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Awe. So .glad you saw It happen and could convince her to go to hospital! Does she have a cane or walker that she will use? Or too much pride? Glad you will be getting the help! ..maybe she will listen to nurse! Lol
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Stormy..glad you are feeling better! Sorry to hear about hubby...one more to take care of..hopefully it is just inflamed
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Just thought I'd share a note I got from my sister. It said," If you're happy and you know it..............share your meds!!!" lalalalalala
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ASG, I love dogs too, just am a cat person at heart.... have had a few dogs thru the years... A fat little poodle that lived until she was 16 yrs. old... another dog that was a spaniel mix we called ITSA, for it's a dog, not a cat...would love to have a Boston terrier, but the Diva, my cat, would not stand for it.... so maybe some where down the road I'll get another dog....
Sorry to hear about Aunties fall, and thank goodness you are finally getting some help..... I know that is going to help out a lot..... give you a much needed break, especially this summer with the kids out of school....
Seeme, loved what your sister sent.... but most of us are not 'into' sharing....... just grateful we have some....
Will check back in later....
Hi Vickie Vic.... more later, hugs.
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Ladee lol
Love the name. I joked with my hubby one day asking him if he thought the ativan was prescribed for the nurses or the patient
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stormy....it's either a brace or surgery.....that's it. It all depends on the extent of injury.
ASG.....isn't it funny how they can stand in front of you with this look of innocence, denying they fell, while they are turning black and blue? Hope the HH aide works out well.
lirp....is sis taking Mom to Florida permanently or just for a while? Yes, you are correct with mono.....nasty little condition and so many poo-poo it off like it's nothing.
austin.....the house isn't THAT clean..... it wouldn't pass the white glove test by a long shot. There's places in this house that would run screaming if I showed up with a dust rag in hand.....there's corners I haven't seen for a long time.....:)

The col is still trying to get us to bring her home....she sounds so pitiful and whiny...she's trying every angle she can to get us to do what she wants. I hate telling her no, but trying to reason doesn't penetrate.

I just got my March Family Circle magazine today and it has a good article in it about memory.....what's normal with aging and Alzheimer's.

Happy Trails,
Jam
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Did you guys see the piece on cnn about a cancer drug that cured alzhiemers in mice. They said they've found cures before in mice that didn't pan out well in. Bland but this looks very promising.
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Hi girls. I had a very nice sunny day but another snowstorm is foreseen for tomorrow! Jam, olive trees don't like cold and snow. The olive growers are very worried... This part of Italy is famous for olive oil.
Good luck to everybody! I'll give you a new snow bulletin tomorrow.
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Ro.....let's hope the snow doesn't develop.....all we use here is olive oil....I sure hope there isn't a shortage soon!
ASG....didn't see that on CNN, but sounds interesting......
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Welcome to the new posters- glad you're here. My husband and I took care of his grandma for 4 years until her passing a month ago, but I still come in here.

Well yesterday I ended up in the emergency room. I was having pain in my shoulders and a burning sensation across my chest. So better to be safe so I had hubby take me in. I ended up getting admitted and they ran a stress test. I couldn't get my heart rate up to where they wanted it to be. I have this dang brace I wear for my dropped foot and couldn't walk as fast as the treadmill was going. They couldn't find anything on the stress test and said it was skeletal problems and released me and said if the pain worsens to come back into the er. I called into work yesterday for today since I didn't know how long that I would be grounded for. I gotta call my manager and see if I still have to manadatory training tomorrow. I was having the same pain I had about a month before I had my heart attack. I go back to see my cardiologist next month. I'm thinking that I really need to take a leave from work to see what the heck is going on with me.
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Mis-please go to see your cardiologist asap-hospitals are famous for saying it is nothing-my hospital almost killed Clinton by sending him home his security guys took him straight to Westchester Medicial a trama hospital. Afew weeks later my DIL was takeing a pt. into the ER and she heard another pt. saying don't tell me it is indigestion you almost killed the Pres.
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Mis..call your doc and see if you can get in ASAP! You never know!
Even though the patients take the Ativan..I think it is for us!! Lol!
Jam..prayers for you guys too...know your hearts are heavy.
Ladee Lou..hope you are better.. Hate this weather..hot cold ..get sick! Ughhhh
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Setting here this morning with the rain hitting the roof and wanting to go back to bed instead of to work....I am grateful I have a job, doing what I love, taking care of Alz. patients.....talked with the daughter last night on how to handle Marie better....I KNOW not to take her personal, but paid caregivers have feelings too.... and a life outside the rooms of our charges..... I am tired of complaining about this with her, and no she is not grateful for anything I do, but Sonny is.... always a smile and a thank you as he takes a hold of my hand and those twinkly blue eyes just shining....Have just had a long week, like the rest of you, for one reason or another.... makes me just want to pick up, move somewhere else, leave it all behind.... a new life, a new begining, instead of working my brain so hard on how to stay professional, not take the things she says personal...... I am doing this to myself... all feelings are preceded by thinking, so if I THINK it is one way, then my feelings follow.... tired of being tired.... what is real, what is just her being mean, what do I do , how can I let it go, how can I not be bothered so much by her words..... I'm just weary of trying to figure it all out....
Thanks for letting me get it out of my head this morning..... maybe I won't be feeling sorry for myself as the day goes on..... love you all and prayers and angels
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Good morning friends, it is going to be a good day! I slept 4 hours straight and feel like a new person, but the best is that my kids were smiling as I sent them to school. We have discussed our future plans and see a light. I hope you all have a blessed day.
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today is not so bad. living with my daughter visiting my hubby, & waiting for bkground ck to go thro so I can move into cost effective apt. Never in my life have I had to give finger prints & bkground ck just to get an apt. But before I gave away my house I lived in one place for 25 yrs. Life sure is different then back then. This Sunday my Husband well b 83 yrs old. I still feel guilty when I leave him & he crys. Last mth was our Anniversary of 43 yrs, I bought a big cake, apple pie & shared with the nursing home. It was nice & he smiled a lot. The nursing home was having a visiting group to educate others on VA/State run Nursing homes. My husband thought they all came to his party & he kept saying ' I dont remember any of these people?'
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I go to a therapist to help me deal with all of this. She has been so helpful. She also has an assistant who is so wonderful. She helps me with paperwork, ways to look into help in a state that really has no help for elders between 60-65 yrs. I also found I can get inexpensive thinks thro the University of ID. But most of all I found a great Coffee house where I can finally find easy sitting light conversation & tons of smiles. I also feel lucky to have wonderul directers & office staff to assist me with low cost information otherwise hard to find. These are thing I want to share because I am finally learning to go on with my life & its ok to cry. I thank you for being here & all the new people I read on here.
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Thanks Ros, ladeeda and Jam. I feel in a spiritual place todoay...Snowing in NW suburbs of Chicago, and it is sooo beautiful; Oh, the wonder of our beautiful planet. I love the 4 seasons, and the beauty of each of them. My Mom is quiet today, and I forget the anger and frustration, as was commented on above--Isn't it amazing how we all bounce back?
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I got hit with the stomach bug or the valley fever almost back to normal but i didnt get a chance to accomplish my errands for the day so i feel like i wasted today majorly but hubby is hanging in there stress test will be a few months away so keep praying for him.....
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I've not posted here for a while. So here is a brief update on this rainy night.

The other day my mother called from the nursing home and left a message on my voice mail that she wanted to know what my plans for moving were. What? I don't have any plans for moving myself or her for she is in a good nursing home and her husband can visit her everyday. When I visited her, she did not say a thing about my plans for moving. So, I did not bring the question up. She did ask about her brother who died two years ago. When I reminded her of his death and my bringing her a CD of his funeral, she remembered that he was dead. She said that she had forgotten only temporarily. She's lost tract of time for she thinks it is time to go Christmas shopping and wanted some money so that she can go shopping next week and she thinks by then she will be ready to get out of there. This is so sad for she cannot even get out of bed on her own. Upon, visiting my step-dad, he told me that she might even forget that I visited her today when he sees her in the morning for he's noticed quite an increase in her bad vs good days as far as her thinking goes. For right now, she knows who we are, but she might reach the point where she does not remember us.

Changing the subject, I went to see my sleep apnea doctor and she said my machine needed to be reset in light of what I told her I'm experiencing with my current machine. Instead of getting another sleep study, she gave me the option of borrowing a CPAP that automatically senses what you need to keep breathing while you are sleeping. I'm using this for two weeks and then we should know what my machine needs to be set to.

If the setting on the CPAP turns out not to be the problem to my not having the energy that I need to get through the day, then my psychiatrist is prepared to increase my anti-depressant and if that does not work take me off of nuvigil which is not working and put me on something stronger. I somewhat think that is where we will end up. I will see him on the 22 of February. My new lab results should be in by then also, but I doubt they will show much.

I am glad to learn that we now have an endocrinologist moving into our city for ours left several years ago and I have been having to go out of town for mine. Now, I can have this tended to here which is great given the price of gas.
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Mis, go to your cardiologist! He will tell you what to do. Maybe it is just some accumulated stress....
It's snowing again! Dorothy, my youngest dog, is outside now (it's 5 in the morning) and she doesn't come home. There are no dangers - there are no cars at this time, and anyway they would not go fast - but I am afraid she is starting to like boys and she is not neutralized yet!!!!! I hope she doesn't get a cold with all this snow. I go out every 10 minutes calling for her but she doesn't come. Oh my! How stressful is the life of mothers.
More snow pictures tomorrow!
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Ro..hope Dorothy came back in and that you didn't have to Go searching...
Burned..you needed rest the day wasn't wasted! Prayers!
Ladee Lou... So sorry you are feeling so down..it is a tough situation and it takes a toll on the mind,heat and soul...not to mention the body. Say a prayer for her when she gets ugly..I used to do this and should do it more often..when I had a tough boss ....it helped me at the time. The answers will come try not to think too hard it is sometimes our downfall.
Baum..glad to hear things are getting settled
Mis..hope you are taking care of you..
Dad seems to be in a stable way lately...clarity comes and goes and as the day wears on so does his body..some days he is soo hard to move around..but he seems to be in an ok place right now
Our new caregiver will be here again today...I have to go to the stores and run errands..don't want to but it will be good for me to get out...and brrrrrrr it is cold!
I have all of you in my prayers and thoughts...
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Thanks Vickie Vic, over thinking, Banshee reminded me of that yesterday....and prayer for others always works, I forget that when I am all off into 'self'... glad to hear Dad is having better times... and really happy to hear the new caregiver is working out, you will relax when you are not there knowing mom and dad like her...
Ro, please tell us Dorothy came home...hopefully she just lost track of time, let us know....the pic of the vatican was beautiful....I know you are liking/not liking the snow...
Electricity was off all night in the whole park for some reason.....got down to 28, so my little electric heaters are working overtime trying to get this place warm, setting here with my coat on.....
I'll check back in later, love and angels....
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cmag, hope things work out for you soon....
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Good Morning Angels!

BBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.........it's 7 degrees out this morning! Supposed to snow on Monday. So sorry to hear some of you have been sick.....I hope that passes soon. And others have been muddling through paperwork.....time consuming and a real pain in the tush.........but you will get through it.
oldwonderful.....happy to hear that you have found resources to help you....and a coffee shop to make new friends.........we had a little place open here a few short years ago and now I see that it's closed.
CMag.....good to hear from you. Hope you can get the CPAP back on track. The loss of memory is so hard to deal with, but at the same time it makes it easier. The col is the same as your Mom....can't get up alone but is ready to go shopping.
Ro.....are we going to have to start calling you Grandma? I hope Dorothy comes home soon!
mis.....hope you have called your cardiologist. Only you know the "feeling" and whether it's something to be alarmed by or not. As I used to tell my patients....if it's nothing then that's great and you can go home.....if it's something and you ignore it.....you might not get the chance to go home.

I'm going to have to make a list of our friends here.....my brain is not awake enough yet to not overlook someone.....and each of you are very important to me!!!! Today I wish you all peace-filled hearts and minds and a shared smile to help you through the day..........it makes people wonder what you're up to....:)

Happy Trails,
Jam
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Old I think you might be new here -I came over from another thread mostly because of some old friend from the GO thread -friends that I had missed not hearing from-it looks like things are going well for you. I was a caregiver for many years and now am on my own and at times I am able to help others with all my unasked for experience-it will be nice to get to know you. C mag I was wondering about how you were doing and good luck with the CPAC-my husband really needed on but was able to convinve the docs otherwise-and few wanted to go against him so-we all know how that ended.
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Well while i was with dad yesterday i was giving him his meds through his feeding tube and noticed that there was some old and new blood around the area that the feeding tube goes into his stomach. I don't know why it would be doing that. I guess doc will check that out tues. Ya'll have a good day. Will check back later on. Hugs stormyyy
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Stormy as long as the meds went in allright I would not worry as long as there is not a lot of bleeding-I was a nurse.
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hey all I am over it TG and i managed to get grocery shopping done but the rest will have to wait until Monday and hubby just had another breakthru episode with his epilepsy...I need to get him to see the neuro but I am waiting for this cardio to figure what is up with his heart and was told that he has to have the stress test in phx and then I need to try to keep up with mine which has been difficult considering the mass of paperwork I still have to do ...then i got some funny stories about the kids but will post them later ....my son loves to keep me on my toes and my daughter will be going to school come monday so there will be some peace in the household for a better part of the day...
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Burned, glad you are feeling better and hope that mountain of paper work goes smoothly for you...
Been a slow day here, hope that means everyone is relaxing and getiing some 'me' time....
Been a cold and boring day here.... hope you all are ok.... love and hugs
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Wanted to tell everyone goodnight and that I hope those that are having ccccooooolllldddd weather to please stay warm and snug tonight....and I wish a peaceful night to everyone. Sending angels to keep you company...........

Love and Hugz to all.........
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