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We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure
mind and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakeable.
---- The Dhammapada
[Indianapolis, IN]
I know I've been gone a long time. I reached a point where I was just overwhelmed. I thought that when we got back home everything would resolve itself. Well, It has, and hasn't.
Things are still somewhat frustrating. It's hard integrating another person in my family life. (dad) But there are good things about it too. His health is much improved. He's only been to the doctor once since moving here and that was just to get his medicine refilled. My own health has been more up and down. Probably just because I'm still stressed, being responsible for so many things. I have days where I just don't want to, and DON'T get out of bed. I have days of total exhaustion. But unless I feel like death warmed over, I try to get up and do things.
My dad has decided to leave mom in the nursing home in Florida, rather than trying to meet the crazy Indiana Medicare guidelines. (It varies from state to state) This has taken some of the stress off, but added it in a new way. We've been trying to set up an estate plan for him, and by him leaving her in Florida, his plan must now satisfy the requrements of TWO states. We have an attorney working on that part now.
Dad has decided that he needs a social life. I both agree and disagree. He has his friends from the department that he meets with on Thursdays, and the retirees on the 2nd Thursday of the month, and the veterans at the Legion. But these are all guys. He wants to do other things. movies, dancing. dinner. He has recently started dating a cousin of my mother's and some of the family is having issues with it.
Jen has taken herself out of school. stress is again the culprit. I'm not sure what her plans will be. I try not to pressure her about it. My hope is that she will move back home, work the summer and go back to local school in the fall to finish her degree. We'll see.
Enough for now. Hopefull I won't drop off the face of the earth again
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