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Bill Hirdman is life loving,music loving, beach lover, and a good friend

I'm a caregiver for my mother, I am 45 single, I love the ocean and...

Bill Hirdman

Monday, August 03, 2009
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 Hi gang,

 

 It seems  I have been everywhere but home. I really wanted to go to the Carribean but I loaded up the Rv and took off with no plans.. LOL  story of my life...

 Most of my trip was out of cell service and air card service so it was hard to stay in touch with Mom, sometimes driving a long distance just to get service to call Mom. At first, being away was nice but then I began to miss her every hour. Hard not being able to call and talk with Mom.

 Before I left Mom was loosing a lot of weight, Her new doctor gave her some sort of new medicine to inhance her eatting. It worked.!  YIPPY.. Mom is still working at the facility doing god knows what but she is very busy.She tells me of how everyone one there works very hard then turns it around telling me how they don't know what they are doing so she has to work overtime. The staff has informed me that she is going into other rooms and rearranging the rooms. Never knew Mom to do that before, it was always my job!

 While I was gone my sister went to visit her a couple of times and informed me of her well-being. One day on my trip my sister called while I was driving some curvy ass road to Yosemite. We both started crying as we spoke of camping and boating with Mom. Towing my boat behind the RV on those steep curvy roads and crying on the phone,,,,  not recomended! trying to find a place to pull over with 60' of vehicle is not easy either!

 I took time to just float the boat. listening to the wave slap the hull and wishing Mom was with me. One night I launched at midnight and sat in the middle of the lake as the moon lit a memerable light across the lake.. after 30-40 minutes of just sitting there I fired it up and woke up the shore line! something Mom would have done at the time! its a fast and loud boat but who cares, that run was for Mom.   :)))))))

 Some times during the trip I would start crying for no reason. Do you know what I mean? so weird. tes the river still flows and I hate it! Do any of you go through this? I thought  it was because I had been drinking a lot, but I don't drink a lot anymore. a couple a week and that is it.  I still think about all the adventures mom toook me on when she was here at my home! I wonder if they were real sometimes. but who could make up some of the stuff we went through. Holy Crap.  Ever try to smile,giggle,cry,frown and wipe the tears and runny nose all at the ssame time?   what a mess.  lol

 To all of you that emailed me while i was gone thank you! I have tried to respond back but only have been home a few hours now.

 HUGS to all of you

 

Bill

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