Hey there, it's nobody in particular and I know my audience now.
Hi guys.
But this is going to be shooting for a bigger audience too, perhaps if someone listens outside
of my little group.
It's spur of the moment more or less.
It's a subject I've been thinking about for a while, you know, caregiving, but I wanted
to go back 20 years to the first episode I had of caregiving and I wasn't aware at the
time of what I am now for sure, but that there are similarities from then and now and for
example, this is a good one.
Georgia Lee was in need of nourishment and liquids.
She drank a lot of water, but she wasn't into eating food.
And then we found lime popsicles.
And from that time forward, lime popsicles were on the menu several times a day because
she was getting some sugar, some carbohydrates to keep her brain going when she wasn't feeling
good because let me tell you, the lupus flare-up would take it all out of her and if she was
on meds that wasn't necessarily better.
But in any case, Georgia really liked the lime popsicles.
So as part of the lime popsicle story, you have to know that the grocery stores get what,
a case of lime popsicles and it has six boxes in it or so.
And I was buying as many boxes as were on the shelf, so if they had one, two, five,
and hardly anybody had any more than four or five.
But I carried a cooler with me when I went to work so that I could shop for popsicles
on my way home.
Now this was in the, about circa 1998.
I was working as a computer guy by then, systems engineer, and had regular hours.
And when I started shopping, I went to start close by the house of course, and you go to
the house, the store that's close by and you shop and you wipe them out and you wait and
then you go to the next closest store and you wipe them out.
And quite honestly, I was probably traveling eight to ten miles one way to go to a grocery
store that had lime popsicles.
But that's what she needed and that's what she got.
In these days, my beloved Stephanie loves oatmeal raisin cookies by a bakery called
Tate's, T-A-T-E-S.
And in her time and right now, meaning her diet consists of Tate's cookies, oatmeal raisin,
French toast that I make for her and portion out, and gala apples with a lot of water.
And the local fries, the local grocery store had Tate's for the first order and then I
had to go to Safeway and finally to Amazon and Whole Foods.
And Whole Foods has been pretty good for up to three or four bags at a time.
Amazon was pretty good with the lead time, but I have finally gone to direct purchases
from Tate's and I'm buying Stevie's cookies 12 bags at a time.
And quite honestly, it's the great money.
She's eating, she's holding her weight, it's good for her, and I'm really happy.
Now, we have put that into relative position, I'm happy in an unfortunate situation, but
I'm pleased that Stevie is eating as I was pleased that Georgia was eating something,
even if it was just a popsicle.
Popsicles, cookies, French toast with maple syrup, I'm not going to question anybody's
breakfast, lunch, or dinner, especially not that of my beloved, because I am so glad that
she's here every day.
I wish you all could visit or would visit, or you know, this is probably going to be
in the past tense for some of you, but we're keeping a happy house, smiles and kisses all
around and part of that is Tate's cookies.
And this is a shout out to hashtag Tate's cookies or hashtag Tate's oatmeal raisin
cookie.
They're wonderful.
And Stevie, thanks you for being the bakery that makes the cookie that keeps her going.
So you know, I got a little bit of a smile talking about somber things that caregivers
go through.
When you love the person that you're taking care of, that seems to be the difference.
And I mean, you love yourself enough to not be afraid to take care of the person who is
changing in front of your eyes, who you love and cherish and never see less than whole
and well in your own inner eye.
This is nobody in particular, nobody in particularly that too.
Love you guys.
Hope you're well.
I'm doing okay.
When I say that, I sound like Jesse.
I sound like what it sounds, what Jesse sounds like to me.
I'm doing okay.
We love you.
We're just going down the lazy river.
Nobody in particular over and out.