I just realized it has been a while since I blogged. I have been trying to help mom and dad and still get some stress relief and relaxation. It isn't easy.

Mom's kidney doctor put her on a vitamin d prescription. Her doctors just keep giving her more pills to take. And every one has the warning "do not take if you have a kidney disease." They say the benefits outweigh the side effects. It is all so scary.

About two weeks ago Dad fell in the yard. He uses a cane but he is in stage 3 of Parkinson's. He bruised both arms and took skin off his nose and arms. He tries to keep doing things or rather thinks he should be able to do what he used to do. He went to his primary doctor and she took him off his blood pressure medicine because now his blood pressure is too low. Dad has lost a lot of weight too and the doctor wants him to gain at least fifteen pounds. Mom said he has no appetite and will eat a couple bites of any thing she gives him.

He is going through bouts of confusion and mom doesn't know how to talk to him when this happens. She argues with him. She had a hard time getting him dressed to go to the doctor thursday morning. He didn't want to wear the shirt she gave him to wear. He said it was too big. She told him he wore it last week when he went for his blood work. He said he didn't. She got another one for him and he didn't want that one either. She said she took five shirts out of the closet. He told her that he wanted the shirts he had bought not the ones she had bought him, that he didn't like any of them. Mom has never picked out or bought any clothes or shoes for dad. He has always done his own shopping. When he makes remarks about things that has never happened mom gets upset. We all get upset but mom most of all.

I received a raise at work and was ecstatic. I went home and figured it up. I rechecked my math, anger and confusion quickly followed. I get a whopping five dollars more a month. After taxes I won't even know I got a raise. It reminds me of a slap in the face. I am constantly praying to God to forgive me for my harsh thoughts and thanking Him for taking care of me. I couldn't do it on own.

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Grace be to you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Galatians 1:3-5

September is all ready here. There was one nice cool week with the temperatures in the low nineties. It was wonderful. Thank the Lord the hurricanes have passed us. Of course there is still the possibility of one.

Mom called a couple of weeks ago and told me her hair was falling out. I was worried that because of her strict diet she might not be making sure she was getting enough vitamins and nutritious foods. She told me my sister said it was a side effect of one of her new prescriptions she was taking. I asked her for the name and researched it. I was shocked to read that it was oral chemotherapy. It is used for the treatment of pre-leukemia. Mom or my sister hadn't told me. She has been doing great, the hair loss was the only problem she was having. I talked to her today and she is feeling very tired. Please add her to your prayer list.

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This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 1:5-10