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To: ManyMoose who wrote (1794)	1/26/2007 3:57:42 PM
From: Honor First	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2590

You removed that line because your mother knows you don't take her for granted? My Mom is in another world ;) I am more than lying on the floor laughing out loud...I didn't need to remove either line ;) If she doesn't know I didn't take her for granted by now... we're ALL in trouble :) The person I sent it too doesn't take her Mom for granted. I thought she'd like to see it because she's going through what we went through before Mom died. She and husband have full time care of her Mom :) Sometimes it's more than difficult to have a good time when you see your Mom deteriorating and your life doing exactly the same thing because as she's slowly becoming a prisoner in your home... you too, are a prisoner in your own home. It helps to remember all the wonderful things Mom's have done with us/for us during those stressful times such as: Pillows in the toaster Treasured book cut up with knife from drawer. Mom wandering all around looking for her babies. Locks on all the doors and many drawers. Wiping up tomato soup and V-8 (a favorite of hers) and have it not stain.... ROFLOL.... The helpless gentleness and little smile while she can 'still smile'. The little hand all curled up gripping yours. The little animals to which one can cuddle and still feel in your arms. Trying to find your Mom when she has escaped and you can't find her. (now that one is a real joy ;) Literally having two people drag a standing dead weight of 135# back and forth across the room to the bathroom when her legs can't 'walk', she is upright because we hold her that way and she 'tries' to walk. Getting that same Dear Mom into a tub to bathe when that is absolutely the last thing in the world she wants to do. etc etc and all the rest which is even worse. Regarding that paragraph. Sometimes doctors are just as concerned, if not more, about the caregivers as it is constant non-stop. I should have taken the 'what care, who cares' pills he wanted to give me. ROFLOL... One has to learn to either walk away in frustration or laugh... I did both... :) so you see... I thot the lady who received it would appreciate it. She is entering some of those stages now. :( and she loves her Mom too. That posting is a treasure of what one REALLY wants to remember. The happy times!! Still laughing. I just woke up from a quick pn and that hit me as so funny... It's a good thing I can :) Laugh!! My Mom like many moms was a treasure - and one learns that more and more sometimes even after-the-fact. YOU are blessed to have her living. You could revamp that whole thing though and write your own note personally to your Mom using first person. I think that would be a way to go about it if one were to give it directly to a Mom... one could - it would be a powerful Mother's Day in the first person. Still smiling... of too play a Nintendo game with Joe. I shall beat him :)