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Joe, you're a better man than me continuing to make plans with someone that seems to cancel 80% of the time. I'd stay friends online and text but not make plans. Maybe I'm catty.
Stars, that price is out of reach for many but sounds like a normal price considering it's q2h checks. My ex-in laws paid about that for Assisted Living. That's a lame excuse Mr. Stars gives for missing a doctor's appointment. Now he just has a new excuse to drink because of the stress and worry over Nannie and finances. I do hope it all works out.
I'm actually having Indian food for brunch, a microwave veggie and rice dish. It has too many peas and I'm not a fan of peas. I love Indian food.
I went to the dentist for some tooth pain and got the bad news I might need a root canal. But in order to save $1500 for a new crown since the pain is under a crown I got last year I have to go to an endodontist who can work with the crown. Then return to the dentist for a filling on the crown. It has to be done and will be big bucks even with insurance. But I do have money in my health savings account. Why is it "endodontist" and "dentist". Seems like it would be endodentist.
I got a text last night that my CPR class tomorrow will be via Zoom. Not sure how that will work with demonstrating skills but I paid for a class that gets the CPR card the same day so we'll see. I'm sure during covid they fine tuned how to do it remotely.
Last night I used an emeals recipe for chicken that used curry powder and coconut milk, ginger, and garlic. I left onion out for Hubs' benefit but he didn't eat any anyway. Twin A and Gma and I enjoyed it. Twin B slept. Hubs finished replacing the top on the convertible and we went for a ride yesterday evening since it was finally warm (86-- the warmest day yet this year).
Stars, it sounds like you might be getting close to having Nannie placed. Good for you!
I can definitely relate to the desire to get away. Sunday night Twin B called and asked me to bring some things to the hospital for him because he had forgotten them. I took Dory the dog with me and after we had delivered the things, I asked Dory if she wanted to run away with me. But I didn't know what we could do because I didn't have any money and wasn't wearing a bra. I took her silence to mean we should just go home. I shared that story on facebook and I think one friend took me somewhat seriously and said "use a charge card. Stop at Walmart for anything you need". Maybe she really thinks I need to run away, after spending time with Hubs last week. LOL.
Having an OK day here. Partly sunny, temp in the low 50s. I went for a short bike ride, that felt really slow, but that's OK. I walked up one small hill. Then I took angus to the (new to us vet) and he did really well, until they tried a blood draw. So I am going to give him some doggy downers and take him back next Tuesday. We went back to sis's house to get some pruning done. There's more to be done, but we made a dent. Then we grabbed some Mickie D's for a quick lunch. In 15 minutes I'm going to pickup grandson for work. Then home for the eternal "what are we thinking for dinner" question.
I did a CPR recert partially online, but we still had to do an in person demo. 2 minutes of compression. Oof.
Annie, that's sounds like a great meal to me. If I made such a thing I would have to listen to a million reasons why someone doesn't like Indian food.
NoStars, I hope this day passes for you and tomorrow is better.
Hoping for a better day, Stars.
Tonight I made chicken parmesan. I goofed up my Walmart pick-up order the other day and got seconds (and thirds?) of some items including 2 large packages of frozen chicken thighs. Gotta do something with them. Would usually use breasts but the thighs were fine. Now I feel full though I think I've only slightly exceeded the calorie allotment for the day.
Sitting outside because the black cat got away from Hubs so I'm watching for him and enjoying the air. It's still warm (73) but has that heavy feel just before a rainstorm. Boy does this yard need to be mowed! All the better for the early pollinators, right?
Work was uneventful (a good thing). 6 patients on med/surg. The mothership is always wanting to update the EHR so today we got the set of instructions for all the late- April changes.
Quiet day. Though I am retired, I am still renewing my license (yah, wacko, I know, but I wanted to). I completed my CEUs and need to pay for them, then submit them to the BON.
No Stars, I hope you can get some down time, or reading, or something to decompress, and then get some good sleep. Hopefully tomorrow will be better. At least, it will be different.
I want to make a mushroom soup recipe I found online. Tomorrow will probably get the goodies to do so. Also, I might make that Puttanesca Sauce, it is SO good (and easy)! Will have that over whole wheat pasta.
Will finish leftovers tonight.
It is cool-ish -- around 60 degrees, and has been blustery the past two days. It won't get much hotter for the next week or so, but that's OK.
Have a good evening!
I treated myself to a hair-cut today, and am hoping tomorrow I'll have my nails filled-in and re-shaped.
It has been not quite as horrible today as it was yesterday, but I still feel like there's some simmering going on deep inside me, wanting to blow! Things have GOT to change for the better
Since the Nsg home is only private pay, that means we will be able to keep getting her SS check, and about $625 from investments, so we can use those to pay part of the costs, that'll trim down the cost of $4,260.00/mo. by sort-of nearly-almost half. I'm thinking we can take out the one-time pay of $4,000.00 (move-in fee) from her Edward Jones account. If we can just even only get 2 months of having her at the nsg home, that'd be a relief for us. They have you sign a contract, but the payments are done on a month-by-month basis, which is also mostly a relief. Maybe after two months I will have won a sweepstakes ( ? yuh ? ) ...or....Nannie will meet her maker? ?Hmmm. What an awful thing to say! Either of those two options would certainly ease the emotional and financial pinches.
Hubby isn't drinking quite so much ... that I can tell, anyway...but, there are still always a bunch of little bottles in the trash-barrel every day. Don't know if he is taking the Ativan as was ordered at the last appt. I don't care if he is or not, either. If he won't even TRY to follow the detox protocol, I can't MAKE him DO anything. He will have to re-schedule the next appointment. I have also reminded him daily that he HAS TO see about getting his driver's license back. BAH.
Just now when I turned on the TV, one of the (I think) cable boxes or the sound-bar, started making this weird sound, which got higher and louder and higher and louder. I thought maybe hubby had left the small 02 tank set high instead of turned off, and I kept fiddling with it to make sure it wasn't going to blow up in our faces, and was about to roll it outside, when the noise stopped. A few minutes later I turned the TV on, and everything was normal again. I tell ya, I was freaking out! Never heard anything like that ever before! Scary!
I did get to vent some to the hairdresser; she has known all of us for a good # of years, and she knows all about hubby's drinking and falls, what a difficult person Nannie can be, and how I end up doing pretty much everything for Nannie and the house, etc. She kept saying, "I don't know how you do it; I sure couldn't!" I don't know how I do it, either!
Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN
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Tweety I hope this week isn't as crazy as last week
Stars I'll keep my fingers crossed. Understandable why he would be hesitant due to the cost, but getting her placed would help a lot
Ado with all you have going on I can see the need for recuperation
NJ22 I've never been fond of Indian food, although when I was in Madison there was a good Indian restaurant there
Hi Dianah
Fairly quiet day at work yesterday, thankfully, hoping that trend continues, but we'll see
After work was quiet too, ran a brief errand and exercised. Was texting with J to come up with a day to meet for dinner. Also emailed my aunt downstate, wanted to discuss a date to drive down in the fall
Going to be stormy here today and tomorrow, looks like tomorrow might be worse than today here. Going to be quite warm, up into the mid 60s