My Own Thoughts

My dad is out of ICU! That is so great. He is off the ventilator. He can talk. He knows who we are and what is going on. He exercised for two hours in bed by himself without anyone telling him to. He is going to get well! My mom is stable. Her psychiatrist refused [...]

Low carb diet will help you remember. Blood sugar issues undermine human memory. My sons learned in Driver’s Ed that driving without sleep is the equivalent to driving drunk. The reason I am opposed to withholding nutrition is because many people who are in a “persistent vegetative stage” aren’t. They wake up. 40% of them.

My dad said my name. He also told me to “Go home” (to rest), “Leave,” and “Go away.” I tried to explain to him that at the first “Go home” that I was leaving in an hour. Then I told him that I would leave in half an hour. Four minutes later he told me [...]

I hate that my sister told my husband yesterday that she could have my mother declared incompetent. I hate that this sister is treating my mother as my father treats my mother. My sister is not my mother’s husband. She is her daughter. And my father may have helped to do the one thing he [...]

At 8 pm last night my father had a stroke. Since he had been diagnosed with an inner ear infection, that is all he thought he had. He fell down. My mom helped him up and, with her walker, took him to the bedroom. He decided he wanted to go to the bathroom and fell [...]