Busy Doings

Lately, life has been full of oddments.

Mrs. H fell and broke her collarbone night before last night. She finds her walker annoying so starts to not use it and eventually falls. She's a tiny sparrow, so usually she just bounces. This time she perched on the edge of her chair--as usual but slid off--not as usual. S was with Mrs. C in the bathroom and heard a huge crash. She didn't want to go to the hospital and wait forever, but as she was in excruciating pain, she was up every two hours. Poor S. Mrs. H's son took her to 2 Doctors and so she was gone most of the day.

The lady who comes in at night has simply stopped coming in--no calling or anything--so S is working nights too. This means a bit more work for me, but the real load is on S. It's a combination between doing what needs to be done and not doing what I'd planned to do so I can keep track of everybody.

Mr. L was there for most of the morning but went out to eat for lunch and then the Dr. about the yicky, crusty spots that look like skin cancer (finally). He's had them for a long time but it's hard to get him to the Dr. He HATES to wait. They finally just lulled him into complacency with a trip out to eat and then leapt out of the bushes with a net and a Doctor visit.

That left Mrs. C and L and S went back to bed.

Mrs. C was upset over something. Her brother died last week, and we don't know if she knows on some level--or just knows that something is wrong but doesn't remember what. I think sometimes, emotions linger even when the reasons for them don't. I don't know what her family told her but they all gathered together over the weekend and probably were probably all dressed in black to boot. She refused to speak even more than usual--either looking at S and me with palpable disdain, or outright glaring at us.

L is antsy too, or maybe it's just more confused. She seems to be feeling poorly a lot and her blood sugar is all over the place. I walked around the backyard with her 3x's. phew!

I had looked at the calendar and seen that I hadn't written down my next appt with Dr. B. I was feeling antsy, like it was soon so, I called Dr. B to see when my appt was and it was indeed that day! The car was on empty, empty-empty. Then I discovered I'd left my coat and wallet at Susan's and had to dig out enough change to get 2 gallons of gas so I could go and get my wallet and get more gas. I took Darwin to the park but by that time I could only squeeze out 2x's around.

Today, I had a talk with Mrs H. and she was a tad woozy. She told me about her grandmother taking her to a party when she was 12...or 16....or 8,--she was kinda unclear on that part. She got sick with a headache, dizziness and an upset stomach. They took her to a Chinese Doctor who gave her a tea to drink and she got better. That they didn't have a lot of money for a hospital visit but the Chinese Doctor made her well. She's not sure she trusts American doctors--they just give you a pill and charge you a lot of money--and I think she thinks they don't care.

We planted the seeds in the Incredible Expanding Peat Disks. That took a lot longer than I thought it would. We put in what I had on hand--Bok Choi, Nasturtiums, Zucchini--including ome really old seeds from 2006--Carrots, Potatoes and Edamame. I wonder if any of it will come up. I've discovered that lots of people hold onto their seeds for a couple of years--that they're still good. I thought they wouldn't work. Well, we'll see.