Decisions - We Have a Lot of Them and They're Never Easy To Make

Yesterday's Mild Cognitive Impairment group was very fun. We were a smaller group than usual, but it's the holiday season, and things crop up. Sue, a woman I really enjoyed who had been missing the past two weeks, was finally back again. I was really happy to see her, I'd been a bit worried - with good cause, as it happened. She and her family had been involved in a trauma with their mother, whom they were trying to get into a memory care facility. 

Sue's crisis revolved around getting her mother into a 
memory care facility. It wasn't a smooth transition, and 
her mother ended up in the hospital for two weeks before 
finally moving to a different facility. The family is 
working with some advisors who are apparently really 
great. Hopefully things will be resolved quickly and 
life can continue onward. 

I totally understood the difficulties - I went through something quite similar when I had to put my own mother into a facility. There are always residual questions - "Am I doing the right thing for her?", "Is this the right place for her, or should I look elsewhere?", etc., etc. The questions don't actually end, but decisions have to be made, and then sometimes re-made again at a later time. 

Memory Care was not an option when Mom needed extended 
care. There was only a single facility that had a wing for 
memory care, and, fortunately, they were able to take her 
on very short notice. Fortunate for me, at least, but probably 
not - initially - for her. I felt like I had abandoned a puppy, 
but she couldn't live alone any more with safety, and I wasn't 
anywhere nearby. It was still one of the hardest decisions 
I've ever had to make and it still makes my heart hurt. 

Yesterday's topics were stress and sleep patterns. I'm pretty sure that all of us have been affected by nights when we simply couldn't fall asleep easily, and others of you have had stress affecting your lives in other ways. Stress is a constant in our lives. We don't live with it 24/7, but we do live with it far too often. Stress places some strains on the body that take a few weeks to clear out. Living a life of stress is completely unhealthy, but so many of us do these days. 

We're moving ahead with getting the store closed. We spent 
quite a long time on the phone yesterday with the guy 
we're hiring to help us with the sale. I'm comfortable with 
him, DH is a bit less so, but we both agree we need some 
serious assistance in getting this moving next year. So, 
we'll speak again on Monday, probably sign some virtual 
contracts on-line, arrange for a transfer of funds, and lock 
Travis in for our scheduled time next year. 

I'm going to cook some stuffed peppers today that I didn't have the time to do on Wednesday, and I'm still in the market for a new phone, so I'll pick that up once again. I have a pile of things on my desk that are all calling for my attention, and my tea is growing cold while I write this. I think it's time to wrap it up and call it done for today. Have an excellent Friday and I'll be back tomorrow to wrap the week up. Slava Ukraini.