Friday, September 16, 2011

MY FIRST SCARY MOMENT WITH MIKE !!

I GUESS IT WAS NOT REALLY MY FIRST SCARY MOMENT WITH MIKE. OVER THE YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW, BUT THIS ONE WAS DIFFERENT.  MIKE WAS AT THE DINNING ROOM TABLE SITTING DOWN-SOUND ASLEEP.  I GENTLY TOUCHED HIS SHOULDER TO MAKE SURE HE WAS OK, AND HE ACTED SO STRANGE.  HE LOOKED AROUND THE ROOM WITH A DAZED LOOK IN HIS EYES AND DIDN'T SAY A WORD.  I KEPT ASKING HIM "ARE YOU OK"? HE WOULD JUST NOD HIS HEAD-STILL NOT SPEAKING.  IT KINDA FREAKED ME OUT, BUT AFTER A BIT HE SEEMED TO COME AROUND.  IT WAS LIKE HE WAS TOTALLY CONFUSED, AND DID NOT KNOW WHERE HE WAS FOR THAT SHORT TIME.  I KNOW WITH THIS DISEASE I HAVE TO EXPECT MOMENTS LIKE THIS, AND EVEN WORSE THINGS I DO NOT WISH TO CONTEMPLATE, BUT I WAS JUST NOT EXPECTING TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT SO SOON.   MIKE IS DOING LESS AND LESS IN THE HOUSE AND IN THE YARD.  HE EVEN LET THE YARD MAN CUT THE WHOLE YARD ON THURS..  THE YARD MAN HAD LEFT A BUNCH OF TREE BRANCHES AND DEBRIS IN OUR FRONT YARD THINKING THAT THE YARD WASTE COLLECTORS WOULD PICK IT UP.  WELL THEY DIDN'T, SO TO MAKE UP FOR LEAVING IT ON OUR FRONT LAWN SO LONG, HE SAID TO ASK MIKE IF HE COULD CUT THE FRONT YARD FOR FREE.  I WAS SURPRISED, BUT MIKE SAID "SURE".  HE LET MY SISTER VICKIE CUT IT LAST TIME ON HER RIDING MOWER!!  I THINK HE MUST JUST BE GETTING WEAKER, OR MAY BE GETTING TIRED MORE EASILY.  MAYBE WHEN THE WEATHER COOLS OFF A BIT HE WILL REGAIN SOME OF HIS STRENGTH.  I SURE HOPE SO.  LASTLY, HE LOST ONE OF OUR BILLS, SO I HAD TO SPEND THE BETTER PART OF THE DAY TRYING TO FIND IT.  I FINALLY DID-OF COURSE IT WAS IN ONE OF HIS MANY PILES!!  HOPE YOU WILL HAVE A STRESS LESS DAY-TILL LATER-JUST ME

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