Saturday, February 4, 1984

Love has suffered another heart attack this morning, and is in a Coronary Intensive Care Unit at a nearby hospital. Unfortunately again, not a hospital that can do the much needed surgery. His condition is not stabilized yet.

I caught Mom trying to go to the bathroom in the middle bedroom and unable to find the bathroom. I've only been able to feed her one banana, one-half bowl of cereal with artificial sweetener and milk, one glass of juice and two glasses of milk in six hours. I was still trying to feed her breakfast at lunch time. She is forgetting that she has food in her mouth, forgetting to chew her food and forgetting to swallow it. I've reminded her to chew and swallow all day, and we still have dinner to go,. Each day I'm spending more and more time ministering to Mom. She was spitting her food out every time I put a bite in her mouth, so, it was time to give up for awhile. She was also hiding her food in her bathrobe. She way very cantankerous about eating her dinner, and taking her medicines, but I think I finally got her pills down her. I though she might be better after her medicine tonight, but she wasn't, so now, I've spent about eight hours today telling Mom to take a bite, to chew her food and to swallow it. I'm sick of hearing my own voice. Her mind is so bad some days.

The men that were hurt in the latest Commonwealth Edison explosion have filed a lawsuit against the company for being negligent and careless by allowing coal dust to accumulate, and for not following the recommended safety precautions. If they win the lawsuit, that settlement will come out of customer's pockets.

A town in Michigan is trying to pass an ordinance requiring all the people who pass through the town to wear seat belts, if they are sitting in the front seat of the vehicle, or pay a $10.00 fine. It's just another ridiculous mandate with police gestapo tactics to raise revenues by infringing on the freedom of the general populace. I'm picturing extended steering wheels and clutch and brake pedals in the back seat to avoid sitting in the front seat at all.

The American auto makers have sold more new cars this January than they have since January 1973. That's good news, indeed, but I wonder if their sales in other months of other years haven't surpassed this January's record. My car is eleven years old, and now I think, unless the economy changes, it will be an antique before, and if, I will ever be able to afford another new car. There isn't any way it would pass a safety test, but there isn't any money for repairs and I have to have transportation, because of Mom. I wonder if people are buying last year's cars that weren't sold and are now on sale. They would still be new cars. I bought my one and only new car after the next year's model came out, and it was cheaper.