About the flu…Today (Wed) (although you will probably read this Thurs) has been my best day so far.  I took Monday night off because of a headache…Tuesday the weakness was all encompassing…I had to stop and rest after even conversation but I went to work… I was also having nausea each time I ate.  I’m not sure when, in the middle of the night Tuesday/Wed, that I started feeling better…but by the time I went home from work, I was exhausted but actually felt better.  Today has been almost normal. 

Helen and Frances…awe…the novel continues….Helen did not have the procedure at all.  I talked to the hospital nurse and tried to explain the sick relationship between the sisters and the fact that Frances took Helen out of the nursing home without my help or approval … the nurse said she and the social worker had been talking that morning about the fact they aren’t sure Helen is capable of making decisions…of course, enter Frances to make them for her.  Social worker tried to talk to mom about going to a nursing home for some skilled care and Dana told me that Frances pissed them all off and then Frances was pissed and was going to leave which would have been just as well but she stayed.  Now, today, I find out they sent Helen to a huge nursing home on the south side of Des Moines by Aunt Frances….this place was closed down a couple of years ago for their treatment of patients but that is where Frances wanted Helen….it is so large that I”m positive Helen won’t get her required preferential treatment that she received in the nursing homes in Newton…such as her refusal to come out of her room for meals…Newton catered to her and finally let her eat in her room.  I’m guessing they won’t molly coddle her up there.  I’m guessing Aunt Frances wants mom up there in Des Moines and the reason no one has consulted me is that I am the evil daughter/only child..hmmm..actually it is fine with me and a tremendous relief that I find myself almost totally unresponsible.

“He” is in a funk healthwise..the weather doesn’t help…one day at a time..he is going to begin a new treatment for his colitis in the near future..I think this will help him mentally and physically.

That’s it for now so until next time…..