Time & Holidays

Things for now have been looking up, I’m not sure if it is because I just haven’t had the time at home that I usually do because of my new work/school deadlines, but it’s as though she (my mother) knows that this is not the time nad is not as demanding as usual, however my confusion with her since she began living here with me is that we know that by October 31st which ultimately is the start of “flu season” that she has to be EXTRA careful because of the last three or four years our experience has been that she ALWAYS ends up in the hospital missing out on Thanksgiving and Christmas, so as she was sitting outside handing out candy for Halloween I was watching her with such amazement and anger all at the same time, does she not realize that when she is in the hospital she is missing out on some wonderful family home time for the holidays which in turn means that my son and I are also missing out on that time, does she not care, does she enjoy the attention that it gets her when she is in the hospital during the holidays, I wonder sometimes, but I also used this as a tool, a tool to encourage her to keep her health in the best possible shape during the holidays, I told her that if she did end up in the hospital this year for the holidays that she would be spending it alone, I would NOT be spending another holiday in the hospital again and she would be the only person to blame if she did end up in there. She came in immediately from handing out candy and she has been taking care of herself ever since. Its amazing what a little fear will do to a person.