Fic Update, Hand Update, Life Update
May. 6th, 2009 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberfocusI just sent ch. 5 of That Which One Cannot Be Without to Amy for beta. I really like Jack in this chapter. He's being...well, Jack. And there's a teeny step forward in the romance of Rose and the Doctor. I am hoping to finish writing the fic completely this weekend. Then I'll go back to working on Zeppelins and the two other ficlets from the auction that I need to write. After the ficlets are done, I'm hoping to get You're What? finished.
Oh, Captain91 I am betaing your fic now. It'll probably take me a couple of days to finish it. I'm thinking through some things.
My hand is doing a lot better these days. The wrist is doing very well, the hand itself gets a little sore about midway down from the base of the middle and ring fingers, and of course the ring finger is still the worst of it all, but even it is much better. I am easily typing two hours a day now but still icing the hand afterwards.
I think my mother has finally made the decision to put my dad into a nursing home. She really just can't do what she's been doing anymore. She managed to get herself dehyrated the other day and was so out of it she couldn't think to call me to come help her. Dad can't dress himself anymore. He's mostly blind, he's fully deaf in one ear and partially in the other. He doesn't know who most of us are anymore and he can't remember from one minute to the next what has just been said. It's been bad for over a year now and I think she's finally past the point of love and loyalty and realizing that if all of her energy is focused on Dad, there's none left for her to maintain her own health with.
My sisters both agree that Dad should go into the nursing home now. I think she should have done it a year ago. I'm the one that was still at home and had to watch her take care of her Alzheimer's mother, and then her mentally retarded sister for years. I know what my mother can take and I know when she needs to give up and take care of herself. It's time. It's been time. And we'll all visit Dad. He won't be forgotten. I just hope she won't change her mind again. She really needs to do this for her health.
Oh, Captain91 I am betaing your fic now. It'll probably take me a couple of days to finish it. I'm thinking through some things.
My hand is doing a lot better these days. The wrist is doing very well, the hand itself gets a little sore about midway down from the base of the middle and ring fingers, and of course the ring finger is still the worst of it all, but even it is much better. I am easily typing two hours a day now but still icing the hand afterwards.
I think my mother has finally made the decision to put my dad into a nursing home. She really just can't do what she's been doing anymore. She managed to get herself dehyrated the other day and was so out of it she couldn't think to call me to come help her. Dad can't dress himself anymore. He's mostly blind, he's fully deaf in one ear and partially in the other. He doesn't know who most of us are anymore and he can't remember from one minute to the next what has just been said. It's been bad for over a year now and I think she's finally past the point of love and loyalty and realizing that if all of her energy is focused on Dad, there's none left for her to maintain her own health with.
My sisters both agree that Dad should go into the nursing home now. I think she should have done it a year ago. I'm the one that was still at home and had to watch her take care of her Alzheimer's mother, and then her mentally retarded sister for years. I know what my mother can take and I know when she needs to give up and take care of herself. It's time. It's been time. And we'll all visit Dad. He won't be forgotten. I just hope she won't change her mind again. She really needs to do this for her health.
