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.
Also, there are few others dynamics in the threads and articles on this form that would come in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, but I will not attempt to name them.
BTW, I have yet to go to bed since yesterday and I'm doing fine, but I will crash sometime.
I watch the game only for the commercials :)
This is really strange that I have not slept in over 24 hours and I'm doing fine! I have not felt this good in a long time!
Whine One: If your Medicaid 'consultant' tells you to get bank checks or make copies of all checks you write to spend down money, do it. Do not forget to make one out to yourself in the whole ordeal. Do NOT, I repeat, Do NOT just transfer the money into even a new account with your name on it. Keep It Simple. While the head of the IRS or Hillary can say, 'What Difference Does It Make!' You can not.
Whine Two: Never play Bingo with people with dementia.
Whine Three: Never assume Power of Attorney is going to go well.
Whine Four: Never play Bingo with people who have dementia.
cmagnum please don't make us worry about your hyper mood.
This website also offers "email notification" when a new posting comes onto a forum where you had written. I use to use that, but I found if I had missed a couple days I would have over way too many notifications, too many to sort through. But you can try it... go to "Edit Account".
While I sadly realize that it is too late for some, I wish more people who are married would read those articles and benefit from them then maybe there would be fewer marriages in the marital graveyard.
So, I'm whining about the marital graveyard. So, love the one your're with!
My parents don't understand if a doctor has numerous offices that he/she goes to, there are only certain time slots available at each of those offices. I don't have a magic wand to instantly produce an appointment for tomorrow. I understand my Mom frustrations with her hearing aids not working but she needs to do things herself to help herself, like pushing that hearing piece further into her ear.... she can't, it might hurt.... [sigh].
I made snacks to watch the big game. Mom doesn't enjoy the game, but tolerated it so I didn't have to lock myself away in my bedroom to watch it. She even asked questions about various plays and why one thing was a penalty when another similar thing wasn't - which was a new step for her - she hates football. So I was happy that she was at least somewhat enjoying it or paying attention to it.
Gave mom her plate of snacks, including bratwurst, chips and dip, fruit, veggies and nachos. About 20 minutes later, as I was putting the food away, I mentioned that we had bratwurst left over for lunch the next day, and asked if she liked them. She looked at me blankly and said, "I didn't have one!" Me: "Um, yes you did, Mom." Mom: "Oh...well, I guess I liked it then!"
LOL
Was looking so forward to the big game last night...got back from carrying her home, it was drizzly and cold, so I put on my cozy pj's and got Mama all changed and finally she ate her lunch..thankfully...so then I got me a fluffy big quilt fresh from the dryer and snuggled up in front of the fireplace "for a minute or two" and the next thing I knew it was halftime and I missed everything in between..but I sure did nap good....one of the better Super Bowls I have ever seen...(what I finally saw of it)
Caller: B-1...that's B as in Ball, One. B-1
Mom: BINGO!
You: Mom, that's only the first number called, you can't possibly have a BINGO.
Mom: (mumbles unintelligbly under her breath and glares at you)
Caller: I-8...that's I as in Ice Cream, Eight. I-8
Mom: Ice cream? I want ice cream. When are they bringing it around? Get me some.
You: Mom, they're not serving ice cream, he called the number I-8, and you have it - mark your card.
Mom: Don't tell me what to do! (more mumbling)
Caller: G-10...that's G as in Good Morning, Ten. G-10
You: MOM! Don't eat the BINGO chips!!
Mom: (blank stare, with brightly-colored chip stuck to her lip) BINGO!
You: (sigh)
Now next week I am going to have something called a Transforaminal epidural steroid injection. they can also use an electric shock machine that temporally kills the nerve although it will regenerate over time. It is done in a specialty pain clinic just with sedation. It may be the same sedation they use for colonoscopy so you may choose to forgo that. Personally I think it is the colonoscopy prep that poisons you . That PEG is the same stuff they use in anti freeze and whatever they tell you a small amount is absorbed from the gut. There is actually an FDA watch on the stuff at present. Anyway back to the injections they have you lie face down on an x-ray table and then they take a guess at which nerves are causing your pain and insert a needle under X-ray then insert a little die to again check the position. Then they stimulate the nerve just for a second if they have hit your nerve they then numb the area and then inject local anesthetic and a steroid. The idea is to reduce the inflamation on the nerve where it comes out of the vertibrae which it does through a small hole in the side. I am told there may be some discomfort for several days then the pain will go away. It can last for weeks months years or forever but they can repeat the treatment as often as needed. If you fancy this maybe the VA will do it. They must have to deal with a lot of pain.
I am haveing my first one on Feb 11th so will let you know what I think. I do have a fairly high pain threshold so I am sure you do too.
There are lidocain patches you can put on the painful site. They are prescription but not havit forming as the local is just absorbed through the skin. You are right to be wary of pain meds with your liver. I am sure you have put heat and cold pads on it. If you don't have a heat pad you can nuke a bag of rice and this stay hot for quite a while. Doubt you have the option of a long hot bath in the bunker. I don't know if you can still buy Kaolin but spreading that on a cloth and heating it up can help too. In the good old days we used to heat up what was called a Kaolin poltice and put it on the chests of patients with pneumonia. Antibiotics in those days were limited to injectible pennicillin so you see it was in the dark ages. We heated the wards in those days with coal fires before they were banned in london because of the smog. I remember one night sitting in front of the fire with a child on my knee who had just had her tonsills removed and had a dreadful earache. I had a pad of cotton wool and kept heating by the fire and holding it to her ear. Long time ago now but sometimes the old ways work along with the new.
gotta figure it out on my own . docs are half my age and often just hark jibberish . maybe i need a japanese bucket seat . they are lumbar adjustable . this chevy seat is dinosaur crap by comparison .