Things That Weren't On Our Bucket List

It's More Than About A Bucket List--It's about Other Things That Weren't On Our List

Long day, but like with our kids in the old days, it was a day of 'divide and conquer.' Kathy spent several hours at Salem Hospital getting them to discharge her mother. Talk about bureaucracy! Finally at 4:00, I took her out to the physical therapy/assisted unit at Dallas Retirement Center. Went to her apartment, got clothes, watered her plants, responded to phone voice mails, got her mail, talked with all the curious residents, met with the intake people, helped her revise er POLST form, labeled all of her clothing with a Sharpie (weird!), got the TV-hearing aid amplifier set up. She's doing much better, but gets confused easily and is still unstable while walking--but at least she can walk and stand, as you can see by the photo of her seashells in the game room, of which she is very proud. Home by 7:30. She'll be in excellent hands after we leave for Peru and Ecuador on Thursday.  Now, to finish our day-job obligations and finish packing!  Obviously, dealing with Doris' health events over the past few days wasn't on our bucket list, but they are a part of an aging boomer's mid-life adventures.