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.
Overnight, tonight, forecast down to -40. And have to go to work tomorrow.😟
First, I couldn't believe the insurance company would only pay for a hospital stay of less than 24 hours. I can understand why surgery patients are sent home so early, but sent home to a household whom are not health care providers, thus have no idea what is going on. HELLO insurers, this was major surgery.
My legs were like rubber, so it wasn't easy getting up to use the bathroom. I was also in a brain fog for a couple of months. Sleeping wasn't easy, had to surround myself with pillows so I wouldn't turn over on my side or stomach. Prescription pain pills took the edge off, but I didn't like the side effects, so I stopped taking them.
Oh those drain bulbs. Wish back then they would have a "class" on what to do and what to expect [they do now], as I was clueless about the drains. The surgeon probably told me, but one is usually a deer in headlights and terrified.
Burning pain, how I remember that. It's the cut nerve endings from the surgery. Your Mom will feel those for the next couple of years. It's like a quick bee sting when it happens. Even ten years later once in a blue moon I will still get one.
Will your Mom's doctor put her on pills that she should take for the next 5 years or more? If yes, I hope your Mom does ok with the pills. If there are side effects, your Mom is not alone, I had them.
Hope your Mom finds a good bra fitter who can help her choose the right bra that is comfortable and a light weight prostheses. Or skip the whole thing and go with an undershirt.
there are a lot of things I wish we had done different. Hindsight is always 20/20. I am surprised they released a senior citizen with mobility issues home without arranging for a visiting nurse! Her follow up isn’t until 2/25. We don’t need any hands on care but having a nurse come out every few days to check the incisions and the tubes would have been a huge benefit. Now here we are on a holiday weekend with a tube that’s come out and ZERO support! The on-call dr said if the tube had come out, I could pull it out myself—well I can’t because it’s sewn in. And what do we do about the fluid leaking? Anyway....other than being light headed, she’s doing good today. Thank you all for the support. This would be much worse for us if this forum didn’t exist. It really would. There support and the knowledge all of you provide is priceless!
So cold!
I tore up my car's front bumper trying to get in a slippery parking space the other day, and roommate has had a couple minor car accidents in the past week or two. It's a mess on the roads. I was supposed to take my car for bumper repair tomorrow but there's so much new snow coming down, I'll wait a day or two. We'll see. Snow is pretty but there's just too much of it on the ground here and more coming down all night.
I read something that said Chicago had 30 inches of snowfall the past month, or this month, and none of it's melted due to cold temps. There will be at least six more inches during this snow that fell all day and is still going.
I feel like I'm in a snowglobe that's malfunctioned. lol I'm getting through it fine, just whining, and travel anywhere will have to wait a day or two at least until roads are cleared.
Spring is on it's way, soon, I hope!
Lol.
Maybe all of it. ;-)
Many moons ago you contributed to a conversation about whether or not an electric snow blower was a worthwhile purchase - I remember and thank you whenever I pull out my Snow Joe (like I did today)!
So, so, so, different this year! Our mayor had to shut down Mardi Gras due to Covid. Looking forward to next year!
It’s a weird vibe in New Orleans this year.
We will eat our last piece of king cake today. Bad juju to eat king cake after Mardi Gras!
Fat Tuesday is here. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday so I will begin fasting. No meat tomorrow. I am giving up all sweets for lent.
Normally for Mardi Gras we would be on St. Charles Ave. and Napoleon to view the Rex parade and marching bands.
No one knew about Covid in our city for last last year’s Mardi Gras celebrations and it developed into a nightmare scenario for us.
The last time Mardi Gras was canceled was due to a police strike in 1979!
It has been cold here! We would have had a freezing Mardi Gras today.
Our weather is so unpredictable!
We have had some Mardi Gras celebrations with cold temps and others where it was very mild.
Yes, it is best to go early to receive ashes.
I cancelled my plans for tomorrow and called off work, which they don't mind because it will be very slow due to weather. I'll dig out the car at some point and work on a paper for school that was due today, but professor kindly gave extra time and I had another paper due this week, too, and that took several entire days of work to finish up. The 3 classes I'm taking this term are all introductory or basic core classes, and the units are a week long. How are they demanding this much in-depth work assignments like thesis papers on a single week's worth of learning?? This is the second week of the term, we just started! lol I'm a bit frightened to think this pace could continue for 8 more weeks. The papers are only a few pages each but still, it takes a long time to research, write out, and format correctly. Ugh. I'm venting, very stressed about the school work load this week.
Cw, I'm glad you get good use out of your electric snowblower! I remember using the one I purchased down at my grandma's house. Much better than shoveling, that's for sure!
Now I have no snow blower and would love to hire someone to even just dig out my car. After I do about 30 minutes of shoveling my back is hurting badly and since I am prone to back sprains and spasms, I don't think it's a great idea for me to shovel this much snow. I figure I'll look at it tomorrow and make a plan.
You will do good.
Time to make snow angels? 😇
Many of the Teepa Snow videos I frequently recommend here on the forum are no longer available. I always knew this might happen, I still miss the wonderful presentation Gone From My Sight from Barbara Karnes that disappeared years ago 😥
The stress out over school this past week really knocked me down temporarily. I had a sinus infection, too, and ended up taking off 2 days from work and just rested and slept. Today was my birthday and I spent the whole day working on school work at home, which is fine... just seems like so much work at times. How do people juggle demanding jobs and raising children at the same time they go to online college? My hats off to them.
*Oh! And a bestie sent me a turmeric tea set for my bday! Wonderful gift, and timely, since I've been reading about turmeric's proven help with stress and inflammation. I knew about it before, but it's one of those things I had good intentions for using and it didn't materialize. I still have a giant container of turmeric in the spice cabinet, hope it never expires. lol Her gift had me looking at the benefits of turmeric again, and it coincided with this week's assignment in my psychology class that examined biological basis for stress response. I may not be able to be less stressed by my school work at times, but I can drink turmeric tea while I stress out. haha
You appear to be suffering under the inner voice of the over-achiever - the one who insists you must get 100% for your therapy homework, "which it is both desirable to aspire to and possible to achieve" according to the joke my daughter sent me.
I don't know how you counter this voice. There is a long-running family theme that would ask, for example, "and what went wrong with the other 2%?" but this is as nothing to the poor little Chinese grade schoolers: when they succeed in getting full marks, they are urged to "try harder next time."
But it would be such a shame if anxiety stopped you *enjoying* both the course and your success. Rest on your laurels for at least one hour :)