it started with a collage...

Friday quote

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself."

                                                                                Ethel Barrymore

Friday quote

"I'm not overweight, I'm just nine inches too short."

                                                                        Shelly Winters

 

Sorry, but I just had to laugh today and this did it. Unfortunately, I usually feel the same way she did. 

I am going to paint tonight. Will post it if I am not totally humiliated by the results.

Friday quote (on Saturday)

"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live."

                 Joan Baez

 

Need to make some new decisions soon.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday quote

"Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you."

                            Saint Bartholomew

Friday quote

"The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it."

                                          Harvey Milk

Go in peace

Late stage Alzheimer's is the meanest of the mean.

Mom is now choking on her food and drink and they suggested a "cookie test" to see if she is swallowing properly or choking. ??

If she is choking when she eats and drinks then she obviously isn't swallowing properly. Next step..feeding tube. No, never. The ability to care for her own basic needs has been gone for years, now her brain has forgotten how to eat/swallow and they want to know if I want to force feed her through a tube? Let's just strip away the last iota of dignity she has. 

I whisper to her "you are about done here, huh Ma?" to which there is no response, just a glaze-eyed grimace . This has been a long twelve years, she is tired and I am emotionally exhausted. 

I read this quote about Alzheimer's today (from Lee Woodruff, author)

"For loved ones, it is death by a thousand nicks."

 

                                                                                                                          this is true. so. true.

Friday quote

"Be not simply good; be good for something."

Henry David Thoreau