Not much today

I thought I was ready to resume doing my posts  normally it turns out I still have a way to go.  I went to see Kay yesterday and felt ok but I overdid some  exercising  .  I seemed to have had a relapse.  So back to bed as I have scheduled a trip tomorrow.   I  got to meet with Bonnie and Loren  twice on their trip down here,.  Bonnie seems like a down to earth girl and I hope her and Loren's relationship lasts a lifetime.  /weather is good and I am missing a good opportunity to get outside and enjoy it.  

Nice visit today and really big BIG news

Full moon tonight or very close.  Very normal visit today.  Kay was in her room but not asleep.  I gave her the usual truffles and a graham  cracker brought by Tom yesterday.  We walked to the hall where the iron furniture is and we sat for a while.  I had combed her hair although it might have been combed sometime earlier.  

Kay looking out the hall window

She still knows how to smile

Another smile

Commencement Bay at night full moon

Not from  where I wanted to take the picture but I would have had to walk back down the hill past the tree and building on the right.  I was too tired to do that.  As it was my B/G came down 100 points in less than 10 minutes.  You can go blind bringing down the B/G too fast. Not much of a concern of mine though.  Big news.   Loren is getting married in August on the 16th.  If they had postponed it a week it would be on my birthday. I wont be going as it is in Pennsylvania.  Besides I don't plan that far ahead.  Wont be going to the reception either as it is in Anchorage.  I tried to get someone to set up a camera for an Internet broadcast of the last family wedding which was Kristina in Kansas. It shouldn't be too hard to do.  Loren is marrying Bonnie Vatter of Monroeville PA.  Bonnie should fit in because coming to Alaska from PA indicates an adventurous spirit which is what will be needed.  I am looking forward to meeting her. For more information on the couple check out http://www.bonnieandloren.com

Loren some years ago I can't find a recent one.

I thought I was finished with the video I have been working on for a couple months.  I heaved a sigh of relief and rendered it for what I thought was the last time.  But when I looked at the result the characters were too narrow.  If I send this out anyone who gets it should put their TV aspect ratio to the widest to minimize that effect although I may go back and send an earlier version as I have done already which is not rendered this way.  I am tired or working on it. I wanted this version because I had found some home video that I had added love songs to with singers such as Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck and some other famous singers.  That is too far back for Loren and his generation so he has probably never heard of them.  I take that back I am sure he has as he was interested in Swing Music so he may have heard of them.  I met Englebert Humperdink once at the Grovsvenor house where he was performing. I was with a private dick who was out his mind at the possibility of meeting  Englebert. Both of our offices were there. I used my influence as a TV reporter to get a short interview with Englebert in the hall back stage which just made the detective's day.  As long as I knew him he never forgot that meeting with Englebert   

9-11-2013 No shuttle today

Kay and daughter Dianne

I wen to see Kay today and she was about her normal self for this condition.   She was sitting in the TV room with quite a few others.  Some of them responded when I said I was glad to see them.  Kay was sitting looking ahead not at the  screen.Just sitting there.  this seems normal.  took her outside as the weather was very warm.  Later it got to over 90 in some areas. We sat and I gave her a Costco Toffee which she likes.  The  a Graham cracker.  The aid said she took her pills and ate her meal.  I check every time now as if she did not take the pills for the nurse sometimes she will take them from me.  

I had to take a cab because I had neglected to get registered for the ride today on the shuttle.  It is a poor substitute for transportation.  the problem it is not a taxi but they can be detoured to drop off other riders or pick up  and drop off even before you yourself gets to your destination.  I have had it take up to an hour for this 12 minute drive to Cascade Gardens where Kay is.  If we had given  Kay the Anti-depressant a few days earlier I think we would still be together in the apartment because her Migriane headaches would have stopped and I could have continued taking care of her with the  assistance of COPES.  

I called Roger the cab driver back and I returned to Cascade Gardens Vista. 

 

Dianne, Chuck and Loren visit

Dianne, Chuck and Loren finished a nice visit with us for a couple days.  Loren seemed to like my pictures covering the walls of our apartment.  Dianne played checkers or put puzzles together with Kay in the afternoons.


Loren saw my pictures on our walls and seemed to like them. I think they will give him an idea of what his grandma was like before old age and dementia took over. 




  

Bill Sheldon June 17, 1920. April 4, 2001. Four years in the 3rd Infantry Division WW2 His story. Find it at Four years in the 3rd 
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