Wednesday December 7 2022

Good morning!

Joe, I hope the prep "goes" well.  I remember a member here that used to post daily that found asymptomatic colon cancer in his routine screening reminding me how necessary screening his.  Good luck.  

Correction on yesterday's post in that Costa Rica is an hour behind and I got up at 4AM our time yesterday, regardless it was a loooong day.   Still not recovered and will take it easy today and take a nap.  Need to go to the grocery store and do laundry and finish unpacking.

HUH! Here's a bit of news that will not surprise Tweety AT ALL: 

I was supposed to wake hubby up at 9:30AM this morning because of the Dr's appt. Well, He got up an hour before I had my alarm set for, he took a shower and shaved, got dressed, called the ambulance, reporting being "short-of-breath" and "hadn't slept at all last night, for the third night in a row". and THEN he woke me up to tell me he had called the ambulance, which arrived almost immediately. 

He didn't appear to be short of breath to me, and the fact that he got up and showered and shaved first says to me that this is not really such an awful emergency. For a man who has said numerous times that he HATES the ER and this particular hospital, I guess he figured this was the only way he could 'get out of' this particular Dr's appt. which he moaned and groaned about last night more than a few times.

So I am going to have a cup of coffee and then get Nannie up and dressed, as she is also supposed to go to the Dr's office to have her stitches removed. I am going to ask for a few PRIVATE minutes to speak with the doctor out of Nannie's hearing. It would be nice, but I know it won't happen, if the Dr called the ER and told them to admit him to rehab. That would be a big tee-hee to him, wouldn't it? But I don't think that's the way it will work.

Anyway, I am going to turn up the heat (it's cold this morning), have my coffee and then go about my day.

Will come by later and update you on hubby's "jail-break" attempt to avoid giving up drinking.

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Doc said to tell hubby he's "not mad at him", and if he wants to try the Librium taper again, Dr is willing to prescribe it. Doc told me that he thinks hubby would do much better in a structured environment like rehab, and that's what doc will recommend, but that if he wants to try the at-home detox one more time, that's okay. He also thinks he needs to see a psychiatrist to get a handle on the depression, as in not just for meds adjustment, but for a series of consecutive visits. (I told doc about hubby crying that he is 'falling apart'.) I told doc he could send ME to a Respite/Rehab for a few weeks and see how hubby does at taking care of EVERYTHING here on the home-front. Ya. (HA!)

Have not heard from hubby about ER visit yet. They may decide his pleura needs to be drained again, or they may have him call me to come pick him up and take him home. WHOOOO knows! Not even The Shadow knows!

Nannie was as quiet as a mouse while having her 9 stitches removed. Lordie, last night when I put some eyedrops in she squinted and squealed like a stuck pig!  Anyway, Doc will renew all her meds, as there is nothing 'wrong' with Nannie, physically, and we cancelled her appt for next week. She still doesn't have a clue about hubby's state of being, nor this AM's event. She don't ask, I don't tell.

"Tolerable Anniversary to me" on Friday. *sigh*

3:40 PM: Rec'd call from hubby, who says, "They haven't told me anything yet; I'm still in the ER." But, he said, they are going to admit him to a room and plan on doing an endoscopy, but not sure if that procedure will be tonight or tomorrow. He has c/o off-and-on stomach pains, gas, bloating, etc, for a long while now, and most recently complained that he can't eat half of what he used to, so he's wondering if it's possible that his stomach has shrunken for some reason. (I did not say it is probably 'pickled' from vodka.) I wanted an endoscopy done on him MONTHS ago, so Hallelujah, 'cause if you've got something and they don't know about it, they can't treat it. I don't want them to find anything wrong, but I'd a whole lot rather know than not know.  I told him what the doc said about re-trying the Librium Taper, but didn't say anything about the doc's wanting him to see a psychiatrist. ?

This is a pool-hall joke: Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Tonto racked the Lone Ranger's, um, can I say 'bawls' instead of ⚾?⚽?? and not get TOS'd? (Yeh, I think so.) ?

If hubby was at home, he would say, "What do you girls want for supper?" Well, I believe I have a Stouffer's Meat-Lover's Lasagna in the freezer and some kind of veggie to accompany it. EASY PEASY!?

Anybody want to switch lives for a couple of days? NO? I can't believe you'd pass up such an opportunity! I'll even lend you my HALO! Still no? Gosh, you folks are hard to please! ?

An evening of ease is planned. Aaaahhhhhhh!

Ahh, it feels good to be home. I only worked 4 hours this afternoon. We had  sort of an open house--people in our building were encouraged to tour the offices, checking out the decorated doors, and nibbling on holiday treats. For some reason, a lot of people congregated in our narrow hall, and paranoid me chose to stay in my office, after some polite mingling, in my mask. One of my coworkers had type A flu last week. There is so much respiratory illness in our community that there is a shortage of amoxicillin, tamiflu, and kids Tylenol, ibuprofen, and cough suppressant. I plan to make sure everyone else can have my share. Very nice, OCD nurse is taking vacation days, and she left me lots of sticky notes pointing out the things I forgot to chart or sign. Well, her mind anyway. 

Enjoy your evening, NoStars. 

dh just left a message with youngest son that he wants us to join him for Chinese food in 20 minutes or so. I would like to stay home, but I best try to keep peace in the family. For some reason, he hates take-out. 

The only time I eat jello or apple juice is for prep. Luckily, at my age, I should only have to do it one more time. Hopefully, Joe, you get a nice long nap tomorrow.