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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 3, 2023 0:46:08 GMT
I have had to be away from everyone here this weekend, as my mother had a bad incident going into the weekend, and my son and I have had to be devoted entirely to her care. She would not wish me to discuss the exact nature of her infirmity, so I must honor that, but I can say that she is on the mend, resting nicely, and is in full possession of her faculties physically and, a fortiori, mentally. The sharpest, most astute 92-year-old woman you will ever meet.
She is going to be, probably, another couple of weeks recovering.
I know it’s a foregone conclusion that everyone here will be elevating prayers on her behalf. Thanks so much.
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Post by farronwolf on Apr 3, 2023 1:25:47 GMT
We will keep your mother and your family in our prayers. Hoping for a full and speedy recovery for her.
Even though my mother has dementia, the time I get to spend with her at 97 years of age is still precious to me.
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Post by jcath on Apr 3, 2023 13:14:18 GMT
Father please by your grace and touch of the Holy Spirit heal this women and make her whole. May she fully recover and once again walk strong in your word. In your name, Jesus amen!
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Post by RN69 on Apr 3, 2023 18:59:01 GMT
Praying for God's protection of your elderly Mother.
Psalm 5:12 "But let all who take refuge in You be glad and exhault forever. Protect them that You may be the joy of those who love Your name."
Lord, when we are infants, You partnered with our parents in loving and in caring for us. My Mother is now elderly and infirmed and I ask that You partner with me in giving her the same tender loving care. Give me the strength to be fully present for my Mother and lovingly tend to her needs and the wisdom to take time out to tend to my physical, emotional and spiritual needs as I care for her. Amen.
God's blessings for your filial devotion to both of your parents. 🙏
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 12, 2023 14:45:40 GMT
Thanks to everyone for your continued prayers.
Update as of Wednesday 12 April: my mother is still in physical rehab and is doing well, perhaps does not have the full range of motion that we'd like, but is doing well enough to return home next Wednesday 19 April. My son and I are working on clearing out the clutter in the house, having a maid service to come in and do a deep cleaning, hauling some things to our other house which has plenty of storage space, and retrofitting the bungalow to optimize her quality of life. Homeschool and daily routines are continuing largely unaffected. So it's all good, and we look forward to making our "new normal" as close to the "old normal" as possible.
One more thing: I ask everyone's prayers that my mother will agree to receive Extreme Unction (or Anointing of the Sick, if you prefer). Her age alone (92) is sufficient reason to receive it. Ideally, she needs to receive other sacraments as well. Please pray.
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Post by katy777 on Apr 18, 2023 17:23:04 GMT
Continued prayers for your mom..
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 20, 2023 3:54:46 GMT
Update as of end of day Wednesday 19 April:
My mother is back home and is resting comfortably. From all outward appearances, she has no lasting damage aside from weakness in her left side. They brought her a very comfortable hospital bed (Medicare) and it is in our living room. We are all well. Thanks to everyone for your prayers.
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Post by katy777 on Apr 26, 2023 20:18:15 GMT
Praying for your mother
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Post by tisbearself on Apr 27, 2023 16:28:46 GMT
Continued prayers for your mom and family.
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 28, 2023 8:29:00 GMT
Continued prayers for your mom and family. Thanks. Right now I am sitting up with my mother who is experiencing severe back pain. I do not see getting back to sleep, which is okay, as I have been sick for the past two days, some kind of sinus infection, earache, and sore throat, and I have been sleeping (and sweating) a lot. We have the physical therapist coming in this morning, as well as someone to install grab bars in the shower, bur afterwards, I may go to urgent care out here by my home, as my GP is over 15 miles away, downtown, and I can't leave my mother by herself with my son the whole afternoon.
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 29, 2023 14:04:32 GMT
Now I am sick as well. I went to the doctor yesterday and have been put on a medication regime. I am still functional, however, I am not well. My son also has complaints, has been vomiting, and I am taking him to the doctor this afternoon.
We shall prevail, we've just hit some rough seas. Prayers much appreciated.
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Post by theguvnor on Apr 29, 2023 14:51:08 GMT
It may only be coincidence but you are the fourth person in two days I've seen in a post on a forum I use with these symptoms. Including a producer for the BBC in Northern Ireland, two Americans and an Englishman. All spoke of sinus infections or pain and swollen ears or earaches and nausea. Worryingly we've had medical advisors here start to go on about how wearing masks may need to be reintroduced due to the Arcturus strain of COVID. I've had a low grade fever myself for several days, although it is more annoying than anything else as yet.
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 29, 2023 15:17:31 GMT
It may only be coincidence but you are the fourth person in two days I've seen in a post on a forum I use with these symptoms. Including a producer for the BBC in Northern Ireland, two Americans and an Englishman. All spoke of sinus infections or pain and swollen ears or earaches and nausea. Worryingly we've had medical advisors here start to go on about how wearing masks may need to be reintroduced due to the Arcturus strain of COVID. I've had a low grade fever myself for several days, although it is more annoying than anything else as yet. I'm on the mend. I was out in my yard this morning at 7 am --- needed the cool morning air --- working on an antenna that a fellow telecommunications hobbyist brought me on his truck a few weeks ago, he'd scavenged it from a cable-TV tower they were dismantling on the far end of the state, and he had no use for it. It's a high-gain UHF antenna, looks like a 7-foot ribcage, and I am hoping to get the stations from the city a couple hours away where they show Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! at flip-flopped times from us (J at 7:00 and WOF at 7:30 vs WOF at 7:00 and J at 7:30), or whenever our local station pre-empts them, as they often do for sports. They get those stations over in the next county, but we're just a little too far away with a normal antenna. I'm hoping I can talk my mother out of keeping our cable that runs about $120 per month, I am trying to convince her that Scripps News is just as good as NewsNation, and it's free on top of that, whereas NewsNation isn't. I got a good, long, sweaty sleep last night --- evidently the infection breaking up --- and I feel much better today. The body wants to be well, and it will heal itself if you just cooperate with it. Getting a little light exercise --- which the antenna work surely was --- helps with that. WRT Jeopardy!, Mayim is appealing and Ken tries his best, but neither one of them are Alex. That show basically died IMHO when Alex died. My father was in his final months and I just couldn't watch that last episode that Alex hosted. I watched M*A*S*H instead that night. In my youth, I thought Alex was the epitome of cool, that Canadian accent, spoke fluent French, came across as the consummate Renaissance man, the whole package.
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Post by theguvnor on Apr 29, 2023 17:49:28 GMT
120 dollars a month for telly? Whoa. I pay £4.99 for Amazon Prime. I'm aware of the US show 'Jeporardy' but it has never really been shown here. Everyone in the family except my mother-in-law detests game shows so whenever they show up on TV here you will see someone find another side quickly. My father used to particularly loathe Terry Wogan who presented a lot of them on the BBC, he used to reference him as a, 'professional Irishman.' I used to detest the British comedian Les Dennis who you lot will not have been tortured by, he did a line in cheesy comedy that was like nails on a blackboard.
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 30, 2023 13:41:31 GMT
120 dollars a month for telly? Whoa. I pay £4.99 for Amazon Prime. I'm aware of the US show 'Jeporardy' but it has never really been shown here. Everyone in the family except my mother-in-law detests game shows so whenever they show up on TV here you will see someone find another side quickly. My father used to particularly loathe Terry Wogan who presented a lot of them on the BBC, he used to reference him as a, 'professional Irishman.' I used to detest the British comedian Les Dennis who you lot will not have been tortured by, he did a line in cheesy comedy that was like nails on a blackboard. Wired home cable is a dinosaur writhing in its death agonies. It predates any of the other delivery systems (aside from over-the-air antennas, which are making a comeback) and has long been a favorite of elderly people of the generation that started housekeeping in the early years of TV (1950s/60s/70s) because it's what they know, it's easy to use (no pulldown menus nor switching back and forth between Roku, Chromecast, Dish, ATT, et al), and it provides those precious local TV channels, usually on single-digit numbers, easy to remember. (I know the UK is a bit different, but in the US, you have local stations in over 200 geographical markets ranging in size from the 75-mile radius around New York City, to tiny places such as Glendive, Montana and Alpena, Michigan. They usually carry programs of a single network, NBC, CBS, et al, with cut-ins for local news, sometimes many hours a day, and non-network programs such as Jeopardy! or WOF.) It's the only thing my mother knows, and "channel 3" or "channel 8" is much easier to remember and select --- especially with low vision such as she has --- than switching between delivery modes, OTT platforms, and such like. And as for antennas, when "cable came to town", that generation gleefully pulled down their rooftop aerials and put them on the curb for pickup, because, well, they saw antennas as "ugly" and you are talking a generation that was very particular about appearances, including those of their homes, and when they get in charge of residential HOAs (homeowner's associations), they can make your life hell if your window shutters are the wrong color or if your grass is a bit shaggy or dry. Rooftop antennas find no love up against such a mindset. (Rooftop aerials are protected by Federal law, though, and HOAs can't do much about them. They're not quite as obtrusive as they used to be.) As for the mammoth price tag, it's basically "because they can", and because they're hemorrhaging money to begin with. Cable systems have almost universally morphed into multimodal delivery systems, and it's getting to the point where TV, internet, and home phone are "just one big package". I had an old-fashioned copper-wired phone installed for my mother, as it is operational when the power and/or cable goes out, whereas cable- cum-Internet VOIP phone service isn't.
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