Great times: New Year lunch with the family

 So many of us do not have the privilege or pleasure to celebrate a New Year’s lunch with their family, and why? Maybe no family to celebrate with for various reasons?

I have a small family but it is enough for me. We get together and we enjoy a good meal, good banter, and good times. The important thing for me is that family is around me.

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Not easy, Care givers

 When care givers are either late or bow out of work at the last minute, it can make things hard. In general, this is always going to be a challenge for patients to deal with. So far, Mom has been really good at dealing with these challenges but she does become anxious when they occur.

A care giver’s job is not an easy one and I admire anyone who decides to choose this career. I admire their dedication, commitment, and patience.  However, there are times when either bowing out of work at the last minute or showing up late without giving a reason may be questionable. Just more challenges to work with.

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The routine: Injections with Moya

This has become part of the ritual whenever I visit Mom. I need someone to help me take my biweekly injection. Moya has kindly agreed to help me and we have developed a routine.

First I take the injection, that is in a pen, out of the fridge a few hours before the time that we have agreed upon. Then I put an ice pack on the spot where the injection is going to be about 20 minutes before the time. Moya comes along and gives me the injection.

All done! Then I spend the rest of the day taking things easy.

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Fun times: Cooking at Christmas 2025

These memories with Mom, especially at Christmas, are oh so precious and keepers forever.

Mom tells me what she would like to cook for the day. We set out across the kitchen together. I walk ahead of her as she comes along with her walker.

I bring out the ingredients and the mixing bowls and pots and pans. If I cannot remember where to find things she directs me.

I set up everything for her and then I bring the high chair for her. Slowly and surely she gets to work. She is so very meticulous and methodical.

We chat as we work but her concentration is complete. Rest assured that at the end of it all her cooking skills remain unblemished.  

She has remembered how to make her favourite dishes. Cooking and baking are both still in her DNA!

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My new way: The pointing strategy

It took me a bit of time to discover this strategy but I think that it is working. In order to compensate for Mom’s hearing loss, whenever we are chatting and if I believe that she may not fully hear me, I point to things and oh boy!  She is so good at understanding and responding.

So for example, if I wish her to chat about something on the TV as I am relaxing close by, I point to the TV and she knows how to respond.

If I wish her to give me feedback on my top, I stand in front of her and point to my top. She almost immediately gets it.

Then, if I walk towards her and point to my shoes and slacks, she immediately knows that I am seeking her opinion as to whether shoes and slacks match. 

Then, if she sees me trying to find something on her counter, I point to the counter and place my hands on the surface of the counter. She quickly realizes what I am trying to say and she responds.

Or, if I walk towards her to ask how my hair looks after I have washed and dried it, I point with my hair brush to my head and she is on it. This is my pointing strategy. This is my brilliant Mom!

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Wonderful time of the year: Christmas sounds and smells

 

My memory captures Christmas of 2025 when Mom’s house was filled with such wonderful sounds and smells. Mom was in the middle of it all; helping to create such familiar smells and sounds.

Pots and pans clanged and bustling about helped to enhance those super sounds. There is nothing like being able to create Christmas sounds and smells.

And how about the sound of chopping onions, garlic, and other stuff for seasoning! Then the combined smells of all of these components. Then the smell of Mom’s cooking and oh so much more!

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The crash! The broken vase

 

I heard it and then all hell broke loose! Not sure what really happened here! The sound came from Mom’s living room.

Did the wind blow it off the table? Or did the care giver knock it over? Whatever it was, it broke.

It fell to the floor with a loud crash.  Mom took it all in good spirits. All in a day’s happenings.

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Nothing new! Updating my travel computer

Oh boy, and if I did not do this then there would probably be hell to pay. With technology sometimes playing dirty tricks on me, it is so very important for me to ensure that I have carried out all of my checks on my travel computer before I travel. I never take anything for granted.

My travel computer has always been there for me, working like a charm and I refer to her as old reliable! She is not a young lady, so to speak, and I’ll take every opportunity to have her around as long as she works.

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Careful as she goes! Navigating around the boiling kettle

This is probably one of the more intricate challenges for me on a daily basis. My kettle sits on my counter and every day I make very sure to position it in such a way that when the water is boiling the heat from the kettle is aimed towards my kitchen sink. In addition, I carefully place my kettle close to the sink.

Then I go to great pains to continue my daily task ensuring that I am at all times not getting in the way of the steam coming forth from my kettle. I have grown used to this daily task and for the most part I am safe.

However, I always need to keep these variables in my mind. Whenever the kettle is boiling, then the kettle rules, so to speak!

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Almost too late: Visiting Aunty

 I really do not know the last time that I saw Aunty but this visit was very memorable and special for Mom and me. I will note here that Aunty passed on February 01, 2026.

Call it a premonition or a nudge from intuition but Mom had been asking for us to visit Aunty for a while. Aunty seemed so happy to see us and the next day she called Mom and told her so.

We chatted, laughed, and Stephen provided a lovely lunch of delicious Chinese cuisine. Then it was time to leave and a small part of me felt that I would not see her again. I held her hand and hugged her close.

Then we were on our way.

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All done! Fixing Mom's clock

 I finally decided to get off my chair and fix Mom’s clock. Rather, to adjust it so that the chimes matched the time.

It did not really take too much for me to do this. I should have done it a long time ago and I can only put it all down to being a bit too lazy.

Too often I tend to procrastinate, which I must correct. I am usually very punctual with my commitments.

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Combining it all: Fixing Mom's angel

 I need to make sure that I get the entire picture before I embark on these types of tasks. Fixing stuff for Mom is normally routine but every now and then I need to concentrate a bit more.

Especially so when I need to combine my fixing skills along with reference points to visual cues. Most of the time this works but sometimes I need to go a bit further. I needed to bring her angel back to Toronto for Imad to take a look at it.

At the end and good news, the angel did not need fixing.

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Happy times: Turning on Mom's Christmas tree

 

This is one event that almost always bring a smile to me. Whenever Mom asks me to turn on her Christmas tree, I tell her to wait and watch as I do this.

As a vision-impaired person, I would probably never know if the lights are on when I turn the switch. Someone would need to let me know.

So, If I turn the switch and Mom tells me that there is no light, I first check to see if the tree is plugged in and then if it is I try the switch again because I may not have pressed the switch hard enough.

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A bit of humour: The missing underwear

 

At the very best of times, I almost always go into a panic whenever I am missing anything while packing for a trip. This is what happened some time ago when I was packing to return home.

I could not find my precious underwear.  So, before I panicked, I decided to take a step by step approach as to where I had first put them and where they could be at this moment.

I was not sure that this approach would work, but presto! It worked but it took me a bit of time to trace my underwear’s root.

As a vision-impaired person, I truly believe that it is important to always be able to find what I am looking for.

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Using a new strategy: Finding the correct light switch

 

Now I need to find a new way to find the correct light switch.  Because I can no longer see when lights are turned on or off, I have had to develop ways to know which switch is the correct one.

This comes when Mom asks me to either turn on or off a light. Through care, logic and memory, I have developed a way to do this. It takes patience and effort. It takes some thinking and some figuring out. It takes trial and error.

But, at the end of the day I think that I have mastered it.

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Thank God for Moya: When the slippers disintegrated

Oh my, and what a royal catastrophe!  It could not have happened in a worse place. Oh, yes!  The supermarket and thank goodness that Moya was there to help save the day.

The poor slippers did not waste time dying on me. First, the heels went.  Next came the soles and then finally the top left the bottom.

Some folks noticed a trail of black stuff being left on the floor of the supermarket but could not quite figure what it was. I kept a somber expression while Moya tried to smile as if nothing was going on. Mom, for her part, knew it all but pretended not to look.

Finally, both sides of my slipper went altogether and I was forced to seek help. Moya fetched me a pair of rubber slippers from a nearby shelf and I spent the rest of my time simply walking gingerly along.

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Exhausting times: Getting ready again

 Sometimes I feel like a bouncing ball, just bouncing along the road from one destination to the next. I am hardly finished with one trip and then it’s off to the next one.

Got to slow down but how do I do this? I enjoy traveling to some extent but I am just so very tired at times when I am required to deal with airports. From curbside to check in and then to the security checkpoint, to the boarding gate, and finally to the aircraft.

Got to slow down!

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Better organisation: Making room in my freezer

 

I must say that I have definitely learned how to pack my freezer in a better way. Mom has also taught me so much when it comes to making room in my freezer.

There is no hard and fast trick to it all; just to use common sense and logic. Easier said than done?

Probably, but with a bit of practice it only gets easier.

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Something new: My new fridge containers

 

Thanks to my best friend Char, I went shopping with Stephie on Amazon and using Char’s info I purchased a set of containers with basket inserts. 

They work but the smallest and second smallest best suit my fridge.  The other 2 are large and take up room. The basket inserts help to keep fruits and veggies fresh for a longer period of time.

There has been so many innovations over the years that I need to make sure that I do not go overboard when purchasing unnecessary things.

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No getting around this! Travel computer headaches

I must say that my travel computer has really been a gem when it comes to behaving, and what do I mean by this? Well, it all has to do with her not causing too many headaches for me.

But when she decides to cause a headache?  It means that I need to be patient, stick with solving the problem, and to not give up too quickly.

The most recent headache was when I visited Mom in late 2025 and for some reason my Dropbox folders kept being updated on my hard drive. Enter Tevin the super technician and after a bit of a challenge, Tevin had it all fixed for me.

The travel computer resumed purring like a kitten.

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