Saturday September 6th 2025

Tweety, BSN, RN · Sep 6, 2025

Good morning!

Joe, hope you have a good day.

I had a long commute when I lived in Atlanta in the early 80's but rode a bus. It was annoying because the office moved from downtown nearer to where I lived to the boonies. Then I had a 30 plus minute commute when I lived hear for about five years and hated that. Now it takes me 10 minutes.

We're in the midst of Summer weather still here. Might stop by the beach later. Best friend wants me to go with him to his condo to see the progress. His contractor calls him regularly with updates and then he wants to go see it. Some of the flooring is going down and when that's done he's starting to talk about getting his furnishings he's ordered that are on old at various stores delivered. He needed new everything.

I got another medical bill for $50. I paid it to get it out of the way on my app while I was getting my sleeping pill renewed and now I can't figure out what it's for. Unless it's co-pay for labs. Looks like there's one more pending claim for the last lab I sent. Did you know stool PCR tests are over $2000 and I've had three of them? This illness has cost me over $1000. Hopefully since I've paid my $750 deductible this last test will all be covered.

I'm still in the "hang in there, it may take a few weeks" phase. See GI in a week for follow up. I'll have to remember to ask what a "few weeks" is...two? three? 10? LOL

Anyway.....after that TMI I'll finish breakfast and head to the gym. Got up around 4:30 and fed Waffles and gave her eye drops and then went back to bed and slept until 8:00.

Have a great day.

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · Sep 6, 2025

Woke up at 10 AM, BiL was out in the back of the house putting up the railings around the cement steps that go to the door in the dining-room. I took my meds, made some coffee, fed Tinker and crawled back into bed and slept another 2 hours. When I came downstairs (after I got dressed, of course) I saw that Nannie was up in her recliner. She had taken off all her disposables and put on a pair of pants (commando!) and pulled another jersey over her pj tops. Fortunately she was NOT terribly wet. I took her into the bathroom and got her rigged up and dressed correctly, then back out to the recliner and gave her breakfast. I told her I had to make a brief run to the convenience store and I'd be back quickly.

Well, you just KNOW I had to get a few of the lottery tickets for the billion or so dollars that are hanging out there waiting to be won. I'll be ticked off if someone in West Timbucktoo-or-three wins it all! HEY! That's *MY* money!! 🤑

I got the lavender seeds in the netting, and laid it out around Momo's grave. I don't know if it was supposed to be laid out with the white cotton side up and the seeds in the mesh on the down-side, but that's how I did it. And I had a package of wooden skewers which I used to keep it pegged down on the ground, as it was a bit windy. Anyway, bending over to push those skewers in the dirt made the sweat roll into my eyes and onto my glasses. Then the fronts of my thighs began screaming at me to stand up, dammit! So I sat on the ground to finish with the stakes, and it was not as easy as I thought it should be to get up.....but I did it! WHEW!

It is 89 degrees with a 'feels like' of 98+ degrees. The humidity was only 55% but it felt like 80%. Having a bit of a thunderstorm and rain right now; the rain saves me from having to go back out and wet down the netting and seeds.

I'm going to run upstairs and get 1/2 Xanax, as Nannie is being particularly difficult right now. I made some of SiL's taco soup she'd sent over for us, and when I sat down and got one spoonful in my mouth, Nannie said, "Is there enough of that for me?" Now, she USUALLY says she isn't hungry until at least 6:30 PM, but I said okay, and put mine down and went up to get her a 1/2 cup of it. She wanted to know where her dessert was, and I said I was saving it for her to take with her meds later, because it is too early for her medicine right now. She ate the potato chips and 1/2 cheese sandwich, drank all of her juice, then looked at the taco soup and said "I don't believe I can eat all this." I asked her to at least try it, and she put an itty-bitty scoop on her teaspoon, and after that barely-there taste, told me she believed it was too much. If I had put it in a different container she may have eaten more of it; I should have put it in a much smaller cup. Oh well. I don't care, except that she is being quite irritating. NOW I know why hubby used to eat up at the kitchen table; ya can't get your supper ET without having to leave it 4-5 times for some Nannie edict or request.

She can't WAIT for anything because she doesn't remember within 10 seconds that she is supposed to be waiting. And if ya don't do it, she starts to hold the tray and get out of the chair with the foot-rest still up at the same time.I knew the cup of soup would spill over if she kept up with her activity, so I got up and took it all away from her, put the taco soup in a container with a lid and into the fridge it went. When I sat down again to resume my by-now-quite-tepid meal, she wanted to know what kind of animal it was on the side of the patio within her range of vision. I said, "Bird, cat, dog, rabbit, or what?" She didn't know. I said that if there was a creature outside, Tinker would be at the window growling at it. I was determined NOT to "have to" leave my meal until it as all gone!

The news will be coming on in about hour or so, and I want to be calm for that, because last night I 'had to' explain EVERYTHING to her, and I mean E_V_E_R_Y_T_H_I_N_G!!! So upstairs I go for the Xanax before anything else!

Instead of No Stars in My Eyes, you can call me MANY Crabs in My Eyes. Oooch. That sounds bad. I was talking about edible , like Maryland, crabs, not the kind spread from one pubic area to another! YIKES!

Obviously I need to stop now and rein in my brain.

No Stars In My Eyes, LPN · Sep 6, 2025

As I picked up some of the things from the coffee table, Nannie said "Where are you going? What are you doing?" I told her I was taking the supper tray up to put the dirty dishes in the sink and toss the trash, and then I was going up to my room for a moment to take some medicine. Does that suit you?" and she said, "No...." and started talking about her shoes. I said "Wait a minute, I just said I am going upstairs to do some things." and as I started up the stairs she again said something about her shoes, and I said that "Right now I am not taking care of you, I am taking care of MYSELF." and she said, "Uh, wellllll...." And I said, "Well nuthin'. I'll be back down here in a few minutes." She clamped her mouth shut with tight jaws and started frowning.

When I came back down, she was blowing her nose into a paper towel. then started to fold it up and put it back on her stack of clean paper towels on the table beside her, I said, "Wait a minute, if you just used that, you don't need to fold it and put it back with the other paper towels." She kept doing that and then wiped her mouth and eyes with the same paper towel. I told her to put the used paper-towel on the other table beside her, and I would throw it out when I got up again. She slammed the thing down on the arm of her chair and then rubbed her hand on it to make it lay flat and looked at me with her triumphant "SO THERE!" expression. I told her, "That's good Nannie. spread your germs everywhere." She informed me she doesn't HAVE any germs!

That's why I have to take my 1/2 Xanax, because I KNOW better than to argue with someone who has dementia, but I just could not make myself hush up. She really pushes a person's buttons for all she is worth, and she has been that way all her life, for REAL! But since I am the only one here with her, I get her dart aimed at my bulls-eye, and silly me, I have to mouth off again! I am not proud of myself, but at least even though they are not here right now, the other members of her family absolutely KNOW how she is and how she gets going. Hubby used to tell her, "If you want to argue. I will be happy to argue with you, RIGHT NOW! So, what is it you have to say?" and she would shut right up and turn away from him.

Ach! Besides which whenever my phone rings she wants to know who it was and what they wanted and what they said. That is also irritating, no matter what! It ain't her phone, she doesn't have a phone, and she doesn't know anyone who would want to speak with her, anyway.

I'm sorry, the Xanax hasn't kicked in yet, but I'd better just stop here and fold down the lap-top.

GRRRRRRR! 🤐

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Sep 7, 2025

Decent day. Slept in the evening last n8ght but no more sick stomach. Was careful about eating and drinking today.

I went to help staff a booth the local Democrats had at the county fair. We were in the showbarn and there was not a lot of traffic. Temp was in the 70s but it got hot in the barn.

Watched OU beat Michigan on the TV. 🏈

I'm really getting spoiled by my short drive to work. When I was working in OKC I never thought it was a bad commute (32 miles) but the thought of doing that now is daunting. I guess I'll do it if I have to at some point.