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.
on the way to the doctor I noticed the AC was not blowing out anything but HOT air..and I just had it totally redone..including the comressor...so this is not going to fly and now I will have to go and deal with that ...I knew it was not cooling properly ever since it was done and that has been a month ago...I am sure they will fix it, but it irks me that i have to use more of my time when they already had it for two days AND the weekend before...
Then my BP was WAY too high...I don't think it had ever been that high..bottom number in the triple digits ...not good...have had a blinding headache as I sit here typing with eyes shut. about to go to bed as that is all tha twill help.
Got home and found the home AC was not cooling either..so on the list for someone to come out and check that...
I am feeling jumpy and cranky...again...Mama continues the usual constant pooing thing...so lucky...I so feel for you friend...I know how hard that is...even though we know they cannot help it...it is so totally tiring to feel like we are constantly changing everything...so tired...
OK, off to bed...I have not been able to make it through the posts, there are so many and looks like a lot of folks are going through so many things....I will try to read them all tomorrow but for tonight will be praying for everyone..and also that you and your loved ones get some rest.
I never ever reported it but I have often since felt I should of.
In answer to your question Sendmetohelp yes I used to go on the treadmill regularly. I stopped after my Mom died. Just didn't have the heart for it. But yes I am in fairly good shape. I've always taken care of myself that way.
Your posts brought back a memory not too long ago when I knew I needed a gynae op. So off I trot to the docs. Now I used to live in a very mixed cultural area of a very large city in the UK and obviously that mix is replicated in the surgery. So I am sat in the waiting room with this delightful Smalian boy behind me when he decides to kick my chair rhythmically I admit but it was still bloody annoying. His father didn't stop him so I spoke to him nicely. He continued, nothing said by dad, this time I asked dad to ask the boy to stop and the man faced a lack of understanding (inner seethe starting) finally I ha enough and was not as quiet as one would expect (HAHAH) I told the boy what an ill mannered idiot he was at which point Dad suddenly developed very good English well he knew a lot of swear words! and started giving it large (don't know what you would call that in US but I mean remonstrating!). I don't think the women he dealt with ever spoke back but hell no I gave it back and then some at which point I was called into docs.
Now as you can imagine I am not a happy bunny, grim kid, grimmer father and now a new doc that I didn't much care for *on sight* and I have no idea why I just didn't like him.
In comes nurse with gynae tray, gloves gel speculum the works. He knocked the tray onto the floor. Then proceeded to pick it back up and place it back on the tray - erm hello you don't intend to use any of that on me do you - clearly he had had intentions of doing just that. I can feel the volcano rising within me as I insist on a new tray and that this one be condemned to the bin (they were those disposable speculums that they use these days)
Nurse is despatched to set up a new tray and meanwhile doc with gloves still on is taking notes and typing and I am sat there thinking he had so better change those gloves. Well nurse came back in doc went out with gloves on and a key in hand - he needed something he didn't have. Comes back in with gloved hands in pockets then proceeds to pick up the speculum - Nope volcano erupted. After asking him where he got his qualification and had he ever done basic infection control training I requested another doctor AND GOT ONE. Formal complaint immediately because he was putting patients at risk. Meeting called where it was explained to me that he was new to the practice...and that makes a difference ....why? how?
Well in his country.........don't even go there - there are zillions of doctors from other countries all of whom know and follow basic procedure - he has no business being in practice if he can't even follow these. Very disgruntled woman left surgery and never returned....well would you have done?
Since you own a treadmill, you have used it before?
If I start to think of it all I just get depressed and since we all know what the final outcome was already I guess theres no need to go there again.
Sorry so many of you are having such a bad time right now.
I stupidly went on the treadmill the other day. The going on the treadmill wasn't the stupid part. How long I stayed on was. I was so impressed with myself. But I've somehow pulled my groin muscle and I can barely walk now. IDIOT !! ME!!
Jude, I know you could do this procedure yourself for your Mom, but please "don't try this at home". The reason is, you have enough to do, and you're going to need help, if only someone present if that is tolerable or helpful, so consider this.
Maybe this is the time to allow help, if they are profesional, and say you just cannot do that procedure. My neighbor (yes, another neighbor) missed a pleasant
visit from the nice, male I.V. nurse when she went to a hotel to hide from everyone
after discharge from the hospital.
I would think that would be good news. I know I would be doing cartwheels if someone told me no more GYN appointments and no more mammograms. But Mom worries, she still think she needs to see those doctors, old habits are hard to break.
The techs at the radiology will be glad not to see Mom... it takes two gals to help Mom with the mammograms. My gosh, at her age, why put yourself through that torture? It's difficult enough at my age.
Jude hope they keep Mum for five days cause I can guarantee she won't finish that course of antibiotics at home, but you know where to put them.
Stay strong girl.
Jude, stay on those idiots who can't even manage the most basic hand washing techniques, where did they go to school, The University of Infections R Us? The old gal still has a little life left in her yet, if she's kicking up over the food, but really, I am praying she does feel better soon, and hope that you are able to get some rest and packing done between visitations, which does take so much out of the day, and is so exhausting, all you really want to do is catch up on some sleep.
Mum is rallying - didn't we all know she would - She is showing true colours though. I don't want food I don't like food and Im not going to eat it so there. All she missed was poking her tongue out and she would have been the perfect 4 year old!
They consider her to be bed bound but she bloody isn't she just isn't prepared to do anything for herself. I can see in her face she isn't going to be compliant and lord help em tonight - I have suggested low bed and crash mats but whether they will listen or not is a different matter. Only time will tell
I have learned a lot about c diff from this thread. Before y'all started posting about it, I'd honestly never heard of it before. This is such a wonderful resourceful thread.
I have my psychologist appt this week. I'm curious as what her suggestion will be on decompressing the last 3 years of caring for both parent's and holding them while they passed away. Yeah, this should be interesting.