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Wasted the whole bloody day at the hospital. appointment for Mom's test (digestion) at 7:45 AM. Arrived at 7:20 (little traffic). doors open at 7:30 and I go find overpriced coffee and muffin for my breakfast. Mom was called at 8:15 to eat stinky scrambled eggs and start test. No pills consumed even though doc requested it. Done at 10:20, takes pills (~14). and hospital wants to mess up her next test appointment and do it on the first day of a humongous food show that I have PAID to attend -- also same day I intend to renew my passport. NO YOU MAY NOT CHANGE THE DATE THANK YOU.

We go to see about getting followup appointment -- oh no can't make appointment in person, must go home and CALL. (idiots) Mom stands up from wheelchair and puts coat on. Intention: She goes home and I go to the market to buy stuff for a cake for Saturday's cake show. I turn my back for 10 seconds to call a taxi --- and Mom trips over the wheelchair footrest and falls flat on her face. Bruised and slightly bleeding eye socket, bloody lip, scraped knee. Mom is picked up and pushed off to the closest place to sit and get looked at: chemotherapy. Take yer coat off Mom, we are going to be here a while..... sent to emergency for the endless wait, then to radiology (hey we were here a few hours ago) and back to emergency. NINE HOURS TOTAL IN THE HELLHOLE. And now I have to wake her up every 2 hours tonight to make sure she is still alive and alert.

We come home and Mom fishes her glasses out of her purse, that had survived falling on the floor of the hospital -- and now the lens is fallen out. So now tomorrow is all messed up too. Sigh. NO YOU CANNOT PUT OFF FIXING YOUR GLASSES.

Mom swears she didn't do it on purpose. But it seems every time I want to do something for *me* (like the food show, or buying cake supplies, or going to a business networking event, or .....) something comes along to mess up my life. I'm just not meant to have any happiness in my life. KMN
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My mom is home from the hospital. She had Orthostatic Hypotension and every time she stood up her bp would drop and her heat rate would increase. She almost passed out every time she stood up. They changed her mess and it seems to be doing the trick. She got up this morning, got dressed, made her bed and tried to move a piece of furniture! She is such a trip! I reminded her that the way she ended up having to move in here was from moving furniture. Yikes! God bless her.
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fwarren, you don't have to miss the cake show. You can temporarily fix the glasses. Go to Wal-mart or a craft store and buy E6000 glue. Put four dots about the lens, then insert it in the frame and hold it in place for 60 sec. It should hold just fine. When you want to have it done professionally, you can remove the glue with acetone -- nail polish remover will work -- then have it remounted. You can use other glues besides E6000, such as Goop or crazy glue. Both of them will also come off with Acetone.

Really, you may find the glues work so well, you won't have to do the repair. The only thing they do is glue them in place. If you get a glue smear anywhere on the lens, just clean it off with acetone.
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It's still Monday where I am. So... I will try to put things off... I may be able, I may not... depending on the posts.............. Hugs to All!

M88
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uh, I do have a comment! DO NOT use crazy glue... *sorry Jessie, you may not know this tid bit*, but the FUMES it gives out, even after a while, are deadly on the eyeballs. CAREFUL!!!
M88
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i hauled stone today in the pouring rain . " doc " , out a the farm questioned if that was a safe thing to do , what with the impaired visibility . i told him it was fine if i bought new wiper blades for the dump truck . i think that made much more sense than having an accident then whining about visibility after the fact .
it reminds me of my army days . one night i was cussin god because i couldnt see out my windshield on the muddy tank trails . my buddy told me " clean the mud off your headlights you fn idiot " ..
duh ..
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The next few days are going to be a waste. The landlords will be coming to town and want to do some "maintenance work" on the place while they are here. It seems like whether I plan to or not all I do is waste the days away.
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I try hard not to whine here, as I am not a hand's on caregiver; Mom is in a NH. So, she's been complaining for the past the week "I can't hear". Just to us, not to staff. They've been doing ear drops and flushed her ears on Friday. She complains to us that "nothing is being done". Nurse informed today that they will redo ear drops, re-flush on Monday and use a curette to remove suspected wax if the flush doesn't produce results

Why can't mom say "I can't hear" to staff? It would be so much more effective if the "complaint" came from her. GRRRRRRR.
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Bablou you can whine on here all you like. A lot of non hand's on caregivers were hand's on at one time but it got to be too much for them. My Mom is gone but I still come on here and whine.

In fact my whine is today I had planned on doing so much but after I got through scrubbing the kitchen and bathroom floor I was so exhausted that all I wanted to do after was have a shower and go to bed. Getting old sucks. I long for the days when I had so much energy and a fast metabolism. :(
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Babalou, maybe it isn't the staff 's attention she wants. When family members offer to do things for my husband who has AD, he tells them ,"No thank you." Two minutes later he asks me for what was offered. Some days I get tired just " being here "for him.I don't know if that helps.
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Gershun, I get tired just "thinking" about scrubbing the kitchen and bathroom. LOL
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Thanks for hearing me. My stove gave up the ghost today too, so need to figure what I'm going to be able to get before Passover...or maybe we'll just have a barbecue seder!
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Ugg! After waiting a week, what I thought was an appropriate amount of time for the home health care referral to go through, allowing them time to review his chart notes, and expecting a call back, I called them, and damn and blast if they never received it from his Drs office! Grrrrr! Of course, it was faxed in immediately, but now we are another week behind getting him PT, and every other service we can set him up with! In the mean time, I've been checking into respite, and AL, and none too soon, as my husband's back is completely F'd up! On top of this lovely information, the Old Man spilled an entire bowl of cereal, all over himself, his chair pad, his TV tray, and of course, the carpeting! So out comes my well used, handy dandy carpet shampooer, once again, before his room starts to reek of sour milk! Oh, and my husband's back is out, so I got to do all the clean up, and the shampooing too! Yeah me! Gripe over! How the heck are you all doing todsy? I hope this back thing isn't going to last, or else I'm going to start charging extra! On a funny note, when the Old Man went into change his soiled clothes, he came back to his cleaned up TV room, in his undies and bath robe, nothing else, no shirt, no socks, why ever didn't you put on a new pair of jammy pants and socks, I asked him, and he said that he was going to bed soon. Not for 4 more hours, I said, but then he said he was too tired, WHAT?!!! So I went into his drawers, to get him clean pants, shirt and socks, (I do his laundry, but he puts it all away) and hes got at least 10 pairs of brand new sweat/flannel/comfy pants, in only the first drawer I checked, probably more, and even more beautiful new cozy sweatshirts, long sleeve tee-shirts, and an entire drawer full of brand new socks, still in their packages, several pairs of those nice Eddie Bauer hiking ones, that I really like to wear around the house, so I rooked 4 pairs of those, as I know he'll never wear them! So the clean up was worth it to get about 40 dollars worth of new Socks for Me! 😀😃😄😇
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Good for you Stacey! No whines today. The home health nurse came today, sorry Stacey, only 2 days out of the hospital! We also got Mom's second lift chair delivered, so now she has one in the living room and one in her suite! Sweet!
Hubby was hungry and didn't want to wait for me to get around to cooking fish for dinner so he made cheeseburgers for himself and Mom! I just added a little cottage cheese and she was happy. I ended up with Taco Salad again. I have been working on losing weight for the last 4 weeks and have lost about 8 lbs so I am happy because I still have some kind of treat at the end of the day.
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Lol Stacey clothing abuse !!!!!! tut tut! Sorry someone had to say it!
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Stacey, You have managed to purloin your Fil's socks! And, put them to good use, thinking he has too many. You finally got rewarded, but such a small reward.

Can I ask, how did he get all those new clothes, socks, unused items? How did you not know about it? For financial reasons, can some be returned? Is he doing this, or are they gifts? Is it time to get better control of his spending? Will a Spring into Summer yard Sale help? He might need the money for his future care.

This is not a criticism of you, Stacey.
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You know those sock bins they have near the checkout aisles. For the longest time my Hubs would grab a pair and now I have this whole drawer of socks. Some that have never been worn........so its easy to do. Plus fleecy tops and socks and underwear are the easy side gifts that tend to accumulate if you are not careful.
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cwillie ,
im that way about housecleaning dread but i learned something this week . usually i make a kitchen mess and decide the dirty pans and stuff need to soak for ten days or so . i was wrong . this time when i made brats i still had enough energy left afterwards to wash the grinder , stuffer and such . it took ten minutes at tops . i honestly thought the crap needed to soak for easier cleanup . nope . it washed off with ease .
ive only been back ( upstairs ) in my own house for 11 months . when i get my system together this place will tick like clockwork .
gonna get some carpet remnants and build a couple rooms of quiltwork carpeting . its very beautiful . our first home still sports one of these homemade carpets thats 25 yrs old .
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I have a friend that gets everyone iin the family slippers every Christmas.. and they are cute.. BUT I have a lifetime collection of slippers of every sort, and I only wear the kind like clogs with fuzzy insides and hard bottoms in case I need to walk the dog..or go outside. I must admit I have regifted some,, share the fun says I !!
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I have a zillion pairs of pajamas. Ones with snowmen sking, santaclauses, penguins playing guitar, ....................you get the picture.
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I'll trade you 3 slippers for a pair...
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You got a deal pam. Now which ones would you like? Penguins? Snowmen? I've got some Snoopy pajamas you might like. LOL
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LOL!
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I want a dark grey onesie (all in one?) with one extra sleeve at the front and a deerstalker hood - then when mum calls me fat again I can say I am supposed to be..... Im an elephant!
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Just don't bring that cute onsie on a visit, Stacey may rook it away from you.
I have been gifted a 3x nighty with a cow on it. I am, a c o w ? ?
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Hahaha
I want the Snoopy Onesie, haha
I need furry slippers
I have a couple of senior citizens for trade!
M88
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Funny!!
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My mom loved those furry socks too, she especially loved mismatched pairs. Sort of like the teenage girls now who wear mismatched socks. Mom was ahead of her time. Miss her so much!
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The loads of nice cozy clothes socks, slippers, soft fleece throws and jogging fleece type jackets, have all come from gifts to the Old Man, from us and the Grandkids over the years. But he chooses to wear the same ole fleece jacket and the same 2 pairs of flannel jammy pants, day in and day out. I don't understand what he is waiting for to use such lovely clothes for, and one day, when he's not looking, I'm going to have a good look, to see if there are any nice sweatshirts I can rook from him, as he won't notice! It does make for easy laundry clean up for him though, plus, the man must have 50 pairs of tighty whitey's! When he tells us every birthday and Christmas that he doesn't need anything, he really means it!
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50 pr of whitey tighties!!! Omg that is enough for a full load in washer or dryer. But my spouse has decided that the dryer eats anything with elastic, so he recently strung clothes line across basement, right in front of the only windows (of course) and spaces his undies out a couple inches apart -- so they dry faster. No doubling up on one pair of undies with its neighbor, oh no, each pair gets 2 clothespins....takes over a whole bag of pins to pin them all up. As if his privates would know the difference.... LOL. ..the elastic in his undies is doing more gyrations than the other parts! Haha!
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