the good and the bad

The good news is I have been having good luck with my aids lately. I so wish I could even heat up a plate of food and carry it back to my bed so that I could let my girls have the holidays off.  I can't carry it and hold on to the furniture and walls to walk.  The hallway in my mobile home is too narrow for my wheel chair and I need both hands to wheel the chair.  I tried putting the food on the bench of the walker and it slid off and spilled all over the floor.


The bad news is my respite worker that is supposed to bring my son over never called me this week and when I called today to see if she was coming over her phone has been disconnected and she never showed up.  Last week she said she would bring him over today at the same time as last week.  So I am having another sad let down day.

soft diet

I am having soft foods the last few days.  Today my aid brought me some chicken noodle soup out of a can that was so hot I let it sit 10-15 mins and it was still too hot to drink the broth.  Then she made some tomato soup w/milk for later but she only put a 1/3 c milk instead for a full soup can  it's a good thing she showed it to me cause it would have been way too  tomatoey for me.  I also had her make me some mac and cheese for dinner.  I'm more of a shell and cheese type person but all I had was boxed mac with the cheddar cheese.

Lunch is worth repeating again for dinner

Boy was lunch good today!  I had some frozen tri colored bell peppers and onions and added a some chunks of roast beef and a can of diced tomatoes w/ mild green chilies.  I would have used salsa but I didn't have any. It was served rolled in a flour tortilla, boy was it good.  I could have used some guacamole and sour cream but it was good just the way it was and less calories.  No doubt what I am having for dinner tonight.  :-)


I had a substitute aid yesterday and when she put the groceries away she didn't ask where any thing went she just put stuff every where so my girl had her work laid out for today.  She didn't mind, at least there was food to cook again. LOL

I'm starving

I was so hungry this morning I had my aid heat up some chili beans and add some spices but I only took 4 bites and gave it back to her, I sent her to the store for just a few items.  She came home and cooked 5 lbs of hamburger but a I forgot to have her make 4 patties for me.  I also forgot to have her slice a tomato for my 1/2 sandwich @ bedtime. My next aid comes at 5pm so I only have 1 hr to wait.  I want a big mac or even a PB & J sandwich, or a chicken, or a cow, any thing would be fine right now! LOL  Of course I am torturing myself by watching Wolfgang Puck on HSN.   I watched what seems to have been an hour just on the pressure cooker and now they are demoing an electric cookie press. now that is over they did a pan but now they have the food processor on. OOPS I fell asleep for a few mins.  I do that a lot. Now I only have 15mins until my aid gets here. Yeah!!!  I am such an appliance junkie I think I need to join a support group.  :-)
Well when my pm girl brought me my chili there was big chunks of hamburger and the AM girl had put the whole 5 lbs of cooked meat in it.  I only had her use a 1/2 lb the last time.  I like it really tiny and the best way to cook it tiny is to boil it. A friend of mine worked at a Mexican restaurant many years ago and that is the way they cooked their hamburger.  I took out as much meat as I could without loosing too many beans and split that into 2 bags for 2 different meals.  I  am thinking one will be tacos.  Of course I have more chili made for my lunch tomorrow and maybe more I didn't see how much was left.
ttyl.
Darlene

homemade veggie soup

Yesterday I had my aid make me a big pot of veggie soup since it is in the 60's that sounded really good to me.  It was pretty good but she forgot to put the potatoes in it and it wasn't very filling to just eat the veggies.  It needs more beef flavoring, garlic and some pepper, it should be pretty good after that.  All I wanted for breakfast was leftover cold stove top stuffing.  My bedtime snack was already made so she had an easy day  today.

My chili make over

I forgot to tell everyone how my chili ended up.  As I mentioned before my aid put my already cooked canned chili beans  (with all the spices almost the way I like it but ) in my pressure cooker and then filled it to the max full line with water.  When I went to eat it there was nothing but an onion water flavor.  Last night I had my other aid drain out all the water and we added a can of tomato paste, more chili powder, cumin, and some garlic powder.  It was so good I ate a big bowl of it last night and another one this morning.  I really should have breakfast on the weekends because she comes at 10am but it was just so good last night I wanted it again for lunch.  I am going to have Todd fry chicken nuggets for out dinner tonight. and maybe some seasoned fries.
ttyl                    

Not at my house this afternoon

I decided to repost this because it went through so tiny I can't even read it. I can't believe that was normal and this is larger not the huge option and there is nothing in between.

I had to place my son in a host home 7 mos ago, or he was going to be taken away from me because of my health and the fact that I have no one to take him in case I couldn't watch him any more.  It breaks my heart that I have only been able to see him less than 10 time in the past 7mos.  It was finally all set up to have a respite care worker bring him over for 2 hrs. today but she called the host home mom and said she was sick.  If she doesn't show up next week I am turning it over to his case manager!  The financing for this was approved at least 3 mos ago but the host agency gave me the wrong phone number,  I was leaving her messages every week begging her to get back to me.  I don't understand why the new person with the number didn't have the courtesy to call me and tell me that she no longer had that number.  Maybe they only speak Spanish.   Anyway I am crushed and crying today. Meanwhile the man I've been dating for the past 9 yrs. is taking another woman friend to the Museum of Natural Arts to see the King Tut .  She doesn't drive so she asked him to take her.  My BF lived with her and her husband for 9 yrs. now they have split up after something like 16 years so she is helpless.  I told him to be careful she is going to latch on to him, she'll be calling for him to help her all the time.  I don't like it at all but what am I to do?  It's not like I can hop up out of bed and go with them.  Of course I wouldn't have done that today since my son was SUPPOSED to be here for 2 hours today.  My respite care is set up for only 2 hours a week.  I have a total of 8 hrs a month paid for so I chose to see him once a week.  His brother and I watched him 24/7 for almost 22 years.
Sorry I gotta go for now I need to play a game to get my mind off of everything.  While your here please ck out my blog on darlenesads.blogspot.com and fill out some leads for me or do some surveys so I can earn some money to pay to my own person I find to go pick him up and come help watch him.  TIA
Darlene