Piling on? Hmmmm....

Well, things at the house had been somewhat getting back to normal. I say normal. The realities, and such, had dug in their claws and were becoming somewhat bearable. A little background for the upcoming news might be in order here. Stacy's dad was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease a couple of years ago, and at the time he was in the early stages. Over the last couple of years things have digressed a bit. Well, yesterday, Stacy received a phone call from her dad and he was a bit hysterical. He claimed their was someone in his apartment, and that he had called the police. All along there was no one there. He said he ended saying he was imagining things and was quite upset. Stacy made an appointment with his doctor and it was then his doctor officially deemed him unable to live on his own. Devastating to say the least. He currently resides in a community for senior citizens, an apartment complex. Very nice set up. Well, since we are the closest living relatives, he is now going to stay with us. This has put an enormous amount of stress into an already stressful situation. Not so much because her dad is living with us, it's because there just is not enough room for everything. Our house is a nice, 3 bedroom, 1 bonus room house. But, it is small. A little over 1900 sq ft. That is small. Made smaller with the addition of another family member. We don't have the extra furniture, so he is having to sleep on a bed, that folds out from the couch. That can get uncomfortable. We are in the midst of trying to figure out what to do. We have only lived in this house for a year, so selling it is out of the question for the most part. We are looking into finding an assisted living home that has different levels of care. We don't want to get him into a home, just for him to progress even worse, and have to move again. The problem with this is we need to do it in a timely fashion.

We have a serious decision we need to make and making it quick, will be difficult. We have to choose between the convenience of our family, with Megan, and her dad's feelings. The longer he stays at the house, the more comfortable and settled he will become, and when it comes time to move him out, he may think we are just trying to get rid of him. So getting him into a new home needs to be done quickly. The problem with that is that some of these places have waiting lists, so it may take a while. we are trying to figure out now, what to do with the current situation. We want him to have some privacy, and since Stacy works from home, her office is in the bonus room. Our only option, it seems is to move the office to the living room and move the couch/bed to the bonus room, so he can watch his own television shows. So we will look into doing that, maybe, this weekend.


To say that we are stressed out now, would be an understatement. Frustrated maybe. Confused. Tired. One thing we are not, is angry. We are not mad at anyone, or at God. We are not asking "Why?" We know God has all of this under control. His will be done. We will be blessed from this, I am convinced of it. It's just feels like nothing seems to be going right. Continue to pray for us, especially Stacy, who has been a trooper and a superstar throughout this whole ordeal. While look at the logistics and tangibles of this situation, she has shouldered the emotional load. I love you Stacy Elizabeth. In the words of the gaming community, you pwn all!!! God, I'm lucky to have such a cool wife.


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JR