Breakthrough?

Today I went to the post office, to mail the birthday cookies to my son, when who should I spot sitting on a bench in the sun, with her husband, and her doggie, but Gee!!!!

Last night, Bitchy had said she should not bother coming here again! But bless her, Gee told me she'd be back at about 6:30 today.

When I got home I went right to work in the shop, taking advantage of Bitchy's tentative agreement to give me my 3 hours "free-time" from 4-7. Did my best to stay downstairs without interruption (except for b.r.b.) until 6:30 came around and she flashed the lights, calling down to say that Gee was here! (She did NOT sound happy about that.)

Reluctantly I went up to greet her, thinking there would be a confrontation. Instead there was silence, with H&B sitting at the dinner table eating, so I had Gee come in my room to make the plan. She said she would just go into dad's bathroom and start preparing the Depends for overnight use (laying the extra pad inside each one). "Ok," I said, "I guess I'll ... go in an say..."

"Don't say anything. Just go back downstairs." She was confident and reassuring.

I said alright and went on down. Back to the lathe, and my audiobook, continuing to work as I wanted, thinking that everything up above would be just fine.

Finishing up my day at precisely 7 PM I went upstairs to put away my finished turnings and to see what I could do to help. Hunk and Gee were in his bathroom and Bitchy was doing some cleaning in the kitchen. I was upbeat, not commenting on Gee's presence, but offering to finish up in the kitchen, and give them their meds.

She stopped soon after, pouring her whiskey digestif to enjoy with Inside Edition. (Oh, yes, she must stay current on the girl who threw acid in her own face. Just the kind of story that people with dementia should plant in their brains before bed...)

While she took her meds, I prepped Hunk's, and finished cleaning while I waited to hear him ready for bed. Went in to give him the pill/pudding mixture and Gee said everything went great. (She even got to clean "between his legs" so all was good!)
I cajoled him into removing his hearing aid ("just to let it dry out overnight, and let he ear dry out, too") and then he wanted Bitchy to come in.

Gee and I left, and B went in. I overheard dad say something like, "The girls took care of me!" Oh! That made my heart sing.

I'm so confident, now, that things will turn out fine. I just hope nothing big goes wrong while I'm gone, and that Gee will be able to pull things together so I can really enjoy my short vacation!

(Until this evening, I was expecting to kind of sneak off in the wee hours Wednesday morning, to start without any uncomfortable fanfare. But maybe I'll take a minute to say goodbye -- especially to my dad, who will undoubtedly miss me the most. I hope he doesn't change too much in my absence...)