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Good morning!
My life is pretty low key stress right now. Not hectic at all.
I went to a staff meeting in person. There were only three of us there and that included the secretary that took the minutes. There are a couple more so people will have ample opportunity to go. It was combined with my monthly unit council meeting. It lasted 90 minutes. I'm reasonably OK with the job these days. It took several years under the new ownership to iron out some problems and I'm never okay with 6;1 staffing and it being crazy busy but for the most part it's a good job to stick with through the end of my working life. I think.
I went to Walmart after my meeting to pick up a few things. I like this Walmart as it's not usually busy. I'm amazed at the abundance of food and material goods.
I'll mop today, clean the bathrooms, do laundry and get a couple of things done.
Tooozzze Daaay: 89 degrees with a 'feels like'" of 101 degrees. Humidity about 73% and rain called for in late afternoon/early evening.
For some reason the Nannie-person wanted to know in what order she should consume what's on her breakfast tray. 🙄 I told her it made no difference to me, as long as she takes it ALL in. Then she kept showing me the juice glass and the BOOST bottle as she drank a little more each time. "This too?" (uhhh.... yeh. that too.)
Then the next thing was getting her in the bathroom to wash up and get dressed. She pointed into her bedroom and said "In here?" Sure, like the bed is a toilet. Well, she did make the bed up and lay down on it, so she got the sheets and blankets wet with her pee.. ARGH. 🙄
Anyway, I put a long-sleeved jersey on her so she won't spend the entire day trying to make a 3/4 sleeve stretch down to her wrists. Now she's showing me what she has on.....like I didn't just put it on her one minute ago. 🙄 "See?" (yeh, I see.)
My job isn't hectic, it is 'merely' endless and crazy-making. It is going to be an EYE-ROLLING day, as you can see. (SEE?!?)
8 hours until Nannie's bedtime.
Back to a more normal schedule today, though I did drive to NW OKC for a meeting this morning. Tweety, I do get paid when I end up working a shift. Not a lot, but I get paid. Our nurse manager went to bat for that.
Administration is all concerned about the Senate passage of the Big Ugly Bill. Funny how you get what you vote for -- they were all enthusiastic about Trump's election. It will very likely close a number of hospitals in the US. I hope mine isn't one of them. If it is, it might just be time to leave Oklahoma. But, in reality, moving with Gma would be an enormous hurdle.
Sorry, I guess I'm not in the right frame of mind to pleasantly "visit."
We another nice, warm day here. I am still getting caught up on garden weeding, and of course, there are lots of clothes to wash after our trip.
I went with dh to his cardiology appointment and met a new to us, NP. This person seemed much more personable than others I have dealt with at that office. As I predicted, he mentioned doing a heart cath, which I personally am not in favor of, at this time. dh's chief complaint, which is why he was referred to cardiology, is for brief intermittent dizzy spells. Finally, though, they are going to do a carotid ultrasound, which I thought should have been done initially. dh also had a cervical disc fusion 20 years ago, and he remembers the neurosurgeon saying the symptoms may return, like arm tingling and foot shuffling. So he wants to look at that, too.
Joe, I hope your vaccine side effects abate quickly.
Stars, I read a story about a person working with dementia patients, who found having them read the Onion to occupy them. I know that Nannie probably can't read, but the story reminded me of you. The worker mentioned how her patients would repeat the same question incessantly.
Annie, I should hope you would get paid, geesh. I've been thinking about you and your hospital. Our local one is 200 beds, so would stay open, but I bet the ER will go back to being crazy busy.
I'm getting ready to talk with SiL about the possibility of 'disappearing' the photo of Nannie and her husband on their 50th wedding anniversary. It sits on a table across the room from her. Sometimes she says it is her mother and father, then it is her uncle and her aunt. She does not recognize herself as the woman in the photo, and yesterday we spent TWO HOURS 'discussing' the photo! I had to bring it over for her to look at it up close.....more than a few times! Once she even tried to hide it under her shirt (it's an 8 x 10 photo with a frame.) She said it was so nobody would take it. I explained to her that this is HER house, and 90% of the stuff in her is HERS and NOBODY wants to take it! I would just as soon NOT spend endless time going over the same thing over and over and over. It really is so very TIRESOME.....as am I for having to complain about it over and over and over.
If she starts getting any crazier and doing it more often, they are going to have to arrange for her to either have another (or more) caregiver(s) or be put in a nursing home. They have NO idea how batty she is getting. As I heard someone say once about a dementia patient....she has "LOOSE brains"! And I have to suffer it, regardless. BLAH!
Aaaaand...."SURPRISE!" (NOT!)
Surprise, but Chatty CG is NOT coming tomorrow. When SiL texted me that, my reply was "Yeah, surprise, dammit! Oh well." Then after a LONG silence from her, I had to text her back saying she knew, didn't she, that I was not cussing at her?
She said she would fill in but she is busy 'doing hair' tomorrow. I said I didn't expect her to fill in, because she has a very full life. It is just that when I have even tentatively made some plans, they so frequently get cancelled. { I DID NOT say "You know I don't even have a LIFE of my OWN!" But I didn't want to start WW3 } What I did say was I knew "this too shall pass", but that I hoped *I* didn't pass before Nannie or her needs pass. That would make me p.o'd!"
She says she is going to look for someone else.
I'm not terribly hopeful.
Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN
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Tweety glad you got at least some sleep
Stars glad you had a break from her today
NJ22 sounds like a nice day
Finally had good day at work yesterday. No new cases or meetings or anything unexpected. Had time to get laundry done during the day
After work got my 2nd shingles vaccine and then exercised
Today have grocery shopping but nothing else planned. Am feeling the aches and fatigue from the vaccine, hopefully it won't get too bad
Started a new focus on being mindful and simplifying things. I've noticed that my life is getting a be stressed and hectic lately
Will be about the same as yesterday, up to the upper 80s. Rain continues to hold off