Woodstone Prairie

Thank you to everyone who offered suggestions for dealing with my neighbor. I valued and thought carefully about each suggestion before deciding what to do…

 Loren… I don’t think I’m brave enough to speak so openly to Rose, although, if things thaw out a little I’d be very comfortable talking to her about getting some support for herself, and how it might help get her through the rough spells.

Steve, Leslie and everyone else who thought I should get M’s input about whether or not he wants them at his party… He isn’t good friends with these kids, so he wouldn’t care if they were there or not. He does seem to feel unsettled and a little anxious about how Rose is acting though, and would probably feel better if he could see that she was acting more normally towards me.

Theresa, your verse helped put the situation in perspective for me… thank you so much.

And Granny… I loved your verse too… the part about feeding your hungry enemy spoke to me… since M’s parties are all about food! You’ll be happy to know (and luckily for Rose) there will be no burning coals available at the party, our grill is gas.

 Andrea, and everyone who said I should invite Rose and her family… that’s what I did.  I took the invitation over to the house but didn’t talk to Rose, her husband came to the door and was marginally friendly. He didn’t say if they would be coming to the party or not… I guess I’ll be surprised.

Here’s the invitation, I thought it turned out cute…

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Ahhhhhh!!!!!!

Where did the years go?!

How did we go from this…

…to this…

…so quickly?!

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Well, regardless of how we got there, it’s time to celebrate

MICHAEL’S 16th BIRTHDAY!

(and then it goes on with all the details, directions, etc)

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Ok, shifting gears, (this is going to be a very disjointed post…)

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A HUGE thank you to Tigger for awarding me this awesome award:

 I am honored Tigger, and I will get busy passing the award along…

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And finally, could you please keep M in your prayers today?

He developed some stiffness last night which could be just more of the neurological side effects he always struggles with, but could also be a different, potentially dangerous side effect (NMS, you can read about it here…) NMS is very serious, would necessitate taking him off his antipsychotics, and could even be life threatening. 

He’s still asleep so I’m not sure how he is doing this morning, but the pdoc has given me things to watch for, and wants me to check in with her later today.

Thanks…

 Evening update: M seems to be ok.  He’s still complaining of stiffness at times, but he doesn’t seem to have any other the other symptoms of NMS, so I think what he’s experiencing must somehow be connected to the tardive dyskinesia, not anything more serious. (It just goes to show how tough the past year has been that I’ve begun lumping TD with the ”not serious” stuff!) Anyway, I talked to the pdoc, and she asked lots of questions, but didn’t insist on seeing him right away, which was reassuring…  Thanks for the good thoughts and prayers.