Truhal

The phone calls number over ten a day.  They start around 8 in the morning and last well into the night.  I've received calls at 2:30 and 4:30 in the morning too.  The calls are all from my dad....

I finally got my dad to get rid of the guns.  He lied and said they weren't there.  Then he tried to tell me the neighbor had taken them or the handyman.  I told him to give me their telephone...

Another mass shooting.  Another day of hearing about changing the gun laws.  This is my story: Yesterday the physical therapist agency called to tell me they were pulling their staff because my...

I had a nice day today.  I started off by walking my two dogs.  I just love being out in nature, so I don't mind having two dogs to walk.  Of course I'll sing a different tune in the winter....

I lost 11 pounds.  I'm so excited, but I have 40 to go.  Still, it's a start.  In fact, I've decided to focus on my health.  I told my dad that over the phone.  I won't be around anymore, I told...

Dad was the nice dad today.  It's the way of a person with a mental illness and dementia.  He thought he was coming home tomorrow and that he would have skilled nursing care.  He said he did not...

Heard from the hospital social worker today.  They say dad can come home if he has a care-giver.  Heard from dad today.  He wants to come home and said he'll let a maid service in to help take...

I read this story in the Washington Post about a nurse who went to another country to die.  I can't remember the country, but she was perfectly healthy and visited friends and family before leaving....

Now that Dad has been diagnosed with Dementia our relationship has changed.  He's still the same combative person he's always been, but I'm different.  I know and understand the diagnoses he has...

The weight is coming off so slowly when compared to my youth. I'm taking a medication that slows your metabolism. Keeps me nice and fat. Of course i won't need the medication once I lose weight. My...

Two weeks ago I weighed myself on one of those new scales at the grocery store.  It said I was 15 pounds heavier than I thought.  I figured it was wrong.  Then I thought about it and realized I've...

Just read that young people are dying their hair grey.  It's a trend.  Just thinking how wonderful it would have been if this trend had been around when I was young.  I started greying at 14....

Okay, I'm still fat!

Yesterday I ate a large box of chocolate candy and some white castle hamburgers full of salt.  It's my farewell for eating junk. It all started back in August when my doctor was bought out by...

Well, I've done the semi part of retirement.  I left my permanent job back in March and have worked full-time since then.  My intentions have always been to be semi-retired.  So, now for the...