Fall Colors

Mendis and I took a much needed break and went to Cedar Mountain to see the fall colors and just check out of life for a day. It was just what we needed.

 We went to the ice caves to peek in. We hadn't been there before so it was cool to see one of them.

We were just really surprised to see all the snow up on Cedar Mountain. In fact the road over to Panguitch was even closed. It was fun to just drive around and see it though.

It was a beautiful day. We just love seeing the Fall colors and in this case the Winter colors too!

Back to Canada Again

So Mom wasn't doing any better at all. In fact she was bad enough that they gave us no hope and said it was time to find a home for her. She needed more care than dad was going to be able to give her. So this time Beth met me in Calgary and we were there Oct 2-9. 

 We flew in during a blizzard so we spent the night at a hotel in Calgary and drove straight to Redcliff the next morning. We dropped our stuff off at home and went straight to the hospital.

We tried to do pretty much the same routine again but this time we had to spend afternoons looking at the options for homes for mom. Dad wanted our opinion on them. He had to put the available ones in order and we felt like he did it just right. She would get upset every time he left. That was hard. 

Then it was just a waiting game for the first one to open. 

Meanwhile we did our daily visit to the ZB for lunch.

Again it kept us sane while we were there. After two months of this dad was loosing any patience he might have had and had a very short fuse. I asked the nurse to have mom checked for gluten intolerance because her symptoms were so much like that. He was not happy but finally went along with just trying it. I understand that he felt like I was wrong and didn't want to take away her food options but we had to do something. Same with lactose intolerance. They needed to try something because she was not getting better at all and was in constant pain. 

Her problems had been going on for years and she wouldn't listen to me before so I figured it was just time to check. Something had to give. 

The good news is those things did help. She has remained pretty much gf since and it has helped her tremendously. Thank goodness. She couldn't go home until the bathroom issues were resolved. Low and behold a month later it was so much better she was able to go home. She said it was like she woke up from a dream in November. She had been in the hospital 100 days and they had given us no hope even with her calcium levels back to normal. Luckily she has no memory of what she went through because it was terrible and it wouldn't help her to know how bad it really was.

 Don't let the smiles fool you. We thought we were saying goodbye for good...again.

We left after six days and spent the night in Calgary so we could catch early flights the next day. I am so glad Beth could go with me. It will be awhile before I can go back.