July 24 – “Old girls”

I’m in kind of a quandary today.  We have to get Mom up to Houston for an appointment with our neurologist (he’s mine, too).  They usually get us very late morning times to give us a chance to get her up and moving before we have to kick it in high gear and get her ready to travel.  This one, though, is at 10:30.  That means we are expected at 10:15, which means we have to leave here by 9:00.  So much for late-morning appointment times.  And interesting thing has happened, though.  It is 7:15 and Mom is already up and has had her breakfast.  She has even had time to sneak a tootsie roll from the candy jar.  All this before Chris has even finished with her shower.  Now, I know we still have to get her dressed and loaded into the car, but things are actually boding well for the journey this time. 

There is not a specific reason for the appointment.  Well, other than they won’t continue to refill her prescription for nerve pain unless they see her once a year or so.  Chris does have a few questions on tap.  Mom has had some random sudden nosebleeds over the last few weeks.  No apparent reason for them.   And we’re still concerned about the way she usually drags her right leg when she walks.  If she has shoes on it does make it easier for us to hear her coming, but we could hang a bell around her neck if that was what we needed.  It causes us some concern. 

I guess I’ll leave it for today with these words of wisdom we heard Cailyn say to Mom the other day as she established the scenario for the role play game they were engaged in together.  Mom had her walker and Cailyn had discovered her cane.  As they rounded the corner we heard … “We’re both old girls, MeeMaw.”

Psalms 102:25-27 says, “In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.  26 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment.  Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded.  27 But you remain the same, and your years will never end.”

Father, thank you for giving us the opportunity to experience life with Mom and Cailyn all at the same time.  It is a wonderful, convoluted mishmash of fun and heartbreak, joy and sadness.  It is a great blessing.  Amen.