I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Went to the lab this am to get my PT and INR checked. Looked on the website for the results and both were fine but they had been entered in the wrong order so it looked as though I had a severe bleeding risk. got that sorted.
Went to the pharmacy to pick up my second steroid inhalor and the pharmacist told me I should not be using two. I told him I was inhaling one and swallowing the other. He still said it was bad for me and would damage my heart and kidneys. I told him I knew that very little is absorbed into the blood stream when taken this way, He still insisted and said I needed to discuss with Dr. I almost asked him which one Gastroenterologist, cardiologist , immunologist or neurologist or maybe PCG. Anyway I left because I was quite upset ahving spent so much time with drs in the past few months adding conditions to my problem list I never knew I had. Anyway hubby is going down there to hit him round the ear with his stethospcope. The elderly Immunologist asked me when I first protested "Do you want to live a long or healthy life". I told him I had been a hospice nurse and would settle for quality over quantity. He had explained that if I did not treat my oesophagus it would likely get strictures then I really could not swallow and they would have to be stretched and that carried the risks of tears and bleeding. That's it for me today don't want to contemplate tube feeding
Mum decided to go UNDER the stairs today and you cant move in the hallway now when i look i get a twinge in my chest then i know "LET IT GO" walk away go for coffee PRAY? thankgod she cant get up into the attic then id lock myself up in a padded cell and throw away the key!
Mama chose today to be a pill. I have to move the old junky stuff out of the basement and to the curb today and the weather forecast shows temps nearing 100 today...so I have excellent timing...Still trying to get Mama to eat a bite but about to get it done and stop whining about having to do it.....I should have started early when I got up before it got so hot...but then it was already hot and steamy at 6:30 this morning....ah well.....gotta love the south
Start out with three boxes or bins keep, garbage, donate like they do on the hoarders shows.
I get good sturdy boxes from the liquor store.
I would not leave the house littered with garbage but heavy things you don't want just leave them. Save yourself all the energy you can. Rent a dumpster if there is a lot to get rid off. It is not too expensive and saves a lot of work and trips to the dump. get one of the walk in ones. You can do it girl, you have faced bigger challenges. We are all here with virtual helping hands - for what thats worth. Good practice for when we have to move ladeeM into her new doublewide. hugs and a nice take out pizza with the works.
hope,
much time and energy can be saved by packing household small stuff into heavy duty garbage bags . they hold so much more than boxes . glasswares can be preserved by wrapping them loosely inside towels and clothing .
next time you are able to buy a house buy a small fixer upper . the low monthly payment leaves you money to remodel it and will expedite you towards an early semi retirement . i know what im talking about . at the age of 55 my mortgage is 174 per month and the payoff is at around 22k right now .. it gives me options ..
yes you can remodel by yourself . home improvement stores have videos on everything from drywall , plumbing , to ceramic tile installation . nice home improvement materials have never been cheaper than right now .
She will not go to bed. Up. Down
pia rubbed lotion on ednas feet yesterday . great , but that doesnt relieve a mechanically ingrown toenail . we each still have important functions . pia fights with humana on the phone all day , im still the personal comfort advocate and very much listened to by staff . liability is a big concern by staff . we communicate with nods and smiles .. he he
years ago ALZ was never mentioned. I knew the patients I cared for in geriatric wards usually became what we called "senile" and we kept our distance from those likety to be violent and watched outselves with the old men with wandering hands. Depends had not been invented so we changed a lot of bed linens which we were required to rinse off before sending them out to the laundry. A few I definitely remember. the old man who kept his cane on his lap and one morning picked up his cup of early morning tea to throw at me. luckily he was the first one served and it spilled on his hand and burnt.. Another one when you rolled him over one of his hand would try and find it's way up your skirt. A quick slap soon stopped that and he just laughed. One 85 year old who had what we used to call in the stallion a fifth leg. I threw a pillow and he laughed and told me he hadn't had a woman in five years. Then dear little Alfie who showed me lille rolled up balls of poop he had found in his bed. I just put my arm around him and said 'malteezers got in your bed again Alfie" CM and Kaz will know what malteezers are. Of course they were all demented but that was not something recognised in those far off days
Mom's been in a "You're going to kill me" or "They're going to kill" me mode all day.
I was mopping up her crumbs in the kitchen. Put the mop into the bucket and she said with a very straight face "You're going to hit me with it"!! Oh mother of all that is good in life... ARGH! I might hit myself with it.
Ted was ridiculously funny!!
Cap.... uhm, yeah ok. YUCK! TMI