Sunday March 29th 2026

Woke up at 9:30 AM and amazingly enough, I am still awake an hour+ later. Part of me would like to disregard the 'need' to stay awake, because sleep is a good escape from reality. But, oh well, oh well.

I only have the usual tasks: dishes, laundry, and tolerating a looooong day of being in the presence of SWNWNBM (She Whose Name Will Not Be Mentioned). Tonight's supper will be an "everything" frozen pizza, an easy-peasy 15 minutes in the oven and it's done.

I have started doing something that I am sure SiL and possibly a PT won't approve of: Because Nannie is a lurching, ricocheting ambulator even with a walker and gait belt, I have just had her sit on the rollator to push her in and out of the bathroom. They may want to 'make her stronger', but it puts me at a disadvantage physically. I am not willing to end up with an injury to myself trying to prevent an injury to her, mid-way.  I can do her other AM and PM care, but the "walking to strengthen her" part is, to me, a dubious proposition for both of us, so let 'em squawk.

Guess I will get up and get dressed and knock off the dirty dishes task. Then I will putter around, maybe, until I can no longer put off the main 'bout of getting whats'ername up, dressed, and into her recliner. If she has a spasm of being  ("I CAN'T!")  impossible, instead of me giving her a med, I will have to take a 1/2 Xanax for my own nerves. 

Hope your cat continues to do better, Joe. And all the rest of youse guys feel a LOT better today, too. My goal is just to endure the day, because there is no 'seizing the day'. I will just continue to try ("there is no 'try'.....there is only 'do' or  'don't do") being calmer in my dealings with her, if I can, or until I can't anymore.

Yesterday afternoon, she talked for a full hour, with LOTS of tossed salad words scrambled together with much of it barely audible, and more than a few changes in trying to find the right letter that begins a word she is trying to come up with("p-p-t-w-c-t-s")  what the people on TV are saying or doing, and why. And although there are none, people who are in the back yard, or guys who came into the house and said this or that, or what she said, he said.....and in between the "Oh, I don't know" and  "Oh, YOU know what I mean." accompanied by hand gestures that are supposed to suffice for words, she went on with  "And, umm..." demarking a transition to another subject, oh, only about 3 dozen times....?. All I could do was keep looking at her, with my CHIN resting on my hand which was covering my mouth. JEESH! I thought she'd never hush.

And so it goes.....

Yep, Nope, didn't do the dishes YET. But since Nannie's bed looked like a tornado had landed on it and swirled all the covers every-which-way, so it got a lot of it wet, I decided to change her bedding. ? Now she has a load of laundry in the dryer, and another one waiting to go into the dryer, and another load to wash/dry/fold. w00t.

One of these hours, I will PROBABLY do the dishes. Nannie is conked out, sleeping; she woke up briefly and said, "Oh! How long have I been sleeping?" Maybe 1/2 an hour. So she said, "Okay." and went right back to sleep. The magic of Tylenol ? with her AM meds. Oh what a relief it is!

I should take Tinker on another walk around the periphery of the yard, while N. is sleeping. 

Regarding the 1/2 Xanax for you... I had a friend whose young daughter was diagnosed with ADHD or something else (it has been awhile). When she took her child to the doctor to talk about it she said, "One of us needs medication."

Tinker iz n'heet aginn. I can tell because there are little red blops everywhere she's sat. ?

G'day. 

Joe, hope you cat gets better without going inpatient.

I stopped to get Chinese on the way home today.  At 7:20 they decided to pull a nurse because of a late call out.  Really who calls out at 7:20 on a Sunday when shift starts at 6:45.  Plus we had one tech for 20 patients and the other side had no tech for 12 patients and two nurses.  It's one of those I hate med-surg and my life days.

On the bright side, I'm off for three days.  Nothing much coming up.  Have to get my blood work done for my annual physical but nothing much on the agenda.

Hi. I just came in from a walk, and it's a little chilly at 42. It rained a little, but now it's sunny. I spent a couple of hours yesterday and today at the potting area at the demo garden. Even though the park is closed because of flooding earlier in the week, the staff let us come in to work because we are so far behind. I potting up a bunch of plants I lifted from my yard, and pruned and fertilized some roses that were donated for our big plant sale, I came home and did laundry and put a roast in the oven. 

I booked a facial for myself for tomorrow. I am trying to get myself out of the doldrums. I also booked a massage for Thursday and a haircut next week. 

When my daughter had her first child and he was sooooo fussy, her OB/GYN pointed out that Xanax is excreted in breast milk. 

Stars, I think it's perfectly acceptable to roll SWWNBN to and from the toilet. You both have to be safe. If SiL wants her walked, then...