August Recap

Happy Sunday.  It was still feeling like summer here the last few weeks but it finally cooled down this weekend though and is starting to feel more like fall. I am ready for some cooler temperatures but not snow and cold.
My zinnias didn't do as well this year because of all the sunflowers but I was able to get this photo of what was left of them.

Hello August I made this piece on my Ipad Pro using Procreate. Inspiration from Pinterest. Lemonade was definitely needed it was super hot all month.

Things with my parents continued to be a nightmare. My dad ended up under Observation at Denver Health for 11 days which made him not qualify for rehab/skilled nursing care. The doctors kept telling me he didn't have anything "physically wrong with him" but he could not walk on his own, speak clearly and was incontinent. He was not like that before the fall.  I did everything in my power to get them to change him to inpatient so he would qualify but nothing worked. On the 11th day they threatened me to come and get him or they would put him in an ambulance charge him for the ride and take him home. I had no other choice but to go and get him. Thankfully Rich went with me. I tried to video his release but was stopped by security. There was nothing they could really do about it though. It was very difficult just getting him in the house like I knew it would be  and told them numerous times it was not safe to send him home but we got him in. He only lasted 24 hours at home after that though. The hospital claimed they had set up home health for him but his primary care doctor was out of town and had no one covering for him, I have no idea how they didn't know this. Thankfully the home health was nice enough to still send someone out to assess the situation and that was when we discovered he had taken his pills wrong. We had to call an ambulance and have him taken to Rose which is the hospital he usually goes to. They discovered he had a really bad bladder infection and admitted him right this time. The bladder infection was so bad it traveled through his blood stream and he got sepsis. He also had a catheter put in. All this got him another week in the hospital but thankfully this time he was eligible for rehab which is where he belonged in the first place. If Denver Health had done it right he probably would have avoided all this. He had 20 days in rehab and used all of it.  It was going to be $160.00 a day after that which he couldn't afford and he refused to stay there any longer anyways so we had no choice but to bring him home. More about what happened after that next month. On top of all this with my father I was still dealing with my mother and her memory issues. She was also very angry about not being able to drive and us controlling her medication. I have done everything I can to try and help them through this but there is only so much I can do. The system is very broken for people like them, hard to navigate and not much options. I am definitely learning a lot in the process but I should not have had to find out like this. It is a lot for anyone to handle. Some days I was barely hanging on. All I could was just continue to keep taking things one day at a time and pray that things will get better. 

Things in our Etsy shop were terrible. The only good thing about slow sales is that I had time to help with my parents. It was not good for my bank account though. I was able to make a new watermelon ribbon and fabric high chair banner to go with our other watermelon themed items. It is something I had been wanting to add to my shop for awhile and am really happy with how it came out.

I did not have much time for my art but I was able to complete 1 week of the Floral's and Praise for his Glory challenge. The theme was blooming cactus. I also love this verse.

Unfortunately there is not much more to share since I was so busy dealing with my parents. I hope to have more to share next month though.