Becky Ellisor

They started coming Monday and Mary has been sick every since . I can’t decide if it is because the very word sends her reeling or if she has a UTI (urinary tract infection. She is all of a sudden not lucid and can barely move. Prior to that she was happy and feisty and could walk with walker to her chair. Now she is like a total invalid and can cannot remember what she was just thinking. It is worrying me to death. A House Call Doctor showed up today and ordered a urinalysis. I had been giving her Bactrim for 4 or 5 days which should have made these things go away by now. I will be collecting a urinalysis this afternoon and rushing it back to LabCorp. Hopefully this will pinpoint the problem and she will get back to herself again soon. I will be back to my normal routine by then also.

Hey, I thought you would be famous someday but not powerful and enormous like the CNN wire staff called you.

He got out without his collar on, so no one can bring him back this time. Oh darn, I hear him barking at the door. Stuck with him for sure.

He’s a cute dog and follows me everywhere I go in the house and if I am not quick enough, he gets out everytime I open the door.  Getting his city dog tag tomorrow. One more thing to ensure his staying.

If you wonder why I call him demon, it is mainly because he has eaten up almost everything I love except my kids. He can be so cute but he falls into demonhood too easily. He loves to hug and so do I but he wants to sleep practically on top of me at night.He can’t seem to get close enough. I must be doing something right.

He’s getting fixed on the 9th of September. The Doc says that will slow him down. We shall see.

The last few months have been so busy that I have had no time to write. A quick update will have to do. I brought my mother in law Mary Rose to live with me a few months ago. She is 89 and has congestive heart failure. It took a couple of months to fight the care home where she was staying to let us take her from San Antonio. It took a judge and an inordinate amount of stress. If you want a long harangue on the state of care homes for the  elderly just ask me. They are much better off at home with you. No one wants to hear this because it takes away the good feeling that Mom or Pop is getting good care and it is ok to just visit them once a week when you are expected.

Ok, I will quit ranting.

I am making a short speech tonight at the Texas Democratic Women of Harris County about the organization I have formed called Take Our Children to Vote, Inc. Check out our website at TakeOurChildrentoVote.org

It has been a really rough two weeks for me but at least I am here with Elektra. Life’s little ups and downs make life interesting; at least, that is what I keep telling myself. The snow is pretty from the window but yuck to walk in. I love to be reminded why I live on the Gulf Coast. Surely we won’t have two years in a row of extremely cold weather. Knock on wood.

My  family’s Christmas Dinner included lemonade made by my daughter Lauren. She used just 2 and 1/2 lemons from my lemon tree to make a gallon of it and it was strong juicy lemonade. The lemons on this tree are so big and juicy, I don’t believe the average person has ever seen such huge lemons.

The other amazing thing about these lemons is that they were picked at Christmas.  Wish my folks were around to see them. My Christmas Dinner included by sisters, Fran Ellisor and Jeannie Markovich and my cousin Margaret Yeager, of course. Missing was my daughter Elektra Rose and my sister Bonnie Hinrichs and my nephews and nieces who live as far away as Hawaii and Sugar Land.

Of course, she worked most of the time using skype was nice to see her though and she bought me dinner a couple of times in addition to going shopping for a little while. She will be back for Christmas with Lauren and we will go to San Antonio to celebrate with their grandmother who’s condition is stable for the moment.

Decided to go visit my mother in law Mary, only to discover that the doctor had signed her out of skilled nursing care. So I spend the last three days trying to get everything together for her to return to her apartment with an aide. Nightmare time. I will head back up there on Friday to make sure everything is ready for her to move home on Saturday and stay for 2 or 3 days to make sure she is ready for this.