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Irish - how awful that your nurse said what she did to you! Sounds like your MO has your back. We need someone like that on our side.

Chicagoan - so glad to hear your surgery got moved up. Here for pocket duty for you. First joint replacement was my hip, 3.5 yrs ago. It was a fairly easy recovery - listen to your docs, take your meds and do your PT at home!

Here for pocket duty for all in need.

Good evening gals. Chicagoan, I hope that the surgery goes very well and you'll be doing back flips off the diving board before you know it. lol. Thank you all for your kind words. I guess the bottom line was that I felt very vulnerable that my medical care was being cut off. I use the walker mostly related to MS problems, balance and/or weakness of the legs. I do not use it all the time and make sure to move about safely, holding onto chairs, sofa, bars we put up in the bathroom. It's been reported on that funding is being cut for pallative care. Especially in rural areas. My nurse drives over an hour to see me. Considering I called the supervisor's number to help with the refills and she did not return my calls either, doubtful I'll find another nurse. I'll just go with the flow and let it go.

Mara, I tried a new and easy crock pot receipe, with mixed results per DH. Put a jar of marinara sauce (recommended RAO's) in pot with as many thawed short ribs as you like. Make sure they are the boneless ribs, 6 hrs. on high and they were done. I boiled pasta and found it to be an easy and good dinner, but I do think it could have either used more seasoning or stick with our Italian Prego sauce. DH wasn't impressed with the sauce. Of course he does like spicy. I'm always looking for easy meals. DH helped me make cornish game hens yesterday. He does the heavy lifting into and out of oven. I don't use the crock pot if I can help it for the hens, as they do not brown at all in the crock pot.

Now for "dippy eggs", a PA. dutch meal. Boil water, no lid. Add eggs slowly and reboil no more than 3 minutes. Run cold water over an egg to test it. If the water clings, it's not done yet. If it evaporates quickly, you have a poached egg or in PA., a dippy egg. We make toast bread and scrape the white out with a knife and the yolk, which should be hot but "runny", over top. Grammy Sparr receipe, who raised me and passed away 20 years ago today at the age of 99. Sharp as a tack.

Intothe light, I would think a post it note would be a good idea to give your MO to add to the chart. I think we all should have that in our paperwork as I, too, would take offense to the off hand remark. Yes, I know lots of patients, but boy we are talking about ourselves and our wishes.

Laurel

@chicagoan In your pocket on Thursday and hoping for you to be able to walk pain free.

@intolight Thank you!

@irishlove I feel very angry at that terrible nurse, I would like to take her out to the woodshed. Last thing you need when in pain is someone to make you feel stressed and hurt. I am glad MO took care of you but I do hope that nurse is reported. I don't care if she has 750 patients, she should keep her frustrations to herself when dealing with sick people, people with pain or whatever. She should get on a treadmill with some music and work out frustrations that way. In your pocket sending support. I can empathize with the nurse but she needs to keep it away from her patients.

I had a very light sleep overnight but that is fine with me. Cloudy and rainy right now, temps coming down which is good. Building has a boiler type heat so when it is on, it felt pretty warm. They have to keep it on between certain months but the living room was 88 one morning. I have fans on the go. AC still coming from the bedroom. I at least have ways to keep cooler, got a window fan in the window of living room so that is good, returned to the 77 that I enjoy.

Got laundry, more organizing, might open last two boxes I purchased before, the huge ones and see where I am at. Debated putting walker out back and locking with bike lock but I do not want it to get rusty nor do I wish to cover it. Going to check out my closet in the living room and possibly move it into closet OR move the box in front of closet into the closet instead. I will see. Need to keep stuff together. I saw another cool thing called a wheelator, converts from walker to motorized wheelchair but think I need to think about something before considering. I also came upon floor to chair lifts, not the one going up and down the stairs but for lifting from floor to chair height, that seems a decent idea but need to think about it. It would be a good thing to have so that if on the off chance I fell but was uninjured, I could easily get myself up, no ambo. Oh well. Still working on treadmill, might set a certain time to use it as I am not energetic enough to commit. I need to kick my butt and get about business. Also have some exercises for seniors that give more ideas on strengthening muscles and joints. I do the rapid walk on the spot all the time. Oh well, need to give myself a break and just set more of a schedule through the day. I do wear my pull on sneakers, the running shoes felt too rigid for me. I am used to a skecher type so I use those, work just fine.

I am also looking into other cleats for my boots when it comes to winter, would like to be able to shovel the walk and end of driveway in case I need to get on paratransit. Not sure how that would work. I plan to be rolling in ice salt anyway I slice it.

I am stumped at food so decided to take my frozen burger and fry up in the pan, no trivet to go with my found instant pot so will heat up burger in the pan first, mash it down and add some taco seasoning, that has been done. Smells really good. Going to let meat heat through on no heat with a lid, open my chili and add that as well and some lentils, reheat same pan in same grease for the taste. Once done, tearing up a tortilla and adding to the mix, not sure if will.

EDIT, little bit different on the meal. I did fry up the burger and add taco seasoning to it, smelled good and mashed it down with a meat masher. Did not drain off the grease, kept it for the chili beans and beef ravioli, chef boyardee. Added queso and sour cream and because there was sufficient liquid, put some broken up ramen in there as well. I also added queso and sour cream and stirred it all together. I left the pan of stuff on low with a lid hoping some of the liquid cooked away, spoiler it did. When time to serve, just took a few spoonful, put rest in the fridge. Main difference, no soft tortilla put in as I was already having noodles. It was super creamy, liked the broken noodles as I do not really like them long. I would have added cheese but the cheese in fridge smelled funny so tossed it. Good meal in all.

Nothing else to say, did up bills and paid. My rent credit card that I use to pay and gets paid in full every month has 73.00 worth of redemption to use so I will do that and use as main card for grocery orders. Basically free groceries although by the time I use up all of the stuff I have, I might be able to go without a shop for a longer time. It could be cheaper to book Paratransit to the mall, get a couple of things at a time and take the ride home. Roundtrip, Paratransit would cost me 5.30 which is cheap, just need to book 3 days in advance of the trip. It makes it cheaper when I really do not need a 35 dollar delivery. Just have to make sure it is not too heavy. I did a trip before and the knapsack was overfilled. I will ponder this, come winter, grocery is solely delivery. I spend approx 35 to 40 dollars on grocery delivery, once or twice a month. I do prefer Walmart as I think it is the least expensive. Our dollar stores do not have a real grocery section either which would be nice to have. I will see.

Anyway, hope all have a good day, in pockets for all and myself to get stuff done and to bed earlier.

@chicagoan This is good news. I will send up special prayers for you on Thursday.

@irishlove So sorry for that ordeal. It almost sounds deliberate on the part of the palliative nurse. Think she is in the wrong profession! Glad your MO straightened it all out and you had the medication you need. Could you request a change in nurses? There is no excuse for her "taking you to the woodshed."

Just got a call that my hip surgery is scheduled for this Thursday thanks to a cancellation. I am glad to have this move forward now. I was getting very anxious being off of Ibrance and told that the surgery would be scheduled some time before the end of the year. We'll see what the biopsy shows and what treatment changes will be needed. Just hoping I will be able to walk pain free again after recovery.