@Jennifer 1967 :
I’m so glad you finally had a good day! Have fun in Florida, it’s stressful planning and going on a trip, especially when you have to arrange care for others, but hopefully you have enough of a good time to make it all worth it!

@~Christina
Ah jeez there’s always something like you said!!! Be careful with your food. I have been having just a little trouble, which I discovered is yet another side effect of vraylar. Damn that med really messed me up! Good luck with the rheumatologist, I’m happy you have such good medical providers as well.

@*Beth*
Oh yes, the therapist for my mom would absolutely be a waste of time. I know for a fact she’d say she was too tired to go. And she won’t do a virtual appointment because of her house. She’d be too worried about what’s in the background. That’s what I must impress upon my SIL. My mom HAS to move, but she WILL NOT get a therapist, so oh well on that one. My SIL’s concern, as is everyone’s, is that my mom will hoard out an apartment. Which she will, given the chance, but I have solutions in my head that just take commitment on my part. I’ve said before all I can do is accept that she will always need my help. I don’t have to be her therapist but physically I will need to help her. I think I can get to that point with my clinician and my regular therapist when I discharge from the program.

@Moose72

Ooo botanical gardens are so nice to walk around! There’s a little one here where we got married in the fall, and then there’s a wildflower nature preserve across the bridge, and if we really want to get wild there’s a HUGE one near Philadelphia that we’ve been to. RS and I actually went to the Christmas lights show at the huge one on our first date. It was beautiful, they had lights EVERYWHERE! I’m glad N3 walked around with you!