Christmas Cookies
The Christmas Cookie decorating went well yesterday - well except for the fact that I burnt the cookies. Dad was ready, willing, and able to help me out.
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I know it’s been a while since i’ve been able to update the diary. My husband was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer in June - and finished his radiation mid November. My mother stepped up and took Daddy. When i would come back to IL for the weekend (to get mail etc) I would take him and give her a break (and make him shower!) Back home and back to the regular schedule. I cooked a small turkey for Thanksgiving and made dressing for my first time. It was pretty good. Since Mom was here, Dad thought he should go home with her. She suggested she’d take him until the beginning of the next week, and said that we should split our time taking care of him. In the next breath, she asked me if i would have him until I left for Arkansas for Christmas, (Dec 20). Well, afterall, she did have him the 6 weeks before while I was with my husband. I honestly tried to take Dad with me as I mentioned in the previous blog.
We’re back in routine now, such as it is. He went to bed at 5:30 last night, nothing I could do, say, or suggest could make him stay up longer. Needless to say, he was sitting in his chair when I woke up at 4 am. It’s nearly 7 am now, and he’s drank his coffee and is napping. He gets very upset and I have to explain to him over and over why he can’t be ‘at home’. He loves me - but he misses his wife and his home. We get along fine - he gets upset at me sometimes, but it never lasts.
My oldest brother is coming to see us tomorrow. He’ll be here a week. It will be nice to have someone in the house so that I can run out and do things alone. The weather is getting bad, and dad’s mobility is getting worse and worse. David will stay with dad while Mom and I go Christmas shopping. I think Mom will spend the night Tuesday night, and we’ll go Wednesday. David will go out to the bowling alley Thursday, have lunch with her, and then go visit some of his hometown/church friends.
I bought some cookie stuff to bake Christmas cookies and icing and sprinkles. Dad needs something to do once in a while, and I hope I can get him interested in that. He’d do anything to ‘help’ me - sometimes it’s just more hindrance than help. I have to be very patient. He has taken over closing the curtains and locking the door at night. Since I had the fence put in he can now let Herbie in and out too. He needs to be useful.
We did have an incident yesterday - he was pulling at his hair. not pulling it out - just pulling at it. I asked him what was wrong - but he couldn’t verbalize - he didn’t have a headache - it wasn’t sticky - nothing was in it - finally he said it was “tight’ I suggested he get out his comb and comb it. He did that for quite a while. I think it soothed him, and by the time he was done - he was just combing his hair and had forgotten all about the ‘tight’ hair. You just have to be creative with how you deal with the odd things that come up.
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