November 24 2014
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| Christmas has attacked my home |
I was up at 8:00 without using the alarm. The first morning in a while that I was out of bed before the lovely Lisa. I put together a pot of drippy Joe, wash my face, brush my teeth and do all those other things that people do in the bathroom in the morning. Now that I'm back exercising every other day I'm starting to feel good again. My energy is back up and I'm looking forward to every day.
It's hard to believe that I posted on this blog two hundred times.
When I went to put together yesterday's blog this morning, that's when I saw that I was posting number 200. I had already written the entire blog I just had to put it in order and add pictures, so there was no way was I going to start over so this is 201.
Two hundred and one times since May 22 I have posted to this blog. The lovely Lisa and I have had some fun and done some travelling while I've tried to change my lifestyle and increase my life expectancy. So far so good!
Mama Lee had an appointment with the speech therapist at Burnaby General Hospital at 11:00. I got yesterdays blog posted at 10:00. We had asked momma Lee to be ready and waiting at 10:30.
Never happened. It was 10:40 by the time we got Mama Lee loaded into the truck. Its only six and a half kilometres from Gagliardi to Willingdon and then just a couple of more minutes to the hospital.
I pulled up to the doors right outside the clinic at 10:58. I wasn't going in with Mama Lee and Lisa today. I went last week and I had it all explained to me. Mama Lee has been pretty slack about the exercises she has to do to help with her speech and swallowing.
Based on what the speech therapist said last week I've been doing my own speech therapy with Mama Lee. I refuse to answer her unless she yells at me. She's not really yelling though it feels like it to her. That's one of the symptoms of advanced Parkinson's. Also when she yells at me her enunciation is much better. After I dropped them off, I knew the appointment was for one hour. I drove down Sunset to the Chinese market and bought a banana and an apple. I picked up a copy of 24 a daily freepaper. Headlines with no substance. That's five minutes of my life I'll never get back.
I sat in the truck and listened to them talk about the passing of Pat Quinn. In the early nineties I did standup at the Jake Milford open,
which is the Vancouver Canucks golf tournament. I had the opportunity to have several conversations with him. He always struck me as a very real person. The last time I saw him was maybe a dozen years ago. I was down at Spanish banks with Sammy, my old dog. Sammy went up to a big guy who had his foot up on a bench tying his shoe. He turned around and it was Pat Quinn. The thing that struck me most about him was that even 14 years later, he remembered me. And he reached down and scratched Sammy behind his ears. That dog always was a good judge of people.
At 11 o'clock I pulled up to the doors closest to the clinic. I was only there a minute or two when the lovely Lisa and Mama Lee came wheeling through the doors. Mama Lee was quite happy with how the appointment went.
We hadn't asked for Mama Lee's home to hold her lunch so we decided to take her for lunch at Woody's.
Mama Lee had a beautiful seafood salad. The lovely Lisa had a pizza and I had chicken wings. It's a little pricey there for lunch but the food is good and Mama Lee was buying. It was after 2:00 by the time we got Mama Lee home .
In the last two years Mama Lee has managed to go through two cell phones. They're just not made to be dropped a thousand times a day. I took her phone and I went out looking for a replacement at the Mall. Christmas is in full swing.
Did you know that there are only two seniors phones on the market? Fortunately the better of the two is available on Mama Lee's plan. I had to put all the numbers into her phone by hand. Her old phone wouldn't store the numbers to the SIM card. I sat in the truck down at the mall listening to the radio and putting Mama Lee's phone numbers into her new phone. Once I had the phone loaded I headed over to Mama Lee's for a frustration lesson. Mama Lee gets the lesson, I get the frustration! Do you remember that TV show from the 70s That's Incredible? On one episode they had a chimpanzee that could make cocktails. Mama Lee is no chimpanzee. After twenty minutes she was able to answer the phone and put it on speaker. Thirty minutes later she was still trying to say hello in a text message. She has unlimited everything so, fill your boots Mama Lee. She was still try to do a text when I left.
We had an absolutely lazy night tonight. The lovely Lisa Christmas elf puttered around. She loves the christmas decorations.
So do Elvis and Nutmeg.
She has emptied five of the twelve Rubbermaid bins that contain her Christmas Extravaganza.
We ate dinner Aussie Rules. Get what you can, when you can. I had an apple, an avocado, Squatch salad and a ham and cheese omelet.
The lovely Lisa had leftover pizza. We watched another four or five episodes of Family Feud and went to bed about 10:00. I was back out of bed by 11:00 watching CSI L.A. and writing this when I felt a familiar twinge. I see Doc Eddy in the morning. Freakin Kidney stones!They kept me up until 3:00 am.
That's all I've got
Till next time
Peace out Y'all
©2014 Dave Squatch Ward
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