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Here I am, half-way to ninety, and I have been confronted by the evidence that in some areas my ignorance is still abysmal! It all began when sniffling and sneezing started a couple of days ago, properly treated with Cold-Eeze and vitamin C. I hoped I had nipped it in the bud until yesterday when the coughing set it — a dry cough, persistent and uncontrollable. I coughed until my ribs hurt and I wet my pants ( several times.) In the middle of the night I did a wash because I had wet two pajama bottoms and I needed clean ones. Fortunately I had some cough medicine left over from my last cold nine months ago. After taking some I managed to sleep awhile but woke up still coughing and wetting.
Time for an SOS email to daughter, Terry, caregiver par excellence, who knows about such things. It seemed I should buy some sort of pad so I wouldn’t have to keep changing and washing underclothes but it had been some seventy years since I had done such a thing. What would she recommend? Would I need, once more, one of those sanitary belts of yesteryear? What is out there in the feminine hygiene section?
So today is Christmas-eve day and I have given myself the gift of just staying home and taking care of me. I am loving Fox News. The Fox News go-to priest just told a beautiful story that just happened yesterday when he visited a dying, cantankerous patient who was remarkably touched by his praying presence. They are not afraid to wish me Merry Christmas. I’m watching Fox, still in bed, when Terry appears with 1) cough medicine, 2) Depends, and 3) diapers. Who knew? They have pull-up diapers for grown people! I should have guessed it as I knew the kiddies had them.
I read the package info on the Depends: worry-free odor control, soft, breathable, slip on and off, do NOT flush. I put one of them on, just for kicks, out of sheer joy that such a thing is out there for us! I have not wet it yet and don’t really expect to as my cough is looser and more controllable today. Who would expect that discovering the very existence of Depends would be considered a Christmas gift?
Several years ago when I talked about the joys and trials of aging, and I wrote about my vertigo, and skin cancer surgery, and all, I wondered if I would let you know when I employed Depends. Well, I guess I have and I think it is something to be thankful for. So thank you, Kimberly-Clark, and thank you, Terry.
Dear Dorothy
Just thought that you would like to know that I forwarded your comments about the impossibility of sexual differentiation arising through evolutionary changes to a girlfriend of mine. She was around for a visit and I was giving her a lot of info about the divine underpinnings of the Bible. She is not a Christian, but no-one is to start out. I mentioned this issue, but she asked for a link, so I found what you wrote and forwarded it to her under the heading “The lassie says it all”. So I hope you are pleased.
And have got over your cold. If you check the George Eby website, you will find out that this condition is eminently curable, and not by using Cold-Eze and vitamin C, although of course the latter cannot possibly be anything other than helpful.
And as a final piece of fascinating information for you, please check the w/s “The Bible Wheel”. This provides an astonishing validation of the Scriptures, and the absolute integration of Old and New Testaments.
Much love.
Tim.
Ha ha! You tell stories with so much humor. I love your candor.
Though I’m sorry you had such terrible coughing – it’s so painful, but I’m glad you decided to write about it. It really tickled me.
Dear Maryellen – Thanks for your note. For the record, at this point I am quite well. Also for the record, according to Terry, when it comes to sheer capacity to absorb, Poise Pads are beyond compare! It’s good to know this kind of stuff.