Weight Loss Update

176.2 down .6 so not a huge loss but a loss. I really need to get with it or I will never meet my goal of being back at pre-preg weight by Little T's first birthday.

Weight loss update

A gain today. Just a little one though. I gained .8 so am now 176.8. I really need to excersize more.

That is just wrong

I am so angry right now.

My Grandma is being taken advantage of, and it pisses me right off.

My Grandma is in the grips of dementia, she forgets to bathe, brush her teeth, and to change her depends. She forgets that she has something cooking on the stove. She even forgets which decade it is.

For the last 10 or 12 years she has been living in a senior apartment building and though she misses her home she has gotten used to living there. Now they are trying to force her to move to a Nursing Home. She doesn't want to and is adamantly refusing to go. She is absolutely digging in her heels and nothing is moving her. The reason she is so adamant is that when she was moved from her home it was against her will and she is not going to let that happen to her again.

A little background. When my grandma married her second husband she acquired two step children whom she never adopted. She also already had three children of her own whom her new husband never adopted. My aunt, grandma's second child, died 35ish years ago. So now my grandma has two children and two step children. Her husband (my grandpa of the heart but in reality step grandpa) has been dead for 20 years. My mother is my grandma's third child.

15 years ago my mom was living with grandma as she had just gotten divorced. Grandma had a stroke and my mom took care of her when she got home from the hospital ie; buying groceries, washing her laundry, paying the bills, fixing meals, etc. At that time grandma gave my mom financial and medical Power of Attorney. Shortly after ward grandma's step daughter in law (sdil) and step daughter (sd) decided that my mom was sponging off of grandma and that grandma needed to move to the senior apts. Sdil got in my mother's face and told her that she had 2 weeks to be out of grandma's house. And then sdil and dil proceeded to go through grandma's things and throw things away and give them to their kids.

Now they want to do it again. For the last little bit things have been happening at grandma's apt and the grandma's friends have been calling sdil and ss to tell them about the incidents. Then sdil calls sd and tells her. But no one calls either of the dds. After the dds said no to the nursing home sdil and sd finally tell the dds about the incidents. So now my mom (dd3) and her sister (dd1) are in agreement that maybe it is time for grandma to be somewhere that would be safer for grandma. But the dds are trying to convince grandma that it is a good idea.

So last week sdil calls dd3 and asks that she and her husband get POA "not necessarily instead of but in addition to you, because we live closer and do more things for her." Dd3 says no, because grandma has said over and over "I don't want sdil to know my financial information."

So yesterday, without telling anyone sdil and her dh (ss) took grandma to the bank and convinced her that ss should be on grandma's bank account. Wait, it gets better, and then didn't tell anyone that they had done this. The only reason we know is that dd3 went to the bank and was asking questions in her position as financial POA and was told that they couldn't divulge that information to anyone but ss because he was on the account.

So why did they decide now to get ss on grandma's account? Because dd3 said that she wouldn't let them share POA? Maybe?

I do believe that they have declared war, and the only casualty is going to be grandma.

Why do people have to be such jerks?

Weight loss update

I need to change my weigh in day. I never seem to have time before we need to leave on Wed, that or get up earlier. lol But I think I'll just change the day to Thursday. So today on Weight Loss Thursday I am 176 down 2.6! YAY!