1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:11,360 Hey there, it's nobody in particular and I know my audience now. 2 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:15,200 Hi guys. 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:20,400 But this is going to be shooting for a bigger audience too, perhaps if someone listens outside 4 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:26,160 of my little group. 5 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:28,480 It's spur of the moment more or less. 6 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:38,800 It's a subject I've been thinking about for a while, you know, caregiving, but I wanted 7 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:55,560 to go back 20 years to the first episode I had of caregiving and I wasn't aware at the 8 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:10,600 time of what I am now for sure, but that there are similarities from then and now and for 9 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:19,640 example, this is a good one. 10 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:27,520 Georgia Lee was in need of nourishment and liquids. 11 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:33,600 She drank a lot of water, but she wasn't into eating food. 12 00:01:33,600 --> 00:01:40,400 And then we found lime popsicles. 13 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:49,500 And from that time forward, lime popsicles were on the menu several times a day because 14 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:56,480 she was getting some sugar, some carbohydrates to keep her brain going when she wasn't feeling 15 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:07,800 good because let me tell you, the lupus flare-up would take it all out of her and if she was 16 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:15,520 on meds that wasn't necessarily better. 17 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:30,800 But in any case, Georgia really liked the lime popsicles. 18 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:38,240 So as part of the lime popsicle story, you have to know that the grocery stores get what, 19 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:44,600 a case of lime popsicles and it has six boxes in it or so. 20 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:51,680 And I was buying as many boxes as were on the shelf, so if they had one, two, five, 21 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:55,200 and hardly anybody had any more than four or five. 22 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:05,680 But I carried a cooler with me when I went to work so that I could shop for popsicles 23 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,160 on my way home. 24 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:16,720 Now this was in the, about circa 1998. 25 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:35,280 I was working as a computer guy by then, systems engineer, and had regular hours. 26 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:42,520 And when I started shopping, I went to start close by the house of course, and you go to 27 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:49,520 the house, the store that's close by and you shop and you wipe them out and you wait and 28 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:55,680 then you go to the next closest store and you wipe them out. 29 00:03:55,680 --> 00:04:07,080 And quite honestly, I was probably traveling eight to ten miles one way to go to a grocery 30 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,720 store that had lime popsicles. 31 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:19,260 But that's what she needed and that's what she got. 32 00:04:19,260 --> 00:04:30,000 In these days, my beloved Stephanie loves oatmeal raisin cookies by a bakery called 33 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:36,880 Tate's, T-A-T-E-S. 34 00:04:36,880 --> 00:04:52,640 And in her time and right now, meaning her diet consists of Tate's cookies, oatmeal raisin, 35 00:04:52,640 --> 00:05:05,240 French toast that I make for her and portion out, and gala apples with a lot of water. 36 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:14,720 And the local fries, the local grocery store had Tate's for the first order and then I 37 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:26,720 had to go to Safeway and finally to Amazon and Whole Foods. 38 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:34,280 And Whole Foods has been pretty good for up to three or four bags at a time. 39 00:05:34,280 --> 00:05:44,460 Amazon was pretty good with the lead time, but I have finally gone to direct purchases 40 00:05:44,460 --> 00:05:57,760 from Tate's and I'm buying Stevie's cookies 12 bags at a time. 41 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:02,140 And quite honestly, it's the great money. 42 00:06:02,140 --> 00:06:15,680 She's eating, she's holding her weight, it's good for her, and I'm really happy. 43 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:24,040 Now, we have put that into relative position, I'm happy in an unfortunate situation, but 44 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:33,600 I'm pleased that Stevie is eating as I was pleased that Georgia was eating something, 45 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,920 even if it was just a popsicle. 46 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:53,160 Popsicles, cookies, French toast with maple syrup, I'm not going to question anybody's 47 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:59,280 breakfast, lunch, or dinner, especially not that of my beloved, because I am so glad that 48 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,520 she's here every day. 49 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:08,240 I wish you all could visit or would visit, or you know, this is probably going to be 50 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:16,320 in the past tense for some of you, but we're keeping a happy house, smiles and kisses all 51 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:23,680 around and part of that is Tate's cookies. 52 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:32,440 And this is a shout out to hashtag Tate's cookies or hashtag Tate's oatmeal raisin 53 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,680 cookie. 54 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,500 They're wonderful. 55 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:45,440 And Stevie, thanks you for being the bakery that makes the cookie that keeps her going. 56 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:49,800 So you know, I got a little bit of a smile talking about somber things that caregivers 57 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:53,760 go through. 58 00:07:53,760 --> 00:08:06,080 When you love the person that you're taking care of, that seems to be the difference. 59 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:15,960 And I mean, you love yourself enough to not be afraid to take care of the person who is 60 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:29,720 changing in front of your eyes, who you love and cherish and never see less than whole 61 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,480 and well in your own inner eye. 62 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:43,600 This is nobody in particular, nobody in particularly that too. 63 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:45,600 Love you guys. 64 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:46,600 Hope you're well. 65 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,120 I'm doing okay. 66 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:52,600 When I say that, I sound like Jesse. 67 00:08:52,600 --> 00:08:56,000 I sound like what it sounds, what Jesse sounds like to me. 68 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,520 I'm doing okay. 69 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:03,720 We love you. 70 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:10,600 We're just going down the lazy river. 71 00:09:10,600 --> 00:09:37,840 Nobody in particular over and out.