Blogging on the Block 1-8-09

It's been a long day. I had planned to do several things, but only did one that was really on my list. I did get a long walk, but not the one I planned.

I was supposed to go to my mother's today. There are some things she just can't do anymore, and I try to go at least once a week and do them for her. Like run the vaccuum and change the bed, clean the bathroom. She keeps everything neat and clean, but since she broke her hip and had the last knee done she just can't handle the vaccuum. This time of the year her hands really hurt too, and since they are disfigured with arthritis she can pull and tug like she wants to with the sheets and stuff. So, looks like I will be going in the morning.

The walk I had was in no way fun. Trying to find someone in a huge hospital is not an easy task. My best friends mother had surgery today, and is ICU and doing well. Tam had called me and told me where she would be, but when I got there she was nowhere to be found. Neither was any of her family. So I went to all the waiting rooms on that floor, then the smoking areas outside the hospital, the cafeteria, the gift shop, and everywhere I could think of. Plus going back to the ICU waiting room to see if she was back. Since I didn't have the security code and I couldn't find out anything about her mother either. So I spent an hour wandering the halls looking for her. My cell would not work inside the hospital on that floor, but it didn't matter since she didn't have her's with her. Finally found her on accident when she came out of an elevator. She'd been at the ER door watching for me and we must have missed each other somewhere somehow.

I stayed for 5 hours, and I felt really bad leaving her there by herself all night. Her brothers got there after I did, they'd been there that morning and had gone into work and came back. Her dad and son had done gone home, and her soon to be X never came by. She didn't expect him to, since they've been estranged in the same house for 6 years, long story there, but since his mother had just passed away and she'd been there with him for moral support the least he could have done was do the same. I guess I expect to much from a man who flaunts his social life in her face. Thankfully he will soon be gone. I'm being nice here and not saying what is truly on my mind.

My oldest son called today to let me know he was still breathing. We talked for almost half an hour, long conversation for us. I chalk it up to his waiting on Sandi to get out of her interview and his being bored. It was a nice call though. He caught me up on what was going on and I caught him up on what was going on at home.

I'll say goodnight here, I'm a little on the tired side. Knowing me, I'll probably be back on in an hour. I hate not being able to sleep, fighting the bed gets old. Sweet Dreams!