No Stars In My Eyes

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

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  1. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday October 15 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Got a call from my brother-in-law, and he said they will help me with anything I need help with, and then he said maybe in a few weeks "we can go out to supper and talk." Good thing I will be...
  2. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday October 15 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Amazingly enough, SiL came back by with MORE food. I gave her the supplies her husband would be able to use for his diabetes. We talked a lot; she told me that Nannie had an insurance policy on my...
  3. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday October 15 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Thank you abb and Crunch for your posts. And of course "the usual suspects" here I am in touch with regularly. My sister has sent me lots of info and links to refer to, and a list of do's and...
  4. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday October 14th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Hubby passed at 3:53 PM. I was able to be with him and hold his hand and talk to him, sing hymns in his ear. I told him that the body was the envelope that carried the soul to Earth, and his body was...
  5. No Stars In My Eyes

    Saturday October 14th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Okay, I just posted my first post today on the end of yesterday's posts. Oh well. So the dgt texted that he wasn't really alert, and that when they first got there she said his 02 and heart rate...
  6. No Stars In My Eyes

    Friday October 13 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Last afternoon, the dgt and her youngest girl came down here, and got a motel room. Today the older grand-dgt is supposed to drive down to be able to visit with her grandfather. I got up fairly early...
  7. No Stars In My Eyes

    Friday October 13 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    I thank ALL of you for being here for me, listening, suggesting, and helping me through this.....for YEARS, even! It really does help to have a group of people to confide in who really understand. It...
  8. No Stars In My Eyes

    Friday October 13 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Except to add an interesting note....in this Aretha Franklin documentary.....at the back wall of the room, there was a quick shot of Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts bopping and
  9. No Stars In My Eyes

    Friday October 13 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Okie-dokie, here I am to give y'all the lowdown: Hubby was started on Comfort Care today, which I spoke about with the NP, and with Misty on speaker phone. He is going to stay in the hospital at...
  10. No Stars In My Eyes

    Thursday October 12 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Yeah/No, we can't have him at home because I can't take care of him and Nannie together, so it's either at the hospital, or a nursing home, or at a Hospice facility. Guess I'll find out tomorrow....
  11. No Stars In My Eyes

    Thursday October 12 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    I spoke with the dgt by phone, and she says she understands he is not going to get better, and that treating symptoms as they arise is really only trying to extend his life without any hope of a cure...
  12. No Stars In My Eyes

    Thursday October 12 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Another call from the NP at the hospital. They were asking about putting the picc-line back in. She said she got the idea from Palliative care that I was wanting 'aggressive treatment', but I said,...
  13. No Stars In My Eyes

    Thursday October 12 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    It's already the 12th of October???? Yikes! It is a very GROGGY morning for me. Off and on rain and sun, supposed to be around 70 degrees. I am drinking my coffee and trying to feel human. The...
  14. No Stars In My Eyes

    Wednesday October 11 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Ado, When my mother, sister and I went to see The Haunting of Hill House in a theater, way back when, I sat with my fingers gripping the arms of the seat. It was scary....more than a few times we...
  15. No Stars In My Eyes

    Wednesday October 11 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    They did the paracentesis and got out 1.5 liters. So because he is so restless, they will wait til tomorrow to poke the left lung encapsulation and will leave a 'cath'/bulb drain in for that one. (You...
  16. No Stars In My Eyes

    Wednesday October 11 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Not an otherwise "free' day any more! Nannie had gotten up in the middle of the night, hung her wet pads on a hanger, balled up her pull-ups, hung up her wet PJ bottoms, too. And the bed is visibly...
  17. No Stars In My Eyes

    Wednesday October 11 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    No sleeping late these days! I got a call from the hospital at 9 AM, but since I had the phone on the bedside table and I was sleeping on my right side, covering my 'good' ear, I didn't hear the...
  18. No Stars In My Eyes

    Tuesday October 10th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Just rec'd a call from an NP at the hospital. She said they were going to have to do another paracentesis 'cause his belly is bloated again. I thought it looked larger today. She also said he has an...
  19. No Stars In My Eyes

    Tuesday October 10th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    When I got to the hospital, the NP was occupied elsewhere. I stayed about 2 hours, but I had to do those other errands, so I left. I can always talk to her on phone or make an appt. for her time on...
  20. No Stars In My Eyes

    Tuesday October 10th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    G'Morning~ The woman across the street can't sit with Nannie and Momo today, but she arranged for her mom to come sit so I can go to the hospital to see hubby and talk with the NP about...
  21. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday October 9th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    w00t! I just rec'd a call from Palliative Care (an NP, I think). Talk about hearing from them 'faster' if the family requests it ! She and the team will be following him. Told me options for...
  22. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday October 9th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Okay, spoke with our PCP. He said the MRI has only been postponed, due to hubby's still extreme physical activity in bed....he cannot be still enough for an MRI to be useful right now. Doc did...
  23. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday October 9th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Called the hospital and spoke with hubby's nurse; she said the NP said he is doing much better. They cancelled the MRI (I don't think that's such a good idea, but oh well.) He 'passed' the swallowing...
  24. No Stars In My Eyes

    Monday October 9th 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Good Morning~ Upper 60's, low 70's and sunny. I have a problem! Most of my 'tops' are kinda too big for me, so I will have to go to my couture shoppe, WalMart, to try on some to find out...
  25. No Stars In My Eyes

    Sunday October 8 2023

    No Stars In My Eyes replied to Joe NightingMale's topic in Daily Diary's Entries

    Oh, yeah, so I called hubby's dgt this AM and said that, though I as supposed to receive a phone call last night, I did not and that I was going to call over there and get somebody to tell me...