Alzheimer's and Rain

Today I walked in the Alzheimer's walk.  I registered for the walk in September.  At work we have a clinical ladder program.  It encourages the nurses and some other groups to be involved in the community efforts like walks and other programs that raise awareness for diseases like Alzheimer's as well as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, etc.  The clinical ladder is a project that awards points for certain mini projects that you choose to do.  It encourages learning and education, community involvement and professionalism.  It is a great opportunity to grow in the profession and it rewards anyone who chooses to do the program with a bonus of a certain percentage of your gross yearly salary.  It goes from 0.04% of your base pay up to I think 0.08%.  Its great!   I think walking to end Alzheimer's is a good cause.  As a nurse I have seen and cared for many people and families of people suffering with Alzheimer's.  I hesitated to go this morning because of the cold and rain.  I am glad I sucked it up and went because people are always so nice at these walks and the exercise was invigorating.  Some of my co-workers went too.  The flower is blue and that color represents someone who is suffering from Alzheimer's.  I will give the flower to my Dad.  He likes those spinny things and he is very forgetful at times and shows some early signs of dementia.  

I will post some pictures on here from the walk, to show just how beautiful the city of Cincy is even in the cold and rain.  

I spent a little over 10$ this morning at Walgreens buying medicine for my youngest daughter.  She is feeling pretty bad today and she is at a marching band competition.  She is the drum major so she really needs to be there.  She is on break this coming week so hopefully she can rest and take care to get better.  

It is a whopping 63 degrees in my house today.  We are all wearing sweaters, including my little dog.  She really hates the sweater, but she doesn't have much hair and she gets cold easily.  I hate to turn the furnace on this early in the year, but I think it can't be avoided, not with my youngest already feeling so bad.

Tonight I will be going to the Kentucky Symphony with my dad.  He had an extra ticket so he invited me to go.  I love the symphony.  He also asked if I wanted to go to dinner.  I told him I could go, but I could not pay.  LOL  He knows all about the challenge!  I told him I would make it up to him with a home cooked turkey dinner.