Saturday December 6 2024

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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Tweety it's good that you have a coworker you share so much in common with

Stars here's hoping you can avoid any power outages

NJ22 I've been watching Call the Midwife too

Yesterday turned out to be a busier day, had a online meeting and had to cut lunch short to deal with a complicated issue,  thankfully it appears to have been resolved.  But was more crazy than I had expected.  Rest of the evening was pretty quiet

Will try to get out bird watching today, once the snow stops.  Looks like we'll only get an inch or so.  Then will meet dad for lunch as usual.  Will watch Svengoolie  tonight as he has The Invisible Ray, which is pretty good

Will also start work on a profile for the online dating sites, as I had promised the counselor I would do before the next appointment.  I won't actually start looking until sometime next month,  but want to start getting ready

Going to get up to the mid 30s with the snow ending soon

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Happy Saturday! 

It is good to have someone at work you can really talk to. I really enjoyed working with the nurse who had the same schedule I did until I took this job almost 2 years ago. Thursday night I got to work with her again for the first time in a long time. I think a nurse called in for that shift meaning there would be only 1 nurse on Med/Surg and there were 6 patients and ER had 2 they wanted to admit. I learned this at 5:00, went home and made a meal and changed clothes and went back to the hospital. The CEO split the shift with me so I got home around 1:00. Friday morning I fully intended to go to work but was so exhausted and slept in. Only to find later in the day that I missed 2 texts. One asking me to check with Twin B to see if he could work because the front desk was short-handed. He was already scheduled to work 3-7 so .. .

The other text was about a nursing home administrator who thought the resident we discharged wasn't stable for discharge. He is new to this nursing home and I must say that his questioning the long-time doctor's judgment probably didn't improve their working relationship. But all was finished up amicably as far as the hospital was concerned. 

I enjoyed doing patient care. Did realize when dealing with a confused patient who was determined to go "home" at 11 pm that this is the hardest part for me: dealing with behavioral issues with people who can't reason. Maybe living with Gma has short-circuited my patience. The patient had PRN ativan and I gave it and he slept like a baby at least until I left.  The tech was really good with him, thank goodness. 

So I'm trying to analyze why I feel so guilty about not going in until I noticed those texts. I mean, I did put in a 14-hr day on Thursday. 

It is "normal cold" for January with highs around 50 and lows around 30. Next weekend it is supposed to get a lot colder and maybe there will be snow. 

Hoping J22's sister gets some answers.

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

Last night at some point I reached over to my bedside table to get a drink from the sippy-cup I always have there....and promptly spilled the dern cup and the top half of the bed got wet! I just threw down 4 towels on top of it and went back to sleep. Woke up at 8:30 AM to find the fluid had  been absorbed by the towels and into my jersey top. Took my AM meds, pulled off the wet towels, put down a few more dry ones and then went back to sleep. Woke up at noon, and yanked everything off the bed and loaded the dirty-laundry basket. It is going to be one heck of a laundry day. Don't have to wonder what I will be doing today! 

It is in the upper 40's. No snow, no ice. It has rained, and when I was awake at 8:30, the wind was blowing pretty good. There is another tree about 12-16 feet down the row of trees, further away from where we had to take the other leaning-over-the-roof tree down, and this one is leaning like nobody's business. Only the edges ( ends of the limbs) are potentially near the house....maybe if it fell they would only hit the already ruined and half-collapsed deck on the back of the house. Don't know if BiL will agree it needs to be taken down at some point, but right now I think it will be okay.....for a little longer, at least!

Have to go get Nannie up so I can start on the huge loads of laundry. Whoopy and Yahoo and ugh!

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AND, when I got Nannie up, she was wet and HER bed was wet all the way through all the blankets and sheets, down to the underpad under the fitted sheet! So, I think I have what's looking to be at least 6 loads to wash...maybe 7 or 8, since the piles of dirty bedding includes blankets as well as all the  towels. 

BiL has come over to continue putting up the blinds. He brought over three boxes of disposables for Nannie (delivered by Amazon.) 

So, on with the day! 

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Found space once I pulled everything out of the bottom of Nannie's linen closet. There were things in there that have not been moved since BEFORE we ever moved in, including some very old dirty laundry! I am going to donate some of the not-ever-in-use bedspreads and blankets to an animal shelter for the dogs to have something to rest on. I swept out the floor of the closet and placed all of Nannie's disposables in there. Sorted out the towels and sheets and folded them to go back on the first shelf where they had been just CRAMMED in. In between loads of laundry, I went upstairs and hung up blouses/shirts in my closet, and in the dresser have t-shirts in one drawer, turtlenecks in one, mock turtlenecks in another drawer, socks and undies in a drawer and pj's in another. Started another pile of clothes to donate to the thrift store I take everything to. Fed Nannie her supper. I am on the 5th load of laundry, and may not be able to finish everything tonight. Have boxes, piles, etc r will be disposed of in the proper places (some electrical stuff, dead batteries, aerosol spray cans. Have 90% of Nannie's bed remade, and will have to go up and remake my bed, also. Time to transfer more laundry to the dryer and start another load in the washer. Then I will find something for me to eat for supper. WHEW! I'm beat! May do a few more little things here and there, but I think I am done with most of the work for today.

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Wow, Stars!

I need to do a bunch of that but find it hard with all these people here. If I could send them all someplace else for a few days (and not have to go to work) I could get so much done! They'd better take the dogs and cats, too, though. They all get pretty needy at times. 

The local news had a story about a family's outdoor cat that scared away 2 coyotes who attacked their little dog when they let the dog out to potty. They had a ring camera or something that caught the action. The dog had pretty bad injuries and they were afraid at first that it would have to have a leg amputated but it didn't. 

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

G'day

Stars, I can't even count how many times I've spilled by bedside water.  Too many.

I was in charge with 2 patients.  Was quite busy.  Had a patient leave AMA with a BP of 200/100.  Do I care?  

 

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If I didn't have Nannie and my errands to always take care of; If I could be here by myself, I could knock this house out in about two to three weeks! Then I could rest and appreciate the serenity. But, by just chugging away, one of these days it will stop being so messy. It's all the moving of things and dumping things and rearranging things and cleaning things, that creates so many messes. One day it will be clean and tidy. One day. I just don't know which day! ?

I can't give you a link for this, but it is from PEOPLE magazines' on-line site......There is a story about a woman and her Stafford Bull Terrier who found a baby magpie wandering around a dog park, and after realizing it wasn't going to get any further attention from its mother, she took it home, and with the advice of wildlife people, they kept the baby bird alive. The magpie and the dog, and its puppy all became good friends, hanging out with each other, and even sleeping together. But the best photo was of the dog laying on it's back with it's mouth open wide in a smile, and the magpie was laying on its back with its wings spread and beak open, and they were looking at each other....it was sooo cute, I couldn't believe it. 

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

https://kfor.com/news/local/cat-saves-dog-from-coyote-attack/

It was a black cat named Binx ?

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

I had a cat that chased dogs away. Pretty interesting to see, like the cat's ears went back and she started running at the dog, and the dog would have a wide-eyed, frightened look on its face as it whipped around and scrabbled to get away! A Watch-Cat is a good thing to have sometimes!

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Tweety said:

G'day

Stars, I can't even count how many times I've spilled by bedside water.  Too many.

I was in charge with 2 patients.  Was quite busy.  Had a patient leave AMA with a BP of 200/100.  Do I care?  

 

Do you care? Probably, yes.  That might contribute to your own BP issues

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