I only saw my dad asleep today.  When I got to the hospital at 3, my Uncle Bud and Aunt Lee were there with Ann, and my dad had been sleeping since before lunch.  He apparently had a bad night and didn’t sleep well, and he was feeling agitated this morning.  He is also very…

Can the days be any worse than today?   I hope not. First, my father is definitely becoming more confused.  He spoke today of getting out of the hospital, fixing something that he “fixed by accident”, having somewhere to go, and asked questions like where he was, how he got there, what a piece of…

Today was the first day that I didn’t have a real conversation with my dad.  Jim got there this morning with his breakfast, and he told Jim to bring him eggs that are over easy tomorrow instead of scrambled.  He also asked for tomato juice.  Then when Ann got there, he told her to tell…

I took Eilis to school this morning, and figured I would spend the two hours while she was at school with my dad.  I went into his room, and he was dozing a bit.  He startled himself awake after a few minutes and asked me if he had been sleeping. I told him he had. …

The nights are way too short!   Even with Jim getting up with the baby, I feel like I’m not getting enough sleep.  Tonight, the baby is all mine so that Jim can go to work in the morning.  We’ll see how tomorrow is. I pulled the grill out about 11 and made my dad…

It was hard to get going today.  I am having a lot of trouble sleeping, and even though Jim has really taken over the baby for the weekend, I feel absolutely exhausted.  I am coming home from hospice with a headache each evening, which I know is nothing compared to what my dad has been…

I get up this morning and take Brighid to get her school uniforms.  I stop and grab lunch at Taco Bell and head home.  I am getting the family together to go spend some time at the hospital.  Everyone is dressed and we decide to take two cars so that Jim can bring Eilis and…

The day didn’t start out well.  Well, actually, I can’t say that.  Jim was working from home today, and he offered to take the night shift with the baby.  I got a fairly good amount of sleep, and woke up feeling not too tired.  I ran to Babies R Us this morning and picked up…

I think it was a beautiful day.  I really don’t know how better to describe it.  Father Newton performed a beautiful ceremony.  He met us at the back of the Church just before Mass started, and basically, we just followed what he told us to do.  We walked into the back of the Church, and…

You think this is going to be about Brighid, don’t you?? Yesterday was the Christening, and my little Eilis thought she was the “Cat’s Pajamas”.  She wore the dress I let her choose out of several options a few weeks before I went into the hospital, and she wore her “princess shoes”.  As soon as…