Monday July 31st 2023

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 31, 2023

Good morning.

Joe, glad you had a quiet day. Hoping today is as well.

J22, safe travels.

I talk to my parents for a few minutes and they seemed well. I called my sister on her phone and we chatted for 1 hour and 45 minutes about this and that and went off on tangents. She said our parents are okay. They had a check up and labs look good. She's worried about my father sleeping so much.

Got outside and mowed the yard before it got hot. I'm having breakfast and getting sleepy. Probably will take a nap as nothing much else is going on. I need to clean the bathrooms and go to the gym though.

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 31, 2023

Mid-afternoon. Nannie has been gotten up to her chair and had her yogurt and meds; now she is SOUND ASLEEP! Hubby is back in bed; I guess he didn't sleep well last night.

I've been trying to re-register my Quality Perks card (discount on gas) and they keep saying they will send a place to change the password (on my URL) BUT! They never do! FIE on computer sites that lie!

Tweety~ Wondering how old your parents are?

It is once again HOT and HUMID. Supposedly yesterday we were going to get SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS....however, though the clouds were low and very dark, we had three small rumbles of thunder and a sprinkling of light rain. Mother Nature doesn't listen to the weather reports, so we get what we get.

Nothing about detox/rehab. or anything else. I am going to have to light a fire under hubby's butt. This is ridiculous.

Anyway, that's the exciting news for now.

nursej22, MSN, RN · Jul 31, 2023

Hi from Boston, 85 degrees and sticky. We are going on. Duck Boat (amphibious tour bus/boat) tours in a few minutes. We walked a good part of the "freedom trail ", past a lot of old churches, graveyards and pubs. A lot of other tourists were doing the same thing, so it got crowded at times. Another day of sight seeing tomorrow. Dh wants to see the USS Constitution and Fenway Park, where the Red Sox play. We walked past the Garden today, where the Celtics and Bruins play.
I would reply more

to posts but it's frustrating using my phone.

Paul Revere and the steeple of the old north church.

toomuchbaloney · Jul 31, 2023

nursej22 said:

Hi from Boston, 85 degrees and sticky. We are going on. Duck Boat (amphibious tour bus/boat) tours in a few minutes. We walked a good part of the "freedom trail ", past a lot of old churches, graveyards and pubs. A lot of other tourists were doing the same thing, so it got crowded at times. Another day of sight seeing tomorrow. Dh wants to see the USS Constitution and Fenway Park, where the Red Sox play. We walked past the Garden today, where the Celtics and Bruins play.
I would reply more

to posts but it's frustrating using my phone.

Paul Revere and the steeple of the old north church.

I've been confined to using my phone exclusively since moving to the interior where I don't have access to reliable internet outside of cellphone data. It's not great.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 31, 2023

J22, I know from a NW perspective it's hot, but 85 with those nice skies sounds great to me.

TMB, you're pretty prolific from using your phone. I use my phone a lot but am on my iMac now.

Stars, my father will be 90 on Sept. 2 and mom is 86 turning 87 in December. Mom has had a myriad of health issues, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, now with dementia on and on. Dad has been pretty robust but had a heart attack in his 60's but has been okay since then. He had a cardiac cath a couple of years ago and they didn't need to do any stents, although I think he already has stents from his prior MI. He has arthritis and aches and pains. Not sure why he's sleeping so much. They are in NC as well and my sister is looking into what might be available from the state for care givers. But she's a bit controlling too and so far hasn't accepted any help other than home PT for mom after she broke her arm.

I conversed with my Health Savings Account, via AI and then a real person in chat who confirmed I need to stop contributions six months prior to me turning 65 next May and signing up for Medicare (although I won't be on it as I'm still working). I was able to get that taken care of via email and printing off a form which I took a picture of and sent back to them. Retirement and old age is getting real now. LOL

nursej22, MSN, RN · Jul 31, 2023

Maybe because I have smaller iPhone and fat fingers, but I find posting to be very frustrating. And editing just about impossible.

toomuchbaloney · Aug 1, 2023

nursej22 said:

Maybe because I have smaller iPhone and fat fingers, but I find posting to be very frustrating. And editing just about impossible.

It's not much fun but it's my only option.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Aug 1, 2023

nursej22 said:

Maybe because I have smaller iPhone and fat fingers, but I find posting to be very frustrating. And editing just about impossible.

I find it inconvenient, too. When I'm less chatty, you can probably assume I'm using my phone.

Hoo boy, last night Gma went on an hours-long tirade and whine-fest. She insisted Hubs is not her son. "You used to be my husband but now you've found another woman. She's a sh!tass". "I want to go home. This is not my home." "Are you going to take me home?" He finally just stopped responding to her but that didn't stop her. And she was refusing to take her pills. He was seriously considering the nursing home because he was so frustrated with her and "I don't want to hurt my mom". Today she was still fixated on going home but not so much on our romantic rivalry (because I wasn't here). What's that James Taylor song? "Sail on home to Jesus, won't you, good girls and boys?" For some reason it's been in my head today.

No Stars In My Eyes · Aug 1, 2023

j22, When I toured the Constitution it amazed me how small/short men-folks were way "back in the day." Had to duck my head more than a few times going through the ships lower regions. And they had some uniforms on display that I could not have fit into when I was 12, never mind when I was 21, on the tour. Our nursing school made it a mandatory thing at the beginning of our first month, to get to know the historical areas in Bean Town. It's true that when you live somewhere for a long time, you seldom act as a tourist at "the spots you need to see" to appreciate the city. When I worked at Mass General my first year out of school, in the White bldg on the 9th floor, with fresh spinal cord injuries, and the development of the halo-frame. They have the old round operating room which you could view from a balcony, above the business at hand, I think it begins with a "B"...? The old memory ain't what it used to be, I'm sure I think of the name once I have finished posting. I have a lot of fond memories of Boston and Cambridge, and Hahvid Yahd.

Ado, I can TOTALLY understand and feel what you're going through with Gma. Nannie did the "I want to go home" thing for a good while. She even used to 'pack' her car so she could go home, with the awfulest collection of unnecessary things. Fortunately she had no car key and was thwarted at every turn. She would have lost her way just a quarter of a mile from the house. The add'l Seroquel (50 mg in the AM and another 50 mg at night.) helped bring her down from the habit hitting at Eddie and telling us, "Oh shut up!" I'm convinced she is too mean to die; I know it scares her tremendously, and telling her that the actual act of dying is the easiest thing she will ever do, doesn't help, because her heels are dug in. I don't know, maybe she thinks she will go 'the opposite way' because she was so snippy in wanting her way ALL THE TIME. Quite a selfish, unsatisfied woman, always playing the "I am crippled" card, looking for sympathy. But it gets old, as it was 74 years ago she had her last surgery, and they fixed her feet so she could walk normally. Must have felt like a letdown for her to not be the pitiful center of attention anymore.

But she never called me names; my 'sin' was being a Yankee, and not like a catering and sweet Southern girl. You can tell her I was raised in a different time and a very different part of the world, by very different parents, and I am very much like my mother, who Nannie really liked, but that means nothing to her. I guess it sort of won her over because I am the one who does and KNOWS how to do her personal care, and she appreciates that. Sometimes she will tell me how to do something, and I can't stop myself from telling her, "Nannie, I have been taking care of you for over 6 years and I KNOW how you want things done!" But truly, I do often pray that she will go home to Jesus SOON! Or where-ever she is destined to go. Enough is enough! I've paid my dues and I want to resign from this "club".

It's after midnight, so I have to get off the lap-top and read some more of this weird Stephen King book I am reading, "The Gunslinger/ The Dark Tower/ Book One". I have to go to the battered women's second-hand store to drop off the 8 books I've finished and buy some more. It is tough on this "Print-Junkie" not to have more books lined up, waiting to be readOkay, over and out for now.

PS: Thanks for all the beautiful photos y'all are posting; I really enjoy them a LOT!