What Did You Do For Someone Else Today?

[Sandra]

Recently I had an email from a distant relative in USA and she wanted some info on our family tree. So I did some searches and digging through my HD for info for her and sent it to her. :)

 

[kimba]

I visited the eighty year old friend of my deceased mom (who thinks of me as family). It is one of the two or three times a week I leave the house other than for appointments. I tend to overdo the coffee though!

 

[forrest]

Allowed my girlfriend to vent about her husband who asked her for a divorce on sunday night, while keeping my mouth shut.

 

[Sandra]

I scrounged up some info for my distant relative again and emailed it to her. Lt. John's line is a huge line when he had 13 children. Lt. John was a 2nd lieutentant to George Washington in the Revolutionary War.

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Donated medacation and sanitry napkins to the shelter I voluneer at.

 

[Sandra]

I ran into an old friend who waiting for the bus so I drove him home. :)

 

[NutritionNerd]

Took my sick son some oranges, zinc supplements, and sweet potatoes!

 

[goingonhope]

I woke up with my Mom at my house after her sleeping over and I listened and listened and counseled her steady throughout this day. Then my daughter and I went to her place and for nearly 3 hrs. I was her computer geek and all while subjected to a continuous flow and extreme doses of toxic negativity. I remained in control regarding this type of experience of her, (as always) and I responded firm and lovingly and while managing everything unbelievably well.

She needs me again and again this week. I don't yet know what I will do. I am more then glad to fix her computer, but sadly she is in most horrible mental, spiritual and physical health. At least a part of her is. I hadn't see this coming and then boom. I lost her before my eyes, just like that, as she embraced everything fear, worry, dread, hate, victimization, catastrophising, insecurity and paranoia.

I miss you Mom. I hate having lost you and then trying so damn hard to support you again, always losing you over and over again. :(

 

[goingonhope]

Got my Mom a James Patterson book which she loves and collects.

Took my aunt to her medical appt., plus online stores and spent all day and night with her.

 

[amethist]

Today I did my 2 hour's in the carers office, but spent the last hour or so, sat with a lady who lost husband 6 weeks ago today.

She came in, in tears, just wanting a safe place to cry after sorting some stuff out at the bank. She was devastated and needed someone to listen to her and tell her it would be OK eventually.

I felt so proud of myself for being there for someone else for a change, being there for someone who needed that friendly voice. Being there to tell her she could come in anytime it all got too much for her, and we would make her a drink and just listen.

I left her just after 4 o'clock with the office manager, who had come in 10 minutes earlier.

This lady kept aplogising for crying, but I told her to cry as much as she needed to, it was better than bottling it up.

It seems I had made all the right noises and left her with the manager, knowing she felt better for just coming in.

 

[windwoman]

I drove my friend into town for a 7:45 a.m. Dr. appt., then we ran some errands while we were in town.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am helping my husband to orgainize all of his medicare papers, while listening to music. He is really enjoying listening to the muxic.