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I apologize for being so absentee on my posting lately. My aging parents arrived on Wednesday. I was unprepared for the advancement of my mom’s Parkinson’s disease, or for that matter, my dad’s frailty. After the grueling past month, to see my mom showing more symptoms than I had ever seen before really threw me for a loop. She was tired, and had over done it this past week.
After resting a few days, she looks better, but still I can see progression. I have been extremely fortunate to have my parents remain healthy for so long. They are both in their early 80’s. As lucky as we have been, I am not ready for this to change. I am sure no one ever is.
Because they have been here, and because, like so many of our household moves in the past, they are pitching in and helping unpack, I haven’t even taken a moment to sit down and blog. We have purchased and assembled shelving; hung pictures; unpacked crystal, china and everyday dishes; bought new bed linens; washed untold loads of laundry; filled numerous boxes to give away to charity; accepted the delivery of new furniture; stocked the pantry; and reorganized the chaos of boxes and furniture in the basement.
Tonight we took a break and went out to Olive Garden and then to the Kansas City Symphony Pops concert, featuring “Three Phantoms”—guys who had all played the lead role in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. It was a fabulous show and my folks and my husband and I really enjoyed it.
Over the next two days, I intend to spend every moment with my parents. I don’t know how many more moments are in our future.
My folks leave on Monday morning, just as I head off to experience the procedure widely proclaimed by Katie Couric… (do your own research if you missed my previous blog about this!!) Sunday will be a hungry, shall we say, crappy day? (Did I really say that?)
So, please bear with me for a little while longer while I desperately try to resume some normalcy in my life, whatever that is…
Hugs to you and your parents. They are such neat people.
Enjoy your, ummm, procedures. Glad it’s you and not me.
Hey Nancy! Eagerly waiting your blogs. My first sips of coffee in the morning just aren’t the same without sharing them with you as you share your life with us. You’re amazing. Give a hug to your parents and do enjoy them. My mother has been gone for ten years and my father two years. I still ache that I can no longer call her. Guess that never goes away…. Elaine