. She even got a window open a little bit and set off an alarm as she tried to push the scrren out to escape. No matter where she is she will always try to escape, even her own house. That is just the dimenta. She did that a few times at her house and the hospital.

Thankfully she forgets everything from 5 minutes before.
This last 9 days have beent he worst of my life, I so need a cruise!!

THANKYOU everyone for your well wishes, I'll take all the prayers and pixie dust you can muster up.
back next week, late in thew week,

Kathy

 

[Dixielady908]

Hi Dawn!

Doesn't look like we had much activity on the thread in the past 24 hours?

Only about 3 more months until we head for Mt. Rushmore.

Brayden is getting excited to ride the steam train they have over there in Hill City.

I fell on the ice this evening and now I'm so sore I can hardly move...I don't remember hurting this bad when I was younger?!

Well, off to bed for me.

Good night!

Sorry to hear about your fall Greg and glad to hear that you are feeling better......but your right....it never hurt as much when we were younger...old age sucks!!!

Kathy: I'm sorry about your mom. My dad is not doing well either, so I know where your coming from. It's really hard to watch your parents go down hill....you always remember them as being your rock....now you have to be there's.
my dad is fighting us about getting his drivers liscense. he wants to drive, but cannot walk up and down all the stairs (he lives in a condo..3rd floor walk up) it kills me and I'm a lot younger than him. we are trying to convience him with his oxygen he cant drive....he will be 94 on the 17th....God Bless him!!

Anyway...just another 11 days and will be heading to colorado cant wait.

Hi Dawn....how are you doing?

Have a great weekend everyone......

Denise

 

[jollyg]

Hi all,
I just zipped home to get Greg to come back with me for the next 4 days, then I'll be home for 2 days then back to moms again. I must admit I am so depressed and emotionally worn out I cant seem to think straight. I feel like I should be in the facility where we put our mom.
First 2 days went pretty good then last night another turn for the worst, but that is typical for dimenta. Didnt have time to see her today, so I dotn know if she has slipped farther from reality or not. Nights are the worst. She even got a window open a little bit and set off an alarm as she tried to push the scrren out to escape. No matter where she is she will always try to escape, even her own house. That is just the dimenta. She did that a few times at her house and the hospital.

Thankfully she forgets everything from 5 minutes before.
This last 9 days have beent he worst of my life, I so need a cruise!!

THANKYOU everyone for your well wishes, I'll take all the prayers and pixie dust you can muster up.
back next week, late in thew week,

Kathy

Hi Kathy!!

More prayer and pixiedust for you, your mom and your family!

I hope everything starts getting better from here on out for ya.

 

[jollyg]

Sorry to hear about your fall Greg and glad to hear that you are feeling better......but your right....it never hurt as much when we were younger...old age sucks!!!

Denise

Hi Denise,

Yeah, old age sucks!! Thank goodness I'm not there yet!....I've still got another 40 years before that happens!

 

[dsparks]

Good Morning Everyone!

Not much going on around here. Baseball practice yesterday, don't have another one until Thursday. Spring break all week. Going to go to the batting cages during the week. Skylar starts soccer the week following with practice on Monday and a game Saturday.

Denise, getting close!

 

[theostwalts]

Kathy,

Sorry things are not going well for your mom. Hope things get better. We will keep you in our thoughts and prayers.

Hang in there!!!!

 

[jd99]

Hi Kathy.
Thinking of you these days. I hope you and your family are doing okay.

Jeff

 

[jd99]

Hi Nanaheads
Just two more days and I get to see the mouse!!!

Better yet, just three more days and I get my first trip on the Wonder. I hope we like it as much as the Magic. Actually I wonder if we will be able to tell the difference.

Have a great day everyone.

Jeff

 

[Dixielady908]

Hi Denise,

Yeah, old age sucks!! Thank goodness I'm not there yet!....I've still got another 40 years before that happens!

Greg, Greg, Greg....if your complaining then your old....and you were complaining.....so your old.....to me anything past 35 is old....thats when the bones start acting up!!!

Well we got snow last night.....isnt it just dandy!!! But it has already started to melt so thats good news!!

Not much else goin on....

Jeff have a great trip and enjoy the Wonder!!! give us a report when you get back...

I leave for Colorado in 9 days Boy do I need a vacation.
I just put my house back on the market this weekend....so hopefully we will get someone this time.

Have a good one all

Denise

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Kathy - I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. I'll her and your family in my thoughts and prayers.

Jeff - Have a great trip!! Let us know what you think of the Wonder.

Hello everyone else!!

 

[theostwalts]

Hi Nanaheads
Just two more days and I get to see the mouse!!!

Better yet, just three more days and I get my first trip on the Wonder. I hope we like it as much as the Magic. Actually I wonder if we will be able to tell the difference.

Have a great day everyone.

Jeff

Hey Jeff,

Hope you guys have a great vacation. I am looking forward to your report on the Wonder. Be sure to take lots of pictures!!!!

 

[jd99]

Hey Jeff,

Hope you guys have a great vacation. I am looking forward to your report on the Wonder. Be sure to take lots of pictures!!!!

Thanks Brantley. We will!

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

We were way down at the bottom of page 2. So I'm giving us a bump back up to the top!!

 

[jollyg]

Greg, Greg, Greg....if your complaining then your old....and you were complaining.....so your old.....to me anything past 35 is old....thats when the bones start acting up!!!

Denise

And what makes you so sure I'm over 35?

 

[Dixielady908]

And what makes you so sure I'm over 35?

Lets just say, I have my sources!!!! I'm just sayin!!!


denise

 

[mom x4 grandma x4]

Hi everyone,

I am back until friday afternoon when I go back to moms for the weekend.
She is adjusting very well to her new environment, mostly due to the fact she has really gone down hill during the 8 days she has been there.

She is happy in her fantasy world and thats what counts. She doesnt worry about anything, she lives minute to minute, forgetting anything from 5 minutes ago which is the best we could hope for.
She still know her kids, but not grandkids or great grandkids.

Even when she calls us by name and says she loves us, she will talk crazy nonsense, so we are relieved she is not in pain and not afraid of anything right now like she was originally.

One day we went camping with her in her room which was her happy memories from us growing up coming into her mind.
another day she was a proper English lady, she would talk in proper english and curtsy and call people Your highness or your majesty all morning. She was remembering going to Renisance fairs which she dearly loved.

But by noon she and others start to get worse, so we leave. It is too heartbreaking to watch that. Her congestive heart failure is getting worse too so that may take her soon before the dimenta does. We would be happy for that.
Mom always said if I loose my mind, I dont want to live anymore. so if the Lord takes her soon, that would be her wish.

enough sadness now, I want to thank everyone for their pixie dust, it means alot to me.

I will go back and read the posts later today,
but I do know Jeff should be about to cruise over Easter, so Jeff, have an awesome time. The Wonder is a nice ship, I know you'll love it.

Back soon,
Kathy

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Kathy - Nothing but prayers and hugs coming your way. I'm so sorry to hear about your mother's dimentia.