family visiting

My mom has 3 brothers. None of them have ever offered to do ANYTHING for my mom, nor have they ever offered any financial assistance of any kind. Perhaps that’s normal, perhaps siblings don’t bear any real responsibility toward eachother, but, never the less, it annoys me. One of my mom’s brothers and his wife are going to be visiting us in a couple of weeks. They’re staying at a hotel. I...

It’s Never Enough

Dear Denise, I care for my mam; she has been a caregiver since her teens and has continued to care for the elderly, whilst bringing up six children. This means that she never acknowledges the fact that she needs help, always insisting she’ll be alright and doesn’t want to burden anyone, so much so that I’ve found out that she has lost most of her site, which was why she hasn’t been making...

Updates from Gary

Hi, all.  Sorry I’ve been away for a long bit.  I feel like the last 2 months “happened,” but I “didn’t.”  Make sense?  As if I was on autopilot.  I don’t remember the Holidays — I had a diverticulitis flareup.  Luckily, my gastroenterologist turned me on to a new medicine, Dyciclomene, which is an antispasmodic and decreases the contractions in the colon that...

Sunday Reflections

It was a busy Sunday. We went to church this morning, and I went to my woman’s Sunday school class. My class again provided a good time for sharing our prayer concerns and the burdens on our hearts. This afternoon we first went to my son and his wife’s house for awhile, and I got to hold our little grandson awhile again. Later my sister-in-law picked up my husband and I, and we went to...