Today I Brought Food for My Dad

I made chicken noodle soup from scratch this week. I do this when I have chick bones; I slow cook the bones for 8 hours and extract the collagen. The broth becomes a bone broth and has more protein.

I bought noodles for him just so I could do this. I bought extra chicken and I keep it in the freezer so I can make this for him.

I stopped to pick up a few bananas for him. While at Aldi, I picked up a box of crackers. They are only .75 (super cheap!!) and he can eat a whole box in a week. My aunt said deli roast beef was on sale, so I picked up a loaf of bread. I stopped at the Pig to get the beef and two home-cooked deli meals were on sale for $1.50 so I grabbed those. He’s never complained about those so I assumed this was a good deal. I nabbed a couple Snickers bars for him too.

I also had his laundry.

So I arrived with homemade soup, a few items from the store, and his clean laundry.

"Jesus Christ! Why do you bring me all this stuff? I already HAVE CRACKERS! Christ."

I get him to sign a piece of paper so he can work on getting those co-pays removed. He screamed at me for that too.

I bought a card that was quite fitting for him to sign for his sweetheart who's in the nursing home. I was headed there afterward and found a great card. He underlined the part that says I love you and signed it with his first and last name. ;)

No thank you... just grumbling and mumbling and talking extra loud. His dementia is bad and yet this is still the early days of it. The worst is yet to come.

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Off to the nursing home after dropping off paper towels, bleach, and cookies for my aunt.

For Dotti, I decided to print a ton of pictures. 50 total of her and my family together. I wrote her a note, gave her a butterfly balloon, pretty flower cupcake, some books to read, white lights to decorate her room with, and a framed photo. I also had a dozen cupcakes and a note for her care staff.

I miss her. She's 98 and we can't call because she cannot talk on the phone (she can't hear us) and she rarely picks up the phone.

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People are doing such nice things for me. I have received a box of food courtesy of the community I live in. Twice now I have been given this amazing food! In the last two Fridays, they have given away 100 pizzas to those affected by COVID-19. I was a recipient for two weeks in a row.

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I get to pick up Oliver tonight as tomorrow is Mother's Day. :)


I got a COVID-19 test last week Tuesday. Still waiting for the results. I have been in and out of two stores and I am gloved and have a mask on. I will write more about that next time.