Worry---and the David Olney Countdown Continues....

I went by my mother's after work last night, after picking up some things from the medical supply place as well as the grocery store.  I foolishly felt rather positive on the way home thinking, maybe this will work after all.  Then Ernie had to make a 9 p.m. run to the pharmacy for her but found her too sound asleep to take the pills.  But that's o.k. because when he saw her again around 4 a.m. he gave them to her.  Yup.  3:30 a.m. call last night....  Ernie went over and evidently she was having some kind of panic attack---felt like she couldn't breathe.  Paramedics checked her out, she calmed down and Ernie left her in her wheelchair with a promise she wouldn't try to get back into bed.

Sigh.

 

I really don't know what the hell to do.  She's dead set against going to the hospital again much less the nursing home and I can't really blame her.  Actually it's not that she minds the hospital so much, just that it leads to the nursing home....and you know I understand.  It's so easy for people to say, "oh, she should be in a nursing home" but the reality just isn't that easy.  None of the choices are good ones at this point.  None of them.

Even when I'm feeling good the pit in my stomach is full of worry about her, about the paperwork I need to be doing---finishing up Judi's estate, taxes, my mother's bills, her prescription plan that doesn't seem to have gone through for the year yet, etc.  Trying to figure out how I'll have my mother at an appointment with her doctor only an hour before I'm at the oncologist with Ernie....

I guess that's why we're having David Olney....because we need to have these moments of joy to look forward to.

So here's my David Olney countdown quote for the day:

Acoustic excellence.  David Olney consistently spins spectacular stories in
song. David Olney is astounding…gave one of the most magnificent solo
acoustic shows I have seen and that includes concerts by Bruce Springsteen,
Guy Clark or anyone else you’d care to name. He can break your heart but he
can also chill your spine…and when the night ended…we had long since
crossed the border that separates the great from the merely very good, the
masters from the worthy apprentices. David Olney is as good as it gets. Period.

                                                              ~Dave Ferman FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM 

If you know someone that you think would enjoy this show just have them contact me, o.k?  I want to have a good crowd for him....I really want to share him.....