This Mom is Restored
My new Mother’s Ring has arrived and it is absolutely beautiful!
Here is a photo of it paired with my Gramie Ring. These two rings help me feel close to my kids and grands in this time when we have to stay apart. Together they look like a crown, which is most fitting because these loved ones are my Crown Jewels!
The Kids: sapphire, pearl, gold topaz, opal, sapphire
The Grands: peridot, sapphire, ruby, diamond, sapphire, garnet, ruby, peridot
Catreona is First! ☝️
ReplyDeleteCat, puddle asked me to tell you she is holding all your family in her heart and saying a prayer. As you may know, she can read the blog but not post on it yet.
I spoke with puddle in the evening. She's missing Da Boy, but doing okay all things considered. She's just keeping on in her own wise woman way. I hope she can get properly online again before too long.
We loves ya, puddle! ❤️
Thank you, Listener and Puddle. I know how hard it is losing a furry one. You're in my heart, Puddle.
DeleteSorry I couldn't figure out the posting issue for puddle. I just can't make sense of it. Kind of mystified that I ever understood this stuff well enough to put it together.
DeleteHugs to puddle and Catreona.
Thanks for trying, Renee!! 💝
DeleteIt’s a mystery.
Overnight Mom was massively incontinent. When Sis found her in the morning it was everywhere, all over Mom, her hands, under her fingernails, on the bedding. Apparently she was barely aware of what happened. Never called out for help or in pain or anything. When Sis asked, she said she didn't need help. I feel responsible. What's the point of staying up all night if you can't work out something's terribly wrong and go for help. Sis has been very nice about it, but I feel terrible. In any case, that's neither here nor there. Mom had another massive accident a short time ago and Sis is totally overwhelmed. Dad is helping. I'm staying out of the way.
ReplyDeleteA nurse from Dad's church is coming over tomorrow to see if she can help. Donno how much help it will be, since she can only work two hours in the morning. Still, it's something, maybe. Sis has a lead on someplace to try for nursing care. Though it tears me apart knowing how desperately unhappy it will make her, I think it's time to put Mom in the hospital. Sis is in way over her head. We'll see how it goes and what Dad decides.
Cat, I think you are right. Clearly your Mom’s needs are beyond what any family can do from home. I’d sure want someone who loved me to make the hard decision I’m too ill and confused to make.
DeleteAlan, I like parsnips, ditto turnips, though with the full realization both are acquired tastes.
ReplyDeleteHadn't heard about State or the other cabinet nominations. Don't know the answer to your question, but it is intriguing. So, in other words, you think Yellen won't need to go through the confirmation process? That's a neat end run around the Repubs. Also like your suggestion that Covid may reduce the Repub majority in the Senate. Justice, that, IMO.
I just don't know if Yellen would have to go through confirmation hearings or not, but I seem to recall reading about such an exemption more than once; it sure would simplify matters. It would be evil to wish Covid fatalities on Republican senators or anyone else, but I think we can be permitted to consider the possibility. It would certainly be cosmic justice for those who by their words and actions facilitated the spread of the disease.
DeleteIt sure would!
DeleteFresno County Covid cases data [Click] Not looking great, but better than some places. Because of its huge population, Los Angeles County dominates the California statistics.
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DeleteVT cases: 3546-3459=87
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63deaths😢
Recovered 2246 (+89)
Hospital 17(-1) ICU 2(+1)
Tests 210,893 (+3277!)
We’ve had 1 death each of the last 4 days. 😢
I know that sounds like nothing much to most other states. But we went over 100 days with none.
Positivity rate is now 1.8%
We have become numb to the deaths, but it isn't nothing much to their families.
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ReplyDeleteSudden and huge increase in acute alcoholic hepatitis among relatively young (20’s and 30’s) people. [Click] From boozing during the pandemic. Another example of deaths caused indirectly by the pandemic, that in toto amount to about half as many as the deaths directly attributed to it.
“Moreover, the most severe form of ALD [Alcoholic Liver Disease], acute alcoholic hepatitis (AH), carries a 6-mo mortality rate as high as 40% . While the primary goal of ALD management is abstinence, such self-restraint is notoriously difficult to achieve and sustain, and recidivism rates are high. Furthermore, no FDA approved therapies are currently available for ALD.” [https://www.pnas.org/content/117/21/11667] Aside from liver transplants. . .
DeleteOHIO; COVID cases 343,286 and 5,984 deaths.*
ReplyDelete*Ohio State Department of Health cautions that numbers are incomplete because they still have thousands of cases pending.
1.74%
DeleteG20 leaders meet to discuss help for poorest nations in post-Covid world, Trump golfs [Click]
ReplyDeleteBut of course. What else would Trump do? :P
DeleteDifferent report: Trump tells G20 leaders he wants to work with them ‘for a long time’ [Click] US president delivers boasts and falsehoods while other members focus on dealing with the pandemic. [After he finishes his round of golf?]
DeleteFrom the Noo Yawk Tahms: "President Trump made a brief appearance at the virtual Group of 20, but skipped a meeting about the coronavirus."
DeleteNero fiddled while Rome burned.
DeleteStacey Abrams Ramps Up Grassroots GOTV Efforts [Click]
ReplyDeleteI sent a little more love.
DeleteYou guys are NOT gonna believe this!
ReplyDeleteAbout twenty minutes after my last post we had two cops and three EMTs at the door. Nobody knows who called them. Well, I have a pretty shrewd idea. I think it was Spectrum. Anyway, Dad explained the whole sorry mess to them. They came in and had a look around. Said they could tell just from looking at the house and speaking to Mom that the accusations were bogus. Fortunately, at that point she was clean and settled, and of course, being Mom, she rose to the occasion and managed to answer clearly enough. They also said it would be a very bad idea to take her to nursing home or hospital under the current conditions with Covid. You reckon EMTs know what they're talking about.
Dad is extremely shaken, as you can imagine. I mean, opening the door to find two cops standing there! It took a few moments for the ambulance to arrive, so at first it was just the cops. He was shaking like a leaf and at a couple points Sis had to step in at take over the talking. If this whole mess doesn't give Dad a stroke or nervous breakdown or something it will be a miracle! There is no doubt in my mind that those bastards from Spectrum are deliberately persecuting and terrorizing us and in particular Dad. Please send him love and strength. He needs it!
It's in the mail [as it were].
Delete--Alan
It was a long time ago, but we had a similar problem caused by a thoroughly obnoxious neighbor who is thankfully gone.
DeleteHow awfully unsettling!
DeleteIt sounds like in the end cool heads prevailed.
Did any of them offer information or ideas about treatment for Mom? What is the plan?
What the EMTs said about hospital and nursing home makes sense. That does skew the choices.
DeleteCovid rampages across US, unifying a splintered nation as cases surge. The virus is on the rise so uniformly across the vast landmass of the US, that records are being shattered daily. [Click] “The Disunited States of America are united once more. After a brutal election that exacerbated bitter partisan divisions and left the country feeling as though it had been torn in two, it has at last been thrown back together.
ReplyDeleteFor all the wrong reasons.
The great leveler is coronavirus. Covid-19 is rampaging across the US as though it were on a personal mission to unify the splintered nation in an unfolding catastrophe.”
The message seems not yet to have penetrated large numbers of wooden heads.
DeleteWhich reminds me of Mister Block, [Click and enjoy] sung by Utah Phillips. . .
DeleteJudge rules US media agency CEO's interference unconstitutional [Click]
ReplyDeleteMilwaukee officials accuse Trump observers of obstructing recount [Click] “It’s not our job to train their observers on what they’re observing”
ReplyDeleteWhy Biden is crowdfunding his White House transition [Click] Pardon my cynicism, but I should think his old corporate friends (e.g., credit card companies) could cover it quite nicely.
ReplyDeleteThey probably could, but I don't think that would be good for the country.
DeleteSocial distancing is a luxury many can’t afford. Vermont actually did something about it. [Click] Gee—Fresno County has about the same infection rate as Vermont—currently 15 new cases per 100,000 population.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this, Alan. I had not seen it. I have, however, lived it and heard bits of it over the many weeks. Both Gov Phil Scott and Vermont’s Health Commissioner Mark Levine are thoroughly decent, calm people who hold press conferences twice per week taking any and all questions from all news people in the state, and these are broadcast live. The honesty and transparency also helps folks feel more like cooperating. Last week the two student reps on the state education board gave a virtual presentation on the situation with schools. Impressive!
DeleteKelly Loeffler may—or may not—have Covid-19 [Click]
ReplyDeleteWTF? Trump formally requests recount in Georgia [Click] And they’re going to do it!
I think it’s part of how their state law reads. But at least this won’t be another hand count. They just have to run the ballots through the machines.
DeleteFifty years ago this Wednesday (or Tuesday US time if one wants to be really picky) Yukio Mishima died. I remember the spread in LIFE Magazine. An incredibly complex, interesting fellow. Crazy! my better half says; yes, that too, I must admit.
ReplyDeleteCENTCOM: B-52s from Minot Air Force Base sent to Middle East Saturday [Click]
ReplyDeleteBloomberg: Biden Considers Two Women for Attorney General [Click] Not knowing anything about her, I looked up Lisa Monaco in in Wikipedia, [Click] and she sounds like an incredibly good candidate.
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