Friday January 20th 2023

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Stars glad the car got fixed and DH wasn't hurt in the fall

Tweety that does sound aggravating

NJ22 glad they were able to extend your pacer

Work wasn't bad yesterday, except for 1 or 2 aggravations.  I was pretty successful at not letting the stress and aggravations get to me.  Hard because I'm so focused and perfectionist about my job, but I have to learn to set that aside

Was feeling kinda down.  My cousin texted that the hospice thinks my aunt only has a few days left.  And a friend from the internet reported his cat had died.  It's odd how stories of losing pets hits me so hard.  Stomach was acting up too, perhaps the two were related

Ran an errand and exercised after work, then had a Zoom meeting for vestry.  Will be glad to be done with that, have 1 more year

Tonight will stop by the library then relax with a bubble bath and some wine

Turning colder here, in the 30s, might get some snow over the next few days

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Good morning!

Joe, sorry to hear of the impending loss of your aunt although I'm sure with hospice she's well cared for.  

Yeah the secretaries can be annoying.  I will have handled a situation and she is on the phone trying to handle it in another way.  I was on the opposite unit and she assigned a patient not knowing we weren't going to be staffed for it on night shift and as the patient was being taken to her room stop and put her on the other unit.  Just let me do my job please and you do yours.  The one on the other unit is just as bad.  She'll make the assignment (which also is a charge nurse duty) and be all "well my nurses...my unit...my doctors....blah blah blah" like a Queen with her Queendom.  LOL

Anyway, I'm always glad to have someone answer the phone. 

Off today and doing sheets and going to the gym.  Going to make some tofu and watch a movie.

Have a great day!

 

  

[Ado Annie, ASN, RN]

Joe, I hate hearing about pet deaths, too. Even reading about fictional animal deaths. My current read had a wolf get shot. There was injustice involved and a smug guy who knew he'd get away with it. I could hardly stand to read it! Kill the human characters and I'm pretty stoic. Kill the animals and I can't deal. 

Sorry about your aunt, though. Is this the aunt you went to visit and hoped to visit again soon?

Tweety, you're reminding me that I really do appreciate our little hospital in some ways. At the big hospital we usually had clerks on day shift and most were wonderful. Some were bossy, but if they were good at their jobs, being bossy doesn't bother me too much. Boss away. Here we don't have a clerk at all anymore. Just the registration clerks at the front desk.

I received a message last night on ancestry.com from a young man who says my cousin is his biological father. He does show up as a DNA match, as a 1st or 2nd cousin. And even though my cousin was married at the time, I can't say I'm shocked that he would have fathered a child. I haven't seen him in a long time but as far as I know he's a nice guy. Assuming this young man is just hoping to know more about his roots, as he claims, I hope my cousin reaches out to him (apparently he's been given contact information). So this is the second time we've had a cousin come out of the woodwork since being on DNA registries. 

Well, I'm about to go down the rabbit hole of CMS data submissions. 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Hey-ho to one and all~

Joe, j22, I am the same way about animals getting sick and/or dying. I can NOT watch the ads to support animals that are abused and ignored and hurting. I have to turn my head away because seeing all those sad, scruffy animals just breaks my heart. People used to tell me I should be a vet, but it even kills me to see critters coming out of anesthesia, confused and wobbly.

We all got up late today (1 PM); I gave Nannie her lunch and had my coffee while out on the front porch. Hubby has gone straight out to his man-cave and I expect he'll come in sloshed, one of these hours. 

My sister in Maine said they finally got their hot-water heater replaced and she luxuriated in a hot shower for the first time in...? a week? ...or more? Anyway,  my brothers are both okay, the older one having survived the weather in Michigan, and whatever part of CA my younger brother lives in...

I guess I'll do something house-wifie now. So many spills in front of the refrigerator that my shoes stick to the floor and make smacking noises.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Hubby had 3 little bottles and then had to go out and get 2 more sleeves, each of which contains 10 little bottles. Stoopit idjet. Happy daze are here again.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Hubby's man-cave was on EMPTY, so I had to drive it to the nearest convenience store to put gas in it, It drives worse than an OLD jeep or truck, but HE says there's nothing wrong with it. Yeah, except the right rear tire is almost flat.

He is getting to be an awful lot of trouble. 

[nursej22, MSN, RN]

Yeah, I don't handle animal deaths well. I won't watch a movie if I hear that the dog dies. I think I was traumatized by Old Yeller, as a child. And those ASPCA commercials are hard to watch. 
Annie, that's pretty interesting about dna matches. But yeah, I would be cautious about strangers. 
Hi Joe. I hear ya about meetings coming to an end. And being part of the vestry sounds like a lot of responsibility. 
A Queen in her queendom, LOL. 
It's clear and cold. Work is work. 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Nannie said she had thought about going out to walk in the yard (which she hasn't done in OVER a year), but she thinks there is a doctor in the back of the back yard who doesn't want her to walk out there. I told her there is NO doctor in the back yard, but she says there is. I told her the ground is uneven and she probably would fall even using the walker. Also, she says that there is someone out in the back yard talking. Opened the drapes and the door and stood there and let her listen....no voices out in the back yard.

Hubby is smashed and teasing her about "Bloody Bones" being out there and 'wants' her. He is c/o how sore he is from yesterday's fall. Now he is teasing her that she couldn't help him get up off the floor yesterday. Ppfftt!