Post #70: Still going strong!

Happy Weekend Everybody!

Well just got off the phone with Mother a few moments ago and after about an hour's conversation! And this when she is really tired. Sounds grim? NOT AT ALL! She is cranking! As she says, she's getting her energy back and spending it!

Apparently yesterday and today, she has been helping John move and rearrange furniture, including sofas and the heavy dining table! She's been dusting and mopping and getting ready for the coming visit of their friend from the East Coast. So her tiredness is more a product of her doing too much rather than anything doing anything to her!! Isn't that wonderful?! Quote: "I honestly am tired, but it's good for me!" Now isn't that a wonderful attitude!

She had the most marvelous afternoon yesterday (in and around all the dusting and mopping). She went to the salon near her office to have her nails done and then went to her office to attend a party that was being given for an agent who is getting married. The welcome she received when she got there!! One of those wonderful moments in life where you realize just how much you mean to other people and how much they mean to you! They welcomed her back with hugs and compliments and great cheer. We all thought we wouldn't see the day - boy were we wrong!

After the party she went back home to "revolutionize the house." With the new sliding glass door in the living room wall, a rearrangement of the furniture was called for. Can you believe she feels good enough to move furntiture?! When I think of the past few months, I am truly astounded at her resilience and resolve.

She is still getting dizzy and today had to stop and put her head down for a while but it is more due to her doing too much than anything else. She lost two pounds due to the fever she had a short while ago, but is holding steady now at 132. And fortunately, she has a great appetite. This morning she and John discovered an IHOP near them and like two kids in a candy store they decided on the spur of the moment to go in for breakfast. They had the greatest time eating - no, devouring - breakfast. Anita ate two pancakes with butter and syrup, two pieces of sausage and two pieces of bacon! She is having fun now being able to eat all of the things that in the past she had to avoid for fear of gaining weight. After grocery shopping today she staked her claim on the bag of Fig Newtons! I hope she eats every one of them. And, being the good girl she is, she is still taking her vitamins - Fig Newtons not being exactly the pinnacle of good nutrition!

So happy notes and a happy ending to August 2007!

Melissa