Tuesday June 4th 2024

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Specializes in Med surg, cardiac, case management.

Tweety glad the application proved fairly easy

Stars that's awfully humid

Ado we have places like that here on the tollways.  Hope your trip goes smoothly

Not too bad a day at work, had an irritable email I had to deal with but got things smoothed over pretty quick.  More emails and calls than expected but otherwise not bad

Rest of the day was quiet.  Ran a few errands as my legs were too tired from cycling yesterday to do the exercise bike

Had an unusually vivid school dream last night...ie finals coming up soon and have not studied.  Left me a tad disoriented when I woke up

Not much going on today too, except laundry and exercise

Going to be another warmer day in the mid 80s, will start raining tonight and will continue until tomorrow morning

 

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Good morning!

Joe, odd that you're still having school dreams.  I used to have them but they are replaced by work dreams where I'm behind and can't get to see my patients.

Ado, hope all goes well with the travels and funeral. 

Really am tired.  Got up at 4:20 and struggled so got up at 5AM.  Did a few chores.

Had a doctor's appointment that was routine med check because of the benzo.  She wrote "stable on meds" and that was that.  Took all of five minutes.  I gained five pounds in three months.  Was not happy about that.  BP was 160/80.  Lack of sleep does that.  

Otherwise not much going on today.  Did some meal prep before my appointment and will continue to houseclean and meal prep but feel a nap coming on..will make it a short one as I need to work tomorrow and get to sleep early.  And so it goes.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

I am feeling pretty UGH (kinda panicked) about a 'sudden' financial hole I have dug myself into. My credit card is due and I have a negative balance in checking, so no way to pay the card (even at minimum amt.) I don't get my SS check until 6/24/24 at the earliest. I will have to go to the bank tomorrow when the Newbie caregiver gets here, and throw myself on the mercy of the court, I guess. Have thought of transferring the cc balance to a card w/ no interest for 21 months, and seeing what kind of monthly payment I can chunk out to get that balance beat down. I feel so ashamed I have backed myself into this corner; have been told that I am still grieving hubby's passing, but that knowledge doesn't pay the bills, nor does it help my feeling of being so inadequate at finances, and being STUCK without help. No mother to help bail me out, and my siblings are not able to, either, so I wouldn't even ask. 

Anyway, I will say "glub-glub" as I barely have my nose above the water. Pray for me, please, if you are the least bit inclined that way. If only there was a "mackerel" (former patient's expression for 'miracle') pending.....

Oh well.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Spoke with SiL a short while ago and confessed my financial dilemma. When they get back from their vacation, they will sit down with me and we will go over my income and expenses, to see what we can figure out, and they will help me put together a budget. Also I have an appt Thursday afternoon with my personal banker.

 SiL had also told me to go look in the dining room for any silver Nannie has, and go through deceased FiL's dresser for possible coin collections and watches that might have some worth; she said to take them to the pawn shop I went to previously.

On another front: Nannie dressed herself this morning in a wool pullover sweater with Fall theme colors (leaves, etc.) and over that sweater she put on a wool cardigan with snowmen on it! Well, if she's happy, it's okay with me. Her bedding is also entirely soaked through again (but not the mattress itself), so another laundry load is called for.

At least we are not going out today. Good thing, too, because it's going to be 87 degrees with a feels like temp of 97 degrees and the humidity is 66%. Can't lock Nannie in the car with the AC running, because it won't lock with the engine running....I guess so you don't lock yourself out of the car with the keys still in it. 

So, it looks like I may be able to resolve  SOME   of the mess I made out of my finances. I feel slightly better. At least I have a few avenues to consult. Ah me, sometimes I really HATE "adulting".

 

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Specializes in Public Health, TB.

Another wet, windy, sunny day here. I got my 2 mile jog in before it got too wet. I did some laundry, played with the dogs, and looked out the window and sighed about all the weeds and tall lawn. I finished up the email clean-up I volunteered to do for the master gardener group. I tomorrow's weather cooperates so that I can get the new roses planted at the demo garden. The deer have been munching on them as they sit in my driveway. There was an announcement that the volunteers would be laying sod, but that won't be me. I just can't move heavy things as I get so short of breath. And I ordered a book online, and downloaded one to my phone from the library. And took a long nap. 

dh is on another clean-up urge, except the only things he can stand to part with are mine. Our downstairs storeroom is packed with gardening products, and yet, his priority is to sell my skis and ice skates. For whatever reason, we have 3 box fans and 5 oscillating fans. And 2 large boxes of light bulbs that don't fit any fixture. I at least have him considering whether we can get rid of 2 of the 4 unused bookcases. 

 

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Specializes in Med/Surg.

Joe, I have those dreams sometimes. *And* the nursing dreams where I've forgotten about a patient all day. 

We made it to Kokomo. Gma has done pretty well really. The aphasia frustrates her. So she can't express what she's mad about so she just slaps or kicks. I hope tomorrow goes OK. Family can gather starting at noon. There's "visitation" from 1-3, the service at 3, then dinner at the church for family after a short graveside service. Sounds like a long day for Gma. 

I think I said that no one has told stepson about his aunt's death (though he might find out through other channels). Niece plans to wait until after the funeral to let him know. 

Stars, I have a hefty amount of credit card debt plus student loans (parent plus loans to pay for Twin B to live on campus). I was hopeful about getting some help with those but no such luck.

My job for GM/Delphi started with a pension but then they went to a 401(k) and stopped accruing money in the pension funds. Then after Delphi's bankruptcy the pension was turned over to the PBGC. I expect to get some money from that when I retire. My 401(k) from Delphi pretty much kept us in a house while I was in nursing school. Now I have a 403(b) but the hospital does not match contributions. Sometimes I think I need to do bedside work for about 5 years with someplace that does matching. And work OT. All before retiring. And, health allowing, I'll probably continue to work part-time in some capacity. 

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.

Nannie went in to the bathroom 8x in 3/4's of an hour.....she peed the first time THEN: her stomach felt 'funny' and she said she had a little pain. I palpated her abdomen with no reactions from her. No pain, no weird lumps, bumps or bulges 🤔 Back  to the recliner. After the 5th back and forth trip, I was ready to give up, but instead I made her a cup of hot decaf coffee, thinking it might stimulate her intestines. Got her to let me to check her to see if I could feel any stool, but there was none. Then I gave her a Fleet's mini-enema....NO results! She came back out to the recliner. I made her some supper. Still no urge to poop......and since then no urges to go at all. "Strange days indeed...." And she is drinking plenty of fluids and lots of variations of fiber

Appts every afternoon this week. Me to PCP tomorrow, Bank on Thursday, and Nannie to doctor on Friday afternoon. Somewhere in there I need to go over to the vet's and get Momo's med, get her weighed and have her nails trimmed. I also want to go to the Pawn shop with the stuff I've found, to see if I can generate any CASH money.

Here's hoping it all goes smoothly.

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Specializes in Clinical Research, Outpt Women's Health.

Prayer sent for you Stars. 

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Specializes in oncology.
No Stars In My Eyes said:

deceased FiL's dresser for possible coin collections and watches that might have some worth; she said to take them to the pawn shop I went to previously.

Unsolicited advice...buy a small scale for weighing silver/ gold on eBay. Look up the going price for silver/gold on Google...The pawn shop will already know the going price and offer you  a cut rate price.   Then you can bargain saying "I know what this is worth!!"

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Specializes in oncology.
No Stars In My Eyes said:

SiL had also told me to go look in the dining room for any silver Nannie has,

Silver plate has very limited value but STERLING does. Weigh it as I described above.

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Specializes in Med nurse in med-surg., float, HH, and PDN.
londonflo said:

Silver plate has very limited value but STERLING does. Weigh it as I described above.

Yes, I know.

I wish we had things that are gold, but we don't.

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