A Terrible Start to 2023
The start to 2023 has been absolutely horrible and the next few months, at the very least, already promise to be just as stressful and rather miserable. Sheila's mom, known as Nan in many other blog entries here, has been struggling with Alzheimer's Disease for about four years now. Over the past few months... hmmm, I think it has been since summer... she had dipped into end-stage Alzheimer's and is now in the hospital with a fractured spine and in the worst condition she has ever been in to date. I'm not going to go into specifics here but this has been incredibly stressful for the rest of her family as one would expect. She has been hospitalized for a couple of weeks at this point and I'd say she is just "surviving" now or "holding on"... not "living" like we all try to do but just surviving one moment to the next. This is sort of like the body being on autopilot. So, the past couple of months have been terribly rough for Shei