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Today was the second time in fours days I had to run over and fix moms tv
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Thankfully no heart attack or blockages. He is back home resting. I am exhausted. When does the fun retirement start?, harhar.
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Last night I had to rush my husband to ER thought he was having a heart attack. No blockages but they are still doing tests. I Got home after 2:30 am exhausted...the butter plant noise emanating until 3:30 am until that finally quieted down and I fell into a restless sleep...then 6:30 am the noise starts up louder than ever through earplugs and 2 sound machines. Had to get up anyhow....have to tell MIL that he is in the hospital and that won't go over well and cancel my dentist and haircut. I thought moving to a nice condo and hubby retiring would be nice, but this Winter so far has been just awful. I am so worried about him. After all I went through with my mom and the deaths in his family, now this.
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Evermore99,
My dad hates my mothers kindle.He blames it for keeping her up all night lol
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When my Mom was still alive and living in her own apartment I used to roast It was so hot in there. My Hubs has the same situation with his parents now. I guess people get chilly when they get elderly. I'm with you Katie as far as the hot flashes go. I could go to the North Pole and still not need a coat.

I used to want to clean when I'd go to Mom's too but she would always get irritated and say "I can do it" I know she was only trying to save face but truly her house used to be immaculate when we were growing up. Sometimes I'd vacuum, etc. when she was at work and she'd redo it cause it wasn't up to her standards.

That's how I knew when she was starting to decline. When I'd see little cobwebs forming in the corners of the ceiling. Or crumbs pushed into a corner on the counters. That sure wasn't my Mom in better times.

When we'd meet up for coffee or lunch she'd immediately start picking lint off of my clothes. Come to think of it, maybe that's why I've always been so hard on myself. No offense to Mom, but man she liked things perfect.
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I really wish MIL would allow us to bring some nice takeout when we visit. She insists on cooking a huge Sunday meal that could feed 10 people when it is just hubby and I. She over salts things which is not good for my husband's BP and when I tell her this she just does it again next time. Sometimes things are over or under cooked. Then she gives us tons of stuff to take home and expects us to eat from this all week. I come home and my hair and coat smell of onions and garlic. The very greasy kitchen clean up in an overheated house and tiny messy kitchen is awful. Hot flashes always come on. Then hours of sitting in the tiny living room with TV on full blast. I try to tune it out with the Sunday paper. I am actually glad it is Monday again. Thanks for letting me vent!
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I can relate. 20 pds in 2 years.😣 I hate doing dishes.. never-ending. And now we do allot of takeout. I'm thinking of preparing slow cooked meals. . Getting a crock pot, recipes, etc. I think this will save alot of time, etc
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This has gotten really old and been old for years. My mother is in her early 60's and has gotten really lazy. It will be 7 in the morning, I am sound asleep and she is yelling for a cup of coffee. I will be vacuuming downstairs (have two hairy dogs), she is yelling for something too eat. I could be eating a meal myself and she is asking for her stupid Kindle. Her butt is more than capable of getting up and doing these things but wants to sit in bed, read her books and do whatever on the Internet. Between coordinating errands, work, cleaning the house and keeping a 9 month old puppy out of trouble, I am livid that she refuses to do anything for herself. I might be bipolar but I get myself out of bed and make an effort to get stuff done. My dad is annoyed with her and said that him getting her a Kindle was a bad idea. He has even yelled at her saying that if she wants coffee, she gets up and gets it, she wants a sandwich or dinner, she has to get up and do it herself.
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Sophe, sorry for your loss. Like Madge said, just exhale!
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Sophe
take a day to exhale and rest - the relatives and papers can wait
you're a hero
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((((((sophie)))) my deepest condolences on the loss of your mother. So glad she went peacefully.
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Sophe, so sorry for your loss. You are in my thoughts and prayers, {{Hugs}}, Katie.
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I'm sorry for your loss sophe509, but... she died in her sleep, how wonderful.
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My extremely long journey with Mom is finally over. After years of dementia-related behaviors and hundreds of thousands of dollars of care, she passed away peacefully in her sleep. Now I must provide the relatives with an appropriate gathering the grieve, straighten out the few remaining dollars and finish up a bunch of paperwork. I'm surprised I outlived her.
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Gershun, when there has been a fuster-cluck like that I have found that the best thing to do is a simple narrative report of exactly what happened - date, time, person, event - send it to whoever is supposed to be in charge - ha! - and ask what they intend to do to remedy their error(s).

It's also a good idea to have in mind what you would *like* them to do. Apology; remedial training or tightening of procedure; and compensation for your wasted time, possible expenses, frustration and inconvenience - but what compensation? flowers? Money? Receptionist's head on a platter garlanded with flowers and money?
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I have put that out to condo management and board and will see what they think on the noise. Neighbors are gone or indoors. Interestingly it was quiet last night, but maybe they don't work all weekend. The big EPA fine is interesting.
I get asked all the time when we are going on vacation and am tired of explaining that we have MIL, and hubby has heart issues that need to be addressed. Also if we had a "fun" New Year's Eve....Fun??? Really!!?? I was in bed by 9:30....
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I've spent two days just trying to sort through the stack of statements that I haven't filed in 15 months - from about the time mom fell ill with sepsis
now, the paperwork is in a box, vs. the dining room table -
still need to go through all the EOB's and sort those into another box
Then I can start shredding

still not sure what to do with mom's id theft situation- the company won't comply and provide records so that I can turn over to the police

hate it when someone asks me if I did anything fun with my days off over the holidays
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Indeed Send.
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Hmmm, Katie. The plant here is looking at a two million dollar fine from EPA via the state health department. Two million vs new triple pane windows for those that need them? Two million would buy many windows. I don't think the police would be monitoring noise, unless in your area the police have access to a decibel meter. Here the state would have to send qualified, certified personnel on that specific machine in order to collect any sort of data that could be used in an enforcement action. Form a coalition with your neighbors to approach the dairy.
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Gershun, I'm glad you finally got it resolved, so frustrating! I totally understand. My mom's primary doctor's office is so incompetent too when it comes to any prescription changes, referrals, etc. Took them over a month to get her cardiology referral sent over, and three months last year to even get the referral for the neurologist, despite them telling me it would only take a week. I had to nag them every few days until it finally went through.

The latest debacle was a change in her insulin. We saw her doc's PA this last time, as it was just a routine checkup. PA agreed that we should leave her insulin dosage alone until we saw her endocrinologist a couple of weeks ago. Endo made a minor adjustment to the dose but didn't change the type of insulin itself. I later find out that mom's primary doc's office had sent a prescription to the pharmacy changing it to the wrong type of insulin, so it was a big rigamarole getting all of that straightened out. Thankfully her endo is really good and got the proper info to the pharmacy for what her current dosage should be, so her nurses have the correct orders too.

The only reason I haven't changed her PCP is mom is comfortable with them because they are familiar and know her history, and she usually only sees him anyway for routine checkups, like maybe 3-4 times a year. Major issues we (attempt to!) get a specialist referral. It never fails to amaze me though their office's lack of attention to detail. :(
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thx send. The less I say to her the better. I will wait and see what happens.

ETA -when she gets nasty, it has nothing to do with the facts.
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Golden,
Would it help to inform your sister that the average time to probate an estate with an attorney in one year?
In the U.S. also, is what I am informed.

Gershun,
Maybe find out what the receptionist is taking, and make sure you do not get that.
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Yay, Gershun!!!
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I finally have my prescription!! I sent Hubs to pick it up for me. I am totally drained by the whole experience. He had a good talk with the pharmacist. Thank-God she was assertive and got it done. Apparently she received a call from another pharmacist at another store who they had also sent the blank prescription and the wrong prescription to. I spoke to the receptionist at the doctor's office again today as well and she said the doctor isn't in on Saturday. Uh, I know that but it's Friday today, I said. :P

I wish the prescription had been for Valium cause I seriously could use one right about now.
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cw thx I have handed over a lot to the lawyer. Mother's financial advisor will look after a lot too. I have been thinking about why I am behind with some things - not just mother's, but my own, and I think I have not yet recovered psychologically, or physically in terms of the house, from the evacuation, forest fire, ensuing floods and workmen in the house for a year. People here use BF (before the fire) and AF (after the fire) like the world uses BC and AD. I am still not settled in the house. I had hoped to sell it this past year and move, then found I couldn't, so was planning for a quiet winter to gather strength, then mother passed so I am once more dealing with more than I want to, but it has to be done. Enough already!!!

For me there is no rush, but I have the spectre of my (dollar signs in her eyes) sis hanging over me and I guess she will just have to wait. What can she do other than being nasty, and I should be used to that by now.

Then more changes -just when I had decided on a condo I find out that there will be a lot of construction around it for new houses and a 4 lane highway connection to the city. Like cm, I cannot abide noise pollution. So back to the drawing board on that one. I guess it's not just the executor duties but the need to move south to a shorter winter too that is pressing on me too.
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Golden, I was gung ho to get the estate settled but as I kept running into roadblocks I realized that there wasn't any hurry and that it isn't unusual for things to take many months. I also let our lawyer convince me to hand over almost all of the business part of things to the professionals, the price will be worth it to me.
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Yes, definitely!! If this is happening to you it is happening to others and some of them may not have the knowledge or ability to catch the mistakes. And it's not just the ditzy office woman, it's the doctor who doesn't seem to know how to fax his prescriptions and doesn't take ownership of his employee's mistakes.
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So, I have the pharmacist on my side. My husband phoned this morning to see if it had been faxed and the pharmacist said "No, they haven't and I'm going to call them and use my angry voice"

We just called the pharmacist back and she is spitting mad. She said "oh my god, your doctor's office. The girl there said oh, the patient asked for the wrong medicine" So now they're blaming me! Also, the doctor refaxed a blank prescription twice. They told the pharmacist that the doctor has left. So the pharmacist told them to get another doctor there to sign off on it. They told her they can't do that. The pharmacist said to them that she worked at a doctor's office for years and yes they can. So now the pharmacist said she is standing by her fax machine waiting and she will get back to me.

What happened to just giving a patient a prescription and letting them hand it to a pharmacist. After this is resolved, if it ever is, I am planning on making a formal complaint. What do you all think? Should I?
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gershun - that's so irresponsible of them. As you say, thank goodness you can deal with it.

continuation of my whine - the other factor that doesn't help at all is since the cataract surgery I have some double vision. It is hard reading fine print, and tax stuff and various forms is all about the fine print. Combine that with the brain fog and blurry eyes sometimes due to CFS/FM and I have to wait to deal with some stuff till the days that I see better, The optometrist said I have 20/20 vision and I say B*** S*** t that!!!
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Gershun, I hope you can get these dingbats to do their jobs! Mindboggling! I often wonder why people are getting paid and customers and patients are forever correcting their mistakes but they get the rewards..

For anyone having noise problems, I found a helpful noise barrier for the outside wall behind the bed. I took a large piece of canvas art and filled the back with cotton batting...I found it in the Christmas decorations on sale. It was called "Buffalo Snow", but I have also seen this called "Angel Hair". I filled the space behind the canvas with this, and put a sheet of quilting filler over the back, turned it around and hung the art on the wall behind the bed. It has helped fend off noise somewhat. I also think the processing plant may have had a complaint as a police car was sitting on our street with his window open listening for over an hour yesterday. Our street is private property so someone in the complex must have called about the relentless noise yesterday and the day before. It has been much quieter today and at times no sound at all.....Trouble is, they may behave for a bit but then sneak up the volume....
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