Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 Hello Lynn After talking with you last evening at the meeting I was curious about your husband. Ask your husband if he talks much on his radio to people in Indianapolis and if so ask him if he is a Kangaroo? I also looked at the genealogy work you have done and it looks nice, you put a lot of detail into it. Bill FALLING HI ALL, I THOUGHT I WOULD JUST RELATE TO YOU ALL MY FALLINGS. WITH ME IT IS USUALLY THE LEFT LEG JUST GIVING OUT I GUESS I SHOULD SAY THE KNEE GIVES OUT BUT MOST OF THE TIME IT FEELS LIKE THE MUSCLES GIVE OUT DOWN TO THE MID CALF THE WORSE IS GOING DOWN THE STAIRS AND FALLING ALL THE WAY DOWN. ANY MORE I TRY TO MAKE SURE ONE FOOT IS SET BEFORE LIFTING THE OTHER AND I HAVE DEVELOPED THE HABIT OF WALKING WITH AT LEAST THE RIGHT FOOT POINTING RIGHT FOR BETTER BALANCE WALK WITH CARE HAPPINESS AND BUTTERFLIES LYNN WITH THE RISING OF THE SUN,THINK OF YOUR LIFE AS JUST BEGUN.HAPPINESS, LOVE,FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 19, 2003 Report Share Posted September 19, 2003 NO BILL HE IS NOT A KANGAROO BUT HE USED TO TALK TO SOME OF THEM AND HE DOES NOT TALK ON THE RADIO MUCH ANY MORE.HE USED TO DO IT A LOT BUT NOT MUCH FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND IT SEEMS HE IS GIVING UP DOING MOST THINGS THANKS FOR THE COMPLAMENTS I DID PUT A LOT OF WORK INTO THEM BUT THE ONES THAT I HAVE HAD TO WORK THE HARDEST ON YOU HAVE NOT SEEN BECAUSE WE HAD NOTHING ON THE CASS FAMILY AND NOT MUCH ON THE MARTIN FAMILY AND I STILL AM LOOKING FOR THE MARTINS OLDER HISTORY JANE PAULEY IS A COUSIN. ANYWAY I HAVE BOTH FAMILIES BACK TO THE 17OO'S NOW BUT I COULD NOT FIND ALL MY PRINT OUTS AND AM OUT OF INK I ENJOYED THE MEETING LAST NIGHT. THANK YOU AGAIN FOR LETTING ME KNOW ABOUT IT A COUPLE THREE MONTHS AGO THEY SEEM LIKE A NICE GROUP. HAPPINESS AND BUTTERFLIES LYNN WITH THE RISING OF THE SUN,THINK OF YOUR LIFE AS JUST BEGUN.HAPPINESS, LOVE,FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2003 Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 HI BILL SORRY IT HAS TAKEN SO LONG ANSWERING JOHN SAID THAT AS FAR AS HE KNOWS THE KANGAROOS ARE STILL ON THE RADIO. AND YES HE SELLS USED EQUIPMENT. HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL. I DID GET THE PICTURE FROM THURSDAY NIGHT PUT INTO THE FILE LABELED GREENFIELD GROUP IF YOU WOULD LIKE I CAN SEND YOU A COPY IF SHIRLEY DID NOT. TAKE CARE HAPPINESS AND BUTTERFLIES LYNN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2003 Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 Hi Lynn I am glad the Kangaroo's are still busy talking. The guy that started the Kangaroo's name is Danny and he has epilepsy and all he does all day long is talk on his radio. I was able to see the photo and glad Shirley had her camera. I grew up in Noblesville and one of the ladies at the MS support meeting was new that night and said she attends there MS meeting's with her husband. I will see if I can get have my mother check the Noblesvile area paper to see if they give details about the meeting there. I would like to see if any I know anyone that attends that meeting from my home town. My wife and her mother tomorrow will be taking her father to a nursing home to have him evaluated. Herb has had Alzheimer's for the past 2 years and has progressed to the point he needs to have better care than Judy's mother. I look at what he goes through and feel my MS is so minor compared with what he goes through daily. I told my wife Judy tonight as much as she likes doing scrapbooks she should do one on her father before he dies. With the genealogy I do on Judy's family I have some good photo's of him already. Here is a photo of Herb when he was in the Navy, he told me he had to clean up after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Bill Re: FALLING HI BILL SORRY IT HAS TAKEN SO LONG ANSWERING JOHN SAID THAT AS FAR AS HE KNOWS THE KANGAROOS ARE STILL ON THE RADIO. AND YES HE SELLS USED EQUIPMENT. HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL. I DID GET THE PICTURE FROM THURSDAY NIGHT PUT INTO THE FILE LABELED GREENFIELD GROUP IF YOU WOULD LIKE I CAN SEND YOU A COPY IF SHIRLEY DID NOT. TAKE CARE HAPPINESS AND BUTTERFLIES LYNN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 HI BILL YES I SEEM TO REMEMBER JOHN GOING OVER TO SEE DANNY AND TALKING TO HIM ON THE RADIO A FEW YEARS AGO. I WOULD BE NICE TO HEAR ABOUT OLD FRIENDS BUT PERSONNALY I DO NOT THINK I WOULD WANT THEM TO BE ATTENDING AN MS MEETING EXCEPT AS GUEST SPEAKER BUT THEN THERE ARE WORSE THINGS. A SCRAPBOOK WOULD BE NICE AND MAY I SUGGEST THAT YOU GET SOME OF HIS STORIES WRITTEN DOWN FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN TO KNOW AND PASS DOWN. MY DAD HAS BEEN GONE FOR FOURTEEN YEARS NOW AND I ONLY REMEMBER PARTS OF STORIES HE USE TO TELL AND HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE ALL GONE TOO. IF HE STILL HAS GOOD TIMES WHERE HE CAN STILL TELL THE STORIES OF HIS LIFE SEE IF YOU CAN GET THEM RECORDED ON TAPE AND THEN TYPE THEM OUT. I KNOW IT IS HARD TO CARE FOR HIM AT HOME BUT IT IS GOING TO BE HARD ON THE FAMILY FOR HIM TO BE IN A HOME. AND TELL JUDY THAT FROM EXPERIENCE WITH MY GRANDPARENTS AND THE FACT THAT 2 OF MY GIRLS HAVE WORKED IN DIFFERENT NURSING HOMES TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIS CARE AND GET TO KNOW THE NURSES AND AIDES THAT WORK WITH HIM WE TOOK MY GRANDFATHER TO A HOME IN NEW CASTLE IN 1960 AND THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO BUT HE WAS FOUND ON THE FRONT PORCH HOLLERING "SEVEN O'CLOCK" OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DRESSED ONLY IN HOSPITAL GOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER.. THAT WAS ONLY CLEAR WORDS HE HAD SAID SINCE JULY 4TH. ALSO HIS CATH WAS NOT CHANGED UNTIL IT HAD ROTTED. AND THE GIRLS HAVE GOTTEN SO UPSET WITH THE WAY OTHERS TREAT AND OR NEGLECT THE PATIENTS. IF THE FAMILY WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE THINGS AND COMPLIMENT AND COMPLAIN WHEN NEEDED THEN THE PATIENT SEEMS TO GET BETTER CARE. SORRY I DON'T WANT TO SCARE YOU, JUST BE CAREFUL. ON THE LIGHTER SIDE THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL MORNING AND I FEEL LIKE GOOD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. MAKE IT A GOOD DAY HAPPINESS AND BUTTERFLIES LYNN WITH THE RISING OF THE SUN,THINK OF YOUR LIFE AS JUST BEGUN.HAPPINESS, LOVE,FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 I was telling my 13 year old last evening that Alzheimers runs in a family and it is possible he may get it also some day when he gets older. I brought that up when he was joking about the different things Herb forget these day's. Herb was telling his wife Gladys the other day he was ready for her to take him home. He was already at home and a few times he could not remember Gladys's name. Herb is easily a 300 pound guy and just his weight makes him impossible to really help him out sometimes. Herb sometimes will fall out of his bed and all Gladys can do is leave him there until he figures how to get up again. When Judy and I were wanting to get married Judy told me I had to ask her father. I don't ever remember being so nervous in my life asking him. Herb's mother also died with Alzheimers and I was asking Judy last night what she thought the possibility of Herbs other brother's Jim and Ron getting it also some day. Bill Re: FALLING HI BILL YES I SEEM TO REMEMBER JOHN GOING OVER TO SEE DANNY AND TALKING TO HIM ON THE RADIO A FEW YEARS AGO. I WOULD BE NICE TO HEAR ABOUT OLD FRIENDS BUT PERSONNALY I DO NOT THINK I WOULD WANT THEM TO BE ATTENDING AN MS MEETING EXCEPT AS GUEST SPEAKER BUT THEN THERE ARE WORSE THINGS. A SCRAPBOOK WOULD BE NICE AND MAY I SUGGEST THAT YOU GET SOME OF HIS STORIES WRITTEN DOWN FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN TO KNOW AND PASS DOWN. MY DAD HAS BEEN GONE FOR FOURTEEN YEARS NOW AND I ONLY REMEMBER PARTS OF STORIES HE USE TO TELL AND HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE ALL GONE TOO. IF HE STILL HAS GOOD TIMES WHERE HE CAN STILL TELL THE STORIES OF HIS LIFE SEE IF YOU CAN GET THEM RECORDED ON TAPE AND THEN TYPE THEM OUT. I KNOW IT IS HARD TO CARE FOR HIM AT HOME BUT IT IS GOING TO BE HARD ON THE FAMILY FOR HIM TO BE IN A HOME. AND TELL JUDY THAT FROM EXPERIENCE WITH MY GRANDPARENTS AND THE FACT THAT 2 OF MY GIRLS HAVE WORKED IN DIFFERENT NURSING HOMES TO KEEP AN EYE ON HIS CARE AND GET TO KNOW THE NURSES AND AIDES THAT WORK WITH HIM WE TOOK MY GRANDFATHER TO A HOME IN NEW CASTLE IN 1960 AND THAT WAS A LONG TIME AGO BUT HE WAS FOUND ON THE FRONT PORCH HOLLERING "SEVEN O'CLOCK" OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DRESSED ONLY IN HOSPITAL GOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF DECEMBER.. THAT WAS ONLY CLEAR WORDS HE HAD SAID SINCE JULY 4TH. ALSO HIS CATH WAS NOT CHANGED UNTIL IT HAD ROTTED. AND THE GIRLS HAVE GOTTEN SO UPSET WITH THE WAY OTHERS TREAT AND OR NEGLECT THE PATIENTS. IF THE FAMILY WILL PAY ATTENTION TO THE LITTLE THINGS AND COMPLIMENT AND COMPLAIN WHEN NEEDED THEN THE PATIENT SEEMS TO GET BETTER CARE. SORRY I DON'T WANT TO SCARE YOU, JUST BE CAREFUL. ON THE LIGHTER SIDE THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL MORNING AND I FEEL LIKE GOOD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN. MAKE IT A GOOD DAY HAPPINESS AND BUTTERFLIES LYNN WITH THE RISING OF THE SUN,THINK OF YOUR LIFE AS JUST BEGUN.HAPPINESS, LOVE,FLOWERS AND BUTTERFLIES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 SO HOW OLD IS HERB AND WILL GLAYS BE OK ALONE I KNOW AT FIRST IT WILL BE A RELIEF BUT WHAT ABOUT LATER DO THEY LIVE CLOSE DOES JUDY HAVE BROTHER AND OR SISTERS WHO CAN HELP LYNN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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