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I had been losing weight for a couple of weeks. I must limit my sodium and I will do better. I notice that if I have ham my weight goes up.
I spent ten days visiting with family first in GA and then in WV. It was part of a huge task of relocating my mother. Mom is suffering from dementia. She also is a superb packrat.
It is a habit borne of growing up in the Depression Era, I am told. Yet, mom kept too much. She often went shopping for bargains. Mom could not give up anything and purchased far more than she needed. For example, she told me of the great bargain she bought the jacket she was wearing for $20. Then she proceeded to tell me she did get a second jacket for the same price. At a Goodwill she bought two jackets for $2 each. Mom, I said, that is four jackets!
On the day that my sister, aunt, cousin, and I went to the nursing home where mom was to get stronger after spending a month in the hospital. Mom did not participate in the exercise she was supposed to do, we learned. We were their as a pre-release discussion to see what she would need when she would be in her new apartment in WV.
They recommend 24 hour care. It would be a nursing home in WV to get 24 hour care.
It is a heavy burden that has been added to my sister to keep checking on mom. She has to be able to have a life still.
So, tomorrow, my sister takes my mom for her appointment in WV.
Let's hope and pray that mom will do well in her new apartment.
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150.7 lb
Lost so far: 215.3 lb.
Still to go: 0.7 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 1.3 lb a week
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