Friday July 19th 2024

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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Stars glad to hear about the new mattress.  If it's an old car you might want to pass on the cost of the bodywork, and see if you can just put some kind of paint or fill in on the scratches to keep rust away

Rose Queen glad you didn't lose power

NJ22 sounds like a productive day

Dianah we will be going to a state park east of Bloomington, IN

Tweety hope the next shift is less stressful

Work got rather busy at times in the morning, but it finally settled down by the end of the day.  Had counseling during lunch for the first time in 3 weeks, we discussed possibly changing jobs, as it seems to be the sort of a lot of stress.  Will have to think about that 

Rest of the day was pretty ordinary.  Stopped at the store, worked on a CEU some more, and exercised

Feeling a bit excited as the vacation begins Sun, but also feeling stress start to creep in so have to keep an eye on that

Nothing really planned after work today, except more CEU and exercise.  I think the packing is pretty much done

Another nice day in the low 80s

Specializes in Med-Surg.

Good morning!

Joe, hope the end of the week ends well.

Nothing much happening here.  I was trying to log onto to work to do an incident report from yesterday but I couldn't get on.  They were having issues with the Microsoft problem. Although at work their computers are back up and someone there will do it for me.  It was about a complaint a family had about their doctor and he was fired.

I'm pretty set with cooking so just some cleaning and heading to the gym.  I woke up at 3AM and had a moment when I realized I didn't set my alarm for work, set it and went to the bathroom and woke up some and realized I'm off and turned the alarm off.  Slept four more hours.  LOL

Specializes in Med/Surg.

Glad you "woke up" and realized you could turn off the alarm, Tweety 😅

Joe, are you going to Brown County? That was a favorite destination in the fall for us. Changing jobs is a big move... but possibly worth it if you are over-stressed. 

I still need to do some studying since I'm taking the CIC exam Tuesday. I feel fairly confident I can pass but want to maximize my chances. 

Specializes in Public Health, TB.

Another nice 75 degree day. I rode my bike to pharmacy to pick up RX then went for a nice 5 mile ride. I picked blueberries and now am delivering to family. I estimate I picked 3 gallons. Oldest sis called today, her lung bx showed squamous cell cancer. I'll drive her to MRI Monday cuz she'll take a Xanax. She'll need a PET scan too, then make a plan. Sigh. Smokers ...

Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

BiL delivered my new mattress, we took out the old, puny, lumpy little mattress I was using and set up the new, much thicker mattress....I am sitting at least 6 to 8 inches higher on the new mattress. The mattress doesn't exactly fit the platform, so I dunno, I may buy a lower platform or just get a lower frame with box Spring, but time enough to decide that later. Because it is so much higher, Momo won't be able to jump from the footstool to the top of the bed, so we'll have to work out something with that.

Nannie has been so wide awake and restless today, I mean, a big, fat OY kind of restless, "Restless as a willow in a wind storm!".... and it continued AAAAALLLLLLL day! She thinks she should be outside doing yard-work and doesn't want to hear that she is 94 and not steady on her feet. I took her outside 3 different times to walk the driveway, and held on to her waistband while she used the rollator. We sat outside 2 other times, and she had a lot to say but not a lot of it made any sense. I can not convince her that nobody ever comes into the large back yard, it is not a shortcut to anywhere, and the only people in the back yard at any given time are generally just SiL and BiL and me.

BiL had told us he and SiL were going to make an appearance at someone's retirement party, and Nannie thought she and I were supposed to go and what time would we be leaving? We don't even know the person (and weren't invited), but she somehow decided we were supposed to go. I had to take a half a Xanax so I wouldn't implode, because along with her babbling, she has asked me about the car under the carport, like, who it belongs to.....oh, about a dozen times within a very short period of time. (She did not see the scraped side of the car) Whatever I told her fell through the swiss-cheese rabbit-holes in her brain, thus the necessity of repetition. I can't tell someone with dementia to "just shut up!", as much as I wish she would. just. shut. up! 

She slowed down a little bit when I gave her supper and meds, but she has lots of commentary about things on TV, which she feels compelled to explain to me even though I am sitting right here watching the shows with her. It is amazing the moods, speech, activities, and motivations she 'reads' from the people on the shows....all wrong, of course. 🙄 She also wants me to move this and take care of that....the pee pad was not centered or squared away on the floor; cover her up, uncover her, fix her legs with a pillow on the recliner's footrest...it goes on, but I will spare you from going through it all of the tasks she wanted me to do, since she couldn't. I didn't just jump up at her bidding each time.....made her WAIT until, like, *I* finished eating MY supper.

I feel kind of inspired to rearrange and clean up/straighten out everything in MY room. Then I would like to finish cleaning the main bedroom, and then tackle my old, smaller room. Then the third level of the house will be neater and nicer and more restful. But I need the TIME so I can sink into the project(s) without interruptions. I'm going to go down to the shed tomorrow and see if I can find some of my pictures to put up on my walls. Who knows what else I might find? I look forward to finding some more of MY STUFF, not seen since our move here 8 years ago, to make the room feel like it is more really MINE! And I am sure I will find things to toss out, because, after all, it HAS been 8 years and I am likely to discover Mousie nests and mildewy books, and bathroom products that must have frozen and unfrozen MANY times. Surely some things must have leaked or cracked or whatever...

Just leave me alone here for at least a week, by myself, and I can get a LOT taken care of to my satisfaction. Wish that it will happen sooner than later; I have waited long enough! But with Nannie being more and more of a real NOODGE lately, it's hard to leave her by herself. The bad demon sitting on my left shoulder says, 'so maybe let her go outside on her own, and if she falls, then maybe she will have to go to the hospital'. Bad little demon! Not my job to "LET" an accident happen, though, so I won't be doing that! 

ANYWAY, it is only 45 minutes until Nannie's bedtime, so I am holding on tight until I can get that accomplished!! It will be a BIG relief, as it is every night. I just noticed she'd fallen asleep so I seized the moment and brought down the rest of the bed frames/slats, and a few lamps that have seen a better day, and a few other things I can call for Salvation Army to come pick up early next week. It is said that clearing up your domestic environment makes the home feel calmer, and I'm all for that!

So, it goes as it goes. and I sit and spin in circles. w000000t! I am praying to keep myself in a sane space for whatever remainder of time I am to be here. I just hope it isn't, like, another 8 years....or even 4 years! Or even 2 years!

Part of what keeps me going, and it sounds kind of awful, but I do not intend to lose out on what will be mine, if Nannie dies before I do. Of course, if she outlasts me, it'll all go to SiL and BiL, or it will after I go change my will....SOON!

And on that cheery note I will hush up and rouse Nannie to wake up and go to sleep.

 

 

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