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.
We truly do live in a buyer/consumer beware world.
Thank God you are able to read and comprehend the paperwork and catch the errors. So many people just sign whatever is put in front of them.
i hope your condo purchase all works out well!! those people's mistakes must be very frustrating! hug!!
dear poodle,
i really hope you find a good replacement caregiver soon! i found it very stressful last year, when i had to find new caregivers. if you're lucky (we were), the new ones will be EVEN better. hug!!
bundle of joy :)
I think I’ll go into the solitary woods and yell.
I was just relaxing today. Everything was going well.
And now our wonderful aide suddenly has to leave in a few weeks. She’s moving with her family to another town.
I have to find a new aide.
Luckily, we have several aides. But she is my uncle’s favorite. They laugh a lot together.
I’ll need to find a replacement, because they work in shifts.
I am down to the last transactions and pray that this comes off without a hitch. It's all being done at a distance which makes it a little more complicated, but these days very doable. So that is an anti-whine. I'm very thankful it can be done at a distance and will breathe a sigh of relief when it is over.
While I am at it I will whine about calling my dr about 3 weeks ago to renew prescriptions, being told that would happen and when I contacted the pharmacy today they said they had had nothing from him. Fortunately the pharmacy staff are great and will fax him for refills and be sure I get my meds. 😊
Next time your mom asks for something else besides the food that you offer, tell her that's on tomorrow's menu. Today, there is just this. Then stay SILENT. Don't offer anything more. GIve your mom time to digest what you just said and think about her choices. She can refuse to eat if she's not too hungry, and later will happily chow down whatever food you have available.
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and how amazing you are, doing all that for your mother! :)
bundle of joy :)
And so, I'm the one left with feeling tired and angry and need something to calm down so I can relax before going to bed in a bit. I am soooo ready for her to be gone.... can't afford assisted living. But I am very seriously considering going back to work, even just enough to afford assisted living. I'm really to the point of not trying to keep her at home which I have felt is "best for her", but quickly arriving at the point of what is "best for me".
Pump bottles are great when they work. With hand soap I just refill.
Why do they sell lotion on pump bottles?! You can never get it all out, if the pump will work in the first place!
Snow has been regularly removed from the driveway by my very nice snow angel, but the machine he uses leaves a layer on the cement that turns of ice and is quite slippery. DD nearly fell on it last week.
Previous years the city came and salted it but this year, in fact, yesterday, a couple of workers came and shoveled off the driveway right down to the concrete. Yay!!!
But I Yay-ed too soon. It snowed several inches over night and the driveway is covered again. Back to square one and get out the crampons. ☹
I hauled out the probiotics the other day (he claimed he's lost them, but I found them!). He's on a slew of other meds (blood thinner, heart, cholesterol, etc.) so I guess it's hard to add something else.
He's perking up today, doesn't feel so shaky. Looking up. Thanks for your good thoughts!
Does he take probiotics? Those might help get his stomach back in good working condition for the long haul.
I went out yesterday with a friend. While I was gone, DH ate a salami sandwich, so we're back to square one with #2.
So I ask, "have you taken Imodium?"
Tells me no, it's Imodium that made him faint and dehydrated last weekend. Oy.
Gave him online Imodium site (it works by slowing down your gut, increases absorption of fluid in gut), tells me that's not what it does for him.
I calmly suggest he email doc. Doc, bless him, says "take Imodium".
Not just pee, but both.
Of course, I meant to get a new plunger when I threw out the non-working one....
I know Mom won't remember but I told her anyway don't flush tonight. I'm tired, going to bed, locking my door so she won't walk in, bend down and look me in the face inches away to get me to fix it tonight.
Tomorrow is another day.
Still waiting on his pcr, but spoke to the NP at our PCP's office today who confirmed that there is a devilish stomach bug traveling around Bklyn. Glad to be out of its circle. Thank you to all of you for your good thoughts.
There are no words for working 15 hrs. in winter, but I know that you can do this for a short time - I am just hoping that it is not for the long term and becomes the norm.
A strawberry spread too thin just becomes jam. 🍓
Be safe out there, will you? You've got this!
15 hour day ahead because the team is rather thinly spread just now.
Beatty, I had read that covid could have stomach bug/flu symptoms but I've never heard this firsthand from anyone.
Barb, hope you can get covid ruled out completely and nurse DH back to health. Sounds like you're through the worst of it. I hope so.
Have heard Omicron can present with nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea. Rehydrate is all you can do.
Dr told me Omicron is more in the throat, so even though the R.A tests are good, if nasal only, may not pick up (apparently). But PCR will.
Of course stomach flu does happen now & then. Whatever it is, hope it is brief.
🤞🙏
I never eat it otherwise but when I had flu or vomiting as a kid, jello or jello water always went down well. I wonder how healthy things like ginger could be added. Seems you could put it in the hot unflavored jello water just like a tea and make your own flavor.
This is in my head because I just ordered a collagen supplement because my hair is getting so very thin. Hoping it will help some joint pain, too.
If you can get him to drink anything with ginger in it, it helps the body absord fluids into the cells.
We like fresh grated ginger, raw honey and a squeeze of lemon when we are feeling dehydrated.