Latest Blog Posts for Anitalite's Smokin' Life ;-)_

• Mom's Pot Luck Party
  on Jul 29, 2009
  Well, we had the party Saturday as planned.  Everyone who said were coming did and each brought a dish of some sort.  We had the best potato salad I've ever tasted, can't even tell what was in it, gotta get the recipe.  When I do I'll share it wit...
• Mom's Party Saturday
  on Jul 23, 2009
  This is too cute.  Mom is having a party with her friends that she's known since elementary school.  All of them are in their eighties.  They've known each other for over seventy years!  Mom's friends are really great.  They saw me and my siblin...
• Outside With Mom
  on Jul 22, 2009
  We are sitting outside, Mom and I, for her daily dose of vitamin D and some fresh air.  It's so cute how she loves to look around her beautiful yard and to hear her comment on everything she sees. A bird is in the birdfeeder that hangs in our orange...
• Stress = Spontaneous Combustion???
  on Jul 16, 2009
  This happens to be a day that Mom is willing to get in the shower.  No excuses and it was definitely time for one.  I don't remember the last time she would take one, probably a week ago.  Maybe a few days more, I'm not sure.  I ought to document...
• Don't Know What I'm Going To DO
  on Jul 12, 2009 in death homeless fear homelessness dying
  There's no telling when Mom will die. It could be two days or two years.. or more. Thing is, when she does die, my siblings are going to sell the house we live in. It's the house my mother and Dad bought fifty years ago. I've lived in this house...
• Great Resources For Caregivers!
  on Jul 10, 2009
  The National Family Caregiving Association has a fantastic site with this helpful page full of resources for caregivers including a list of ten tips for caregiving that is very good.  There is also a page where you can submit your  story to the Car...
• My Sinking Heart
  on Jul 9, 2009
  Mom is sitting next to me in her chair in front of the television - asleep - as she has been a lot lately.  It saddens me because I know the increase in sleeping is probably due to a lack of oxygen to her brain.  The meds she takes has a bit to do...
• Worry, Guilt, Stress
  on Jul 9, 2009
  It happens that my twenty six year old son lives with my mother and I, thank goodness.  If he weren't here to stay with his grandmother while I do the shopping, run errands, or even go play pool for a little while.  If it weren't for him I'd never...
• The Diagnosis
  on Jul 7, 2009
  Upon our return to Mom's medical doctor, we found out she was to see a surgeon, an oncologist, and have an MRI.  This was alarming because we were told she was free of malignancy.  We went to the oncologist first.A delightful oncologist (cancer doc...
• Mircale Drug
  on Jul 7, 2009
  Mom is a trooper and healthy for the most part.  Her Parkinson's Disease is not debilitating as one would expect and she responds very well to the medication she takes for it.  Her congestive heart failure hasn't given her any problems for quite a...

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