Saturday June 15th 2024

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Stars maybe something like an overbed table might help

Ado I felt the same way yesterday

NJ22 glad the golf lessons are going well

Dianah here's hoping your trip goes smoothly

Yesterday was fairly good.  Work wasn't bad, had time during lunch to pick up the car from the body shop, and had time to get the stuffed mushrooms done

Then I began to feel a bit warm and "off", so I checked my temperature and, lo and behold, I had a fever.  So skipped the potluck and instead went to the store to get Covid tests.  First one was negative, thankfully, will do one more to be sure.  So far only symptoms are fever fatigue and headache

In one sense it was a pain that this happened now...in addition to last night's potluck I was supposed to have lunch with dad today and host a restaurant outing with the over 50 group.  Thankfully someone else was able to take over the latter

In another sense it was good...all the stuff I needed to do, like grocery shopping, laundry, picking up the car, and work...all got done before I got sick

Not going to do much today.  Will isolate as much as possible until symptoms subside.  Will likely work on some CEUs and take it easy.  

Svengoolie has The Pit and the Pendulum, which I have not seen before.  Might check that out, it has Vincent Price

 

 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Good morning!

Joe, get well soon.  Hope it runs it's course quickly.

Not much going on here.  My last two days at work were relatively uneventful.  Slept in this morning.  

I got a notice today that I'm enrolled in medicare and what the various deadlines are and that I should get my medicare card soon.  Seems a bit surreal to me.

Have a great day!

[No Stars In My Eyes]

At some point, I FELL (rolled) OUT OF BED last night! I woke up sitting on the floor with my left arm up on the bedside table, and said "WHOT-THE-HUH?" I had turned over to my right side and apparently scooted my butt too close to the edge of the mattress and down I went! (I sleep in a twin-size bed with one side against the wall.) I didn't hurt anything except my feelings. In a month and a week I will be 75 and am shocked at these weird moments of senior 'shenanigans' occurring more often. I'd tell myself to be more careful, but I was sound asleep until I landed, so I don't know how to be more aware when I am sleeping!

BiL arrived to get the lawn-moaner 🙃 and take it to his house work on it. Might be water in the tank, or have a plugged filter. Nannie just had to tell me all about it, although I was sitting right here the whole time. And, I was surprised to learn that HE had given her the breakfast tray! (or so she says; but it was me who set her up to eat.) Her explanations about events and people are getting really FAR OUT, man! 

More laundry to do today. Only thing I forgot to get at the store yesterday (because I ALWAYS forget something!) was a gallon of milk. I can run to the convenience store for that, it's maybe pricier there, but it is closer, so a short trip.

I think I may be more anxious to get that cast off of Nannie's left hand and wrist than she is! She doesn't remember that she fell out in the yard, she doesn't remember going to the Urgent Care Center, nor that the doctor at the Ortho place yanked and pulled hard TWICE on her left hand to get the bones aligned. She has fiddled a bit with the wrap near her knuckles, but I tucked it back into place. I will have to figure out which of her tops (shirt/blouse/jersey/sweater) we can get over the cast, and there's going to be two more weeks of this! 🤨 GROAN and GRIPE! 

My PCP says I am a "born caregiver", but I wouldn't mind NOT doing quite so much of that, born that way or not. I do still have a difficult time taking care of ME! I don't think I am as good at it as I used to be; resentment is often in me, even when I try to be nicer about it. She can't help the dementia getting worse as time passes, but time passes soooo s-l-o-w-l-y with regards to that. She is still physically healthy except for age-related bodily changes. Just has swiss-cheese for brains, though that never stops her from trying to explain everything that she doesn't actually understand. OY! 🙄 It is simultaneously funny and very annoying, but I am TIRED of it!

BUT at least my financial woes have lightened, so I can't complain about that! 😁

Now it's 2 PM, and there are 8 more hours until 😴 her bedtime. I THINK and pray she is going to start napping shortly. Guess I'd better start attacking the laundry now, so at least that will get done by the time she goes to bed. Honestly, sometimes I forget all  about the laundry, until an ad on TV says something about laundry detergent! Then I say "OH!" and jump up to load and reload and dry and fold. (We seldom have the TV on until the 6 PM local news.)

I wish there was something easy and fun going on in my life. I know I should be making time for that for myself, but it seems any of those attempts fall through so often. Oh well. I wake up breathing every morning, and I am pretty relatively healthy, all things considered, so I just keep plugging away and hoping for a positive window to open for positive changes.

It will be in the low 90's today, but FEEL LIKE 99 degrees and be very humid/muggy. Good day to stay inside again.

Laundry, Stars! Get to it!

 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Excuse me, please, but I just HAVE to say:

SCREEEEECH!   ☹️😝😳😵😭

In 3 minutes time, Nannie asked me, "Who is that in the back yard and what is he  doing?"....SEVEN TIMES in three minutes, she asked me that!....And I answered her every time.

It is her youngest son mowing the lawn with the riding lawn mower. 

This is beyond dementia.

I wish I could cry or something, but it is hard to even summon spit. And I'd have to pay if I kicked out the glass from the French doors. EGADS!

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Nannie would not agree to eating supper until after 8:30, and only wanted a p'butter sandwich. That was easy enough. Since it was getting late and she was pretty much ready to go to bed anyway, I went ahead and gave her the supper and PM pills at the same time. Shortly I will thankfully pop her into bed.

This has been a depressing day, but tomorrow is another day, so maybe it won't be so tedious.