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12/2001

Well at the end of June Paul left for he started drinking again.
He is going to Pennsylvania  to be with his family, I hope that all goes well.
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Mom with Alzheimer's Diary
May 19, 2010
My mom became very unsettled and was roaming around the house for almost twenty four
hours a day.  This kept up for a week. She was angry and would hit the animals which she
loved and take them by the neck. We watch over her in turns. My brother moved in with us
and was helping out.  my step dad and myself took turns at the midnight to morning sift.
Paul would take over for me at five AM.
My step dad called the doctor to get some medication to help mom sleep.
She has been up for days screaming and yelling at everything. We are exhausted.
the doctor told Dan my step dad to give her this new medication. It didn't work.
Next day my step dad called because she hasn't slept.  Doctor told him to double the medication.
Still no relief. She is roaming and yelling at everything and everyone.
Doctor told Dan to give her more. It is like her brain won't take the medication in.
Next day no results. She is still the same and now sleep deprivation has set in.
Dan called the next day and there was a doctor on call and gave him a different medication.
She took this medication and she finally went to sleep.  But she never woke up.
Three days later we hand feed her with a sponge on a stick. She also drinks this way to.
She only moans when she doesn't like something. It is like she went away and left her body.
The Hospice was called and they bathe her three times a week.
I sing songs to her all the time and tell her about Jesus.  She would never ask Jesus in her heart.
Maybe she can hear it now. This went on for a week or so.
She died three weeks ago.    I love you mom.  Hope to see you in heaven.
 

 

Dec 2009
Well my mom seems to be getting in the angry stage little by little.
sometimes she wakes up and dashes at the first person she sees and yells then goes back to sleep.
This is so different for she is usually a quiet person.  One time Paul witnessed this
for the first time and told her that i didn't do anything or do any banging.
She said the people told her i did. : )  se la vi
We tried to play uno card game and she would pick up the cards and have them facing backwards
where the uno logo was facing her and her cards was facing us. hahahaha

 

June 2009
Well we are all moved in. My mom is so different everyday.  You never know
what you are going to deal with.  Sometimes she is lucid and sometimes she
is talking to people who aren't there.

 

April 2009
My Mom was diagnosed with Alheimerz  five years ago and now she is not doing well.
She needs help at home for my step dad has chronic lung damage and can hardly get his breath.
Paul and myself are moving in to help out. We should be all in about a month
from now.  We will be right in Tillamook Oregon.  I know the Lord will open up
all kinds of things for us.  Maybe start a bible study or ????
Please keep us in prayer.  We are four very opinionated people.
My Mom and step dad doesn't know the Lord.  This shall be fun don't you think.  hahahaha
 

 

July 12, 2007

Paul started working on his own now.
He does handyman work and placed an ad in the paper.
The Lord is good for we received calls right off.
The pastor of our church wants Paul to
Preach on the days that the Pastor is out of town.
We are still waiting on the Lord for direction of
what the Lord wants from us.  But we will
wait in His leading.  Please pray for direction.
We live in Garibaldi now.

 

Feb 1l, 2007

Well we rented a house in Rockaway Beach.
It is so great to get out of the little tent trailer.
I was at peace the whole time in the trailer but
now i am so glad to have running water and
bathrooms in the same place as where you are.
And a bathtub.   Yahooooooo.
We are about 5 blocks away from the ocean
and the home is a two bedroom and two bath rundown
mobile home that renter have abuse very badly.
But the rent was right .  I love it but my
step dad hates it.   There is no light because of all the beautiful
forest on two sides of the trailer.   I just love it.
Been clearing away some of the briars and weeds.  Might
take forever though. hahaha.

Still waiting on the Lord and his direction. Dont know if
we are going to Montana or this is the resting spot, but
for now we have a home and not rolling around the USA.
Waiting is such a strange thing for me.  I am the type to just jump in
and start what ever.  But this time i am waiting on the Lord.
Paul has a job now and is working very hard.  Please take time to pray for
us to wait and be in the will of the Almighty.  Thank you  very much.
sandy mason

 

October 15, 2006
We left Kalamazoo in a tent trailer towards Montana.  What a ride. 
We were headed to Montana to live up the north part.  There was a
storm getting closer as we hit South Dakota and decided not to go North.
There was storm warnings in Montana and would last a for awhile.
  In a tent trailer that wouldn't have been wise
to try to manage with a little Hyundai accent and a 15 ft trailer with all our things
and the tires weren't in that great of conditions.
We stayed in South Dakota for 5 days in a RV camp with no water and
found out that the electric was still on.  There was snow on the ground and some wood
all over and melted the snow for the water we needed.  We called up the owner of the
RV park and they told us we could stay for as long as we needed.
We stayed there until the storm was over which was  5 days.  Boy it was sure beautiful.
Went to see our presidents at Mt Rushmore.  What a site.  I wonder how many dinners
wasn't eaten with his family to get those images in them thar mountains.
What a feat that was.
I never seen turkeys in the wild and they are all over here.  Like in large groups in peoples yards and the
campgrounds we are staying at.  It is like more turkeys that people. : )

When we got under way again we decided to head for Oregon where
my mom and step dad lives.  They offered if something happens, we
could stay there for awhile. 
Well next was to get to Yellowstone in time for another huge snow storm was coming.
It didn't look good.   If we didn't go through Yellowstone, we would have to go way
out of our way to another direction.  As we were coming up to Yellowstone
it was starting to snow.  We were sure praying hard that it wasn't closed yet.
When we stayed the night before just ten miles away
the word was that it was closing.  So we go our cats and dog and loaded
up the trailer and go as fast as we can towards Yellowstone. 

It started to snow.  It didn't look good when we came up to the
little shack  pay to go through.  The lady said are you sure you
want to try to go through.  There is someone who travels the roads
to help, but it is a long time in between checks.  We paid
and went through Yellowstone. Only two sides of the park was open
The one we started out at and the West Side of the park.
The poor little car sure had a time going up the tall mountain roads.
Paul was praying very loudly and when we got over the pass he
would go "PRAISE THE LORD" really loud and i would jump out of my skin.
It was absolutly gorgeous there in the park.  So many elk in the town
that it seemed like it wasn't for real.  There were hundreds. 
A little baby was just born and sucking on his mom. You sure don't see
that everyday.   The mountains and the sky, man oh man.
We stopped to see the boiling water from hot springs many
times and then the snow began to fall.  Wanted to see old faithful
but we just headed north and came through the other end. 
There was bison all in the road.  Many of them.  We wanted to stop
but was afraid that we would get stuck there.
When we got out of the mountain area and into Boise, the traffic was at a stand still.
So we took a different direction south and went through the
little towns until we came to a stop and stayed the night.

Well we made it to oregon.  Little over a month on the road.
Glad to be home.  It is so nice to see everyone.
We don't know where the Lord is going to take us, or
what His plan is, but for now we are safe at my mom's
and in a little tent trailer in her driveway.   How humble is that.



 

 

March 3, 2006 
I was hired at the Lowes here in Kalamazoo.
There are so many people to touch
and I know the Lord will bring all that needs
His touch and to know Him.

 

January 2006
Well i was threatened again and the men are making it very hard.
I was threatened many time with my life this week, so i decided to quit.
I asked Jesus many time to help with this decision. 
The next week later my boss was asked to leave  or take a lower cut on salary.
He was there for years.  He was loved by the people.
The Lord has somewhere better for us.  It seems like the new people here at the mission are
getting really hard and very angry. It isn't a great place now for a woman to work here.
The men are starting to walk the women to their cars now.  Since i work away from the
mission i don't have that protection.  there is a drug park just a block or so away
and people are stealing in the thrift store where i was working to get a fix.
 

 

December 2004
The ceo at the mission is making really hard on my boss and myself.
I have no protection from the men in the program for I am the one who
instructs them in working at the thrift store.
I am getting alot of threats against my life when they don't like to take
instruction from a woman.  Sometimes i look out the window upstairs to see if
someone is waiting for me.   But i  never see anyone.
The men in the the men's division really miss Paul.
Paul was like a mentor to them.  They come to the thrift store and ask
for God's direction from me. I just love that. I stay with the direction that
Paul taught them.  Leading them back what the main objectives are.

 

December 2003
Paul was fired today and it seems like i am going to work at the
mission thrift store.   It is a couple blocks from the mission.
I know the boss real well there too. 
 

 

 

 

 

December 2002
Paul's son John has moved in with us for a few months. I never had any children and i am really excited about this.
At the shelter the new ceo has changed the rules and taken away the prayer times in morning and evening.
I don't understand why. Paul doesn't think he can work where Jesus is taken away.  I am afraid he may quit.

 

August 2002
There is a new man who was hired to be CEO of Boise and Nampa
homeless shelters.  His people seem to be changing everything.
Paul's boss was fired and Paul is the Head of the Lighthouse homeless shelter until further notice...
I am helping with picking up the goods that the stores have to give the shelter.  It is 115 degrees
out and my car don't have a air conditioner.  But i seem to be making it all right.
I think i am getting used to the heat. 
I am not allowed to be alone with the program men so i try to help out in other ways.
I think i am learning more and more.  I don't feel so uneducated while with the program men.
Most of the men are trying so hard to get off the drug and alcohol addiction.  I can't imagine what they are going through.
 

 

June 2002
We are working at the mission at Nampa Idaho.
Boy, it is my turn to learm how to work with the homeless.  I am so humbled
Paul is the program director here and we just got married.
I feel like i am in first grade.  I don't seem to know alot about this but the Lord will teach me
day by day.   Paul seems to be so good with these guys.  They sure love Paul.
They follow him around almost everywhere.

 

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Please read below. Sent to me by one prayer warrior
Crystal Matthews.
Thank you so much Crystal
Remember Jesus Christ is Lord.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy.
All that re-fixing, reheating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful.
 Waste meant affluence.   Throwing things away meant you
knew there'd always be more.   But then my Father died,
and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the
hospital room,
I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there
isn't any 'more.'   Sometimes, what we care about most gets all
used up and goes away...never to return. So...while we have it...
it's best we love it.....and care for it .....and fix it when it's broken.....
and heal it when it's sick.   This is true.....for marriage.....
and old cars..... And children with bad report cards.....
and dogs with bad hips.....and aging parents.....and
grandparents.  
We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it.
Some things we keep.   Like a best friend that moved away -- or -- a
classmate we grew up with. There are just some things that
make life important, like people we know who are special.....
and so, we keep them close!    YOU ARE A KEEPER

 

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