Sunday Stealing

1. What do you hope your last words will be?  I have no idea.

2. What do you spend the most time thinking about?  food

3. What is something you can never seem to finish?  washing dishes

4. What mistake do you keep making again and again?  I think I've always kept making all my mistakes over and over again until finally I learned.

5. What’s the best thing you got from your parents?  My natural curly hair from my mother, and all my mother's stories.  I got a lot of my dad's orneriness.

6. What’s the best and worst thing about getting older?  The best thing is that when you're older you have more time to do what you want.  The worst thing is that you can't do a lot of the things you would like to do any more.

7. What do you wish your brain was better at doing?  At this time, I just wish my brain could work at capacity like it should.

8. If your childhood had a smell, what would it be?  Fried chicken, cookies, and coffee

9. What have you created that you are most proud of?  the songs and poems I've written

10. What were some of the turning points in your life?  When I got married, when we first moved to the country, and when I had my children   

11. What song or artist do you like but rarely admit to liking?  I don't have any song or artist I'm ashamed of

12. What small impact from a stranger made a big impact on you?  When Cliff and I went to Georgia to visit our son and we went to Plains, Georgia, on Easter to sit in on his Sunday School lesson.  When it was over, we had our picture taken outside with him and his wife.  We were both fat then, but I still love having this picture.

 

13. As you get older, what are you becoming more and more afraid of?  I am going to try my best to trust God to take care of me.  He has given me a good life thus far, and I expect him to take care of me no matter what.

14. What are some of the events in your life that made you who you are?  I don't know as events had anything to do with who I am.  I just walked through life assuming everything would pan out.  Fortunately, it has.

15. What could you do with $2 million to impact the most amount of people?  I would give it to my favorite charity:  Kansas City Union Mission.   Because there but for the grace of God go I. 

Health issues

Once you get to a certain age, you expect to have various aches, pains, and other problems.  My husband has something going on, and we've had a hard time finding what is causing the problem simply because the specialist doctor we need can't get to him until November 5.  And I'm not much help to him, because I have dementia and get addled in certain situations.  Our daughter, who is working overtime because this is the time of year that her job is the busiest, came over and helped us get what we needed to know yesterday, and she will accompany Cliff to the doctor next week to see that his needs are met between now and November 5.  

I have been losing simple words since 2020; of course that happens to most old folks.  But so many names, places, and simple words just don't come to mind when I need them.  I can tell you that my closest family members have seen how I can hardly say one sentence without someone helping me figure out the word I need to say, and they know.  In my last blog entry I couldn't remember the word "microwave" and had to go to Google and ask the question, "How can I warm up leftovers?" in order to use the word in my entry.  Thank God for Google, or this blog would already be closed.

I have told my nurse-practitioner (or whatever they call them nowadays) every year since 2020 that I have dementia, and she just says, Oh, just keep reading and doing things.  

I really don't care about being diagnosed anyhow.  Everybody thinks there are pills that help, but the help anyone gets from those pills is insignificant, from what I've seen.  In July I talked to a nurse who is married to one of Cliff's nephews, and she suggested I could get some help from pills, but agreed with me that anything a pill for dementia does is very little, and doesn't last for long.

What I am doing now is taking life as it comes, trying to enjoy life now, and just praying my family isn't too bothered by what I become.  As for myself, I still FEEL like myself; I've even been able to take very slow walks in the pasture again with my dog without my knees aching too badly.

So, if you notice misspelled words in my stories, you will know why.  But as long as I can, I will keep blogging.

 As always, I'm just keeping things real.