December 8 2025
Monday
One is the things I was most excited about when we looked at this place it's right outside the front door across the walkway is a Koi pond/waterfall. I love water features and I have always wanted to have one. Another thing was the beautiful, luscious, fairytale like, multi tear fantasy Garden. Not to mention the layout inside, it reminds me of something in Santa Cruz California and the fact that it's one story, 3200 feet long, the rooms are humongous and there's lots of room for everything I have always wanted. When I take the dogs out for their cruise on Monday mornings the gardener is here, the garden always looks so awesome! I got his name from the handyman that I use, Dakota is the perfect handyman and so far the references that he's given me are awesome as well! I took Kona for her 4 mile jog, it still doesn't wear her out and sometimes I do it a couple times a day but she's happy and needs a lot of exercise! Then I take Dude for our 2 mile, slow and steady cruise. I came back and hung out with my brother, my niece and the kids for a while, I love the fact that the kids aren't as afraid of me as they have been in the past. The place we lived before I was down in a very small, dark basement I'm mostly in my bed the whole time. I didn't see him very often and I'm sure the power wheelchair is very scary for them. Now they jump on the foot plates and I give them a ride around the room and they love to honk the horn. It feels great! I usually end up going back to my room and hanging out with the pups or else Kona screams and nobody can get any sleep or take a nap. She's still only two years old so I'm hoping she can grow out of it or we can train her out of it. I stay in my room on the computer until my afternoon caregiver comes in and then she puts me to bed, feeds and toilets the dogs, we do some personal care and hopefully a bath. And my caregiver goes home for the evening while I watch movies, play games, chat with GPT, make pictures to upgrade this place after I sell my other house or update my SCI manual.
Tuesday
Becca came in I did the thing with the animals, got me some coffee, breakfast, dressed and up in my chair. My brother took me to my appointment I think urologist where he changed my SP tubeAnd encouraged me to get a visiting nurse to change it at home or show one of my caregivers. I used to have my caregivers change it but figured since I'm getting older I should see a urologist but there's no reason they can't do it. I had an appointment at Neiman Medi spa for laser hair removal, it doesn't feel good but it sure is nice to not have to wax my face every two weeks and so much better than walking by a mirror and seeing a long whisker hanging out on your face that you can't do anything about. Before I move to Oregon her friend that I got to know at the hospital and I started three support groups, people would come if there was food or a party but not really to talk about accessible things. Santa Cruz is fairly accessible and there wasn't really a lot of problems. A couple of months later we decided to start another one and see if that one would take off, it didn't. After the pandemic we decided to try it again and that's when it really took off, people had a lot of time to sit around and think and it was scary! Unfortunately, that's when I moved but they're always inviting me to drop in on the meeting virtually and surprise everyone…I miss them all so much! We got some dirty chai tea at Dutch Brothers and came home to hang out with the kids and the family for a while, I have to admit I really love hanging out and getting to know everyone better. Ashlyn came in and we ran through the routine with the pups, put me to bed, dis some person care and Ashlyn went home early. Sometimes when there's really nothing else to do she doesn't mind going home early and I don't mind having a little extra time on the computer.
Wednesday
Becca came in into curve the dogs then got me dressed and up in my chair. No appointments today so it's just me and the dogs cruising around and hanging out with family. I'm trying to get up every day but when I don't have anywhere to go or anything to do it's kind of boring and uncomfortable sitting in my chair but it's good for me and hanging out with family makes it nice. My house is still new enough to where I love cruising around and looking at it, I am so happy with it! I hung out in my room with the dogs until Ashlyn came in. She fed and toileted them, put me to bed and fed me, we did some personal care and a nice long hot bath, I know I'm going to sleep good tonight. She put me back to bed, put on some lotion, braided my hair, brush my teeth and then went home. It was so nice to relax the rest of the evening and watch some movies.
Thursday
Becca came in and we went through the morning routine, she's getting so much better and so much more confidence and that is great to see. She's really hard on herself when she doesn't do everything perfectly but it takes time. She got me dressed and in my chair and hung around for a while so we could work with Naomi, the dog trainer. Becca is really good with keeping the dogs in line and helping me work with the other caregivers to keep them obedient pups. It makes me feel really proud when the pups behave themselves and doesn't knocked over the kids.
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