Rants and ramblings of a wanna be

Well, last week we discovered the source of mom's troubles was that her surgery site, the inner ear, had an infection that was causing her to have the dizzy and balance problems.  Antibiotics seems to be taking care of that.  But she is not hungry for anything...except sweets.  It seems she has now developed the shakes in her hands so my sister (who is diabetic) goes this time to check in on her...and tests mom's blood sugar.  Mom has ate so many sweets that her sugar level is 3X what is considered normal!  So now we get to give her lectures on sweets and their effects on her health.  I don't know what to expect next - she is acting so kid like at times that she is driving me crazy.  I'm starting to feel like she needs to move in with one of us or else we need to move in with her.  Neither aspect sounds great to me.  *sigh*

But the good news is (unless your my bank account) that for the week of the 4th of July there is very little work to be done fro work so at this time it appears I may not be working at all that week!  Yeah!  Maybe by the time Origins starts, I'll be human again!... or down to one warp feature

Since I got this posting pictures thing figured out (I guess, maybe)  I think I'll try one more of the more recent landscapes I've tried to create.  Anyway, enjoy...

Mom has taken a turn back to her pre-surgery health and once again I'm scrambling to get out of work, deal with things here in Ohio and get to Indiana to take care of her.  I'm getting sick and tired of that freight train - it's never the light at the end of the tunnel I see but just that freight train coming in for another round. *sigh*  Worse, Hubby is out of town this week, I have a full week of work (some part time job, huh?) and am supposed to be getting my eldest ready to fly off for a mission trip with the Church youth to Costa Rica.  She leaves Saturday so of course this is when things go hey wire.  Please excuse me but I'm tired cranky and.... I see that freight train yet again.  I know my mom does not mean to be sick but the timing just is plain awful.  Right now I don't remember a time when I actually felt like smiling.  I'm ready to run away from home and join a traveling band of Das Karr circus performers.    Prayers for all of us, IK?

As those of us of a certain age know, dealing with parents is a tricky issue.  They are still our parents even if we are parents and/or grandparents ourselves.  That being said, does every one have parents that are as stubborn as my mother?  "She doesn't want to be a bother..."

My mother has what is called Meniere's Disease.  I have a read a lot of different things about it but basically other than being an inner ear problem, there are many THEORIES as to what is the cause.  It causes great dizziness and in many cases when it goes finaly completely away it leaves the person deaf to mostly deaf in the affected ear...yuck.  My mom found a specialist in this problem a few years ago after basically not being able to funtion from an outbreak that lasted several week.  This Dr. performed a surgery that was suposed have stopped her form of the problem.  We (my sister and I) have not heard of any problems since so we pushed this to the backs of our minds and went on with life.  Evidently ithe surgery did NOT fix the problem, just lessened the occurances... For Mother's day, Mom went to my sister's home, a 3.5 hour's drive for her.  She started feeling the onset of a "dizzy spell" as she calles them on the day she was planning to leave so, telling no one, she takes a pill, drives herself home on  via I-65 THROUGH INDIANAPOLIS  fighting dizzy spells the whole way.  Never tells anyone.  On Tues, She came over here to my house (another 3.5 hour drive) to see my youngest be inducted into the Jr. National Honor Society.  Come Weds. morning, she seems very anxious to leave...not like her at all (She usually is anxious to clean my house).  Little do I know she is having another "dizzy spell" so she drive home through the *Bleeping* construction zone here in Dayton on I-70, through yet again, Indianapolis and home...but wait!  As bad as she feels, her bestest friend in the entire world calls her on her cell phone and asks my mom to stop at Walmart and pick up something on her way.  Does Mom say no?  No.... she stops, drives out of her way to drop off the item(s) and is feeling so bad that she decided to take the back roads home rather than the direct route so  that "if she has an accident it will be only her"  These are roads known only to people who grew up in the area and if she has accident it may be HOURS before she is found. ARGGGGGHHH!  And still she has not told anyone about these dizzy episodes.
    When my sister calls me at 7:30 on a Saturday morning, I know it's bad news.  She does not get up before noon usually (ok, that's an exaggeration but still she does not rise early).  She had got a call from one of mom's neighbors who had called an ambulence for my mother upon finding my mother flat on the floor, throwing up and not able to even move.  Mom gets to spend day in Hospital, then calles her speciallist only to find out that he is on vacation and out of the country. *sigh*  (He must be related to my dentist...)  Only through insistance from all relatives does she make an appointment with his partner for later this week. 

So now I'm left wonderin what's in store for this week.  I was so looking forward to the weekend and going to the great gaming con Marcon.  If I'm not there I guess I will be at my mom's.  Nothing seems to go right in my family.  Rants about other family member will have to wait at this point.