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I must have been tired because that is and incoherent sentence. I did lay down for a bit and dozed off with Waffles who is always happy to snuggle and sleep.

G'day. Joe, I hope things aren't too crazy. Welcome back J22, sound nice. Stars, hope the new practice isn't as neurotic about the narcs. Got up early and cleaned the bathrooms already and have some laundry going. Will have some breakfast and continue on with chores. I feel like food wise I'm ready for working the next couple of days. But will make something for tonight's dinner or a dinner later. I made some more vegan lentil tacos and will make make a burrito with them with some rice and pico de gallo, I tired though and go back to bed. LOL

Dianah, best friend is the same way. He gains weight very fast if he eats too many carbs. The unfortunate side effect is osteoporosis and over 200 cholesterol but he's generally heathy and eats plenty of vegetables and fruit. I think too many people go low carb and over eat meant, cheese and eggs and forget the vegetables. Everyone is different and for some low carb is the way to go. For me my relationship with food was complicated when I used to be a strict vegan wanting to eat only healthy food. The result was a stable weight, cholesterol in the 110's and generally excellent health, but a lot of guilt if I ate a bag of chips and I engaged in a lot of self-sabotage. Couldn't live like that so quit being vegan and started being more relaxed. While I didn't have that bacon cheeseburger, I did order delivery of a cheeseburger and fries last night and completely enjoyed it. Didn't feel like cooking and wanted to celebrate getting the skills days being complete. Florida used to be grown zero for the opioid epidemic. North Florida was worst because they had fly by night doctors that would prescribe Oxycontin in "pain management clinics" and people from out of state could come down easily and gets lots of narcotics by simply filling out a form and saying they were in pain. There was a big crackdown and now we are seeing the results through a lot of regulation. Now doctors can only prescribe three days worth of narcotics. After my hernia surgery I only got a few oxycodone and handouts on addiction, narcotic use and alternatives. My GI doc provided a hand out "we will not be prescribing you any narcotics" and another lecture on alternatives and that any narcs will come from the PCP not them. Also beore electronic checks people would go from doctor to doctor. Now there's an electronic check that a doctor is required to use to see your pattern of narcotic use and if you've recently got a narcotic prescription they can't prescribe more. Anytime someone gets a narcotic inpatient it automatically populates a teaching sheet about narcotics and appropriate use on their discharge even if they aren't getting any when they go home. Docs do their best and have the portrayed as the bad guys and get the blame of people that become addicted to narcs. They are sued for not controlling pain adequately and sued for creating addicts. Rock and a hard place. That's probably TMI, but it's not personal when a doctor does a CYA over narcs. Although someone with chronic pain issues can sometimes run into problems or someone that has an issue that might need pain medication more than three days. But we all are treated with suspect. Some PCP's don't prescribe narcotics at all. Although my doc had handouts they didn't drug screen me. Meh. Thankfully I'm not an addict. I still have 8 of the 12 oxycodone tabs from my hernia surgery last December. I have 99 problems but opioids aren't one but don't blame them for being suspicious.

All food is guilt free. Guilt is attached to food because we attach it ourselves. If I thought about the saturated fat, sodium, and carcinogens in bacon and cheese, I would never enjoy a good bacon cheeseburger. Eating what I want to eat and eating predominantly plant forward healthy food is enough for me. I don't want to be restrictive. Did you read about the multi millionaire that spent millions on longevity and now realizes his body is human and he has an autoimmune disease he's dealing with. Then on the other end there's the people dying from chronic illness that could be prevented through diet. Finding peace with food took me some effort but I'm in the middle. We're all human. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/longevity-guru-bryan-johnson-diagnosed-autoimmune-gastritis#What-is-autoimmune-gastritis Anyway, I made a 96% on my telemetry test, missing one strip out of 25 and am very pleased with myself. I may order delivery of a bacon cheeseburger to celebrate. 😈

Good morning! Joe, hope you have a good day. I have read that it's recommended to eat lighter for the evening meal and not too late. I don't do that and eat a hefty dinner, and sometimes if it's been a 12 hour shift, I eat and go to bed. Not sure if that's a culprit in my insomnia or not. Dinah, sorry to hear about your ongoing problem with the computer. Hope it can be worked out. Hope you sleep better as well. Out of exhaustion probably since I stayed up a little late I slept a solid seven hours without waking up (medicated of course). Surprised Waffles let me sleep an hour past her breakfast but she got fed late after I worked. Good thing, as I return to work for a four hour skills day. I need to study telemetry before I go. If you fail that test there's a three-hour remedial class you have to take and I do not want to do that. Usually I pass but I don't want to be too confident and jinx myself. The Odyssey is getting rave reviews and one I want to see on the big screen but I can't seem to carve out the time lately. Hope to see it though. It's presumed to get a lot of Oscar nominations.

Good evening. Worked an overtime shift today and it was hell. A tech and I signed up to work extra because my unit was short and they pulled a nurse and a tech to work elsewhere and short staffed us anyway. I really need to shake that negativity off. Stars the senior low income housing here has waiting lists. The wealthy income continuing care communities also have waiting lists of many years. And the only way to get a spot is someone dies or goes to a nursing home. Just facts. Hope something reveals itself to you soon.

Good morning! Joe, hope you have a good day. I like going to museums and have visited all the big ones around here and we have some good ones. There are some smaller ones here but most don't interest me. The library sometimes gives away free passes and best friend snags those when he can. Off today for one day and back tomorrow. Got up at 6AM after sleeping pretty decently for a change. Have my 2nd load of wash in the washer and still need to wash the sheets. Scheduled a hot yoga class here in a few. I will take it easy as I haven't been in a couple of weeks and it's really humid this time of year. Otherwise not much going on. Will do some meal prep to make sure I have healthy food for work and dinner. Have a god day.

Good evening. Ado, condolences to your step children's mother passing young. Work was a little more hectic today but they let me keep all staff so that was nice for a change. Of course at 7pm after everyone's in report they decide to pull a night shift tech. Very annoying. My former doctor's office was terrible at responding to pharmacies. My doc just gave me his person cell phone and asked me to text him when I needed something. My current doc is great and her response time to my requests for refills has always been same day. Stars, I don't think I've had a provider tell me what "I must do", but tell me what they are recommending and I have the choice to take it or go against medical advice. I'm sure if I went the AMA route often they wouldn't like that. I have pretty much followed advice...taking the BP med was a big one for me, getting hernia surgery and what not. I sometimes have to get out of my own head and medical knowledge and listen. But I also expect to be listened to. I got put on Trazadone because I suggested it. Thankfully, I'm not a sickly person generally but the last two years have been a challenge. LOL. I fired a dentist once because I didn't like the way he did an implant and once made me wait an hour. I'm off tomorrow. Having my creole spaghetti (whole wheat noodles) and it's really good. I'm glad I can eat carbs without guilt. LOL

I will also had that may current doctor is very business like and not warm and fuzzy. She doesn't smile much. Our visits are very short and she doesn't small talk. My BP follow up was about 2 minutes, my 3 months visits for the benzo are less than five minutes, my annual visits are a bit longer. But my gut feeling is she cares and listens, follows good protocol and is smart and I like her well enough.

Good morning! We had a huge thunderstorm at 1:30 with lots of lightning and thunder and torrential rains. Woke me and Waffles right up and we had to wait for it to pass. Dianah that sounds frustrating. George is a member of Best's Buys Geek Squad if he can't get help over the phone he just takes his lap top in. Stars, eventually you have to trust your instincts if you want to keep this doc or not. It's a shame with so much substance abuse they have to be like that. When I switched doctors a couple of years ago, she without question renewed by benzo and has been doing so since. I never was asked to submit to a drug test. I would trust your gut instincts on this whether it's best to play the game or just get someone else. Work again today was fully staffed, but for being a tech short. Nurses are signing up for overtime bonuses and it's helping. Plus we have some nurses coming off of orientation. I'll be getting some of those bonuses to make up for the money I spent on flights, motel, rental car, air conditioner and dental work. I've taken a big hit lately.

Good evening. Joe, glad to hear the cat is settling in. Stars, I'm benzo dependent for sleeping. It is what it is. Here in Florida you have to see your doctors every three months to get it renewed, so if you're not used to that, make sure you have that arranged. I had a decent day at work and they left us fully staffed without floating anyone. Got to help the nurses and do patient rounding.

Good morning! Joe, hope you have a good day. I voted in the Democrat Primary here. There were a few candidates I preferred but I left most of the judges blank. I know judges are important, but I don't know enough about them. My district was zoned to dilute the heavy democrat part of the city to a republican district. It was deemed illegal years ago and was changed back but didn't stop them again this year. Last day off and will organize myself some. I have a PCP telehealth this afternoon and will go over to best friend's for fruit and coffee afterwards. I paid $35 copay for the phone call with my PCP which will probably last 2 to 5 minutes at the most. She just wants to follow up with my blood pressure. I've been faithful at taking it and it's rarely high anymore and will probably stay the course.

Glad you enjoyed it.

Stars, so sorry to hear what might have been a peaceful situation so disrupted like that. A friend of mine, may he rest in peace, got into a lower income senior housing here but there was a waiting list. I know another acquaintenace is in the same place. I'm sure Jacksonville as subsidized housing for the "elderly" as well. Some I think accept animal companions, this place advertises low income and has a pic of a woman with a dog https://towersofjacksonville.org Welcome back Dianah. The crown went well. I was feeling no pain and forgot about it and crunched down on some cold raw hard almonds (a no no) and thankfully while I caused some pain that took Tylenol to take care of, it didn't seem to disrupt the crown. Duh.

Good morning! Joe, hope you have a good day. It's already 86 year. No rain in the forecast which we really need. Having a rare 2nd cup of coffee. Did not sleep well. I had been sleeping rather well despite the stresses I've been under. But I got up early and hope to get to bed early and reverse my late night sleeping habits. The trick will be to avoid a nap. Have my appointment to get my crown started here soon. That will be the big event of the day. Have a good day.