So I Nearly Burned The House Down...

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I told my husband and daughter to register me now for the old folk's home. I can't believe I did what I did tonight. I was planning a special meal for my husband. Every time we eat out he orders Fettucini Alfredo with Italian sausage. While grocery shopping I saw jarred Alfredo Sauce. I bought Paul Newman's brand. To use fewer pots and pans I cooked the sausage and a piece of chicken in the same pan, heated the sauce in a sauce pan, and put a pot on to boil water for the noodles. I left the room to check on what we were watching on tv. That's when hubby said ever so casually, "Something is burning." I went back to the kitchen and saw a heck of a lot of smoke. I looked to the stove and saw that I had turned the wrong element on. Every time I use that stove I stop and examine the diagram as to what element I'm turning on. I've had that stove for years and still can't get it right. Today I didn't hesitate... and screwed up. What was worse was what was actually sitting on the element I turned on. I had brought home some sandwiches from a funeral reception earlier in the week. There were two triangles left so I left them out and pushed them to the back element. They were in a styrofoam container. Yes, I know. I nearly killed us all and I still can't get the smell out of the house. The styrofoam container was very close to becoming enflamed. My lovely daughter, who laughed at me the day before for tripping into the house with bags of groceries in my hands and landing on my side, again laughed when she came down and asked, "What the heck are you doing? I smell cancer." She began opening windows. I'm still worried I've exposed bad chemicals to everyone in the house. And I feel so stupid for having done what I did. Last night on Criminal Minds Reid revealed his mother has early onset dementia and it's hereditary but he is too young to be tested for the gene. My mother has dementia and I know I'm not too young. When I go for my physical in March I'm going to ask my doctor if I can get tested, and if so what it costs. And what the heck I can do to prevent it. I know short term memory loss and doing klutzy things is part of fibromyalgia, but I have to be careful I'm not putting everything on fibro and dismissing other illnesses. Growing old isn't fun. Being sick and growing old is worse..