Tuesday August 30 2022

Tweety, BSN, RN · Aug 30, 2022

Good morning.

Joe, hope you have a good day and evening out. Hope J finds something that helps me.

I do think covid affected people when it essentially cut down on social activities. But here people are venturing out again as if covid never happened. Myself included. I went to see Elton John with 16,000 other people. I think there's another segment of the population with issues, especially older one's that are more. cautious and still having groceries delivered and not not venturing out much and masking. I can't live like that and I can't see advocating for the young, vaccinated and healthy to not get out and live their lives.

Welcome home J22. Hope your sister stays well.

Was fun to bowl last night. Zero covid precautions and I saw no one with a mask. My one team member that had lymphoma stopped wearing his mask because he's been a year in remission. At this point it's not horribly deadly around here and rates are dropping. Most of Florida are in a "medium" transmission area but our county with it's large population is still in a "high transmission" area. Which I guess is why and how I myself got covid last month.

We lost all games and get to start in a tie for last place with four other teams that lost them all. Oh well.

Mopped the floors already and will head to the gym soon. Will do some meal planning. Probably make a tofu dish.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Aug 30, 2022

We had a big thunderstorm late yesterday afternoon. A real gully-washer? Power was out at the hospital again although the generator worked. But the a/c outage caused it be to be really warm and humid so most of the lab equipment wasn't working this morning. They showed us a picture of the transformer that apparently couldn't handle the power cycling. Still, this sure seems to happen a lot. And outpatients who came for labs were not pleased.

We really needed that rain, though. It has been an oddly bugless Summer, presumably because it is dry. No mosquitos (or very few). I wonder if that's a hardship for the insectivores? I would think so but haven't heard anyone talking about it.

I didn't feed baby squirrels Sunday because of going to book club. We went to a coffee-and-dessert bar and I had a banana affogato. In hindsight, choosing the full-caffeine espresso rather than decaf to go with it may have been a mistake ? There was a storm in the city as we were leaving but my little burg got nothing that night.

I'm becoming more and more introverted. Part of it is social anxiety that makes it hard to be the one to reach out. Part of it is that "having plans sounds great until I actually have to get dressed and leave the house". I blame the smart phone and its readily available zaps of dopamine, too. I did text a friend who lost her husband to cancer a few months ago. We will eventually make plans to meet, but she teaches school so the weekends are the only time that really work. She'll be out of town Labor Day weekend and I'll be out of town the weekend after that.

Editorial Team / Admin · Aug 30, 2022

Hello all!

I was up at 0530 and spent all morning and part of the afternoon picking up a friend and shuttling her to a GI appointment/procedure, then waiting for her in the recovery area, and driving her home, and staying with her till she got up from the post-procedure, post-meal nap. She is doing well, and the procedure went smoothly and quickly. It's nice to be home, though. ? I brought dh home some Pho, which he enjoyed!

Tomorrow I am scheduled to do an evening walk with my friend S. We will likely walk on Wednesdays. However, a week-long heat wave starts today: temps will be triple-digits all week, highs to 110. So, when we walk it will likely be in the 90's. Oh well.

Have a good afternoon and evening!

No Stars In My Eyes · Aug 30, 2022

Another fall. He had not been drinking for the previous 4 hours, and had eaten supper. Out on the patio around 8:30 PM, he came out to join me, and put one hand on the stair-rail going up to the (not-used) deck. As he had reached for the arm of the wrought-iron chair beside the decks' handrail, with the other hand, somehow the wrought-iron chair started to pitch over when he had let go of the deck. Down he went; I'm hollering his name, see him land hard on his left side and his head hit the concrete. I'm about to call the ambulance, freaked out. He said, "Give me a minute." I said while I was giving him a minute I was going to assess the damages. After a couple of minutes he sat up, then rested some more. I got a rug to put under his knees so he wouldn't have to kneel on the cement. Another few minutes and he got up to sit on a chair.

Did a neuro-check, all was fine. His skull had NOT cracked open as I had feared, and VS were WNL, believe it or not.(BP a TAD up, but not bad).

He was, he said, very embarrassed. This was the third fall in three weeks. I told him that we were going to take a tai chi class together, so we BOTH could keep our balance.

He had to cancel his appt for a haircut, but looking at his scalp now, no swelling, no bruising, no cuts.

Don't know when he goes back to PCP... I guess a month after his last appt. and I told him, as he c/o his right ribs under his R arm, that his doc would NOT be pleased that hubby didn't (wouldn't) call him for another rib xray. Under his right armpit was where the top of the wrought iron chair-back kind of jammed up there as he was falling.

All I did today was go pick up meds for Nannie and myself. We are now watching the Braves play the Colorado Rockies.

Editorial Team / Admin · Aug 31, 2022

Falls are scary! Hope he was only shaken, not hurt.

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Aug 31, 2022

He's probably going to be pretty sore. Ouch!

Funny that I mentioned our bugless Summer. Tonight it looks as if the June bugs hatched and swarmed! Sam the cat is intrigued and a little bit freaked out.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Aug 31, 2022

Dianah, that's a good friend.

Stars, I'm so sorry your husband keeps falling. I suppose a cane or a walker for someone that stubborn is out of the question? Is he hydrating enough? Is he on the librium yet? Anyway, good luck.

My mom fell in the rehab center but just rolled out of bed she says. I was worried about this. Double edged sword because at home she gets watched more but deteriorates physically because lack of daily therapy. To top it off she tested covid positive, most likely getting it in the hospital, and moved her in with another covid patient that is disrupting her sleep and causing her anxiety. My guess is she doesn't stick out for much longer there.

So I bemoaned my lack of social life and got invited to a birthday party that I really don't want to go to in a few weeks. I also was asked out on a date and I said no because I'm not interested. I guess I'm my own worst enemy. I NEVER get invited anywhere.