Sunday March 5 2024 Cinco de Mayo

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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Stars hope today proves pretty quiet

Tweety glad the day was pretty calm

Dianah it was a group for people over 50.  It would be great if we got 50 people but apart from virtual events I don't think that's happened before

The hike with the over 50 group was again just the organizer and myself, one other person who signed up didn't show.  Since the nature hike was pretty short the 2 of us decided to keep going.  We hiked for almost 2 hours and saw a good variety of birds

Then came back and had lunch with dad.  Then drove nearby to meet with one of the people from the gay group.  Was nice to have time to talk and hang out a bit, we do that at potlucks too but there are so many people there it makes extended conversation difficult

Came home and watched most of the Svengoolie move, it was OK

Today have church, will be assisting so I will be there a bit early.  Will do the cooking before church.  After church will bake some bread I started earlier as well as do some exercise

Will be a cooler day today in the mid 60s, no rain expected

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Good morning!

Joe, that's pretty cool you made a connection at the potlucks to see outside of there.  

Not much happening here.  Dog woke me up at 5:15 and I had trouble sleeping so I've been up since.  Want to see a movie with best friend so want to take a nap since I didn't get a lot of sleep.  He wants to stream some Woody Allen movie.

Dianah, they switched the hot yoga for this one time which is a convenient time for me.  There is a 9AM class I can go to so I hope to do that instead of the class I went to yesterday.  The schedule that was most convenient for me on both Tuesdays and Saturdays has now been changed, but they haven't totally eliminated the 90 minutes hot classes so I can adjust.

 

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

Good Afternoon~

I woke up at 11 AM but only to pee, and then I lay back down again and next thing I knew it was 1 PM. I honestly can't remember if I took my AM pills or not. Grrr. This is getting to be a 'thing' with me. My hips got better yesterday, but this morning (afternoon) they are once again aching to beat the band. Strange expression, isn't it? Wonder WTH 'beating the band ' MEANS? I'll look it up later, but right now, I am really barely awake. 

It poured and poured and poured rain last night, I mean HEAVY rain! This morning the poor flowers Nannie has hanging in pots where she can see them from her chair, are really quite badly beaten up. It might rain more later, so I put them under the carport to try to recuperate. That way, Nannie won't have to tell me more than the six times she already mentioned their condition, in five minutes. Now she has switched to showing me how her pants, socks, shoes and jacket all contain matching colors. "See? And look here..." I mean, I'm the one who dressed her, so it's not like I don't know about the color matches, but she is always so thrilled, when I bring her clothes for the day into the bathroom, she smiles and claps her hands like it's a present or something. I guess I'd rather hear repeatedly about how wonderfully her colors match, rather than explain why the flowers are looking so poorly. 

I'm going up to the kitchen to brew me another cup'o'java; I have had trouble remembering which day of the week it is, so it's a good thing my phone and laptop tell me that info. I got a message from SiL that she is working, doing inventory at one of the ABC Stores tomorrow, and will come over to get Nannie, um, what did she say? I guess it'll be .....Tuesday? 

I need to hit the coffee pot now, so I'll take whichoo'alls laydah.....

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

I meant TALK, not take....

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I had to take 1/2 Xanax so I don't come apart all over Nannie. I KNOW a pt. w/ dementia isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I have had her asking SO MANY questions, repeatedly, I want to scream. It really gets quite irritating. The Weatherman, standing in front of the weather map....she says, "WHO is HE?" and "What is he doing?", and "What did he say?", and "I don't understand what this is all about." And about the commercial we see all the time: "When is this program going to go off?", and "What are they talking about?"....it goes on and on...............and on..................and on X  2,309,746, 009, ad nauseum. 

And that doesn't count the four times she went in to the bathroom this past 1/2 hour, and did NOTHING, and there was nothing there when I checked her, nor was anything there the 5th time she had to go into the bathroom. And if you ask her, she doesn't even know if she peed or pooped, or even if she still feels like she might need to.

I am going to have to bring my laptop upstairs so I can't rev up more, so I won't be spending the rest of the evening doing more cranky griping. I mean, I am even getting tired and bored with myself, and I KNOW Nannie isn't going to magically hush and go to bed (2 hours until her bedtime.) I wish I could go upstairs and shut my door and let the rest of the night unfold QUIETLY. I really SOOOOOO much to want to be ALONE. I have been thinking of Joan Armetrading, and think that I must have mentioned her and her song, already earlier this week, singing, "ME, MYSELF, I".  That's me: "I just want to be alone, (Six days to be alone), with just me, myself and I, me, myself and I, just me, myself, myself and I."

AUGH. Bye for now.

 

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Specializes in RETIRED Cath Lab/Cardiology/Radiology.

(((((((((((((((((( No Stars ))))))))))))))))))))  I hope Nannie's bedtime comes soon, and without drama.  And that you gain some peace in your mind. 

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