by Doug Thompson | Dec 30, 2010 | Featured, Musings, News
For the most part, Amy and I will not be sad to see 2010 depart us. This has been one hell of a year: my mother’s declining health, broken hip and eventual move to an assisted living facility; the discovery that I have been walking around for 35 years with a...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 25, 2010 | Featured, News
Amy, my brother and I spent an important Christmas with my mother at her assisted-living facility today — a bittersweet celebration tinged with the reality of her increasingly declining health. It is both heartwarming and enjoyable to see her eyes light up when...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 24, 2010 | Featured, News
Slept soundly last night, my first prolonged night of uninterrupted sleep in weeks. Some pain from the back and legs but nothing intolerable. Woke up, took Valium — my current muscle relaxer — and laid back down while the drug eased the tightness in my...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 24, 2010 | Featured, News
As late as Tuesday night, we looked forward to Wednesday as a banner day when we would move my 86-year-old and increasingly immobile mother from rehab into an assisted living facility as the next step in her recovery from a fall at home six weeks ago. Then the phone...
by Doug Thompson | May 7, 2010 | Featured, FUBAR, News
From the time my mother’s housekeeper found her unconscious on the floor of her home, a team of medical professionals moved quickly to save her life. The Floyd County Rescue Squad responded swiftly and stabilized her. They were concerned about an erratic...
