Saturday July 27th 2024

Published

Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Stars I hope she doesn't take to wondering again

NJ22 I hope you're feeling better

Tweety glad it was an easy day and you have the weekend off

Ado that would be annoying

I thought yesterday would be bad...in the afternoon both I and the person I was covering for got new cases.  Thankfully they both proved relatively simple so I got them done.  The morning was quieter, had time to start some cornbread

Was a quieter evening, stopped by the library and the post office and exercised

Today will do bird watching, then have lunch with dad as usual.  Then taking the train downtown for the 3rd date, this time an outdoor concert in Grant Park.  Will be a busy day for me

Going to be a warmer day today, in the upper 80s

4
Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

OK, Tweety, you were partially right....I did wake up at 10 AM, just before the alarm clock was to go off. I was standing in the middle of my room wondering what to put on, but then I said to myself, 'Tsk, just go back to bed!', so I did! I woke up at 12 noon, and fortunately Nannie is still asleep. But, now I've had a BRIEF respite, so it is time to go get her up. I have had a 1/2 cup of coffee, and will make a fresh cup while I am preparing her breakfast.

No plans or itinerary, though I could go to the pharmacy to pick up a refill. I have a suspicion that I will blow it off, and get it tomorrow or the next day.

But first, The Nannie-AM-Routine! Nuthin' to it but to do it. Alley-oooop!

4
Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med/Surg.

Hubs just went to get Gma up and she wasn't there! After a brief and panicked search we found her sitting in a chair on the back porch. Noy sure how long she was out there but Hubs is quite sure that door was locked until he went our earlier this morning  to work in the garage.

5
Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

I just posted another paragraph, but somehow it has disappeared. Oh well, it wasn't new news, just the same-old-same-old venting. Like the words "today" and "tomorrow" have to be repeated to Nannie several times before it sinks in. 'Right hand 'and 'left hand' are mysteries to her. When I told her to "Eat the yogurt in the cup on your tray." That is too complicated, because she looked EVERYWHERE except at the tray in her lap., even though she has been eating from a tray in her lap for at least 7 years now. I have to stop expecting her to maintain a modicum of comprehension. If she wasn't someone I've known for 30+ years, and just a new PDN patient, I would have no trouble with her not understanding.....*I* would be more understanding of her.  But it is what it is, and one day it will NOT be what it is or was....or something like that!

I imagine that God and all the relatives in her generation that have already passed, are all up in heaven, holding their hands out in the "STOP" position, and saying, "No. please, not yet!" and inside I am arguing, "YES! SOON, dammit!" BiL said maybe that heaven was not where she was supposed to be going....!....?.....YIKES! He said that because everyone who knows her knows how difficult she's been to deal with for much of her life, and how mean, exceptionally crabby, and hateful she used to be. 

Anyway, BiL just brought over a bunch of bags of Nannie's disposable products, plus some food for our supper, and now he is going to mow the lawn. Nannie hopes "the people out there will stay out of his way", she said, but BiL assured her that  he would not run anyone over. (It is hard to run hallucinations over.)

Ado, this must be the month of the wandering mother-in-laws!

4
Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med-Surg.

Good afternoon.

Joe, hope your date goes well and you have a nice time.  I imagine outside up north in the evening is nothing like our hot muggy evenings.  The only time I spend outside is at the beach because of the breeze, otherwise it's indoor only.  LOL

J22, I hope your sister's treatment went well.

Stars, my parents are in that situation of not having any more friends left.  My dad has his sister but lost his brother.  My mother lost her brother many years ago and all her military wive friends. Dad has a couple of elderly cousins he never sees. At least Nannie doesn't have that realization.  

I sent VivaLasVegas a member here that's in hospice some flowers, a bear and some candy.  She seemed to enjoy it.  We are a few months apart in age.  When I see what a lot of my peers are going through, and that I'm often older than my very sick patients, I stop with gratitude for my own robust health, but also feel an ache about it.

I went to hot yoga class at 11:00 and am having a late lunch.  I slept in to 8:30 after getting up at 6:30 to feed the beasts.  Washing sheets.  Going to probably go to the grocery store and then lay low.

 

7
Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

I'm not being very 'good' about being understanding of Nannie's crazy restlessness. She has asked to go to the bathroom 4 times in the last 40 minutes and does not remember that she just came OUT of the bathroom AGAIN, not even 5 minutes ago. I know it is not her fault but *I* am getting crazy restless just BEING here. I don't yell at her or get abrupt with her about anything, but inside I am steaming, and it's only hurting ME!

The old saying is that when you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on tight. My saying has always been, "When you get to the end of your rope, LET GO!"

If only I could let go!

😝Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhh!!!! 😝

2
Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion