Tuesday January 17th 2023

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jan 17, 2023

Good morning!

Stars, this is where surrendering to your situation comes in but without compromising your own personal safety and peace of mind. There is no need pursuing rehab unless he's willing to participate. His putting it off for a month is a pipe dream but you know this. I still say that if and when he's willing you don't have to wait until a doctor's appointment where he's going to change his mind, but take immediate advantage of it and have the rehab/detox place help you get authorization for treatment. Maybe you can get a plan in place, talk to them directly? A good deal of alcoholics don't even have a primary care physician. How do they get rehab? They do this all the time because often the situation is urgent. But again, if he's not a willing participate it's futile. Take care of yourself.

Dianah, glad you had a good time. We have a Western Museum here that is quite good. In fact, I think it's where we are having our work anniversary dinner which I've been invited to but declined because I'm working.

I'm trying to reset my body clock and got up at 6AM after less than six hours sleep so I can get to be early and get up at 5AM tomorrow.

Bowling was good. We swept all games and bounded up from 14th place to 7th. The first couple of weeks big shifts happen, so we'll see if we can sustain it. The team we played really wasn't all that good so it was an easy win. There are many more powerhouse teams to play that have a history of clobbering us. LOL

Finishing up the "Mop The Floors Tuesday" task and will go to yoga and meal prep.

Have a great day!

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Jan 17, 2023

So much for working from home, due to my laptop screen being messed up. Not broken but not working right, either. Hubs ordered a replacement. So I came into the office and I'm mostly hiding behind the closed door. On a break from the webinar and have started sorting through old records. My therapist has helped me see that I tend to take things over just because they need to be done, even when they are outside my scope, so all these things that relate to employee health are going to get placed in folders with labels and then given to the employee health nurse. Actually, I'll place them in our shared filing cabinet. What I'm not doing is scanning them so we have them as computerized records.

I guess all these lab reports related to Covid-19 have to be mine. There are *piles* of them.

Best of luck, Joe, with the changes you feel you must make. Tweety, glad to hear bowling went well.

No Stars In My Eyes · Jan 17, 2023

Got up at 1 PM. Dressed, went down to the den to give Nannie her pills and yogurt. Went outside with a cup of coffee, and heard ,"Hello?" and I said, "Hello?" It sounded like hubby was up on the roof, but he wasn't. Apparently on his walk from the Ford to the front steps, he had fallen sideways into the shrubbery that is below the front porch. Good one, eh? I went down the steps and there he was, feet and legs sticking out of the bush. He'd dropped his cigts and his Pepsi Zero during his fall, and broke off some branches. He was covered with little leaves and some branches. Wasn't too hard to help him get up. Back on the porch I said, "Not doing too good with the 'moderation', are ya?" He denied taking any Xanax with his vodka this morning, said it was 'only' four little bottles of vodka. He apologized to me repeatedly. I told him he didn't have to apologize to me, but owed an apology to the bushes, and anyway, he was only suffering his own consequences by himself. At least with the jacket he was wearing he didn't shred the skin on his arms like he usually does.

Going to read through the news feed on-line. Talk whichoo laydah!