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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Tweety hopefully he doesn't have a foot fracture

Stars a week away from her would help, and they would understand better what it's like to deal with her

NJ22 I find as I get older my night vision isn't as good as it used to be

Went out for a hike in the morning but didn't see any birds. Later went to hear my church friend D preach at the church she's interning at.  Interesting to see how different churches do things differently

After that did the cooking for the week, dropped off some clothes at GoodWill and some puzzles and books at the library.  Was going to drop off batteries at HomeDepot to be recycled but found out they only accept rechargables.  I looked into it and found that alkaline batteries no longer need to be recycled, they can be discarded in regular trash.  Did not know that

Today hopefully will be good at work, only other things I have planned are laundry and exercise

Will be in the upper 40s here today

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Good morning!

Joe hope you have a good day.

Stars, I guess having a week in your bedroom is better than nothing but doesn't sound ideal to me.  The best thing would be to have Nannie out of the house and you have the house to yourself for a week.  One can dream I guess.

Housekeeping told us a few years ago to start throwing away batteries.  We throw away a lot because of the tele monitors.   Hopefully one day someone will a system that doesn't use so many batteries.  They are a one and done and thrown away with each patient at discharge or discontinuing.  Sometimes after only a day.

I'm still using PTO this week because I was maxed out.  Nothing on the agenda because I didn't trust my GI system.  But not having an agenda does give me a bit of a taste of what retirement will be like and while I don't think I'm ready for retirement it's not as anxiety producing as I thought it would be.  I think I'll keep going with my plan to keep working a couple of more years to get financially stable.  I'm pretty stable if I work but the last year after the hurricane took a lot of emergency money.  Oh well, I'll worry about that later.

 

 

 

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

Yea, it would really be ideal to have Nannie out of the house for a week, but unless they can put her in a respite care facility, I don't see that happening. But I will be sure to mention it as an option. 

Don't know what I'll get up to today; so far it's been nothing, and I have been awake for an hour and a half. I have been lounging in bed drinking coffee and reading some of the news stories on-line. Now it is 12:10 PM so I might as well get dressed and walk Tinker.

Other than that, I don't know.

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

Just have to add that my kray-kray neighbor is once again running his leaf-blower....I think this is the 3rd or 4th day in a row he's been blowing leaves. Yesterday he seemed to have finished that project all the way down into the back of the back yard; today I saw him half way through with the front yard, blowing away. Ya reckon he's bored and doesn't have anything to do? I don't know if he has a job or if he is ----oh what's that word? I think it begins with an 'r'---- the person who his family pays to stay away. I think his folks may have bought him the house he is living in. He's the one who was in jail for 15 years (I don't know why). So, maybe the leaf-blowing is his way of staying out of trouble? He was very friendly with hubby and also talked with me, but now it is only a wave to me at times. He was extremely 'religious', as he quoted the Old Testament a lot (I told him he needs to study the NEW Testament, instead) and at one point in time he said there was either a ghost or a spirit in his house who was affecting him negatively. Last time I talked with him.... maybe a few months ago, he asked me what the neighbors were saying about him. I had to tell him that I sure don't know because we all seldom talk. Mostly just a wave of acknowledgement. Now hubby? He was a talker and had a friendly personality, so all the neighbors liked him a lot; he was always checking in with all of them over the course of a week's time, asking how they are doing and sharing funny anecdotes with them. Everybody felt so bad about him becoming more alcoholic and falling all the time. Anyway, those times are gone now.

I am having, uh, pumpkin and sour cream soup. (?!!) Never heard of it before. Found it in the freezer section and thought 'what the heck, I'll try it'. It is thick and creamy and I can't really taste it, but it's okay for a hot 'meal' to fill my belly. I dumped some kind of crackers into it for a little ooomph, because it is hard to 'chew' creamy soup! 

Wednesday I go to have my cataracts assessed; guess the appt for removal will be made after this appt is over. I hope "my family-Nannie-team"  will be sufficient in their 'picking up the ball' post-op. To tell you the truth I never felt like they were MY 'family', supporting and appreciating me and all that, but if it makes SiL feel better say so, oh well. I always felt they are (were) hubby's family and I felt sorry for him. But I can't be too ungrateful for them because they are all I have here. With my sister and brothers spread out where they live (Maine, Michigan, and Northern California) and none of us ever having much money, there will be no reprieve from any of them....not that I ever expected any. We all live on the shoestring-budget plan. (I say I am on the unwaxed dental-floss plan)

Two hours til Nannie pick up time. then supper, and another joyful evening of watching TV with her until she goes to bed. Last night she was yakking during the news and several shows...I finally had to tell her that she doesn't need to explain things to me while I am watching it, too! She said "Oh!" She invariably gets it all wrong anyway. What I hate most of all is when she murmurs and I have to mute the TV and say "what?", then she tells me she was saying .... oh, something inane about how someone looks. Cute or fat or ugly or whatever. Plus the commercials make her think she is supposed to buy or do what they are pushing. I tell her every time that they don't have anything to do with her directly so she doesn't need to pay attention to them at all. But you can't convince her that they are not a bunch of mean, nefarious people. They very well may be, but I just tell her that by the companies paying the TV stations money so it will be able to stay in business, that's how they can show all their shows. But, of course it is in one ear and out the other. I am slowly learning, v-e-r-y slowly, it would seem. And I guess you could say SHE is UN-learning slowly, but it ain't fast enough for me. If she looks straight at me while I am looking at her, waiting for her to finish her sentence, she pauses and completely forgets what she was saying. She also gets hooked on looking at the silent commercials while she is talking about something else, and it REALLY throws her off.

You would think I have never taken care of anyone with dementia or Alzheimer's before, but I have never been immersed in their lives to the degree that I am here. UGH!

Got a text on cell-phone that said my sister did talk briefly with our older brother, and said he felt better now. Sister never did tell me what he went into the hospital for, but I suspect it is heart related

 

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

I can't find where I can start our daily entries. Our usual starter has not started today, Tuesday, Nov 18th, so I thought I would....however nothing I click on gets me to a place where I can post "Good Morning, Tuesday 11/18/15" and start today's thread.

Anybody?

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No Stars In My Eyes said:

I can't find where I can start our daily entries. Our usual starter has not started today, Tuesday, Nov 18th, so I thought I would....however nothing I click on gets me to a place where I can post "Good Morning, Tuesday 11/18/15" and start today's thread.

Anybody?

I'll show how it looks on my mac.  It's not letting me post a vid(?20251119_075912.thumb.jpg.0e4b399becc6df29c3cd992b5f25fade.jpg

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The uploaded in backward order.  Find the Breakroom, click Daily Diary, click "entries", then click "Start a Discussion".  There might be an easier way and may @sirI or @JoeNightingMale has a better way.  

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Tweety said:

The uploaded in backward order.  Find the Breakroom, click Daily Diary, click "entries", then click "Start a Discussion".  There might be an easier way and may @sirI or @JoeNightingMale has a better way.  

@Tweety is correct:

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

Thank you! I'll have to save this for the next time I try to start the day. BUT!....I gotta tell ya that after I clicked on the #1 suggestion, none of the other things ( steps 2,3 and 4) red-arrow pointed to in your post....did not show up on my screen AT ALL.......really, I mean YIKES!  I'll have to see if I can get the screens to come up with what is supposed to be there. *sigh* 

But, for real, 😊THANK YOU!

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

You are very welcome, @No Stars In My Eyes.

Hopefully this won't happen again. 😉

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