Closet Organizers

May 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Closet organizers are being installed tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. and I have to pull everything out of the closets. Yes, more than one. My clothes closet and my office closet. Moving is such fun. We have adjusted to our new lifestyle and established our new routine. For the most part, anyway.

I have to get back on track on my computer routine. Looking at other websites and posting comments. Looking for information for Adopt A Caregiver, and learning how to use Facebook to my advantage, and maybe starting a Twitter account. I am determined to learn about such things.

It’s also time to talk to people, start networking for Adopt A Caregiver. Time to talk to groups and tell them what Adopt A Caregiver is all about. It’s so simple.  In every community there are new caregivers, these are your neighbors, your friends, send an email, encourage them to talk to you, to journal, to vent. Do not judge them, you have no idea what it’s like to stand in their shoes.

That’s why I published my book, Behind The Mask, so everyone would know what it feels like to become a new caregiver. This book is available on my website and on Amazon.

Please think about this. It’s the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Support Caregivers

May 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Do you have any idea how a new caregiver feels? How alone, scared, and the kind of feeling that no one understands, so there isn’t anyone to talk to?

That is why I published my secret journal, Behind The Mask. So ordinary people can read my book and understand the obstacles that confront the new caregiver.

We were the lucky ones, the doctor changed the Alzheimer’s Disease diagnosis seven long hard years later, to Age Associated Memory Impairment. After my book was published, I wanted to give something back, so I started my Adopt A Caregiver journey.

Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you. There is a caregiver in your own community. Find him/her. Send an email, offer to be their friend.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Behind The Mask by Helene Moore

May 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’ve been asked many times, “Why did you publish your secret journal?” Truthfully, I thought it might help caregivers to know that they were not alone, that their thoughts weren’t crazy.

I’ve heard back from people saying that my book did help. Comments from a father and son who said, “My father read your book, and he finally understood how hard it is to be a caregiver. ” This young man is in his twenties taking care of his father. Now his father has resumed many of his own responsibilities and the young man is free to be with his friends and to get out of the house more.

Many comments have brought tears to my eyes. But most of all that’s how the idea of Adopt A Caregiver came about.

People in your own community, whether it’s where you live, where you work, your social clubs, church, or synagogue, there are lonely, scared new caregivers. They need a friend, someone to talk to, vent to, someone who won’t judge them, someone who will encourage them to journal, to open up about their feelings. All it takes is an email friendship. It’s the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing.

Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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The Finishing Touches

May 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We are making great progress. Today, they delivered our chairs for the living room and my husband’s office. My chair came in damaged, so I will have to wait a week or two for that. Delivery of the closet organizers will be Saturday at 8 a.m. Originally, they said to would take up to 4 weeks, and it’s only been one week, so that’s great. That is the last thing we ordered, and once the closets are done, we are finished. I think the apartment looks terrific and we are very happy here. We have established our routine, a little different that it was in Henderson, NV, but a good routine for us now.

I’m doing more walking. It’s that or stay at home. It’s a little bit of a walk to get to the car from the apartment, and that’s a good thing for me.

I made some doctor appointments already and tomorrow I will call several old friends. It’s time to reconnect and do some social things.

Next step, my Adopt A Caregiver web page.

Remember, there are people in your community that are new caregivers. Support them, send them an email, become their friend. Encourage them to talk or write about their situation. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Another Wonderful Family Day

May 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I do hope the family doesn’t get tired of us. I really enjoy being with them.

We need to be home for the delivery of some chairs and lamps we ordered, and after that we need to go to Costco.

In the meantime, I’m trying to catch up as well as do some R&R. The R&R is working out just fine, the catching up is proving to be much harder.

I’m looking for groups to talk to in Orange County, I’m ready to speak out about Adopt A Caregiver. It’s the gift that lasts forever, and costs nothing. Just an email to a caregiver in your community, to show support and become a friend.

If you don’t know what it’s like to stand in a new caregiver’s shoes, my book Behind The Mask will explain it all. It was my secret journal written when we were given the sudden diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease, and we had to keep it a secret. Find out why in my book.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Family Brunch

May 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Most of the family came for brunch today and we went through 70 years of pictures. Threw out a lot, and the kids and grandkids took the ones they wanted. Yes, I was asked, “Who is this person.” I like that.

Some of the old pictures I will save and write about them either in my memoirs or my journal, including the picture right there for someone to see and read about.

I”ve been tired and hurting these past several days, but this week, we really have nothing planned so it’s time to do some R&R. And maybe some writing.

Talk to you tomorrow. Remember the caregivers in your own community. Send them an email, offer to be their friend. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Preparing For Family Weekend

May 23, 2009 By Leave a Comment

I’ve invited my kids and grandkids to come over on Sunday to look/take pictures from all the photos I’ve collected all these years. I’m hoping that someone might ask, “Who are these people?” It should be fun. They are not all coming over at one time, but we will go through them all and hopefully, I’ll end up with only the right amount. The rest will have to go.

My friends from Nevada sent me the hard copy of the article that appeared in The View last Tuesday. It looks muh better on the newspaper page than on my computer. Thank you Danielle.

I’m going to make some cookies now, something I haven’t done in ages. This is a new recipe for me.

Talk to you tomorrow.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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My First Dinner Guests

May 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Family. Nice to be close to them, and they can come over for dinner at the spur of the moment. I had invited them, and my daughter wasn’t sure she could make it. My granddaughter said she’d come either way, with her Mom or without her.

Special occasion? Yes! My granddaughter is pregnant, and went to the doctor today for an ultra sound, and came back with a DVD of the baby, this tiny baby. She is only three months pregnant, but the film was incredible. We had nothing like that in my day.   I know, I’m old. My last baby was born over 50 years ago!

Tomorrow, our old neighbors from Califonia are here for the graduation of their daughter, and we are meeting for lunch. It will seem funny, we will be staying here, and they will be heading off to Georgia.

I’ve invited my kids and grandkids over on Sunday, to pick out the family photos they want to take for themselves. Should be fun…

I did get more done today than I thought I would. So that’s a good sign, I hope.

I’m so grateful for all the wonderful things in my life. Little things, like loving the apartment, seeing the kids more often, walking more than I did in Vegas. Just to walk to our car and back is a short walk, but it’s good for me. I’m grateful that I can still see, walk, be independent, be me, and do the things I want to do.

Soon, I will get back to Adopt A Caregiver. In the meantime, I’m getting my life back together and taking a breather.

Give the gfit that lasts forever and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Family Photos

May 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

My mother threw away all he pictures! Why? I have no idea. It was as if she knew she wasn’t going to be around long, and she didn’t want my sister and me to have to go through her things.

I’m different. I brought boxes and boxes and boxes of pictures and albums here from Nevada. I’m going to have a girls party, maybe this Sunday if all is well, and have my children and ther children go through all the pictures and take what they want. I don’t have enough room for all of them anyway.

Maybe someone will ask, “Who iare the people in this picture?” And I will tell them abou my grandparents, their great grandparents, and their great great grandparents. I need to write about this in my memoirs and time is flying by. My intentions are good, but I keep writing other stories. I will go back to my memoirs though, hopefully sometime this year.

It will be fun watching all of them going through the pictures, and see which ones they take. The idea is to have all of them over together. My children, and my grandchildren.

There was a terrific newspaper article about us in the viewnews.com in Henderson, Nevada yesterday.  I’m still also getting emails, and cards from my fellow Anthem Authors. Thank you, and yes, I do miss you.

Tomorrow my granddaughter is going to the doctor, and she just might find out if she if carrying a boy or a girl. I have to find a knitting store. I know there is one in the neighborhood.

Give the gift that lasts foreve and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver, and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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Easier Days

May 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Worked on my writing this morning, that was a great feeling. I really want to finish this book that I’m working on, but I’ve got such a long way to go. Okay, one day at a time.

We went to The Container Store today and ordeed closet organizers. Have to wait abotut three weeks, they are out of stock on some of the drawers we wanted.

Meeting my granddaughter for lunch tomorrow at The District. Should be fun.

There are so many things I want to do, and to learn, but right now, I’ve earned a rest.

It’s also time to call my old friends who live here, and tell them I  am here and want to meet. That will be a fun activity for tomorrow afternoon.

There is nothing else new.

I sold two of my books, Behind The Mask and hope when they finish reading it, they will understand the plight of the caregiver. I also finished the book, Still Alice by Lisa Genova, and she did a superb job with great insight into what thoughts and feelings are present when early onset Alzheimer’s is diagnosed. I strongly recommend this book.

There are new caregivers in your community. Be a good friend, email them, talk to them, just be there for them. They feel so alone and abandoned…

Give the gift that lasts forever, and costs nothing. Adopt A Caregiver and tell them your friend Helene sent you.

Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene

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