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Today, I'm playing the role of a "Bachelor". My wife went with the granddaughter, and her two little one's to do some all day shopping. This is one of their "girls days". So, I did a couple of quick chores, then watched ball games on TV. It's kind of nice to have a day to myself, but I sure wouldn't want to be without her forever.
 
Oh, today has been a day and a half.

I've been in the ER since this morning. I'm now waiting for a bed on the Cardiac Ward.

I have met, I swear, every doctor in the place. They walk in, introduce themselves and procede to ask exactly the same questions as the ones before (I'm assuming they do this to justify billing Medicare for "services"). I've been catscanned, Xrayed, sonogrammed, this-and-thatted to within an inch of my life. I don't think they have a machine that hasn't been paraded into my ER room for my viewing pleasure. I've been stuck multiple times; in fact I have a port for stuff going in and one for blood going out. How's that for efficiency.

People-watching (and people-hearing) in the ER is better than television. The old guy next door keeps calling for God and his late wife to "come down and take me home". Oh, and he wants a sandwich and a cuppa Joe, too.

There are the screamers, some of which are extremely creative in their obscenities, and the loud moaners, the belligerent, the combative and two who were brought in handcuffed to wheelchairs. There are cops, of course.

There was a lady who was twice removed by the cops, who managed to bypass security, get through the doors and returned for a third try with a large suitcase and a shopping cart.

The most exciting event though was when the Code Blue crew, all 7 of them, crashed through my door loaded for bear. Apparently, the tech doing the whateverthehecktestitwas had backed her cart into the Code Blue button and set off the fiasco. She stopped in later and said she would never live it down. Hey, what about me? I was seconds away from being....uh....revived....needlessly.

So, I've had plenty of time to catch up on messages in between watching elderly men shuffle down the hall, bare hindquarters taking the air, and the rest of the 3-ring circus.

I could close my door, sure. But,what, miss all that fun?
 
jujube said:
Oh, today has been a day and a half.

I've been in the ER since this morning. I'm now waiting for a bed on the Cardiac Ward.

I have met, I swear, every doctor in the place. They walk in, introduce themselves and procede to ask exactly the same questions as the ones before (I'm assuming they do this to justify billing Medicare for "services"). I've been catscanned, Xrayed, sonogrammed, this-and-thatted to within an inch of my life. I don't think they have a machine that hasn't been paraded into my ER room for my viewing pleasure. I've been stuck multiple times; in fact I have a port for stuff going in and one for blood going out. How's that for efficiency.

People-watching (and people-hearing) in the ER is better than television. The old guy next door keeps calling for God and his late wife to "come down and take me home". Oh, and he wants a sandwich and a cuppa Joe, too.

There are the screamers, some of which are extremely creative in their obscenities, and the loud moaners, the belligerent, the combative and two who were brought in handcuffed to wheelchairs. There are cops, of course.

There was a lady who was twice removed by the cops, who managed to bypass security, get through the doors and returned for a third try with a large suitcase and a shopping cart.

The most exciting event though was when the Code Blue crew, all 7 of them, crashed through my door loaded for bear. Apparently, the tech doing the whateverthehecktestitwas had backed her cart into the Code Blue button and set off the fiasco. She stopped in later and said she would never live it down. Hey, what about me? I was seconds away from being....uh....revived....needlessly.

So, I've had plenty of time to catch up on messages in between watching elderly men shuffle down the hall, bare hindquarters taking the air, and the rest of the 3-ring circus.

I could close my door, sure. But,what, miss all that fun?
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Sorry you are in the hospital but your observations made me smile this morning. I could almost picture Hawkeye coming in as your doctor! lol I hope you are doing better now.
 
So, what's happened @jujube ? :unsure: is it a suspected heart attack ?... you've only just returned from your trip, has that exhausted you..or what's happened , any ideas?... I do wish you well very soon....

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I slept for only 2 hours last night and had horrendous nightmares... so I got up this morning, and did some housework.. not much needed doing, so I cleaned out shelves in the kitchen cupboards.. and in the fridge..

Applied for a passport renewal,mine ran out last week... and sent off my old one by recorded delivery to have it doctored to become unusable before they send my new one.. ( does the USA & Australia also cut the corners off your old passports)?

I was at the supermarket before 9am this morning, what a revelation.. almost totally empty. That said it is the school holidays... so once the kids are back I'm sure it'll be busy at that time again. Only drawback was that there was only one cashier on for a queue of people .. and as it was Aldi.. there's no self service tills to use.....
 
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Applied for a passport renewal,mine ran out last week... and sent off my old one by recorded delivery to have it doctored to become unusable before they send my new one.. ( does the USA & Australia also cut the corners off your old passports)?
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Yes, here in Canada they cut the top right corner off the old passport.

I hope you can get in a nap this afternoon, Hols.
 
hollydolly said:
So, what's happened @jujube ? :unsure: is it a suspected heart attack ?... you've only just returned from your trip, has that exhausted you..or what's happened , any ideas?... I do wish you well very soon....

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I woke up Sunday with a heartrate of 145 and blood pressure of 204. Went to ER. They admitted me. Heartrate and BP slowly went down over several hours. Heart enzymes are a little wonky, so I have a nuclear stress test in an hour. How that turns out determines whether I'll have a heart cath or not. I don't want one.

I did get moved to nice comfortable warm bed in Clinical Evaluation at 2:00 a.m. so got a couple hours of sleep before the hoopla started back up. It's a lot quieter over here.

I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. Now I can sympathize with the old guy in the ER.
 
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I woke up Sunday with a heartrate of 145 and blood pressure of 204. Went to ER. They admitted me. Heartrate and BP slowly went down over several hours. Heart enzymes are a little wonky, so I have a nuclear stress test in an hour. How that turns out determines whether I'll have a heart cath or not. I don't want one.

I did get moved to nice comfortable warm bed in Clinical Evaluation at 2:00 a.m. so got a couple hours of sleep before the hoopla started back up. It's a lot quieter over here.

I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. Now I can sympathize with the old guy in the ER.
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Flips sake.. we turn our back on you for one minute.........:sneaky:😷
 
jujube said:
I woke up Sunday with a heartrate of 145 and blood pressure of 204. Went to ER. They admitted me. Heartrate and BP slowly went down over several hours. Heart enzymes are a little wonky, so I have a nuclear stress test in an hour. How that turns out determines whether I'll have a heart cath or not. I don't want one.

I did get moved to nice comfortable warm bed in Clinical Evaluation at 2:00 a.m. so got a couple hours of sleep before the hoopla started back up. It's a lot quieter over here.

I'm hungry. I'm thirsty. Now I can sympathize with the old guy in the ER.
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well if they don’t feed you in a timely manner just give a holler and i’ll head down & sneak in some carryout, i’m just up the road in %e@an#….hang in there & keep us posted…positive thoughts are directed your way👍👍👍👍👍
 
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My Photos from my iphone which would usually transfer straight to 'photos' on my Mac desktop.. are not doing it.. so I've spent quite a time this afternoon trying to get that sorted out. I thought I lost them all.. 31,000..:eek::eek: because they're no longer in the 'photos' album .. eventually I found them all in the Cloud... but it's going to make them more awkward to use until I can get the initial problem fixed ..

.. prepared dinner and then while my chicken and sprouts were cooking , I took down the curtains from the downstairs windows , put them in the washer and washed all the windows inside..... ..I need to go put them all in the dryer shortly..but I'll do that next time I go to get a cuppa tea ..no rush, they'll be dry and ready to hang back up in an hour or 2..., but as it's 8.30pm now I'll hang them in the morning.
 
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PamfromTx said:
I'm avoiding my husband.

:rolleyes: He is annoying me because he hit a pole and his car does not look too pretty. He is avoiding calling the insurance, etc. He drives me up the wall.
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that's the problem if you get a slight damage from something.. caught between a rock and a hard place with regard to Insurance... Do you get them to pay up and have your premiums increased next year or do you pay out of pocket for the repair.. it's very annoying and frustrating..
 
I plan on adventuring out after a few weeks of not going out. Will go to our grocery store to buy items that hubby didn't get and then to Walmart to buy some necessities. Might whip over to Burlington to see if they have any exciting stuff.
 

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