Today I got home at 7:30 and Carol was sleeping (she hadn't taken her meds) and Grandpa exclaimed when I brought him his meds, "Oh, I forgot you were stopping over tonight." Yup, just stopping over. I put Carol's meds (patch clearly marked 10/5 on top of pill container) on her bathroom counter. Hopefully she will wake up and take them, but she's been up worrying most of the night for the past two nights, so the sleep might be more benifitial then the medicine. Source of her extreme all night anxiety? I got into a smaller car crash on Sunday (not to be out-done by the Joel Bultman clan) and am driving her car until my is fixed. She's so stressed about it in fact, that after giving me a key later Sunday night (after some convincing from Bill and my mom), she went and moved her car to the neighbor's house. When I left for work yesterday morning, I asked her where her car was and she asked why I needed to know. Did I needed her to move it so I could get my car out. I reminded her that I was going to drive her car to work, and she said that she didn't think that was a good idea. Can she drive me (an hour there and back two times everyday?). Finally I spotted her car and took off towards it.
She had stayed up all night going through her bills so when Cynthia came yesterday to take Tom to his vet's appointment, Carol was short with her. Carol also kept saying that someone had messed with her check book. I asked Cynthia if Tom was at least in a good mood, and she said he was. I think that depression medicine is working. It seems like Carol is the one that starts arguements with him now, like, "I told you to turn off the lights when you left the bathroom." It's certainly a different world then the one I first arrived at.
And I know it's not my news to tell, but I can't help it. Today Beth had a precious boy, Wyatt Robert Hagstrom, 7oz 20 inches. He's both healthy and gorgeous!
Beth had a baby?!? Tell her congratulations from us, if you would be so kind.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm.... Counting backwards from now... She was pregnant when I was there last. I guess she wasn't sharing the info with the whole world at that point.
You'll have to fill me in when I get down there.
Has the body shop looked at your car yet? I am hoping we can get you into something else quickly (your car, rental car, loaner from my buddy... anything) so she will quit weirding out over it.
Sounds like a reversal of roles these days? Tom = mellow and Carol = aggressor. Was she "hiding" her car in the neighbor's drive: "She'll never find it if I park it way over here"?
ReplyDeleteBill: I will tell her. My mom went to visit her in the hospital yesterday. Pretty exciting. No, actually she didn't tell a lot of people, including me until a couple weeks ago. If you ever need anyone to keep a secret for you, Beth's the one to talk to.
ReplyDeleteMy car was finally released to the body shop yesterday. I'm not sure how long it takes to fix, so I'll have to call them. Actually last night I took her car to go to the gym after dinner and I told everyone that's what I was going to do before I left. When I got back Carol was telling Tom he could go sleep on the couch or in his car if he was so worried. Aparently Tom was mad I took the car and Carol kept being like, "I said she could borrow my car." I think her desire to not align with Tom overrode her worry. She's doing better with it.
Ginny: I'm not sure. Last weekend she moved her car over there to clean out the garage, so maybe she was just doing that again b/c she was worrying so much. She didn't seem to have grip on what was going on herself.
It's almost like she has to be the opposite of Grandpa all the time b/c if she has the same reaction as him she might be as crazy as him. She goes to great lengths on a daily basis to prove to me that she is much saner. If she can't find a way to do that, she snaps.
Ahhh...back up to the part about the thing you said about Beth. I didn't think she had a boyfriend last we spoke with her.
ReplyDeleteOh and thanks for the mention in your blog:<BOOOOOO....BOooooooooo......
Oh Erika, that is so very sad about Carol. Vying for "less cuckoo" status. Maybe it's time for her to try some of those antidepressants that seem to be having an effect on Tom?
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