Saturday March 1st 2025

abbnurse · Mar 1

Tweety, so sorry to hear about Slobro. You're a good, caring doggie daddy. ❤️ He had a wonderful life.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Mar 1

Thanks for all the kind support.

Working this weekend. Best to keep busy.

Waffles looked around for Slowbro and was sitting in his spot.

No Stars In My Eyes · Mar 1

Picturing Waffles sitting in Slowbro's spot made me tear up some. We had to put Pippy down before we put Ozzie down, but I don't think Ozzie even realized she was gone; they weren't "close buddies" like some dogs are.

Gonna be warm (^60's) and sunny and VERY, VERY windy today.

Woke up at 7:45 AM and went to pee, and there was Nannie, about to come up to the third level again. I told her to turn around and go back down to her chair in the den and I would come down and give her breakfast tray to her. So she did, and then I did.

I ached something fierce this AM, but after I gave Nannie breakfast, I told her I was going back to bed to wait for the arthritis pills to do their job. I slept until noon. At some point during that time, I had reached over and got my sippy cup to take a drink, but I must've fallen asleep before I put the sippy cup back on the nightstand, because when I woke up I was soaking wet. I thought I had sweated a lot or something, but when I looked, the sheet had a large oval area of wetness at my shoulders. Great. Now I have to strip my bed and do a laundry. No rest for the weary!

Got Nannie up out of the recliner to bring her to the bathroom to get her dressed. She doesn't even know the difference between the bedroom and the bathroom any more: "Here?" No, the BATHroom, not the BEDroom. She loses more mentally every week now. I told her to put her glass down on the table beside her chair and she looked EVERYWHERE except at that table beside her left side. And no sense in saying it 's on the table beside your left arm, because she no longer knows left from right. Just...OY! Then about 15 minutes later when she asked about going into her bathroom, and I asked her if she needed to pee. She said yes. So after she got on the toilet I asked her again if she had to pee, and she said she didn't know. I told her she had asked to come to the toilet, and she said "You want me to go sit on the toilet?" I said, "No, you are already sitting the toilet. Are you going to pee?" She said she couldn't tell and I told her to try; then she peed. Mah gawd. Pitiful.

Did you read that Buffy Sainte Marie has been stripped of her Order of Canada, because it was discovered that she is not an indigenous Canadian? She was born to white parents in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Her song "After the Buffalo's Gone" was the first one I ever learned on guitar. // And tRump 'pardoned' Pete Rose also. Too bad it had to be tRump doing the pardoning, and too bad Rose wasn't alive to hear he was pardoned. In my opinion, he should've been pardoned and then put in the Hall of Fame quite a while back. He was a great baseball player, regardless of him being kind of an idiot to bet against his own team.

I am putting off checking the numbers of my NC Mega-Millions ticket, because I probably won NOTHING and I don't want to feel disappointed that 'another one bites the dust'. But at least the Mega-Millions and the other 'big draw' tickets are only two bucks apiece, so losing them isn't as traumatic on the wallet as buying and losing $10 and $20 scratch offs.

"Are we going out anywhere today?" The answer is a resounding (quietly) "No, we have no plans or reasons to go out." The way I figure it, I am here as a caregiver, not a companion to keep her entertained or drive her around for a ride. SiL does that sometimes, when she has her out, but I don't feel like wasting my gas and time doing so. Trying to "talk" in the car is hard because under ordinary, quieter circumstances it is difficult to hear her, and then, since her hearing has become worse, sometimes she doesn't even hear at all that I am talking to her. There's a LOT of "What? What? What"-ing? going on in the car.

I reckon I will be staying on 'Nannie Overload' until something changes.

nursej22, MSN, RN · Mar 1

Yawn. I was energetic this morning--went for my first jog/walk in 2 weeks, then took the dogs for a walk. I was out in the yard, cleaning around sprouting flowers, cutting off some errant branches, potted up some plant starts that I got at the garden show. I came in to grab a sandwich, sat down, and I can hardly keep my eyes open. Another nice day, partly cloudy. I wonder about future weather forecasts...

I saw an article about cedar tree pollen, so I started taking Claritin. I have seasonal allergies but I don't like to take stuff year round if I don't need it.

I suppose I should breakdown and cook dinner tonight. Perhaps spaghetti. I still haven't gone to the store to get ricotta for my cake so I could get a loaf of french bread. dh and youngest ds like garlic bread with their pasta.

Stars, I think I've said this before that my hubby often speaks in a soft voice and it fades out. The ENT says he has a paralyzed vocal cord and recommended speech therapy. The therapist books 3 months out, so dh doesn't think it's worth the wait. I do! because I get so tired of asking him to repeat what he says, or stop what I'm doing so I can move to being directly in front of him to hear him. He thinks it's no big deal, but some days I just say argggggh!

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Mar 2

I keep urging Hubs to keep offering his mom things to eat. Sometimes she will. Especially things she can pick up with her fingers. Anyway, the other night I went to take her some and she hurled the bowl away. To her credit, she seemed to be trying to avoid throwing it at me. Or maybe she was trying to pick a place where it would hit something and break. I was more worried about my Fiestaware bowl.

I hadn't heard that Trump "pardoned" Pete Rose. Does that mean Charlie Hustle can finally be in the Hall of Fame? There might be one good thing to come out of this administration.

I'm pretty sure Dory missed Darby. Not sure the cats showed much reaction to the loss of either dog. Sam seems to be more sociable with Turbo gone.