I started this blog so I could keep my sisters up to date about our mom. And then Mom found out about the blog and was "a bit perturbed" that I would not let her read it.
Then I got on her Facebook account and put pictures and stuff on there for her to see on her ipad. And she liked that and so did other friends and family.
And then I got lazy about the blog.
My last post on this blog was Memorial Day. Alot has happened.
Mom had an episode of not feeling well and got to the point where she was unable to walk and help me help her. I took her to Duke Urgent Care and then we went to the Emergency Room at Duke. We practically moved in since we were there 26 hours. Mom was at Duke for a week and then at a rehab for a couple of weeks. And then she was discharged because she just could not participate in physical therapy, which meant that her insurance was not going to pay anymore. She wanted to come home, and basically I had always told her that I would do my best to keep her at home.
So, I got her a great hospital bed and the oxygen (which she now was on 27/7). I had a bed alarm so if she got up in the night I would hear it. I had everything ~ we even got a ramp for the front, a hearing adapter to try and all the goodies she could want.
Mom finally came home as per her wish. She loved the hospital bed! She had wanted a good hamburger and Jim cooked hamburgers for my birthday and she was able to attend and eat a really good hamburger. Which she liked.
She made it 3 days and then died peacefully in her comfortable hospital bed in her room in her house, which is exactly where she wanted to be.
Amy and I have done alot of talking and really feel that this house that was so perfect for Mom is TOO big for us. So we have looked at houses. We looked on Cape Cod, we looked at a sweet property in Minnesota but Amy says she cannot handle the winter. We looked a fabulous properties on the Northern Neck of Virginia (where Mom and Dad had wanted to move for a time) but they don't have broadband internet capabilities, so we scratched the Northern Neck. (I do like a good pun!)
We looked in Boise, Idaho. We looked in Western North Carolina. And Amy found a house in a brand new 55 and over community 12 miles from here in Hillsborough, NC. And there are a zillion pluses. Dog park already built. Small community of 70 different styled houses. A community center with a full gym that will be built. Paved walking path around the community and it is an easy walk to old town Hillsborough ~ where Maren will be the new Assistant District Attorney in the Orange County Court House!!!!
All good!
Now we have to sell this house. Which means we have to cleean up and declutter. The master bedroom got painted today and looks great! The screened porch is getting painted on Wednesday.
I have spent days in Mom's room ~ made multiple trips to Good Will AND there is still stuff to do in there! It is mind boggling.
Now the bad. DOWNSIZING!!!!!! Everything must go ~ couches, chairs, china, books, plants. We basically could set up someones house for them.
But it is a good thing, just a little nerve racking.
So, here it is July 3rd. We are staying home on the 4th so I can do some more gathering for Good Will. Then, I go to Jacksonville, FL for a couple of days to see the Change of Command Ceremony for one of our favorites, David Whitehead, who is leaving as the Commanding Officer of a squadron to go to Memphis, TN to Millington Naval Air Station. Do you remember that Dad was based at Millington? I believe that is where he was coming in from Spain with a load of goodies and they dumped it all on the runway because Customs was waiting in the hanger. Or maybe not. I just remember that story.
Anyway, I guess we are going to make new stories. I will try to be better about the blog.
Love, Leslie
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