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All right, I got Phil and Terry. And Phil, I was going to call on you anyway. I saw your call sign up there, and you always check in. So I was going to give you a shout out anyway if I didn't get anybody in here. So good morning there, Phil. What do you got going on today? K0BX with KT7 JOE. This is repeater station kilo kilo Thanks, Joe. Mind you think alike. Thanks for coming to my check in. Yeah, I heard you talking earlier about your mom. I'm sorry to hear about her condition. So our family had a similar situation. My mom passed away 10 years ago, and my dad preceded my mom in death. And we promised my dad. I have three brothers, so there's four of us. And we promised my dad that we'd take care of Ma and wouldn't put her into a home. So she did a circuit with us, and she stayed with all the brothers until she passed away in 2015. But yeah, she had Alzheimer's and dementia, and we dealt with the same kind of issues that you're talking about. And it was really challenging, but looking back on it, some of the stuff that was challenging at the time is kind of we look at it fondly, and it's kind of funny in retrospect. So Mom had a small dog, and one time we went out, and we walked the dogs. It was in the snow, and so their garments got wet. Her little dog had a polyester garment, like a little sweater, and it got wet. So we got home, and we're settling back into the house. And I went to the den, and I was working on something. And I smell something, and I walk over into the kitchen, there's smoke billowing out of the microwave. And Mom, her dog's garment got wet, so she threw it in the microwave and nuked it. So it was a hot, melted mess. I took a wooden stick and took it out into the garage. And then there was another time when it was late in the day, and I hear Mom in the kitchen, and she's putting dishes away. And I go in there, and I realize, Mom, we haven't run the dishwasher wet. Those are dirty. And for a moment, I thought about just closing the cupboard in the cabinet, and it's like, this never happened. But my wife saw what happened, and so we ended up washing everything. So anyway, sorry to hear about you, Mom. I hope things work out and that you're able to care for her yourselves And anyway, thanks for taking my check-in. This is K0OBX, back to Ned. You know, Phil, I have washed every dish by hand, I can't tell you how many times, at least five or six times in the past year, maybe seven times in the past several months, because she's done that. So we've had to put notes on the dish. We've got notes all over the house for her. Please don't use the dish door. Please don't do this. Please don't do that. Please don't turn off the lights, you know, because everything's on the Alexa, and everything's automated. And she's old school. She wants to turn off the lights, turn this off, turn this on. And I have had to sit here and reprogram everything. I don't know how many times. Now they just come on, they just set up via Bluetooth. They just get automatically recognized. But in the early days, they did not. You had to repair everything, repair everything again, and so forth. But the dishwasher, that made me laugh, because I have done that I don't know how many times. And even though we have the little thing on the dishwasher, the little slide that says dirty or clean, she doesn't look at any of that, you know, why bother. And, you know, dishwasher's in the middle of being run, and she'll take them, get the washer, and kind of dry them off, put them in, or like you said, and that's happened many times. We didn't even run it yet, and she's putting the dishes away. So I've had to rewash a lot of dishes in the past several months, that's for sure. That made me laugh, because as you look back on it, that is kind of funny. But during the time, it's like, man, come on, you get kind of frustrated. But unfortunately, I mean, I'm trying to keep her, her wish was always to pass away at home, and so forth, but now she's really starting to get bad, like I said. She's starting to not be aware of her surroundings. She's starting to get really scared. She doesn't really trust my son, and there's a lot of issues that are making her feel not safe, which of course, that can't be anywhere farther than the truth, because we do everything we can for her, all of us. And I'm home all day long, and we always have someone here around the clock, because we can't leave her alone, and it's just really hard to see. So it gets kind of a bit better. But I'm sure after the fact, later on in life, yeah, it'll be kind of funny to look back on and go, remember when she did this? Remember when she used to do this? And we experience some of that now. It's just, I don't want her to get hurt. She's already fallen three times this week, because she keeps putting stuff in front of the door and doesn't turn any lights on. She goes to the bathroom, and she trips over everything, and we don't even know about it. We don't even hear. And then she tells us the next day, you know, how did I get this big cut? And it's this huge scab and bruise, and we're like, oh, man. And so we're just, you know, like I said, I've got the motion sensors I'll be putting on today, so I know at least when she's up, when she's not supposed to be, and I can check on her. Let me let it drop for a second. Stand by. loading