Friday November 8th 2024

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Tweety glad you enjoyed the concert, understandable with all that's gone on recently you'd be under stress

Ado that is tricky, when you like your job but the pay isn't great.  My own job can be stressful but I do like the employees and management

Stars glad you got some relief yesterday and will be getting at least a little more respite care.  Hopefully the senior day care comes through

NJ22 hope your stomach is better now

Work was pretty good yesterday, a bunch of emails but no new cases or a lot of documents to review.  After work exercised and made a dish for tonight's potluck with the gay group, dates wrapped in bacon and filled with cranberry Stilton

Today should be a pretty ordinary day, nothing unusual at work, nothing except the potluck tonight

Had a lot of dreams last night, probably because I woke up twice, once by the cat and once by a leg cramp.  Recently I seem to remember dreaming a lot, I'm not sure if I'm dreaming more or just remembering more

Will be similar to tomorrow, will get up to about 60, think it will be pretty sunny

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Good morning.

Joe, I hope that you have a good day.  

Stars, my mother forgets her limits as well and sometimes forgets she can't walk without a walker.  Apparently she fell the other day at home, but thankfully wasn't hurt.

J22, that waffle sure sounds good.

Not much going on today. I couldn't resist and called the roofer for an update because it's been a week.  I figured I'd be a pest about it.  He's going to call me back.  Bottom line is I need/want a new roof as this one is leaking.  I want to move on with my life.  I don't think I can afford the roof that has been on there as it's gone up significantly in price and it's out of my range.  I'm going to discuss cheaper but quality alternatives.  That will be a battle because I know as a salesmen he's going to high ball me.  I also know I'm going to have to wait and be patient.

The not so new owners (they bought us in 2024) are creating what we used to call RN III positions and calling them "Clinical Assistant Nurse Manager" but it's basically a charge nurse.  But I wasn't offered it and have to apply for it.  I updated my resume and made it very short and sweet and sent it in.  Talked with the recruiter today who will recommend me for an interview, which I actually already have on Monday.  Apparently two people that work with me and management will interview me, asking questions about various scenerios and how I would handle it.  

I like what I'm doing now, some charge nurse and some floor nurse, but I don't think I want to work 6:1 ratios as a floor nurse every day.  I could stomach being in charge more.  We'll see how it goes.  Apparently they have two positions and there are three of us that I know of (maybe someone from the outside as well) applying.  I'll be fine anyway.  I get nervous at interviews and only had one in the last 33 years.  Ugh......

The weird thing is only night shift was on the website and that's all the recruiter knows.  I know there are two day shift positions open so I agreed to interview anyway even though it says nights.  If they want me on nights, I can always refuse.

Otherwise, not much else going on.

 

 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

How can the weather have 90% humidity and NO rain? Pretty UGH to have that much humidity but nothing to relieve it! 

I slept well and woke up to a room with NO piles of laundry to put away! 😊 

Nothing I might go out for is urgently needed

, so I may very well just stay in and be easy on myself. Of course, that means the usual sitting around with Nannie, which we all know is a thrill a minute. Yesterday I went through a bunch of already-read magazines and pulled out any and all the puzzles to work. I have them in a folder which I will tote downstairs when I go. Everything else went to the recycling bin.

I went down to make myself a cup of coffee and saw that Nannie's bedroom door is open; she must be in the bathroom. I sneaked back up to my room with the coffee to have a few minutes to myself before I go back down to see to her AM routine. 😐 

If I am lucky she will sleep and I can go back up to the 'old' bedroom and begin the search for checks and house-keys. But even that is not urgent, so I may be slothful and be a 'do-nothing' occupier of the sofa.

But first, before I do nothing, I have to get dressed and go down to the den to start this day for real. Blah. Oh well, so what. 

 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

I'm not 'lucky'.....Nannie is and has been wide awake and is doing the play-by-play and color-commentary about .......SQUIRRELS.......imagine! They are in the back yard, doing what squirrels do, nothing particularly remarkable. But every. single. one. that passes within her range of vision, she has to tell me what is going on..... "he's dIgging!"; "he ran that way beside the house!"; "it's running up the tree!"  She seems to think I need to get up and go over to look out the glass door to see for myself. I have resorted to "mm-hmm-ing" a LOT! Of course, yeah, it could be worse. 

Maybe if I go up to the kitchen and wash some more dishes, she will quit observing the backyard 'events' and close her eyes? One can always hope.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Five trips to the bathroom within a 30 minute period of time. No, she doesn't have a UTI, she keeps saying she feels like she has to poop.......but does nothing. She did poop earlier today, and enough that it wanted to clog up the toilet when it was flushed. I have prepared her an early supper to urge things in her bowels to move along.  (Though I could not feel ANYTHING up there when I checked.)

She is eating a p'butter and banana sandwich, a large glass of cranberry juice, and a BIG bowl of fresh fruit: watermelon, cantaloupe, and honey-dew melon chunks, blueberries, and raspberries.  Oh, and I gave her the stool softener and laxative combo that she usually gets at bedtime. If that all does not do the trick...... maybe I can get one of the (invisible) people she sees out in the woods beside the house, to come inside and scare it out of her.

OY.