It doesn’t look like mom is getting out of the hospital yet, she’s still weak and not eating. I laid at the foot of her bed while she slept and listened to the woman in the room next door howling like a wild animal – obviously dementia – mom says her rantings have a pattern that begin with talking to someone, then ranting, then wailing. I kept trying to remain calm as I watched mom sleep and listened to the heartwrenching cries of the woman, but it made me so sad that I just wept and held on tight to my mother’s legs. <\/p>\n
L was a no show this morning – that old dog. N and the Snake are across the lake but coming in midday and everyone meeting here for food early afternoon so we can get to MiMi’s for the parade. Yesterday was a Gomez day – rainy and dreary. S called from Portland and said it was cold cold cold there and he could never live in that kind of cold. He met someone, an outdoors type, I had to chuckle because of his aversion to the great outdoors. But then by evening he was feeling the weight of it all too. <\/p>\n
No one has been to the LaLa house all week. The surge in starting with new people was a glitch, it’s back to the same old inertia that has colored the work on that house from day one. It’s so unsettling. <\/p>\n
But first parade tonight, a welcome diversion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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