Almost August, this year is flying by.  The care planning conference was pretty short since there really wasn't anything new going on with mom.  A couple of weeks after this, though, she fell out of bed and hit her head on the nightstand.  Luckily, she didn't break a bone or her skull.  Unfortunately, this happened when she was having her breakfast in bed (she really isn't a morning person so they were allowing her to stay in bed and serving her breakfast there.  She was sitting awkwardly and must have leaned over and went right to the floor.  No more breakfast in bed. 
Now she gets up with everyone else and of late she's been weepy when the aides are doing her ADLs for her.  We suspect it's her arthritis hurting her and her morning Tylenol has been changed to a Vicodin.  This seems to have helped and as far as I know, no weepy mornings anymore.

The administrator has asked us 3 times now if we'd like to move upstairs (we are on the 1st floor, upstairs is all the bedridden people).  There is no reason other than they'd like all the hospice patients on one floor, so I told them no for a couple of reasons.  Mom is still very interested in watching other people and she still eavesdrops and gives herself away when something funny is said and she laughs, she also enjoys being in the living room after dinner and watching TV with everyone.  There is another reason and it's mine - there is 1 elevator and since I come around mealtimes with her laundry, the elevator is busy with meals being brought, dishes being taken back and residents taken back upstairs after dinner.  I am not keen on carrying all the crap I bring up 2 flights of stairs.  I also don't believe them when they tell me they'll still bring mom downstairs during the day because I know who's up there and the only time I see them is at mealtime.

So the administrator tried the "we'd like to have all the ambulatory people on the 1st floor" and I told her I guessed the other 15 people in wheelchairs would be moving also?  No answer to that.  I think I'm just the most agreeable person and she figured I'd say okay.  Not this time.

Family relations are very strained - I hardly hear from my brother, I don't think he's visiting weekly but I'm not asking because it'll make me mad.  Then I received a response from my aunt (mom's older sister) to one of my update emails telling me she was sorry she hadn't replied to a couple of them because it's just depressing for her.  I sat on that for a few days and then emailed her back to let her know I wouldn't be depressing her anymore with my updates and not to respond, which she has not. 
I'm going to meet my boyfriend in Las Vegas in a couple of weeks for 3 days (he is in the Navy stationed in San Diego), so I'm looking forward to that.  This is a rescheduling of a trip I had planned in February - we sat on the ground de-icing in Detroit for 3 hours in a horrible snowstorm and then the plane broke, sending us back to the gate.  I was debating on what I should do and heard the pilot say to the mechanic "I'm not flying this plane like that" and I promptly got up and got off the plane.  Shouldn't be any snow now!