Marginally Better in Still Listening to Spirit

I keep letting the pain get ahead of me and then when I take the pain pills, the first dose doesn’t work very well and the pain lasts longer. I just am afraid of getting dependent on the suckers. I am having almost no pain in the day time and it starts around 8pm or after.

Yesterday daughter called. Thanksgiving day our long distance lines in were busy and she couldn’t get through. So yesterday she called and cried into the phone at me for an hour the first time and half an hour the next call. The call today was again over an hour.

There is nothing I can do but hang on and listen to her angst and fear and troubles. It has to do with something I can’t remember if I wrote here or not. Too long a story to do now. I am still tired easily but can’t sleep more than 2 or 3 hours at a time. It is awful to go to sleep at 4am and wake up at 6am. Ah well, this is the time of year to do that.

Nita also called. She needed to talk to her ex and wanted me to help get her thoughts in order so she could tell him what is troubling her. Basically, whenever they’re at a function they are both invited to–usually including daughter, grandkids and son-in-law–he hangs around her when he sees any male talking to her.

He used to do that when they were married, and it aggravated her then as much as it is bothering her now. So We discussed how she could say what she needed to say without causing him to be defensive and stir up a fight.

Well, she called me back after she talked to him and she was stunned almost speechless. He told her she was fabricating the whole thing and that she really needs to seek professional help. I burst out laughing when she told me because I ‘know’ him well enough through her stories there was no way he would take this as anything but an attack.

Both Nita and her daughter suspect early onset Alzheimer’s because hs is often angry, doesn’t remember things he does or says. Anyway, we had a good long talk altogether about an hour and a half. I amso blessed tohave her in my life. Typos, don’t want to correct them…

Weather has finally turned cold, single digits but still no snow. Anchorage finally has some measurable snow. None of the ski areas up til now have opened because of no snow and not cold enough to sustain manmade snow.

Okay, I’m done for now. Just doing an update to keep track of things. Blessed be!