No Complaint Zone!

My mom is sooo funny! She has just been on this downward decline for a while now. We all see it...even she knows it. This week it has been another UTI. (or so I think...I just guess at these thisngs because of her symptoms and I've been guessing correctly for like 30 years now!) Anyways, she has low grade fevers that come and go, her shoulders ache, and of course the new and improved UTI symptom --- wait for it ----the earache! I think her shoulders are truely in pain, that the pain escalates into her neck/ear area...a muscle pain caused from the infection! I bought homeopathic ear drops used to clean ears, and sometimes if I put a few drops in her ears with cotton, her brain tells her the pain is gone! Kind of like a sugar pill.

Anyways, last Friday she was wincing from the aches and pains. She's already on an antibiotic regimin to comabt any infection that might be present! But she wanted me to tell Beth to call the nurse and tell her she was hurting. I told Beth to call...but Beth, being the sweet caring woman she is immediately went to moms room to see if she was OK. She said, "OK Nancy, I will call the nurse and tell her you are COMPLAINING of ear and shoulder pain." My mom in her little barely audible voice said, "Ooohhh. Can you change the verbage?" What? Mom, you're not making sense. She replied, "I don't want you to use the word COMPLAIN. It sounds whiney. Can you say it a different way?" hee-hee! Beth and I had a good laugh over it! Beth told her she would tell the nurse that Nancy was feeling some discomfort in her ear/shoulders. Too Funny!

On those lines..TYLENOL is about the strongest thing my mom wants to take. She says anything else sends her to another world and she likes this world pretty good! Wow! Her one liners sneak up on you, but if you catch them...they can give you a good chuckle!

Mother's Day

Although a little late in the posting...we DID indeed celebrate Mother's Day with mom! It was a good one! I saw her Friday, Saturday, and Sunday! Friday was just my regular visit! Saturday, I took the kiddos, and Kendyl and Courtney played a litlle recital for her with the piano keyboard at the house. She LOVED every minute of it! Even when they made the keys sound like drums, then horns, then 'toots'! It was a gas! Get it? hahahaha! Even Korynn and Connor played/pounded on the notes a bit for her! It was Grammy's dream visit, I tell you! Then on Sunday, we all went over...even Kevin's parents and sister Katie. Mom was a little weak, but nothing new. She wished she'd been at church, but the visit brightened her day! She was wearing the pretty purple blouse I got her...she looks good in purple! I can see her getting thinner and thinner. Her hair seems to be thinning also. A shame - she has always had a beuatiful thick wavy head of hair. Anyways, just as we were ready to leave....guess who showed up? YEP - those cutie patootie Achievemnet Day girls. What angels they are! My mom's face brightened in seeing them also!