Tuesday June 12 2022

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Jul 12, 2022

Tweety, good to hear that your mom is doing better and that your sister was able to be of help.

Stars, I'm sorry your dh decided to show his hiney. Hope you are feeling better.

Hubs is about at the end of his rope with being his mom's caregiver. I care but I'm just not willing to do more of it. And if something happened to Hubs I don't know what I'd do. Load her up and drive to Indiana and let them all figure it out. I guess he talked with his son yesterday and they considered the possibility of a facility back in Indiana. The Indiana grandkids could go visit her and I know stepson would. I'm sure our niece would, too. But I don't think Hubs is ready to make that leap.

The water woes are still in effect. At least we have water at home and the hospital has water. I'll count those as blessings.

Tweety, BSN, RN · Jul 12, 2022

Good morning!

I think Dianah was on facebook in the wee hours of the morning but hopefully got some sleep.

Stars, hope you feel better.

J22, enjoy the nice weather and work without OCD co-worker.

I don't think I could be a caregiver of a dementia patient. My mother is showing some signs and not sure what's going to happen. I would hate for her to go to a facility but right now I have to work and the toll on my dad and sister would be high. I wouldn't immediately throw her in a nursing home but I made no promises either. If I were retired it might be a different story too.

I took care of a patient whose daughter I knew from work. She retired when covid hit so as not to give it to her mother. Her mother is 87 with dementia and broke her hip. She said she isn't putting her in a nursing home, but she was crying as she vented to me because the stress was tremendous. She's not in the best of health herself.

I had a nice visit with best friend and his visitors. We went to a local park here that's on the water. It's small but nice. Then we had a nice Italian lunch. I have vegan pizza again. Interesting to see that a lot of restaurants are including vegan options. Although I'm not technically a vegan I take that option often.

Today I was up before 5AM and could not sleep. So I got up. I did some work education modules on obesity and bariatric surgery since my facility is now starting surgeries. I think we get our first patient next week.

I also got some good deals over at Amazon for "Prime Day". Got some new luggage for my trip to Costa Rica since the wheel broke and they are getting worn down, as well as some other odds and ends. The protein powder I put in my smoothies was significantly marked down, so I'm set for many months to come.

Have a great day.

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 12, 2022

I turned my light out last night at 11:30PM. Hubby said "Why are you going to bed so early? You can stay up and read, I won't say anything about it" To which I replied, "I do not feel well, I'm tired, and I don't feel like reading." A short while later I shut my door because he was listening to something on his smaht-phone and it sounded like those little tinny (not tiny, tinny) transistor radios of the late 1950's or early 1960's.

I didn't eat anything yesterday, so just before I went to bed I had 1/2 banana and 1/2 glass of milk, just to give my meds something to work with. I woke up at 2 AM and had the second halves of the banana and milk. Woke up at 8:30 AM, and brought Nannie's breakfast and meds to her. It was cold in the house, so I crawled back into bed to warm up, but then decided since we needed stuff from Walmart and its pharmacy. I got dressed and took off.

The stupid Dr's office didn't phone in the right med for hubby....they phoned in the one that costs $500 (god knows what it was, except TOO expensive.) The pharmacist said she doesn't know what's wrong with that Dr's office, she has had to call and remind them it is the less expensive med that he has been getting..... ONLY for 4 years now. Ever since they had the walk-off of the 7 nurses and 2 doctors, that practice is all to "aitch-e-two-sticks". And although I sent in MY refill request a week ago, on their computer site, where they say it will be taken care of more quickly, it STILL hasn't been called in to the pharmacy and even the pharmacy had called in a request for the order! (Grumblegrumble)

I feel like I have been hit and rolled by a truck. It's not like the pain I have had, just achey-aches. Mentally and emotionally I am still p.o'd and feeling hurt by hubby's attitude yesterday. I have picked up so much of the work around here because with the COPD and emphysema, and diabetes, hubby can't do the stuff he used to.

The reason I stay up so late at night is that it is the ONLY time I can be alone, and I NEED Solitude and Peace+Quiet. I'd just as soon not sleep away the entire day, though.

Wish we could afford to put Nannie in a nsg home. I do not LIKE nursing homes, but I really would like to not feel so covered up by her constant presence.

Braves lost last night. I read dianah's explanation of baseball, so funny, and absolutely true! Have you ever heard an old recording of Andy Griffith's explanation of football? It's pretty funny, also!

May be back later on.....

nursej22, MSN, RN · Jul 12, 2022

Stars, I hope today is a better day for you. I totally hear you about wanting solitude. It seems that you when you are awake, you are always on the clock, so to speak. It must feel smothering to you. Even when you are out and about, you are running errands to get stuff for your family.

Its nice again today, but I've been watching the hearing on my computer. Wow.

Most restaurants around here have either vegan or vegetarian options, and gluten and lactose free. I often choose the veg option, for variety.

I peeked at Amazon Prime, but I also got the bill for my cardioversion, so no shopping for me. Plus, I just got a new laptop.

When my dad's dementia got bad, he never got mean, just really sad. We didn't put him in a facility until we just couldn't keep him from wandering. And once he went in, he just got the dwindles. Very sad to watch.

Take care of yourselves, all.

Editorial Team / Admin · Jul 12, 2022

No Stars, hope your aches are gone today. Even if they are still there, you got up and went to take care of Biz-ness, kudos to you. Don't blame you about feeling po'd about dh's 'tude. But it only hurts you, to stay po'd a long time, and I know you know that. Not trying to downplay ANYTHING you are feeling! What a mess at the doctor's office, to NOT get the prescription right after four years! SMH.

nursej22, congrats on getting the laptop!

I called our medical insurance ppl today, as a f/u to calling last Thursday. They are supposed to have reimbursed dh and I for paying Medicare Part B, but I haven't seen any reimbursement yet, and it's probably 6-8 weeks past when it should have arrived. I was informed today that checks are in the mail -- back-pay, too. So, hopefully they will arrive soon.

I did a little sorting. Tossing out some stuff. LOTS more needs to be done. Will get there. Slept OK, with some restless legs but got more sleep than the night before (yes, Tweety, I cruise FB when I can't sleep...).

We are heating leftover burritos for lunch.

Have a good afternoon and evening!

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 12, 2022

dianah, LOVE ALL the books! Only one I've read is All Things Great And Small, but that was years and years ago. Now I'll have to figure out which book to attack first! When I was a kid I rode my bicycle to the library, and when I was riding home, there they were, title side up, in my handle-bars basket, and it practically made me DROOL with happiness that I would be reading one of the books soon!

Hubby said that, for about 15 or 20 minutes, he had trouble falling asleep last night because of thinking about what an a-hole he was to me yesterday. Fifteen or twenty minutes. And still under the influence at the time. Such atonement. He only gets like that when he drinks, and he SAYS he wants to "get off that stuff". I told him I never get mean with him about his multiple health problems, but I feel like getting mean. Only thing is, if you do that while they're drunk, it just makes things worse.

Editorial Team / Admin · Jul 12, 2022

PBS has a series of All Creatures Great and Small and, as always, it is nothing like reading all those books. I read them many, many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed them. I did enjoy the series, too (have only seen two seasons of it).

So happy you will be able to be entertained for awhile at least, with the books!! ? (and got 'em out of my bookcases, though I have tons more to sort through... baby steps!!)

Ado Annie, ASN, RN · Jul 12, 2022

I would ride my bike to the library when I was a kid, too. My mother worked there. The year I was 15 they moved the library to a new school/"human services" building across town so I didn't ride my bike there after that. At the same time, my mom became the branch manager. She had worked hard to drum up support for the new building. Which of course is not-so-new now. I still think of her whenever I go in there. I want to tell them that's my mom's office back there. ? Now I live within easy walking/biking distance of that library.

nursej22, MSN, RN · Jul 12, 2022

The nearest library when I was growing up was 10 miles away. We did go to the bookmobile, once a month. It seems like 4 books was the limit to check out. And I read nearly every book in the school library. Well, grade school, anyway. My frugal parents would never buy books at the book fair, when you could check them out for free.

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 13, 2022

Our library was named after Mr. Thomas Oliver Hazzard Perry Burnham! The TOHPB Library, an enormously UGLY (odd) building, and it was maybe 1/2 mile away. Just bicycle down the street and around the corner, through the small town. It's above the baseball field which was above the town dump which was near the River. The librarian was an elderly spinster who walked to and from work every day and somehow resembled a parrot. We had permission from our Mom to read any of the books we wanted to; but of course, in a small New England town there weren't, at the time, any racy or forbidden books. And OH! I loved the smell of old wood and old books when I opened the door; perfume to me! There was an auditorium upstairs where they held dance-classes and recitals, among other things, like when The Story Lady read to a group of kids. The town offices were in other parts of the building, alomg with the Police Dept. (which had a Chief of Police and maybe 4 officers in total.)

No Stars In My Eyes · Jul 13, 2022

Nannie has just realized she can't remember things!

She was worried about ....how did she get to the ball-park, and where does she go to stay, after the game is over? Nannie, you are in your den, in your house, and not two states away in Atlanta, and this is a TV, not a window over the ballfield.

She also wonders how, in the "Yella Tag" wood advert on TV, how 'they' managed to train all those beavers to wear clothes and act like people!