Thursday November 7th 2024

Tweety, BSN, RN · Nov 7, 2024

Good morning!
Bacon wrapped anything sounds good. We don't heparinize lines where I work. I wouldn't think it necessary in a line being used three times a day but what do I know?

Ado, sorry you had to cancel your trip due to the airlines. Is GMA on hospice or was she too highly functioning? My parents in their 90's are not on hospice yet, but if they decline slowly, I know we'll have a hard time with that.

Did you find that envelope Stars?

I took my anxiety ridden self to see Cyndi Lauper last night. Tickets were only $25 in nose bleed section. Great show that I and best friend enjoyed a lot. There was some sort of traffic issue and it took us 1.5 hours to take what should have been a 30 minute trip. But I deliberately left 2.5 hours early because of this possibility and it happens to me every time. I hate Tampa traffic these days. Got a nice un-vegan bacon cheeseburger and chips before the show at the venue. Cost $19 for the burger and $5 for water.

My mood is so negative right now, after two hurricanes and losing everything I voted for in this election here in Florida. I swear if it was practical, I'd pack up and go west tomorrow.

Have the air conditioner guys coming by to instal new parts that could potentially stop the issue from recurring. It seems to be running well since he tinkered with it yesterday.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Nov 7, 2024

That appetizer sounds amazing, Joe.

Tweety, Gma is on hospice. Based on what Hubs was telling me the other night, I wondered if we needed to call them but after checking on her I decided she was doing reasonably well. She ate better yesterday and stayed out of bed most of the day (dozing in the chair).

I was in such a funk that I actually was browsing through houses and jobs in Colorado and New Mexico last night. But it isn't practical, especially while Gma is still with us. In general, I love my current job but I could make more $$ elsewhere, I think, based on the rates I see.

No Stars In My Eyes · Nov 7, 2024

Have to call the woman SiL talked to about Nannie being eligible for some respite care. She is eligible for 44 hours within a 'temporary' (?) period of 90 days....comes out to 4 hours a day, one day, for each of 11 (not 12) weeks....or I could take longer days for fewer weeks. Not a heck of a lot of respite, actually, for the time allowed. I'll take anything I can get, but night shifts aren't needed, so it is still just a few of the hours of a day, here and there. So here's where I say OH WELL ! It would be a mackerel (miracle) if the Senior Day Care Center would come through ASAP, as that would add some more days when SiL would take Nannie in the AM and drop her off there and I would go pick her up around suppertime. Nannie is not anywhere near the bed bound stage. She does spend more time staring blankly at the floor, and if possible her talking has become less sensible because between the start of a thought or sentence and the 'conclusion' of same, the subject is forgotten before she gets even half-way through.

I thought of removing the flag from our front porch, or hanging it upside-down, but I don't want to attract any attention from the folks around here who think and believe that the newly elected Prezidon't is THE answer to the USA's problems. So I keep my lips zipped about my real feelings.

I did NOT put my clean piles of dry, folded clothes away yet. !!! ☹️ I feel sapped of energy just thinking about it. And I am so good at procrastinating.

As Annie Hall used to say...."Lah-dee-dah, lah-dee-dah."

No Stars In My Eyes · Nov 7, 2024

Called the woman back about Nannie's respite care. She said she will contact the woman who is going to send me a letter and then call me about Nannie's needs. And that's all I know for now! (She also said something about daycare, like, from 9 AM to 1 PM, but that does nothing for me!) Anyway it will all come out in the wash....meanwhile I 'agitate' with nothing in the washer's tub so far.

I thought it's Wednesday, and I am so glad it is actually Thursday, because that means Chatty CG will be here in....well she is supposed to come at 1 PM, but she is one of those people who always comes at least 5 minutes, if not 10 minutes late.....so in 30 to 40 minutes I expect her arrival. I may let her get Nannie up out of bed and get her dressed, I mean, really! I can fix the breakfast tray and put the meds on it. But a lot of times Nannie comes out of her room just before CG's time, in which case *I* will be getting her up and dressed.

SO! I get to do my search for the checks I have already received, and maybe I can also find my house-keys with all the store cards attached. I sure hope so. They would most likely be in one of the piles of stuff in the bottom of my old closet, or under the mess beside the bedside shelving....or in a pocket or pocket book? Orrrrrr....maybe they fell into the wastebasket that was beside my bed in there? In which case, they are LONG gone, and another "Oh Well" is called for. But I I'll have time to search, anyway!

Supposed to be 80 degrees and sunny, unless you look over at another forecast right beside that one which says "mostly cloudy with a 71% chance of rain" sometime this afternoon. But, big whoop, as I will be inside, so whoooo cares?!

I will LOOK at some of the headlines in the on-line news-feeds, but not read the stories, and I believe I will skip watching the local and network news at 6 and 6:30 PM broadcasts again this evening. I don't need the sunken stomach of dread accompanied by the heebie-jeebies.

So, Nannie got up 10 minutes before CG arrived, and I got to wash her up and get her dressed and give her the meds and breakfast. Then, when CG came in, we were treated to info I MIGHT be able to use, a shop with bins of stuff, and on Tuesdays every item is sold for only $3.00 ! She was telling us all the things she got for $3 that would otherwise have been anywhere from $20-$200+! She also barters on-line and got tattoos on her left arm, that would've been a couple hundred dollars, for only $3.00. And since she loves to purchase things on sale, she then resells much of it on-line, with a decent, but not outrageous, mark-up. One woman bought from her 3 t-shirts, 3 pairs of pants, a jacket, and SIX pair of shoes! I can't remember how much she got on all that. I wouldn't have the patience to even just SHOP, never mind selling stuff on line! But I am willing to go look at the $3 Tuesday, and maybe I will find some random thing I can use, but I don't expect to paw through all of it. A shop like that, my sister would spend hours looking through EVERYTHING, Boy did I ever hate shopping with her! I go into a store and look for what I'm wanting/needing , and if I can't easily locate it, I'm OUTTA THERE! Like a good New Englander I will: "Use it up, make it do, wear it out." so I don't shop much unless I HAVE TO.

Okay, I have broken free of her conversation and am now about to search for the things I already told you about.

No Stars In My Eyes · Nov 7, 2024

Searched my bedroom, but alas, no checks, and no house keys with store cards on the key ring. Which means that tomorrow (or whenever, over the weekend) I will have to start in on my old bedroom where there are some boxes where I pitched some things when I was moving from the old to the new bedroom, and have not looked through those yet. Went through every drawer in my desk,and the 4-drawer filing cabinet, too. I just called the bank to get them to order me two more checkbooks and have them shipped post haste, as I only have 3-4 checks in my wallet; it doesn't matter if I find the other ones later, I can use them even if the numbers are out of order. I know the missing ones weren't stolen or lost outside the house anywhere. I mean, yes, my environment is cluttered and bit messy, and I frustrate myself by just tossing stuff down when I don't have time to keep things organized, but That's how it gets when I don't have free time.

Lately Nannie has had to be paid closer attention to because her Alzheimer's and dementia double-team on her, making her think she is more "able" than she actually is. And she sulks if she is left alone in the den for too long. Well, heck, she's been sulking more these days even when I am sitting 10 feet away from her. I don't often initiate conversations, for one because I have to repeat anything I say to her 3 times. The first time she looks at me with a blank face, then the second time she says, "What?" and then she doesn't always hear or understand much of the third time I repeat something.

And guess what! I PUT AWAY ALL THE CLEAN CLOTHES that have been sitting in the laundry basket for, what, maybe three weeks? YAAAAAAYYYY, ME! 😀

Kind of nice to be lounging on my bed with Momo and observing my clean room. It is quite peaceful when it is neatened up! I have quit the search for the day.

One hour until Chatty CG leaves, and then I will have to heat up the supper SiL brought over for Nannie yesterday.

I am exhausted. Last night I talked Nannie into going to bed at 9:30 instead of waiting until 10. She was watching TV through little slits of her eyelids, and agreed it would feel good to get in her bed. Maybe it will happen again tonight? Maybe?

No Stars In My Eyes · Nov 7, 2024

Talk about someone being chatty....that appears to be ME today! I just have nobody to talk to or with here at The Nannie-Banannie Household.

Hope I'm not wearing y'all out-----

nursej22, MSN, RN · Nov 7, 2024

Hi. Pleasant day here. I had a nice jog, and then walked the dogs. I met a nice lady waiting for her para-transit van to take her to her chiropractor. She asked about the dogs, told me about her daughter's dog, and asked where I lived. I was just 3 doors from her duplex. She is from Brooklyn and had that marvelous accent.

I've not done a lot else, except nap. I was up a lot last night with abdominal complaints. We went out to eat at a Waffle restaurant. I had a savory one with cheese, bacon, and scrambled eggs. And I had a cup of toasted coconut almond bark tea, that was quite good.

The Master Gardeners asked me to be a mentor for the upcoming class that dh will be in. I assented, but asked not to be in dh's mentor. I think he will benefit from others' perspective. And he can always ask me questions anyway.

Interesting about using SASH for flushing. I think our hospital did away with that because people were getting too much heparin, and they switched to PICCs with one way valves. Although I see when my sister had one for outpatient chemo, they flushed hers with heparin post infusion.