Thank You Service Men and Women

We made a trip south on Saturday to visit my father-in-law.  It's becoming harder and harder to visit, and yet we don't want to stop going.  I talked with the nurse there and she told me he's on the highest dose of a behavioral medicine they can give.  What we want to know is why?  Five months ago, he was riding his bike probably 10 miles every day.  Now he can barely hold his head up, he shuffles slowly along, and he struggles to talk to us.  We know for the first couple months he was combative at times, and then they sent him off to another facility for a week. Since he's been back from there, though, he's gone steadily down hill.  And his wife lied to us about it.  She flat out told us that the only medicine he was on was thyroid medicine.  We have a hard time believing anything she tells us, and an even harder time being nice to her when we know she's lying to us.  

We have visited step-mother-in-law a couple times in the past month or so, and she has given us a lot of stuff that belonged to my father-in-law, his father and his grandfather.  Hubby has sorted through everything and this coming weekend, he has invited the siblings to come over so they can divvy up everything.  I suspect this could be an emotional day for them.  Hubby will be glad when it's over, but feels he is doing the right thing.  

After visiting my father-in-law, we visited my mother-in-law. She is doing relatively well, all things considered.  The trouble-maker has not been back to visit, although we half-expected to see him this weekend.  He should by now have received a letter from the lawyer notifying him that he has until September 1 to remove the vehicles he's dumped in the woods behind her house. They've been there for years, and his dad tried unsuccessfully to get him to remove them before he passed away.  Now, his time has about run out.  He can remove them, or lose his rights to them and she will have them removed.  We're concerned that things could get ugly over the summer.

Today we visited my mom and dad.  Mom is recuperating slowly from her second back surgery but she was moving around a lot better than the last time I saw her.  She is taking physical therapy, and in time I know that will really help her.  Dad was in a good mood, but we did talk about him having a couple of episodes where he has been really confused and upset about it.  I can't decide if he's pretending, or if he really is confused.  

Daughter survived the weekend without killing her boyfriend.  They talked (again) and he asked her not to bottle everything up, which she is guilty of doing. So she told me they are trying. So he accompanied her to the race track Friday night.  She didn't do as well there as she has done at the other track. Another car did a slide job on her coming out of turn 4, but she kept her foot in the gas and he ended up in the wall. He shouldn't have been where he was - I have video - but he was angry at her, and charged her pit afterwards.  We heard that he ended up at the hospital with a broken hand, but that has not been confirmed.  Daughter also ended up with a hand injury - her hand got caught in the steering wheel when he hit her the second time, and may have broken her knuckle.  It's still swollen so it's hard to tell right now.  He also caused a couple hundred dollars worth of damage to her car.  Luckily she isn't planning to race again for a couple of weeks.  Hopefully her hand - and her car - will be better by then!

Today, most importantly, we would like to thank those who have served our country fighting for our freedoms.  Thank you to all service men and women.  You are appreciated!