
Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
EB, good thought for your family.
It is against the law to send certain biohazards in the U.S. mail for a reason.
But here we all are, so eager to be sending back a PCR test in the mail for results. Or sending a specimen to be tested for occult blood. Handled by non-medical lay persons, aka the general public.
Watching the news is more than disturbing. Has anyone noticed the changes in testing techniques using the swab up your nose? Now self-administered by the public, who would not know a pharynx from their nasal passages to save their lives. You can now watch this on your T.V.
Please don't shoot the messenger.
I was always asking my husband to repeat himself, so he scheduled hearing tests for both of us.
So, we go and low and behold, he needs hearing aids.
On the way home, I ask him if he is okay, because I think it is a challenge when we are faced with loss of any ability. He responds, I don't have a problem needing hearing aids, I'm upset because I just knew I would be telling you, "See, I told you so. You can't hear."
We still laugh about him not getting to tell me he told me so.
This is just my opinion, just as it is everyone's own opinions being expressed on AgingCare.
I am not even going to explain why I think this way. Everyone can do their own research. Think for themselves.
As for covid. It's running rampant here in Vancouver. Not as bad as some Provinces but it's bad. Willie, I'm guilty of having a loose mask but if I wear it too tight I feel breathless and since I'm prone to having panic attacks I just can't wear it that tight. But I'm careful to not stand too near anyone.
Bonnie Henry, our health minister here in Vancouver has not enforced any newer, stricter health orders. At the press conference she did yesterday she said that she was trusting restaurants, etc. to do the right thing. I think she is worried that if she calls for curfews and shuts down service industries again that there will be rioting in the streets. One of the reporters responded to this by saying, "Just let me pick my jaw up off the floor and then went on to say to her, If you aren't responsible for issuing orders then what are you responsible for?" I thought to myself, she just can't win. If she had called for a curfew that same reporter would have been giving it to for that as well. I don't envy her, her job.
I won't forget your daughter.
There are never too many prayer requests, and I am still praying for NHWM's request for prayers for her family's health, even though she has not returned.
And more recently, Earlybird's health and her Mom's from Covid. And so many others in between, not mentioned at this time.
I hope that the plan of care is successful, that your daughter's cancer isn't so severe that it disrupts her life, that she remains as stable as can be, and that she'll eventually receive a clean bill of health diagnosis!
glad - I don't understand the doctor either. It doesn't jive with what I have read, though apparently the risk goes up with age.
ga -she hasn't met with her oncologist yet - that is scheduled for next week in Edmonton. We don't have oncologists here.
She has been experiencing more than usual fatigue which I understand can be the case before diagnosis of breast cancer. After she got the results she told me that about it and that that was why she suspected the results would be positive for ca.
This is hard for me but so much harder for her.
hugs!!
just wishing us courage!!
and as Sendhelp wrote, in the website's joke section:
Lift your left leg.
Doing that will assure that you start the New Year off on the right foot.
:) :) bundle of joy
Anyway, there was one person in the store, obviously sick, maybe I wrote about this before? Anyway I told her she should not be there because of the sickness. The reply was that they are short staffed and she didn't have a choice. Timeliness of the survey I received from Verizon about my visit. Nothing wrong with the service, but I did let them have it over the sick employee in the store.
So, why the discussion about coffee this morning? One of the people there was having to go to the next nearest town with a store for help as the one in town is shut down because of two employees with COVID. That store has only three employees. There could be a store manager that is unreasonable, or the company owning the store is unreasonable and not concerned about the safety of the employees or the customers.
I texted my landlord, just to document, and said that I did NOT appreciate being screamed at but that I get it that it's interpersonal. She called me and we talked for a minute and she kept saying, "Some people don't have good coping skills" etc. My landlord is a clinical psychologist which I thought she was, but Google confirmed it just tonight. We talked about downstairs lady and I think landlord is right in everything she said but I told her that I don't think it's ok, no matter what, especially when I've been nothing but nice for four years!
I've been trying to kill-with-kindness for years but it clearly didn't work. If I'm going to work in any kind of mental health field, I need to react better. But man... this caught me on the back foot. I don't expect problems going forward, just really, really, really find it crazy that something like this happened. Just so unfortunate and I guess I'll stop being nice and ignore her now. Not sure what else I even could do. I'll try to chalk it up to covid making everyone nuts.