Hey folks, welcome to the new whine/general topic thread. Feel free to use this thread to discuss anything that is on your mind. Caregiving- related stuff, life after a loved one's death, your own emotional wellbeing. Whatever..........anything on your mind.
Then I say she should go for it! Why not? They very well may be a good match.
We have the usual haunted houses here. New Orleans has a vampire 🧛♀️ culture because of Anne Rice being from our area. Of course there is Voodoo here. Marie Laveau was our Voodoo Queen. So lots of hoodoo and juju in our city too. New Orleans claims to be an extremely haunted city. We have cemetery tours because of our unique cemeteries.
One of the most famous haunted houses here is The Mortuary on Canal Street. It was at one time a real mortuary. It creeps me out. I’ve heard it’s really scary but I haven’t been. I have done some of the other haunted houses when younger but I can’t bring myself to attend one held in a former funeral home.
For the longest time I despised the color mauve because the funeral home that my family used had mauve walls. I always associated that color with death. I could not look at the caskets when my father died. My brothers went with my mom in that room to select one.
I guess the color mauve reminded me of my great aunts and other relatives funerals. People told kids not to be scared because the deceased were ‘just sleeping.’
That gave me nightmares for a long time. I used to think as a little girl that I would go to sleep and end up in a casket and be buried in the cemetery. It’s really a horrible thing to tell children but I guess they didn’t know any better then.
Hahaha. There are funeral homes that closed here that are now other places of business, restaurants, drugstores, daycares, etc. yeah, I have odd thoughts about it!
The opposite too. One time I went with my cousin to another cousin’s funeral. The funeral home used to be a Mexican restaurant. I kept thinking about all the tacos I had enjoyed there. My cousin too. We started laughing. It was horrible. We had to go outside to compose ourselves so the family wouldn’t wonder why we were laughing during a funeral!
That would be creepy!
Ever take the wrong elevator in a hospital? I did. I was upset. It was right after my brother’s nearly fatal motorcycle accident and I accidentally got on the service elevator.
An employee asked me where I was headed because I wasn’t supposed to be on that elevator. Thoughts went through my mind of ending up in the morgue area of the hospital! The employee pointed me in the right direction.
Re: Clergy
The term for the clergy that you have described is called:
They are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
I think I would have nightmares!
God bless all hospital staff! That sounds like a Stephen King horror movie!
she still looks sick
I hate to cath her again to get a sample to see if it’s clear
one of my favorite hoca residents passed - still fairly young and he loved to push the Viking’s buttons but I never worried that he would get mean with her despite her cussing him out
maybe he was blessed to go quickly as opposed to being locked up in the land of the demented for years
If a patient has diabetes, one must be careful, get a doctor's advice if it is safe.
If I have it correct, the D Mannose are the sugars from the cranberry.
That does not make it harmful sugars, just check it out because I cannot figure it out.
As for occasional sugary treats allowed for any diabetic, when there is presence of UTI and antibiotics, NO SUGAR at that time. It would be contraindicated. Sorry, do not have the reference available at this time.
The Viking has had enough UTI's that seeing a urologist to manage this would help? The urologist can check to see if the UTI has cleared.
If she is still looking sick, can you have her tested for sepsis?
There is one antibiotic that reads: it is still working after the meds run out.
That one is not Bactrim I don't think.
Instead of worry, can you call the doctor today, before the weekend?
Do you have treatment for Candida, often caused by antibiotics?
Is her tongue coated white?
Are you taking a new medication, antibiotics?
Are you allergic?
the latest UTI was ecoli so likely a result of diarrhea - being immobile makes it nearly impossible to avoid going up the urethra
her mood has become so bad that I'm thinking I'll have no choice but to put her back on risperdal which I absolutely hate doing as it knocked her out and made her speak gibberish
it was suggested to use neurontin but that too is off label and has a high tolerance with need for increasing dosage