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 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 | Dec 8, 2010 | Featured, FUBAR, Musings
My mother received her new set of dentures Tuesday — Not a major news event for an 87-year-old woman but the arrival of her new choppers comes almost four months to the day after Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital lost her previous dentures as the final blow to...
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...
