2053. Hello, again! I'm trying to start my blog again! Please be patient!

 Dear Readers:

I had my 90th birthday on October 6th, a week ago last Sunday!  I am forgetting how to do this blog!  At this time, I'm writing on July 26, 2025)

I really want to keep this blog going!  But my problem with a 90 year old brain, is how to do it!  A lot is going on in the world, and I actually don't watch much news.  

     I have a dear friend here in Fairfield Assisted Living in Layton, Utah, named JoAnn, who lives 2 doors from me.  Over the years she has had macular degeneration which has gradually gotten worse, until she is basically blind.  She has to have help just when she eats, as she can't see her food, and has to be told where her drink is, where her foods of different kinds are, etc.  She has had internal problems where she has to have different foods pureid, and eats a lot of protein drinks.

                                      This is JoAnn

She has been a very elegant lady, putting her hair in curlers each night, having a CNA choose her clothes each day, but she has lovely clothes and they match well as she used to work.  

    She has been virtually afraid to be alone at night, or in the evening, not being able to work her TV, know where the bathroom is, etc., so I have had her here for around 7 to 9 or 9:30 p.m. with me, and we watch things on YouTube.  Of course she doesn't see, so I get things on which depend mostly on a good story, or something that doesn't depend on what the scene is.  

     We usually watch "Sunshine for the Soul" (or another name is Brother Merrill's Inspirational Stories).  He has been an LDS Temple worker for 27 years, in the Provo Temple, and is really a delightful story-teller.  You could try it sometime on YouTube.

 We also watch Glenn Rawson on Sunday Nights, and other LDS things about "Come Follow Me".

   My last great grandchild, a girl, named Erin.  I'm stopping this post now, and I need to work on remembering how to do my blog! 

Here I am again, on July 26, 2025, and again trying to start my blog again!  I am in an Assisted Living apartment in Fairfield Assisted Living in Layton, Utah.  I have a small room, and the way I got introduced to it came on October 13, (a Friday) 2023, when 2 ladies from this place came down to West Bountiful, at my son's home, and asked if I was still interested in coming  to their facility.  I said yes, and asked what units they had available.  They said they had a one bedroom place, which was larger than I needed, and one place they thought I would not be interested in, as it didn't have a "view"!  I said I didn't mind that, as I didn't sit looking out the window.  (I found it has a brick wall showing on the other side of the window),  They said they would hold it until Monday.  During that time we prayed, and talked about it, and Monday gave them the answer we would like it.  Wayne had said when they were there, "if there isn't a view, would you give us a discount?"

They said, " Yes, $200 a month! As long as I stay  here."  

     I have been here since Oct. 28, 2023.  My sister Vina passed away on Oct. 27th, and the next week I went down to her funeral!  My only sister, Mavis, 85, who is 5 years younger than I, lives in Spanish Fork, Utah, about 1 hour drive south.  We talk a bit most days on the phone.  

     I have had a few physical problems, including a broken ankle folowing a fall and wearing a boot on my foot 7 weeks, and an endoscopy , showing gastritis, which resulted in my getting nauseated often.  But I am in a fairly good place right now.  I see quite a few older people, some who have died after a fall, etc.  I now have to be pushed in a wheelchair, to our meals, to Church (tomorrow) and activities.  

     I had an early 90th birthday last August 10th, and turned 90 on October 6, 2025,  during General Conference.

     We live in such a crucial time of the planet Earth.  ( Before the Second Coming of our Savior Jesus Christ!)

     I will try to send an entry at least once a week, as long as I can get to my computer!  It is in an adjoining room to my recliner, where I sleep, and spend a lot of my time.

     I pray for all you dear readers out there. May the Lord bless you in all you do! Pal (Paralee Miles Eckman)