And thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings and
suggestions.
My wife is a PWP. I get upset because of her problems.
She fumbles for words or garbles what she is saying. This is
from a brilliant woman who went all the way through State on merit
scholarships and had to spend only $25 per term for her health
insurance. In the bedroom in a little frame is a silver medal (real
silver) that the French Consular presented to her in a special
dinner in her honor. And now we make daily checkoff lists to
help us get/stay organized.
Yesterday we went to an important program. The chairs in
the dining room were large and heavy and had a high and wide
back. We sat down and then got up for the invocation. Then
we sat. Then the dinner was buffet style. Then people stood
up and sat down as they were recognized for their work. Then
we had various photo groupings. You know how these dinners
go.
Well, each time Sugarlump had to move the chair and get up,
it was a federal case to turn sideways in the chair and use the
table and the chairback as hand holds to get up. I felt so sad
that her strength and energy level is so low.
She used to hand wash and hand wax her big old Pontiac.
(I have never waxed a car in my life. Once in a while I will use
the discount coupons from the paper and drive our car through
the automatic car wash.)
Anyway, I feel that it is so unfair that someone who has worked
her butt off in a job, as a mother, as a housekeeper, as a
volunteer for all kinds of community services, and as a long-time
support of her aged mother, ends up with pain and confusion and
great fatigue.
I read your notes of encouragement and information in the early
hours of the morning. Even the jokes and poetry and trivia help.
Thanx. Pat
