how about drinking?
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NM, I knew there was a different reason for them not saying such nice things about you. It's cuz you aren't putting in the hours like you used to. So you see, it has nothing to do with you as a person, they just want you working just as hard as you did before. But you are much wiser now! And OMG, all that snow you are getting! Glad you are able to stay in. How are things now?
LDB, no doctor appt. for me, not yet anyways. You are sounding better, I hope you are feeling better love.
Cami, I would hug you just as hard right back! Congrats to Dan for getting his office space. I assume you will still be working from home. Poor Les, and more surgery in the future? And don't you worry about us, you have enough going on in your family. How is that sweet boy doing?
Sandy, we got our share of snow while I was in MI, couldn't wait to get home to my sunny warm temps. Yesterday was a bit windy, but I can deal with that.
Went to town yesterday, since are groceries were pretty low. DH stopped in at a chiropractor and acupuncture place. Has an appointment with the latter today, and chiro next week. They were supposed to call him for PT, but they haven't. This is why I don't like the hospitals up here. My mother is still pretty much the same. This morning will be the first morning my brother doesn't go over there to wakeher up. My other brother will be there around 9. If she wants up, she can get up. She is the epitome of lazy. She just wants to lay around and be waited on. Had to have a new mask thingy for her CPAP, even expected us to just go out and buy one, as the queen didn't want to wait for it to come with her supplies. However,we were not going to go out and pay $100 for one, when she can get for free. Well good thing we didn't, she doesn't like that one either. Its like fine, don't wear the damn thing then. Still trying to get her placed. Got a couple of leads that have beds available, but there is the paper work that has to be sent in from the doctors office.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Woke up in the middle of a dream this ayem, so I'm really dragging in my head this ayem. I'm thinking a cup of coffee and a 20 minute name may be what I need to get the brain working. And then to look out at the nearly 2 feet of snow that's on the ground, and the mountains of snow piled up on the sides of the driveway, and it's hard to think of it being March and Spring only 6 days away. Poor Sadie has to plow her way through the snow to find a place to pee!
Cammy--I'm sure you are way more help to everyone that you think you are. I'm sure you are really busy between helping Leslie and the growing business. I am so done with snow now, and praying there won't be a storm #4 next week!
Chi--be careful out there in the wintry mixes and after the snow melts. Black ice is a real problemwhen the roads are wet and temps near freezing. I've has some frightening spin outs and seen some really spectacular ones due to black ice. Fortunately no injuries and only minor damage but the potential is still high for disaster in that scenario. I like the pledge--makes me smile. You are entitled to complain about the snow you get, it's all relative after all!
Goldie--I've had my eyes opened a bit about the Hospice office lately. Lots of talk about being a family to each other and lots of talk about teamwork, but I've noticed the teamwork talk is always about people going way beyond expectations on a regular basis. I fully agree those people deserve recognition, and I worry about them as I hear them talking about how their spouses areunhappy with the number of hours they are working and how it's interfering with family life. Now to deal with the 2 feet of very heavy, wet snow. Very pretty, but very inconvenient.
NM's DOTD:
Dreamy Chocolate Winter
Ingredients
- Amaretto
- 1 oz Coffee Liqueur
- 1 oz Irish Cream
- 6 oz (Hot) Chocolate
Directions
Pour kahlua and irish cream into a heatproof cup with hot chocolate. Add amaretto, to taste. Stir, and serve.
Best served in a Pint Glass.
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Kim, ain't it the truth! My singing partner (who is an excellent and cautious driver) & I had a major spinout on black ice a few years ago on I-57 en route to Memphis--we did a 360, a 180, flew over a ditch, through a barbed-wire fence and on to a snow-covered cornfield. Amazing that only the car got a few scratches and a minor alignment problem.
I was also up much earlier than normal--after going to bed even later than normal (thanks to having been up past 5am Tues. night to get final PA election results). Had trouble falling asleep so took an extra melatonin--and had about a 1-hr. dream that was pretty weird. Went up to KCC for blood draw & Prolia shot. Nurse told me my (non-fasting) glucose is 94. Yay!!! But my hemoglobin's back down to 11.4 Booo!!! I have been eating more fish, poultry & legumes/pasta and less meat...so mama's defrosting herself a big ol' grassfed strip steak tonight, with a little chopped liver on whole wheat matzo as a snack. Corned beef & cabbage Sat. night, of course.
Wonder if red wine has iron?
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And now for some good news: my neighborhood is going nuts right now. Helicopters circling just north of me, over the junction with Rogers Park, this afternoon. My first thought was "oh no, not another shooter hoax," as there was at a Northwestern dorm yesterday (the 911 call was traced to a burner phone in Rockford, 90 miles northwest of the Evanston campus). Then I got home from running errands and found out: Loyola won its first round game over the U. of Miami Hurricanes in the NCAA March Madness tournament down in Dallas! The choppers were covering students celebrating on the campus. Loyola University is pretty much our neighborhood school--it's just across Devon Ave., where B'way becomes Sheridan Rd. (And actually, it has dorms & offices on the Edgewater side of Devon as well). We bought our house from the chairman of its English Dept. 30 yrs. ago.
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy TGIF day! Sadie and I had a totally lazy day yesterday. Haven't had such a totally non-productive day in a long time. Binge watched Once Upon a Time all day. Lesson learned--turn the TV off as soon as the ayem news is done or get caught up in mindless stuff and get nothing done. Oh well, one day of sloth won't hurt me any. And Sadie loved going out, coming in, taking a nap, going out, coming in, taking a nap, and you get the picture.
Chi--Wow, your black ice experience goes way beyond mine!The worse I ever did was end up against a snowbank facing back the way I was coming from and in the other lane, so it looked like I just drifted off the side of the road. Fortunately I didn't hit or get hit by anyone. A couple of guys stopped and pushed me out of the snowbank and we all went on our way. It is amazing how little damage a car can get during one of these little events, isn't it? And amazing how much damage a car can take and the occupants not get hurt. Sorry to hear the hemoglobin slipped. It can be hard to keep everything in alignment health and diet wise. That grass fed strip steak sounds very yummy!Congrats on the Loyola win!
NM's DOTD:
Iron Cross
Ingredients
- 1/4 oz Peppermint Schnapps
- 1/4 oz Goldschlager
- 1/4 oz Jagermeister
Directions
Combine and shake until mixed and pour into shots. Enjoy!
Best served in a Shot Glass.
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NM, do be careful with that heavy snow. So glad you see the light on the hospice home front. And nothing wrong with a non productive lazy day.
Sandy, that was quite the accident! I'm getting up whilst you are just going to bed!
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Happy St Patrick's Day!
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Hi girls,
Happy St Patty's Day to all mese bwesties!
Well it happened, I got freaking laid off from my job on Wednesday. It was so cold how they did it. They gathered all of the USDA processors in a conference room, took our ID/access cards away and gave us our walking papers. I am so devastated, there are no jobs out there in my field. I just don't know what I will do. Please say a prayer that I find something. Sadly, there will be 30 or so others also looking for work in the same field. F--K!!!!
Well that's all from Daraville. I've been up all night doing a bunch of nothing other than downing mese Jack n Cokes. What else is there I mean really??
Love mese goils. I will try to keep you all posted.
When is Mema's surgery? And what else have I missed around the lounge? I have no excuse for not coming in more regularly girls.
cheerS!
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Jazzy, I like that "luck of the IRS".
Dara, I'm sorry you lost your job as well as all the others. Glad it wasn't just you. Good luck in finding something else.
Nurse came to visit with my mom yesterday and agreed that the pain she was experiencing warranted we call 911. The took my mom in for more scans, she has some small fractures in her back, and here she's been doing all of these exercises with OT and PT. One of her doctors came in, called my brother, and says "what the heck happened to your mom". He was a bit pissed about the nursing facility sending her home in the condition she was in. Anyways, he's going to try and help get her placed.
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Lori, I have been following your mother's story and totally understand where you are. It is not easy. I am praying that she is placed into a home like the one we had both my parents in. Do make sure that family visits any prospective locations to check it out as well as do research on the facilities. My Mom was sent to the ER five times while in the Lutheran Home, she was moved to Genesis and never went to the ER. Each time she went to the ER, she was dehydrated which is neglect. Anyway, I really feel your family's pain. Thanks for the good wishes, God knows I need em.
cheeRs!
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Good morning friends- my weekend check-in with you. I hope you all have some nice St Patty's day plans. Maybe some corn beef and cabbage somewhere? I am not doing a St Pat's thing per se, but am meeting a friend for a birthday lunch today and plan to wear GREEN!
I had a busy professional week and did a presentation with two other women (panel style) at a prof org event. Facilitated questions and a few open questions from the audience. It went so well and I had several people I know and new people come up to say how much they enjoyed listening to my experiences and advise. I usually do at least one presentation a year (if not more) in local orgs for marketing, networking, etc. and this was my first for the year. Felt very empowering and came away feeling good!
And spring is starting up here in New Mexico. Fruit trees are in bloom and my weeping cherry is about to come out too. We did get some nice rain last sunday and supposedly more tomorrow. We need a lot more moisture here, where as I hear the east coast is getting hit brutally with storm after storm.
Goldie- my heart goes out to you with all you are going through with your mom. We went through so many hard things with our mother during her health changes and in her final years. Like Dara said, try to research ahead of time as you can to be sure she ends up in a good place with no incidents on record. I know how exhausting all of this may be for you. I hope your husband is doing better too. I know men are not much fun with their health problems.
Dara- well that is really unfortunate it a) has played out this way and b) the way they treated you. I will share with you both times it has happened to me, because of a business decision (closing a business line, mergers and acquisitions that went south, etc.), I was not treated well either. The last time is when I chose to go out on my own (11 years next month). I won't say self employment is easy, but I have never been let go from a contract, some projects get cancelled and I get picked up for another. I hope you can take a look at your transferable skills and leap into something else. I know you tried freelance and the whole insurance thing makes it much harder now (super expensive plans this year). Remember all you have come through friend- you can find your way through this.
ChiSandy- black ice is not my friend. I rolled a vehicle once in upstate NY years ago on black ice. I was lucky to walk away from it. The SUV took the hit, and fortunately I did not. I was very nervous driver after (I actually feel I still am).
I am excited for you that you are going to Rome next month too!
NM- sounds like you and Sadie are weathering the storms well together. I heard the last storm brought the most to Boston on up. Another on it's way in this week. Well, spring is almost here (this next week). I know you are ready!
Cami- I hope Leslie continues to feel better. You sound so busy with your work, and love that Joey is helping around the house. He is a real peach and love your special relationship.
Teka- any signs of spring in north country?
Mema- I hope you are doing okay. I am not sure chemo has started yet, but think of you often and praying for a successful treatment this go around.
Genny- how is the knee recovery going. Almost a month since the surgery?
I have to get out to my day. Wishing you all a nice weekend!
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Jazzy, I am jealous of your Spring weather. We are expecting a forth blizzard here this coming week depending on how the storm tracks. Thanks for the kind words. Enjoy that nice weather.
I am going to really try to stay connected. I need you girls in my life on a regular basis. Plus I miss the hell out of you all. Now that I am not working, there is no excuse.
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Happy Saturday all! I just started my second cycle of Ibrance with Femara and was hoping to have a couple of 'green' beer today? any thoughts? should I avoid the alcohol or? Thanks for your feedback
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Hi Janky, and welcome. Well did you have some green beer? I would say if you feel up to it, then go for it! I am currently on Xeloda, been on it for 3 years. Ibrance will be my next try.
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Sunday Funday! 25 whole degrees outside, still over a foot of snow on the ground, wind chills still below the donut overnights, welcome to spring in Maine! The snow is softening up so poor Sadie ends up poking a paw down through the snow when she wanders off her beaten paths. I can practically hear her swearing when it happens, too. And of course the weather guessers are talking about another Nor'Easter later in the week, but hopefully not a big one. Time will tell, I guess.
Been thinking about the Hospice situation over the weekend. My commitment is only for 2 more weeks, and in April I have some teaching assignments so won't be working for Hospice as much which will provide me a bit of a break and reinforce my limits with management. So I'm going to take the lessons learned--get any special arrangements in writing with details--and the extra hours pay and move on. I've talked it over at length with Sadie and she agrees with the plan.
Goldie--I'm always careful in the snow. It's the other drivers that are a problem!
Jazzy--LOL!!!
Dara--Oh, my dear, what a horrible experience! So unfeeling how they went about it. Do you know what company that contract went to? They must be looking for help. But that's a thought for Monday, the weekend is for the jack n Cokes and maybe some cussin.
Goldie--I am so sorry your Mom is going through more pain, but glad there is a new problem, a new diagnosis. This may be just the bit of change necessary for her to qualify for placement. Hopefully the doctor will follow up with the Rehab Facility. Was your Mom mentioning back pain before she was discharged home?
Jazzy--So happy the presentation went well! It's nice when something works out well. Wish I could send some of my moisture your way. The last storm dumped 2.15 inches worth of water in the form of snow. How much you want?This last storm was more north than the earlier ones. The next one in line is looking to be further off shore and less of a problem than the others. I certainly hope it's true.The snowbanks beside the garage are higher than the car!
Janky--the alcohol during treatment decision is a very individual one. I'm of the opinion that since a drink of wine with dinner or an occasional cocktail is one of the finer pleasures in life that I am going to have them, and did have some while in treatment. Of course, I did not take chemo so there is a difference there. Some choose to not drink during active treatment, some choose tokeep strict limits. I don't think anybody objects or prohibits a drink or two for a special occasion. Note how your body reacts and make future decisions from there.
NM's DOTD:
Lucky Charm Cocktail
It is 'sinfully delicious."
Ingredients
- 2 Ounces tequila
- 1 ounce Sour Apple Pucker
- 1/4 ounce Melon Liqueur
- 1-ounce fresh lime juice
- 2 lime wheels Garnish
Directions
Add all ingredients into bar shaker and shake well, serve in a Collins glass. Float lime wheels as garnish
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Snowing (again) - very picturesque, now I am ready for green grass though! NativeMainer (one of my favorite states btw, my son went to college in Bangor) thank you for your words of wisdom. I did go out and enjoy a couple of beer, but not green - I avoided the food color
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Jazzy, love the cartoons! Dara, bummer about getting let go again. Happens more & more in this economy--the corporate model is to max the bottom line by skimping on wages & benefits. I agree with Jazzy that assessing your skills and seeing alternative ways to use them independently in the new "gig economy" might be the way to go. (Doesn't mean you shouldn't look for another job, though). Lori, I hope that your mom finally gets the residential care she needs. Kim, do they make doggie-snowshoes?
Welcome, janky! We ER+ gals (regardless of stage) don't necessarily have to teetotal, just not drink more than moderately. (For us, that's 3 drinks a week, though the general definition for women is 7). So don't beat yourself up for having that St. Pat's Day beer. My rule, though, is if I'm gonna drink, it had better be worth it--ergo, no boxed wine (or no "just because it's there" wine), no "macrobrewed" beer (e.g., PBR, Miller Lite, Bud Lite, etc.), beer or wine only when paired with food (celebratory bubbly is an exception), and spirits only in tiny doses and only if extraordinary. (Exception--in a special holiday cocktail).
Last night I walked over to Cellars to watch the Loyola game and have corned beef & cabbage. Had a half-pour of a nice Argentinian malbec (which I don't normally drink because IMHO there are better reds out there, but it was recommended for corned beef and went well with it). Owner poured me 1/2 c. of a local craft-brew (5 Rabbit) porter; and dessert was an Irish coffee--the real thing, using fresh coffee, Jameson's muddled with raw sugar, and lightly whipped cream, not just a shot of Bailey's poured into a cup of stale coffee with a squirt of Reddi-Wip on top like most bars make. (By now you may have intuited that the owner is Irish. I'm not, but I wore green anyway--albeit a dark-green dulcimer festival tee and green eyeglass frames). So between the half-pours of wine & porter and the Irish coffee, there went two out of my three drinks for the week.
Spring has sprung here--high 50s...and moderate tree pollen count (win some, lose some).
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Thanks ChiSandy, so I did indeed imbibe 3 beer, felt great, and I can wait a week for the next round of libation, though I have just had diarrhea, hmmm, beer or Ibrance? Cellars sounds stellar
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Monday! Another very chilly ayem here, Sadie did her outside business and ran right straight back in, ate 2 bites of dog food and galloped down the hall to the bedroom and is currently curled up in the blankets and pillows. For someone who is so good at being a bed warmer she sure does act like the cold is a real problem! And she has a fur coat! She likes her comfort, can't say as I blame her.
Janky--glad you had a good time. Not so many places around here do the green coloring thing anymore, but some of the bars do open at 6 ayem on St. Paddy's day.
Chi--I'll have to check on the doggie snow shoes, I know they make doggie boots, why not snow shoes? Right about now I am looking forward to pollen counts, but then I will complain about that, I'm sure.That real Irish Coffee sound so yummy!
NM's DOTD:
Chilly Irishman
Ingredients
- 1/2 oz Coffee Liqueur
- 1 oz Irish Whiskey
- 1/2 oz Irish Cream
- 1 dash Simple Syrup
- 1 scoop Ice Cream
- 3 oz (Cold) Espresso
Directions
Add all ingredients to a blender with 4 cups of crushed ice. Blend until smooth. Pour into parfait glasses, garnish with clover leafs, and serve.
Best served in a Parfait Glass.
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Kim, I was kidding about the doggie snowshoes, but stranger things are being marketed as "pet-cessories."
Week not getting off to an auspicious start. Picked Gordy up from near Leslie's place (she teaches in the afternoons) and headed up to Highland Park for a shrink appt. But half a mile later, he asked to pull over because he was carsick (which hasn't happened since he was ten). When he got back in the car, he admitted he was awakened this morning with a headache, and he couldn't finish his coffee because the queasiness set in. I felt his forehead and it was ice-cold and dripping with sweat. He said he felt like his heart was racing. I asked if he wanted to turn around, and he said no--but a few blocks later he said we should reschedule. We went straight home; I tried to take his pulse but I couldn't find it at his wrist or neck. I called Bob, who said to go to Immediate Care stat. We did--and though everything else was absolutely normal (in fact, his heart rate's a little slow), the nasal swab was positive for type A flu. (He never got his shot this year, but it's the strain against which this year's vaccine is least effective). Dropped him off at home, and he took the first tab of our emergency Tamiflu stash while I went to pick up his prescriptions (and lots of Gatorade). Starting Tamiflu so early in the course of the disease will probably knock it out in 2-3 days, but there's still a possibility he'll spike a fever and get some muscle aches before he gets better.
I'm feeling a bit queasy myself--but just as likely because I'm worried about him. (Also, the P.A. at the clinic said not to get cocky about having had my shot--we all need to wash hands, isolate dishes & utensils, use paper plates, etc). He was diagnosed so early that he hadn't yet gotten a fever or muscle aches. I'm not going to take anything but ginger tea or diet ginger ale till I develop anything more than queasiness--Tamiflu does have some side effects and there's no point wasting my "emergency pill" on something that might not be flu. I did notice how important Medicare Part D is--our "stash" cost a $10 co-pay, but Gordy's insurance still left him with a $99 co-pay for the same drug.
Now getting a mild headache--but the tree pollens are at allergenic levels. Was going to vote today to beat the rush tomorrow (and in case I'm not in shape to vote tomorrow), but now I dunno. If the lines aren't too long at the library, I'll go now; if I can't handle the wait, I'll go straight back to the clinic and get a nasal swab myself.
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DId get to vote, just under the wire. Whew! Conscience is clear. I’ll drink to that: ginger peach green tea, extra ginger, raw honey
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Another interesting day at work yesterday. I discovered that there was a whole lot of conversations and e-mailing that went on after I offered to manage one facility, and the management team and one other nurse decided that I would managed a whole other set of patients in 2 other facilities and several home patients that live in the boonies without ever mentioning any of this to me.It started when the one nurse asked how I was liking the out of the way run. I flat out said I was very surprised and not happy about trying to manage patients at one facility and being sent all over hell and gone, and not being able to figure out who is managing these other patients. When she said "you are" I stopped dead, and asked "since when?" I made it very clear that I was totally disgusted that 6 people, 5 inmanagement positions, would take my offer, totally change it and never once mention anything to me about it. I flat out told 3 people that I expected to be treated with the common courtesy due any human being, no matter how little they value staff who aren't full time case managers. Poor Sadie, I really talked her ears off last night when I got home from work (after an extra long day with more work still to do). I am so lucky, she listens so well and petting her and tickling her belly is so calming. Sadie plus a glass of wine and I slept well last night, when I finally got to go to bed. Today the furnace isn't working right, so called for a service call, that's going to cost me, starting with $200 travel fee just to get the guy here. Sometimes life does not seem very fair.
Chi--I often think the flu shot gives many people a false sense of security--I've got the shot, now I won't get the flu. So they don't pay attention to hand washing and covering coughs and sneezes and end up catching it and spreading it all over the place. Tamiflu is a great help if it can be started soon enough. It's also a godsend for nursing homes. Once one person tests positive for the flu everyone on the unit gets put on Tamiflu for prevention. It is incredibly expensive, though. Even the generic form is expensive. I'm glad you are taking care of yourself proactively. It makes a big difference in the long run. I'm like you, I voteevery chance I get just to preserve my right to complain!
NM's DOTD:
Paraflu Cocktail
Ingredients
- 3/4 oz Vodka
- 1/2 oz Blue Curacao
- 1 oz Lemon Juice
Directions
Pour the vodka and lemon juice (to taste) into a cocktail glass filled with ice. Slowly pour the blue curacao to the bottom of the glass, and serve.
Best served in a Cocktail Glass.
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DH has acupuncture and chiro today. Mom is being released from the hospital today, so we are trying to get her placed for long term care. Not sure how it will play out. Have 2 possible owners for Zues, hopefully will know something by the weekend.
Sandy, sorry about Gordy and hope you are not sick again.
NM, I think it's time to quit Hospice, or at least consider it? So glad you have Sadie to discuss things with!
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Gordy's doing a bit better, not feverish yet, but getting tired of all the hydration (how much Gatorade can one person drink?). Not nauseated but still not up to eating much in the way of solids. I made a batch (2 c.) of ginger-honey tea yesterday: a Republic of Tea ginger-peach green tea bag, 2 tsp. grated ginger in a tea infuser, and then 1T. of raw honey after steeping. He didn't want any, so I poured it into my giant soup mug and drank it. Meanwhile, we've been going through a lot of Lysol, Clorox & paper towels, disinfecting knobs, handles, toilet seats, etc. My housekeeper is even wearing one of Bob's old white consult coats.
Meanwhile, my gut is sort of bloated--but that could be from having had to switch iron formulas to one that's double-strength. Anything else about that would be TMI. My sis & I made a pact in our forties that if one of us ever began to give digestive "organ recitals," the other had permission to shoot to kill. (No fair--she has 3 rifles in her house, albeit in a locked safe). Head seems stuffy, post-nasal drip (which really stupid people think is a breakfast cereal), throat scratchy, eyes itchy...but the tree pollen count is in the "moderate" range, which means that it'll bother most people who are allergic. The flip side of spring. (Which it officially is, as of today).
Lori, hope you find good L.T. care for your mom--and a happy "forever home" for Zues.
Kim, it really sucks when management lacks transparency and then blames you for not intuiting the plans about which they neglected to inform you.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Hump Day! Got the furnace fixed, fortunately it was just some components that needed replacing, bad news it was a $500 bill I hadn't planned for, good news is that Emergency Fund will take care of it with plenty left over for another emergency. Having dependable heat and hot water is such a luxury after months of having to hit the reset button every hour or so and coming home/getting up to a house temp in the 40's. The full tank of oil will get me through the rest of this season.I had a totally bizarre dream last night. Dreamt I was driving from one visit to another, through the countryside, was supposed to be on a certain road, the snow blew up into a white out, and next thing I knew I was falling. The car landed on all four tires on the side of a city road, down in a ditch. I climb out and find an open store and find out that I am in a totally different town on a totally different road. The ladies working at the store call the police for me, turns out the policeman is a relative of theirs. I keep saying I can't understand how I ended up in this place, on this road. The policeman finds a child's toy in the car, tests it and finds cigarette smoke on it, and was using a half smoked cigarette to swab parts of my car for evidence of smoking in the car. (I know where this detail comes from--there was a work e-mail reviewing the smoking policy which specifies that staff cannot smoke on company or patient property, not even in their own cars, but must drive off the property first). (FYI, I don't smoke.) Then I have to give a urine sample to prove I wasn't drinking, but the sample is taken by one of the shop ladies, not the policeman. Then I'm on the phone with my office, and the woman is telling me that I have to stay in a motel overnight while she arranges a rental car for me, and I'm arguing with her saying I need to get home, I was thinking of Sadie,and I can call someone to come pick me up and she keeps saying I can't leave the town I'm in, and have to stay in a motel that she will arrange for. That was when the alarm went off. I was rather glad to wake up from that dream!
Goldie--I am praying your Mom gets placement this time around. And that Zues finds a good home. I have considered leaving Hospice all together, but right now I need the income of working a couple days a week and the flexibility of being per diem and choosing when I work. This whole thing is partly my own fault for not insisting on getting things in writing, and I am using it to really push on the Clinical Managers that I need to be deliberately communicated with directly. I am making it clear that I am finishing out the next week and a half as they set it up for the sake of the patients, not to make things easier for them, and that it will be a very long time before I trust them enough to offer any extra help again. I'm hoping they will figure out that other nurses arren't offering to do a lot of extra for the same reason and that they have a big communication problem to fix. I got a text from them yesterday ayem telling me to do some computer work for the Tues ayem meeting, I told them No, as it was my day off. If that doesn't get me fired it should open their eyes a bit since the meeting and the notes are federal reg mandated and one of them would have had to do them. But I am going to start looking for something else I can do with the same flexibility. I'm hoping the teaching job can be built up to the point I don't need to work Hospice anymore.
Chi--glad you are escaping the flu symptoms so far. Changing iron supplement can really do a job on the ol digestive system. You might want to alternate the double strength with the regular strength tablets for a couple of weeks to let your system adjust with less distress. The work thing does suck, but it's temporary, so I keep reminding myself. And it's time I stood up for myself there.
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Sandy, you can't seem to catch a break, my goodness!
NM, what a dream that was. I'm too am glad the alarm went off. So detailed and long! Glad you have a plan, going forward with Hospice. I hope you don't get fired tho, as you mention you need that income….for now!
Well, we got mom placed. They had to enter her back into rehab, which they said they would waive the cost, as Medicaid won't pay unless she was home for 60 days and she wasn't. Then they will admit her as Long Term. HOWEVER, she wasn't there but 5 hours or so and now complaining of chest pain! So, back to the hospital she goes! Diagnosed with A FIB, which she has all the time! Look up Drama Queen in the dictionary and you will see her picture! DH didn't make it to the acupuncturist, took too long with chiro. But he like him! So we go back on Thursday.
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Good Morning Ladies,
Oh I come here almost every day and read as much as I can, thinking I'm going o write, then I don't
I saw a new name Janky, welcome I love these ladies and come on back and u will too.
Lori u mom has to really be scared of all that'a going on around her. This is so difficult for everyone. And now ur DH, boy when u get in the medical world u really commit, it sucks doesnt it.
Sandy hoping Gordy is much better now, but u really know how to take precautions and know exactly what to do Our house too should be a commercial for Lysol or clorox. I like the post cereal line. LOL If I ever got the flu <God forbid> I want u to take care of me, bring a mask and gloves and ur all set. Oh bring the tea and honey, I can supply the water, bottles or tap.
NM WTF is going on??? it seems kind of like Deju vue <sp> I can't believe all this, but I know u'll stand up for what right for you. And that dream it started to sound like a Steven King theme. Even when u sleep u mind is overtimed of being hectic. Thank God for Sadie and I really mean that, especially how I love our furbabies.
Leslie had to go see the PS and other surgeon again about this infection, I think it has to do with the PS, but I'm not saying anything, no one can figure out what to do, even the skin Dr. couldn't see what the problem is to clear it up. She's taken so many anti_b's, it recockulous and of course this stops all other treatment, this drags on and on.
Well Dan got the keys to his new warehouse, wow it's so nice, he called me as soon as he got them, There is so much work and he needs to hire more people so it's not easy cuz he wants everyone to fit in. He's happy cuz hell get his house back. u can't even park a motorcycle in the garage or use the basement, it's filled to the top but very organized. Now everything has to be moved, without taking anyone off jobs so now he's hiring guys to pack and move everything---this is going to take time for him for sure. And I really am having a hard time keeping up with the phones most days. He's trying to hire good family and Christian men, not as easy as u think LOL That's why we don't work Sundays cuz it's church and family time.
Oh Dara ur going thru a difficult time now, Jazzy always has such good advice about these things and I know ur always open for that. This sucks for u, I dont know anything about the kind of work u do, but u have so much knowledge in what u do, it seems only logical u must know so much more than u think. So maybe it's time u do go another way and use urself as more than what u''ve always done. Ur so damn smart and have a niceness towards people there has to be more for you.
Love to all, it's great when I get here, I want to know what's going on and let's face it, it's therapeutic for me, probably most of us, but I speak for myself.
LUBS U ALL
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Cami, it's good to see you posting. I'm so sorry to hear about Leslie's continuing problems. How is it this is so tough on some, and then more manageable for others. And still wanting to know how Joey is. That is great news for Dan, and finding good help is so hard to find. We lost 2 good friends that we had working for us, they were stealing from us. One of them was my DH's best friend. Needless to say, they are no longer friends.
NM, are you getting pounded? By snow that is!
I'm having to rewrite my post, as my palm hit the mouse pad and it took me to a different page. I usually write in Word first, and then just copy/paste to BCO. Well since it was only Cami that had wrote, I typed in the BCO box. That's what I get for not doing it in Word or Notepad. Anyways, DH has chiro appt. today, so I'll get groceries while he is there. OMG, talked to my mom last night and was telling me how they were going to do CT scan on her heart, but canceled and decided to do her lungs instead. She sounded so normal, she's usually asking what's wrong with me, where am I, etc. The only thing she said that was off, was that she asked me 4 times, how things were out here. I'm so affraid she will get back to where she was (her normal) and they won't want to keep her. I'm pretty sure she can't handle her meds and insulin. Plus we are hoping to have Zues gone, maybe even this weekend. We have to be very careful as to when we surrender her house, as she no longer owns it.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Thirsty Thursday! When I went into the office yesterday ayem I was treated rather like glass. I think I may have gotten through, at least a little bit. I had to write a self-evaluation yesterday and as I was looking at that and thinking about that, I decided that this latest incident is too big to let slide. I detailed the incident and several disparaging comments made over the lastyear (including names and dates) as "evidence" that I am not a team player, and my observations about how what I have been doing for them IS helpful and how. I'm going to see how the evaluation "conversation" goes. Then I'll decide if I'm going to talk to someone in HR about the situation. I really feel like I have to do something as there are at least 2 other nurses in the office getting the same kind of treatment but are too afraid to speak up. If I get fired I know I can find another job, it just won't be as convenient as this one, but God will provide. I've actually started looking around for something else to have as a back up plan. Gotta love Sadie in all this, she's just so happy when I get home, and so generous with her time letting me pet and belly rub and jabber away to her. And she keeps me moving on my days off by going in and out and in and out!
Well, big Nor'Easter #4 is turning into a bust, not that anyone is complaining. Supposed to start yesterday peeyem, didn't start till around 9 ayem today. Now the weather guessers are saying "snow showers" and "snow squalls" with very little accumulation predicted. But, that accumulation will be very heavy, wet snow as the temp is hovering right around freezing.The wind is picking up, so there will be lots of blowing going on, that's always fun to watch.
Goldie--Your poor Mom. I think the chest pain and getting bounced back to the ER is proof that she can't be at home. Nice of the Rehab to waive the cost since they were the ones who missed the compression fractures and sent her home inappropriately. The rules for qualifying for rehab and long term care really need an overhaul. Glad the DH likes the chiro, and hoping the chiro can be really helpful.
Cammy--Yeah, this is some crazy stuff, and it needs to be addressed, and I am going to force the issue this time. By putting it in my self-eval it's going to be really hard for them to fire me without it looking like retaliation.The office is so busy that losing another nurse right now will be a total crisis. I am so sorry Leslie is going through such misery with the infection not clearing up. I hope someone figures out the issue very soon. Congrats to Dan on getting the warehouse! I bet he'll love getting his house back. It is going to be a big job getting everything packed and moved and keep it all organized. I hope he can find some good Christian men who fit in well. It's really hard to maintain Christian standards in the business world these days. Lubs to you!!
NM's DOTD:
Northern Europe Mongrel
Ingredients
- 1/2 shot Beer
- 1/4 shot Vodka
- 1/2 shot Irish Cream
Directions
Layer vodka and irish cream in a shot glass. Pour beer to fill.
Best served in a Shot Glass.
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Morning DahLinks!!
Dara - I agree…what the F%#K. I have great faith in you that you will find something and it'll come soon. Am praying for that for you…(((BIG HUGZ))) My surgery is postponed for 3 to 6 mos…during that time I am doin chemo every 3 weeks of Perjeta, Taxol, and Herceptin. I am, however, feeling pretty good for now. Got my hair trimmed yest, Stylist said my hair is already falling out UGH!! Mayb I'll get a better wig this time.
Lowee - ohm thank goodness someone in med field seeing your mom as 'in need'. Hope and pray it works out (((HUGZ)))
Jazz - good to see you again. WOW sounds like you had a GR8 week, glad you came away feeling good. Thanks for your concern. Yes chemo started. Had 2 already. Next one is Tues. We are hoping to see our Madison that day too. Yay!!!
Janky - welcome….glad you imbibed on St Pat day.
NM - been watching the weather, feel so much for you and Dara and all living in those areas. F&#K…that is totally not right that they did that without your knowledge, I wud'a had to do a tap dance on someones head for that chit. LOL about Sadie swearing LOL.
Sandy - WOW about Gordy….Hope the meds kick in soon.
Cami - Glad to hear from you. Will say some prayers for Les. Dan is really moving along now eh? Hope he can find the help he needs to get his warehouse into shape.
NM - good for you, I'm curious to hear how it all turns out on the job front. ((NM))
LUBSLUBSLUBS TO ALL
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