Do your blood pressure a favor and get rid of the TV. I've been without one for several years and it's the best investment in my sanity that I ever made.
This thread is not thye same this year without pictures from your garden. I hope that you will be able get out in the dirt next season. And I pray that your mom is okay.
This is extremely hard on her because she is used to being in charge of everything, and she just feels helpless. I just received a note from her that made me want to cry She had a followup appointment with her surgeon (whom she'd been berating behind his back for not visiting her) and she said "He talked to me!! Unusual!" I guess her other doctors don't talk to her -- they just talk AT her.
In truth, she is hard to talk to because she does not hear well.