Been locked out

I've tried to get back on here a time of 2 but it would not let me in to post. We had a great time at Boogie's, youngest daughter's, outside of Dallas. All my kids where here for my birthday, except Boogie. There seems to always be one of my kids that do not show up for family events. Jesse and I started walking this morning. I am getting ready for Washington DC in March. I do not want to give out of breath on the HILL like I did last year. I want to enjoy that whole trip. Lynn, my next to the oldest daughter sent me information of where we will be staying in New York on the square. That is going to be a fun trip also. So my walking shoes are going to have to get to work. Tomorrow is our support group meeting. We did not have one in December because of the weather. Unless I can get someone else to drive me to Baton Rouge next Thursday, Jesse is going to have to take me. I have picked up a new hobby, crazy quilting. Something I can do while I am in the car or sitting in the front room with Jesse while he watches tv. I am being to get anxious when I just sit. The last few days have been a little rough. I went to the library yesterday and thought I had gotten a particular book down I wanted and left it but when I got home and started looking at the books I got I had actually checked it out. I could not remember what the book looked like. It is really getting to the point that when I go to any store and buy something and bring it home and put it somewheres I forget about buying it or doing whatever I wanted to do with it. "Out of sight out of mind." Don't let me put something in a drawer in the fridge it will rot before I find it and try to remember why I bought it in the first place. The sun is out today. No rain. Yea!!!!!! Well, for now hug someone and let them know you care. Sue

hi,

Well its been awhile. Maybe since I have finished making Christmas gifts I can get back to writing on my blog. Right now I am at my daughters in Texas for Christmas. We will be leaving tomorrow heading back home. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Talk later. Sue

Work your brain

I have added a free online game for your pleasure. I believe we should work our brain and I try to keep busy. We had our 2nd state task force meeting this past Thursday. It was an eventful meeting I think. Alot of reading before our next meeting. I am going to the Dementia Training meeting in Shreveport this Thurs and Friday. I hope to get Jessie and papa and I taking her to the fair next week in Olla. Well I guess I will close for now. Hug someone and let them know you love them.

Hi

Well, I did go to Baton Rouge for our 1st task force meeting. It was just general issues discussed. We had to mail our bio in so they could decide which committee to put us on. Missy wrote mine. She did a really good job. Then I kept my 16 month old great granddaugter for a few days. Jesse was in bed with the bug so it was me and little Jessie. I have so much fun with her. She is so good. Then I took her home to rest up for the Memory Walk. I got Jesse's bug, he swears that I did not, but anyway, I got sick but was determined to do my story at the walk becasue Stacey was so depending on me. I did the speech, not the best I ever did but I got my point across by the responce I got afterwards. The picture encaptured is me speaking. I came home and got in bed. Went to the doctor Monday to get some medicine and came back home and got back in the bed. Today I am feeling a little better but nothing to sing about. I have an Alzheimer's meeting tomorrow. Me and the guys are going to lunch with Fannie. No spouses allowed. So I have to be up for that. Conference call on the 21st with National, then back to Baton Rouge on the 30th. Have a good day and may God bless you in a special way. Hug someone and let them know you care. Sue

Where to begin................

Life is so good. Jesse is going back to work slowly but surely. Hopefully that means life is going to get back to some kind of normal. I love him and he takes such good care of me but I am looking forward to us not being joined at the hips. I am so use to going and doing things by myself and we were together for over 2 months 24/7. Anyway, things are being to get busy with Alzheimer's. I went to our face to face meeting in Chicago this past Friday. It did not start out so good but it got better. Chris my 19 year old who is in national guard and was active at the time came into my room after we had gone to bed and messed my clock up so he could get up on time at a later time than I had set for me to get up and get to Monroe to catch the plane. You guessed it, we missed the plane. I had me so messed up for a couple hours. Jesse, said I was not my friendly self at that point. Anyway we were lucky enough to get our flights changed and up in the air 3 hours later. All my sightseeing that I had figured out for 2 days was shot. We got to the Hard Rock Hotel about 6:30 pm and were to be downstairs at 7:30pm to meet some of the others for supper. We had a great time visiting with other ESAG members and their family. We went to the Alzheimer's Association office and had a wonderful time meeting and game planning. I have two projects or groups that I will be working on right now. We left Friday and flew on the biggest plane I have ever seen. I got to watch a movie all the way from Chicago to Dallas on my own screen monitor. Then we met my daughter in Dallas and spent the night. I got to see my grandsons Sat morning and played the 'why' game all the way to the airport. They are so cute. Then we made it to Monroe in time to go and get a birthday present for another grandson in Pineville and head for his party. Then since I was so close to my mom which is in a nursing we decided to go and check on her since I had not seen her since the hurricanes. She has a male friend and really did not act like she cared if we were there or not so we left. Came home, emailed a wonderful lady on our LA Alzheimer's Association that nominated me for the task force to make sure our Thurs. meeting was still on. Well, it's been moved to Tues. So I guess I will rest tomorrow and then head to Baton Rouge Tues morning for my first meeting there. It is going to be busy but I am going to enjoy every minute of it. It really makes me feel needed and that I have a purpose and can do something to help others with this disease. Well, wish me luck and I hope to get better at this blog. Oh, how could I forget how I celebrated World Alzheimer's Day, I made and gave everyone in my church a purple ribbon to wear today, (about 50) then we went to Fred's and I came the cashier's one to wear and share with people today. Let's get the word out there. Talk later. Hug someone and let them know you care.

I am so blessed

Well, it has been awhile. Let's see if I can tell you what has happen since my last post. On the 16th of July we went to Shreveport (about 3 1/2 hours from my home) to get a heart cath for my husband. After sitting in the waiting room all day finally got a room around 4pm to do the heart cath the next morning because did not let the lab know we were there, even after asking several times if cath lab knew we were there. Then after cath the next day we were told he was in no shape to go home and maybe not get back safely so we had to stay so they could observe him and take him off Plavix so he could have triple bypass. Well, triple bypass happened on the July 23 with great success. In the meantime I had not received my packet from National and miss the 1st conference call while sitting in the hospital. But there will be another one this month and I will be able to make it Lord willing. Stayed another week in Shreveport after the surgery. Mine you we went prepared for a night stay and spent 2 weeks. I had great people to come to my rescue. Eating all your meals in the cafeteria gets very expensive. Lord only knows how much we spent just on food. No commentary meals there. Anyway go home and we wanted to see our great granddaughter that we had not seen since her birthday on the 5th of July. So we kept her for 4 days. Took my packet to the Alz. Ass in Monroe and filled it out and faxed it. Got a call from Ruth wanting to know if I would consider being on the Alz task force for La and was and am excited. It is a great honor to be nominated by the Alz Ass and be appointed by the Governor. As Lynn my daughter said some good things have really come out of me having Alz. I just want to make sure if there is not a cure when I kids get older they will have it easier than the ones before them. Thank you Als. Ass., thank you Ruth. Mainly thank the Lord for allowing me to be able to do this. Sue

Waiting

Well, I got my letter from National, now I am waiting for my packet. Diane a friend of mine with dementia called to say she did not get accepted. Diane I was looking forward to you teaching me how to knit socks. lol Really I was looking forward to seeing more of you and getting to know you better. Sorry. Thanks Kris for your kind words. I hope life has not got to crazy yet. Good luck with Allen's wedding. We are going to my daughters in Frisco, Texas Thursday for a few days. Its my grandson's birthday (7-13). Looking so forward to it.