How I spend my time.

2016 Merry Go Round at Knott's Berry Farm.

Its Friday already. It seem like the weeks are running by. As a member of the human race, time is a flowing status of life. There are weeks that seem like a year. For what ever reason, it seems like the days are flying by this month. Before I retired, days and weeks went by according to the amount of joy were in them. The more the joy, the faster they went by. 

Time as a state of mind while I'm taking care of Sweetie, seems like a constant, or at some point, a step up, a little faster and the days just seem to fly by. One of my biggest fear as being a caregiver, was that time would go slowly by. That each day's 24 hours would seem like a 36 hour day. I'm finding that not to be true. Yea, I'm up a 2 or 3 in the morning, and spend the next 5 hours playing on the computer, doing my social media, preparing and writing this blog, and getting a little breakfast. 

I've found that my compassion quotient has increased as Sweetie moves further and further down the road to Dementia Town. Take yesterday's evening. After dinner, she started acting something was happening. Acting as if she had to pee. I took her to the potty, got her pants down, found that she had been sitting in her mess. Immediately, I felt so sorry for her, that what I saw was terrible, my first thought was get her out of that and into a shower. She was such a mess that trying to wipe her clean was out of the question. In a messy way, this is an Easter Egg. Shes been constipated for about 4-5 days. She isn't now.

I know that she doesn't know what her body is doing and at the sometime, if she did, she wouldn't know how to tell me what is going on. In all respects she is a baby, dependent on me for all that she needs and it is my job to interpret her body language. As in learning any foreign language, there are actions that have multiple meanings to each movement. Then it is my job to find out what is going on. One of my first inclination is to head for the potty, easiest to see and than go from there. 

Lately to make our walk around more pleasurable, I bought a over the shoulder bag, with elephants on it, her favorite animal, to put her supplies in. It is the easiest solution to keep us on our way. I have all that is needed to keep Sweetie out of the house, so we can get more exercise. Because the bag is new, I can't wait until it softens up and becomes more form fitting. I am going to see if Sweetie would like to carry the bag. I know that would make her happy because she likes to help. 

It amazing that I find stuff to talk about. When I sit down, I never know where this blog is going and at the same time, I know where it will end. It ends when my Driver lets me know its time to go. The car is ready, clean and shinny. I'll put the final touches on this post, out the door I go. He'll be there holding the door open as I slip into the passenger's side. As He closes the door, I get buckled in, put on my sunglasses and we're off. Heading down the Road to Dementia Town, looking cool as we go, keeping our Shinny Side Up. I have no idea how many stops we'll make, maybe we'll meet you at one of them. I'll know its you, because you'll have your Shinny Side Up too. God Bless.