Well, I spent the night in the emergency room again. Another fall. My dad has Parkinson’s, COPD and is almost 89. It’s no fun to be him. And soon I think I’ll have to stay up all night since he has to pee three times over night and dreams and thrashes around. Sleep when my husband gets up. Though not sure how that will work out when he gets back to work, even part time.
Very worrisome.
And lots of financial issues right now as well–refinancing and more.
We have friends visiting, coming today, and with all this, I’m not writing. Or reading. or blogging very well. I’m not being profound, that’s for damn sure.
But we got Dad back home, CT scan negative on his head. He’s on coumadin and he was disoriented, so we needed to be sure. My son with Downs was very upset about them taking him to the hospital and kept giving him big hugs last night and today. He knows about those places…
So my stomach hurts into my back which is always worse without sleep. But it’s always a nice change when my friends come. Just some hamburgers on the grill I think, tonight, but a smoked pork shoulder tomorrow with sour kraut and baked beans. Will get Dad fed up early since we’ll likely eat a bit later.
I love words so I write them. I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to read. I am a published literary writer and I was an adjunct English professor at Northern Michigan University for many years. I write and live and love off the grid on 35 acres and a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my son, Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, and with an English Shepherd dog named Maggie, and with my husband when he can make it here which isn’t often. This blog started out being about my work, and it will continue to be. ( I’m working on a novel about premonitions and dreams.) But this blog is also about living off the grid and about my experimentation with diet—most recently the Carnivore Diet. I started on the Ketogenic diet, but have moved into Carnivore. How long, I don’t know. But I’ve become interest in the effects of diet on not just my health, but on creativity. And I’m interested in the effects of the diet on my dreams.
Ah, dreams... The day before my son was born, my mother “dreamed” or was told my son would have Down Syndrome, something she told my brother ahead of time. I’ve never known what to make of that. So I’m interested in prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming, creativity and dreams, night terrors. Who isn't interested in that? I’m interested in Freud (more Jung) and Einstein’s theories of time and how their ideas inform my dreams. I’m interested in mining a deeper relationship with a dream world not confined to daytime experiences, and how the night might inform a more fully imagined daytime “reality.” And vice-versa. Which is the dream?? I’m exploring dreams of all sorts. Come explore with me…
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4 thoughts on “Carnivore Dreams”
Emergency rooms and hospitals takes me back to caring for Dad and always having that responsibility and love and anxiety present. Glad you have close friends and family around you.
What a busy stressful time. I hope you have lots of friend/cookout moments to counteract all your responsibilities. I hope he will level off and feel better.
Hi Lisa–yes, the distraction is welcome. They are very very good lifelong friends, so I don’t feel the need to do too much. And am totally relaxed, so it’s great to have them here. Thanks so much for the good thoughts. -L
It must have been very hard for you, Kate. You lost both your parents pretty young didn’t you? I’ve been lucky to have Dad this long. Tiring couple days. Thanks for thinking of me.
L.E.K. 
Emergency rooms and hospitals takes me back to caring for Dad and always having that responsibility and love and anxiety present. Glad you have close friends and family around you.
What a busy stressful time. I hope you have lots of friend/cookout moments to counteract all your responsibilities. I hope he will level off and feel better.
Hi Lisa–yes, the distraction is welcome. They are very very good lifelong friends, so I don’t feel the need to do too much. And am totally relaxed, so it’s great to have them here. Thanks so much for the good thoughts. -L
It must have been very hard for you, Kate. You lost both your parents pretty young didn’t you? I’ve been lucky to have Dad this long. Tiring couple days. Thanks for thinking of me.