Thursday June 7 2022

Joe, Congrats on your nomination for an award ? <(couldn't find a "Blue Ribbon" award among the emoji's.) Glad your COVID test was negative. Now, if you only could see a bald eagle! ? (No eagle emoji, either.)

dianah, I'm not sure I would get on a cruise ship if you paid me! Don't care for large groups/crowds of people, have NO interest in using any of the cruise ships' water attractions (slide, pool, etc.) Won't do any sun-bathing any more. Don't want any kind of viruses, don't want to get stuck out at sea, or worse yet, stuck on the boat in a harbor and not allowed to get off....and more of the same! Now, I would consider a river cruise, but then there is always the question of co$t.

Tweety, I just love the name "Bixby"! The actor in 'The Courtship of Eddie's Father' (on TV) was Bill Bixby. I liked the movie better, Ronnie Howard was the kid and he was a fantastic actor! I might name one of my next pets BIXBY, if the shoe fits (the paw).

Got up at 10:30 AM, gave Nannie her breakfast yogurt and pills. Made myself stay awake instead of going back to bed. Hubby called at 11 AM and said they are talking about letting him come home sometime this afternoon. Y'all know how THAT goes, discharges involving all they do, before someone can get driven to the door in a wheelchair. I really don't want to bring Nannie with me, so I may do as I did yesterday, have her get up and pee and get resettled in the recliner before I leave to go get hubby. Will pick her up some lunch, and MORE of those bless'ED #6 pads to have ready for the next time she runs out. I am emptying that bathroom wastebasket every 24 hours. (Rolling my eyes out loud at the # of pads she uses up; but they ARE wet through and through.) Speaking of which, I have to do some of her laundry so she'll have clean, dry pants to wear. OY!

Welp, guess I'll do that laundry while I await 'my master's call'. (HA!)

Congratulations, Joe, on your award. It is well deserved, I am sure.

Stars, I hope all goes well for your hubby and is discharged with a good plan. Hopefully they give some written discharge instructions so you can assist with keeping follow-up appointments. 

It is cool and misty today. My co-worker who is training to our program is starting to sense the chaos that is our work. Crazy co-worker makes up her own policies and forms, and makes decisions that may be out of her scope. Very nice OCD co-worker can never finish anything, and has to rework how she does anything. For instance, a medical office will as for guidance about what to do with a positive QFT result, and she will spend a day writing a full page, single space email, and then attach 4 forms about TB screening that she rewrote. In the mean time, she is not following up on her patients. 

We went on a cruise once, and I'm not sure I would ever do it again, due to awful motion sickness. Hubby won/earned the cruise through work. We sailed out of San Diego to Cabo San Lucas. While there, we went ashore and took a four wheeler excursion, then returned and shopped a little. I think I visited the pool once, and we watched karaoke and line dancing. I spent most of the time either puking or zonked out on Dramamine. I think it was only 3 or 4 days. 

Picked up hubby from the hospital around 2:30 PM. He feels much better. There is a 'plan' for how he is to wean off the booze (he said he was drinking from about noon until bedtime  -- how much that adds up to, I don't know.) But on the way home we stopped at the ABC store and picked him up a 'sleeve' of little vodka bottles. They are each about 50 cc, I think. I told him to line up the five (to start with) bottles for the day, and space it out so that much will last and will be sufficient for that one day. He is to cut the # of little bottles down---I forget how, but he has it written down; then later in the process he will drink a small amount every other day. The docs do not want him to go into the DT's.

He does have some appointments set up, and depending on how long it takes for the pressure to build up, they will drain him again, and possibly insert that little cath and bulb thing (I can NOT remember the name of it! Does it start with the letter "J" ?) so he can (or I can) empty out the bulb and keep track of the amts we get, and let the doc(s) know at the next appt.

They told him the bottom of his left lung gets partially collapsed when the fluid builds up, He said he knew two days before he called the ambulance this time, that there was fluid squashing his lung and keeping it from expanding. They also said that his problem with his bowels is probably from the pleura also pressing down on his large intestine or something adjacent to it, and keeping things from 'moving right along'. Anyway, now that (he says) he can recognize the symptoms, he won't wait so long to have it seen to, "the next time."

So, no fever, no ulcers, no growths, no tumors; just a wonky left lung that gets marinated in some fluid which causes discomfort -> pain depending how much he has 'leaked' into the pleura.

Hubby went to get himself a sandwich and some fries. Nannie and I are kinda tired of bread/sandwiches and fries, so we are having some Beef Stroganoff from ? Panera's? (I get 'em at the grocery store) And steamed broccoli. But since Nannie ate her Subway favorite around 2 hrs ago, she isn't hungry yet.

Okie-dokie! All for now! 

(PS: The mail carrier hasn't come down our street yet today. Sometimes we get our mail as late as 7:30 PM. USPS is understaffed and overworked.)

Our mail carrier works late too, I've seen them out at 8 pm. I think a lot of people are still using Amazon for shopping, and they use the post office for a lot of local deliveries. A neighbor was complaining on facebook how the postal worker refused to deliver a 30 pound package of cat litter to the door. ?‍♀️

Are you thinking of a J-P/Jackson-Pratt drain? A JP looks like a little hand grenade and applies a little suction. I've also seen little Pleur-Evacs for home, but they are just to gravity.

YES! Jackson-Pratt! Thank you for helping me fill in the blank!

Forgot to report the weather here: 94 but with a "feels-like" of

103!

Good evening.

Stars, all the best with everything.

I've been on a couple of short cruises and they are okay, but not my normal thing.  The best was a cruise of the Greek Isles.

My friend stuck on the cruise wants to break quarantine and fly home and then quarantine here at home.  Apparently the recommendation is 10 days before getting on a flight and he wants to wait five days only.   I told him it doesn't make sense to get on a crowded plain and then quarantine at home.  His husband is a bit more reasonable and is trying to talk him out of it.   Most likely he'll do what his husband does. 

I stayed to 8pm charting.  Lost my name tag.  Again.  I'm hoping it shows up as I need it to get in and out of the garage.

Good evening, everyone. I'd do more individual responses but I am lazy about typing on this phone! 

Joe, I do want to congratulate you on the award nomination. That's great!

One of our ER nurses is out with Covid and the manager was covering her shift today. But he had a couple of interviews to do. Seems like a never-ending job to keep our little hospital staffed. So I filled in for him while he did interviews. Which means I had to miss my appointment with my therapist. *sigh*

Out of 22 ER patients yesterday, 4 had Covid. One was hypoxic and transferred out but the others mainly feverish and achy. 

Twin A stopped in Norman and brought home Arby's. Now he and Twin B are at a movie. Hubs and I watched The Orville and I texted briefly with my sister and brother. When I left work the thermometer in the truck said 104 and the bank's sign said 106. 

Congrats on the award nomination Joe.

Dianah, when the tours over Saturday the contract with some hotel in Seattle they can stay in until the 10 days are up.  There really is no way to enforce it. I think this is when he wants to leave, instead of going to the hotel he wants to catch their flight home which is the same day.  Hopefully he'll do the right thing and stay in Seattle for the rest of the 10 days.  I think though he would be free to move about Seattle it's just the flight that they say is a ten day wait.  I get it, he has pets, and a job to get back to and there's no place like home.

Got a text from a coworker.  The linen people found my badge in the linen shoot that empties to the basement.  Opps.......