I fought hard to get my terrace off of my office during the design and construction phase, because I wanted a place to be able to walk outside during the work day. Since it’s usually way to hot too walk outside, I normally just look at the terrace from the inside and just knowing it is there makes me happy. But lately, since we continue to have our family visiting us and we are trying…
Mom was breathing on her own today and they said they were going to pull the tube out and they did around early afternoon, only she had a lot of trouble and so by this evening she was back on the ventilator. I had set up in my mind that she had to get off this ventilator because only then would she be making progress to get better, but I had to back off of…
One of my nieces had been going through a rough patch in her relationships and I sent her an email telling her you never know who is going to walk into your life and change it, so be open. That was on the heels of having met Tatjana. In recent discussions with her regarding the complexities of our adoption progress, she sent me back my own email to tell me to be open. What goes…
I went to yoga today because of this main reason – my back is killing me. And it’s killing me from sitting here at my desk and running back and forth to the hospital, but what was giving was my time to do yoga and since I believe my mother is the one who is going through the most discomfort, I’ve not been attending to my own needs. But I had to stop and take…
Across the bayou, somebody decided to throw their ducks into our bayou and build a ramp so the ducks could come up and feed every day. Well wonders never cease. We hate the ducks – they look like they belong in Disney land with their big white pulchritude and the duck shit – everywhere!!! When I voiced my dislike a few people suggested I was being a curmudgeon but then someone else wrote about it…
Okay, who would shoot a white fluffy cat? Some ignoramus with a pellet gun it seems. Here I was looking for Blizzard the white fluffy cat when I was out for walks with Loca because Blizzard had gone missing and its owners had posted a note. Then next thing I learn the cat was shot dead in front of its own house. Victim #2 of a retard with a pellet gun – I find the…
I know we all know this but it really should be addressed with Obama’s health care reform. Hospital decor SUCKS! The ICU waiting room is these chairs that position you all to look at all the other frightened, grieving people waiting there and to soften the blow this particular waiting room at East Jefferson Hospital has a two sided fresh water aquarium. Well what happens and what happened to me yesterday is that I was…
I got back from the hospital late last night and we sat on the front porch to enjoy the breeze. I had received a text from one of my friends who was attending the memorial of my friend’s son saying that the firemen’s tribute for the boy was heart wrenching, but it was lightened up by the second line walk to Witt’s Inn afterwards. I had been sitting in the ICU waiting room with my…
I sat in the ICU waiting room from 1:30 till 8:30 yesterday and am here to say there has got to be a better way. But the good news is that mom came through the surgery with two metal plates in the left side of her face and no scar that is visible. And maybe this fall had a silver lining as now she will remain in the hospital until many of her issues are…
In 1998, I had been back in San Francisco for two years after a thwarted move home to New Orleans in 1995. My panic attacks reached enormous proportions because I didn’t want to be there, I wanted to be in New Orleans, near my family, having children with my husband, and living and breathing the architecture, culture, music, food, flora and fauna of New Orleans not being lulled to sleep by the sterile, overpriced, transient…