elainegrey

Had third harvest of strawberries yesterday. The walking track around the community colleges has a tree with ripe mulberries and (once i started looking up) many trees with ripening berries. Mine are still small pale things.

Found a practice for stopping coughing (https://www.wsh.nhs.uk/CMS-Documents/Patient-leaflets/Physiotherapy/6386-1-Stop-Cough-Technique.pdf) that i will try today. Tired at the end of Monday and Tuesday.

--== ∞ ==-- Issues in Christine's family

Christine's closest sister's husband is in the hospital again with heart issues. Apparently, to stay "in line" for an ablation he will need to stay in the hospital. (Although, he's in the cardiac ICU so leaving the hospital doesn't seem like it was imminent?) Nth hand information is that he's not going to get better. I can imagine parts, from being with my mom, but i can't imagine other parts -- the stroke and dementia significantly affected mom's self awareness and Dad really didn't retain all the details of Mom's condition. (Nonetheless, she  reportedly communicated to Dad at least once a desire to commit suicide, which - digressing further - given Dad's much more frequent references to suicide is potentially tangled with his projections, not the most reliable narrator, Dad.)

Here D-- & B-- are all too clearly aware. "Not going to get better" does not mean "only has a few days, weeks, months, years" but that the underlying flawed organ remains capable of failing again. And so B-- is having panic attacks and doesn't want to be left alone. To go to visit a garden with D-- meant B-- stayed at the house with Christine (watching the Mets play baseball, talking about subscribing to the Yankee[1] network - apparently B-- joins C-- in being Yankees fans while i would only cheer for the Yankees if they were playing the Atlanta Braves and, why would i watch that game??). D-- had to take her sculptural artwork to an exhibit in Georgia on Monday, and had arranged with a friend and B--'s daughter to stay with him. He passed out during a telehealth appointment and that's why he's back in the hospital. A quick scan of technology does not find a good technical solution to "what if i am sitting in my chair and i have a health event." There's no fall. 24/7 care giving -- even if it is simply checking on a quiet person to make sure they are OK frequently -- is not an easy thing to do.