Ok, I'm going to try this again. IF it disappears this time---there'll be no new post today! GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today is Fri and I went to see Mom and Dad this morning. I guess it's just me, but I have not been just really satisfied with LNC the last couple of times. It may be that I'm worried about other things (Ona and Randall for ex!) and I'm just attacking LNC because they're there! Who knohos! Anyway, when I got there this morning Mom was in the dining room---Dad was not. I'm like: where's Dad? You could hear the echo: where's James, where's Mr shelton, etc. I went out into the hall and he was out there rolling along. Another aide had gone out at the same time to look for him. Anyway, I'm like Dad you haven't finished your breakfast---he'd eaten maybe 1/3 of his food. He said he had had a whole lot and wasn't that hungry. He said he'd been up sick all night. I'm like: throwing up sick? He's like yes. I asked one of the workers and they didn't know anything about it. I asked him again, and this time he said his stomach hurt all night like with gas. Anyway, it wasn't hurting this morning. Mom's menu read 2 biscuits, extra bacon, hi-cal juice, milk, coffee and ice crea.m. No ice cream was there though. We go down to the big commons area and Dad is looking around for 'something'. What do you need Dad? A spit cut. Ok, except he had NO tobacco! He did have SOMETHING he was chewing---I couldn't look because it was white and fair sized---gross! Anyway, the young guy got him a cup. Well, I looked down and MOM was wearing a pair of Dad's new socks! I'm like OMG! I went to ask Debbie if Mom needed some new socks, too, and she said it wouldn't hurt! So I went into their room to check their clothes and Mom has NO socks! Of the 4 new pairs I took on Tues--Mom had on one pair, Dad had on one pair, there was another pair in the drawer + ONE sock! One of the new socks had already gotten lost!!!!!!!!!!!!! YUCK! Anyway, I turned around to go back to the commons area and there were Dad's teeth on his bedside table balanced on a cud of tobacco! They were nasty! I went out in the commons area and asked Dad about his teeth. He kind of laughed. I said is that why you didn't eat breakfast because you had only half of your teeth!?! He said yes--which doesn't necessarily mean yes. I got a kleenex and picked them up to take them to him. He took them and was trying to put them in his mouth over the ones that were already in the top of his mouth! I'm like: ok, this is about all the fun I can take this morning! LOL! I gave them a hug and left. Dad was talking something about moving stuff to St Louis and it getting confused if he did that, and he'd be better off to leave it as is, and that he'd been gone all day yesterday to Cleveland---Cleveland? Why Cleveland!?! No idea. They both looked good, but that's about it. I did tell Dad how Randall was doing and he recited the 30 foot fall onto concrete thing for me again. That was good. Mom said that she loved him more than anything in the whole world and then went off onto her Mom and how she loved her Mom, etc. It's just hard right now. On the money thing, we're still a ways from having that straightened out,too. Pat and I went to talk to Chad today and have to go back after Sept 1 to see him again. THEN he'll file for Mom's medicaid. We may still have to give back the other money----they've changed the way things can be handled in DHS. It's still a mess! Anyway, I'm off to give myself a pedi and a mani---I NEED some pampering! The weather is SO oppressive here! Miserable! Love you all, Jeanie