” Oh you guys are lightweights on the gross-out chart… My mom has dementia AND an illiostomy bag… you just cant imagine the fixes we get in with that thing.  One day she filled it with green food coloring – of course throwing me into a fit of concern then cracking up – she was the serious one in the family! Another time she stubbornly refused to let me put it on saying there was no reason to cover up her belly button with that “horrible plastic thing”.  As they do, the stoma started dripping out. “Oh good Lord in Heaven, what the hell is that?” asked my extremely proper mother.  I let out a poorly stifled snicker and she looked at it again.  ”Poop! quick! quick! Stop the poop!”, That was the fastest bag-job I ever did – a true miracle considering I could hardly breathe I was laughing so hard.”
Here is another funny aging commentary from one of the folks at Home Instead Senior Care.

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Posted: Sun 6/27/2010 10:34 PMcorpsegirl47: We need more shows like this one.There are too many trash talk shows,game shows etc…I have her book and the doll patterns in it are easy to make and great fun.

This show needs to be on the air.

Posted: Sun 6/27/2010 11:37 AM
creative living apply to every area of ones life…it even can be helpful in financial situations as well as creating world peace…creative thinking and a creative life are the key building blocks for a successful person as well as a beautiful world ….

Posted: Sun 6/27/2010 11:23 AM dibbledabble1dolls: Love it! Show the world there are creative artists hidden amongst us, unknown due to lack of exposure, who step “out of the box” and choose to create dolls in a non-ceramic form. Being an artist who creates sculptures in cloth I find myself both angry at cloth as being thought of as a crafty hobby not as an art form…but also frustrated when the general public thinks the value of our art is not in the same category as ceramics and should be of lower value. I also think your show could point out that the creative artist lives a very busy life and has to “fit in art time”…and we achieve this because we love what we do!

Posted: Sat 6/26/2010 10:42 AM  jeamb31: What a good idea. Showing how creativeness can brighten lives. Think this is totally fab and you would be great for this. Your free spirt and fun-ness will make this go-go-go hugs barbkeeling

The lovely waterfall at Hoffman"s Garden Center

She is lounging on top of a waterfall that shot me back to Colorado Sweet Memories from the first moment I heard to water dancing among the rocks!  AH… There she is, just a bunch of grapes and an attendant hoard of young men short of a goddess! We were at the Hoffman Garden Center looking at inspirational plants and fish for my pond-a-la-evolution.

These guys were sitting on a roof, trolling for hood ornaments on passing cars, in one of the cabins at Willow Dale Lake where we drove around after the Hoffman adventure.  This pix doesn’t do justice to the impressive ugliness of their faces.

The Ever Evolving "Li Pond"

Here is the reason we went on our adventure… I was hoping to get some plants and inspiration in my quest for the perfect-bird-attracting-bubbling-and-ultimately relaxing pool.  Indeed, Hoffman’s was a font of inspiration… Today I put some Pansy’s along the side and am thinking that I will get a big tub, sink it into the left side and put some waterlilies in it.  My Cousin Amy does these amazing leaf castings Go here for link.  I would love to try one, but where to get a big leaf in Ohio… Hummmm

Just a coupla Pansy's here and there add so much to the pallet!

Here is what we did with the rest of the Pansy’s.  Nanook of the North (my mother) helped, finally getting her paws into the dirt after missing out last summer due to the lack of dirt (thank god!) in the nursing home.  I think it was perfect therapy.

I hope you are all enjoying the beginning of summer, it was almost too late for me, those last coupla days of freezing, cloudy-grey Ohio almost put my mind somewhere I would never find it…

Here are some links relating to this post…

Hoffman’s garden center
Barb Fausnight at Executive Insurance

Art Doll Adventures Blog
Li Hertzi Design

Enjoy! Create! Play!

Sometimes it is good… Sometimes it is challenging…

The result of hours of watching Rehab and tending to Nursing Duties...

Amazingly enough, it has taken me 4 months to post this masterpiece! Ahhh Hahhh.

While my mother was in the nursing home, I was the morning-girl, a miracle in itself considering my absolute lack of morning cheerfulness.  I spent most mornings for several months watching my mother slowly improve and crocheting circles.  I had a lot of them… When people asked what I was going to do with them, I always joked, “I am going to make an el-deluxe-o toilet seat cover.  You have never seen the likes of the vehemently rabid looks hearty octogenarian knitters bestowed on my uppity crocheting self! Its a wonder I survive to write this…

This is your nose… before you met up with the Ileostomy.  A nice place to be most of the time… Flowers, coffee, the newly cut grass, so sweet, so delicious… And then you or your loved one has an Ileostomy and you have to learn to… empty the pouch.  How can you do this?  I have found the best way follows.

This is your savior! You have it, you need it for the pouch, its probably right handy… Paper Tape!

With the tape in your hand, carefully but firmly SQUASH it onto one side of your nose.

Pull to the other side of your nose and secure with vigor.

With both fingers squash the tape frimly onto your face.

Open your mouth… you will have to use it to breathe for the duration.

Here is you nose perfectly prepared to help with your or your loved ones pouch!

If you are wondering what in the world I am going on about click here for a link to a lite definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileostomy

Alive and Kicking is a very inspirational book! Click on the blue link to learn more.

Alive & Kicking

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