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i've decided i'm gonna go back to using the gym after work. nobody is in there at that hr. so i can go get on the treadmill without my mask. before covid i was doing better with that activity so i'm gonna give it another go. maybe it will help my work efficiency too if i can get back to feeling better. we'll see.
 

Kaila said:
We only want and need her to stay, until one day after you've left, sometime in the future! 😃
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Maybe I'll luck out and she'll stay for the next 10 yrs. LOL!

If one of the ladies retires I might take her job. She works overnights. Looks like she's close to 70.

So I went ahead to the gym tonight after work with this lofty idea to walk on the treadmill for 15 min. The lead went with me and used another machine. Five min. in I said I think 15 min. was a bit much and she says yeah it's been 5 and I'm already dying. We laughed about it. We quit after 10 min. I said maybe we can manage 15 tomorrow. :LOL: She wanted to visit and I said, I can't do this and talk at the same time I have to pick one so I'm not talking. I don't have air for both. We laughed some more. It was only 10 min. but I still felt better after. I've done nothing but sit for almost 3 yrs. It's not feasible to work out at 11:30 at night and wake the neighbor no matter how tempting. LMAO!

I tried some of that Smart Water Tranquility with the tangerine flavor and the Ashwagandha in it. It was good and I felt relaxed at work today. Going to bed soon.
 

:coffee: Good morning. I guess I was done sleeping so here I am. *Shrugs* I'm not getting some of my mail. We have a new carrier plus our carriers like playing on their damn phones instead of paying attention to where they're putting the mail. I don't know who their giving it to. I got car registration coming up soon so I better get that today or I'm gonna go down to the post office and raise holy hell again. We shouldn't have to all get post office boxes because the carriers can't manage to do their frickin jobs. This isn't high school. They need to put their damn phones away and do their jobs. i don't know if i can sign up to receive my registration notices online or not. I get so irritated that grown ass adults can't be trusted to do their jobs. Their getting pd. to do it so they need to focus. It's important I get my bills so I can pay the damn things.
Ok that rant is over. LOL!

I'm gonna shoot for 15 min. tonight. I will wait til some time next week before I go for 20. I been sitting for almost 3 yrs so it's gonna take a little bit for my lungs to adjust. If I push too hard I might end up in the ER. I played some Kirby last night. Tonight it's gonna be Legos. They have another Lego game for the Switch but it's a bundle of 3 games that are similar to what I already have so I'm gonna pass on that. Maybe I'll make some magic tonight with my Lego Harry Potter game. LOL!

I'm off this weekend but I have laundry to do and I have to order groceries to pick up. I plan to work on my Animal Crossing island this weekend. Well, have a good day everyone!
 
:coffee: Hello! Just got done with coffee #2 and a bagel. Preparing for my last day of work this week. TGIF! Gonna try to go to the gym if we're not too bogged down with checkouts tonight. Saturday I gotta get groceries and do some wash. Gonna play some Animal Crossing with some friends Sunday. At least that's the plan anyway. I might see if I can find something on Hulu to watch. I can't wait for 11:30 to get here.

Last night at work between checkouts I got to go help out with cleaning & trash gathering in wound care. Night before I was cleaning rooms in infusion. It's kinda fun going to different areas.
 
Groceries cost me $175 today and I didn't get 10 of the things I ordered. I was gonna do pick up but we're under heat warnings again so I decided to stay in.

I feel sorry for people who don't understand that their carefree attitudes toward Covid can not only be dangerous but possibly life threatening to them & those around them. I see it every day at work. I think more of them that are hospitalized are getting the treatment they need to return home but there's still quite a few dying. Mostly older folks. I wish people would be more careful cuz I'm tired of cleaning up their hospital rooms because they just had to go visit someone and gave grandma Covid and she died and all that's left is this room full of ventilators and death. Containers at bedside of the crap they dragged out of her lungs. The blood in the ventilator machine in the little side container. Having to gown up, wear an N95 and goggles and a bonnet and gloves and spray the room down with bleach and wash it all down and mop and put a UV light in it. It's very hot and tiring when there's several to do. One of my coworkers said well if it's just like a cold I don't understand why we gotta wear these masks. Two days later he had Covid. THAT'S WHY! People can't seem to understand that the vaccines weren't designed to keep us from getting Covid. Only to keep us from dying or being hospitalized. For the most part they're doing their job. If people don't get them then they won't have any protection at all.

I think it's time for another cup of coffee.
 
MarciKS said:
Groceries cost me $175 today and I didn't get 10 of the things I ordered. I was gonna do pick up but we're under heat warnings again so I decided to stay in.

I feel sorry for people who don't understand that their carefree attitudes toward Covid can not only be dangerous but possibly life threatening to them & those around them. I see it every day at work. I think more of them that are hospitalized are getting the treatment they need to return home but there's still quite a few dying. Mostly older folks. I wish people would be more careful cuz I'm tired of cleaning up their hospital rooms because they just had to go visit someone and gave grandma Covid and she died and all that's left is this room full of ventilators and death. Containers at bedside of the crap they dragged out of her lungs. The blood in the ventilator machine in the little side container. Having to gown up, wear an N95 and goggles and a bonnet and gloves and spray the room down with bleach and wash it all down and mop and put a UV light in it. It's very hot and tiring when there's several to do. One of my coworkers said well if it's just like a cold I don't understand why we gotta wear these masks. Two days later he had Covid. THAT'S WHY! People can't seem to understand that the vaccines weren't designed to keep us from getting Covid. Only to keep us from dying or being hospitalized. For the most part they're doing their job. If people don't get them then they won't have any protection at all.

I think it's time for another cup of coffee.
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You are speaking the truth and yet people don't listen. I am stunned by the attitude here in South Carolina and we have people dying every day in this county.
Please be careful. I regard your job as carrying a clear element of danger.
 
Pecos said:
You are speaking the truth and yet people don't listen. I am stunned by the attitude here in South Carolina and we have people dying every day in this county.
Please be careful. I regard your job as carrying a clear element of danger.
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yeah. we don't get pd near enough. not for all the crap we could get exposed to if someone isn't paying attn.
 
There's a streamer that plays video games online for people to watch and I go to his stream almost every night. Nice young man and lotsa fun. He plays a shooter game that's not available on the Nintendo Switch so I can't play but a few of us are trying to get him talked into playing some Fortnite with us. I played with a couple guys from his stream tonight and a friend of theirs. It was lotsa fun. I'm hoping to get a new Switch at some point so I can play on the TV where I can actually see what's going on. I have a controller I can use with that. I will have to get something to extend the cord for the headphones though. One of these days I will have to give those type of games up. But I'll play them while I still can.

It's almost bedtime so I'm gonna see what I can find to watch on Hulu. Night.
 
Taking my nebulizer to work today. My lungs are giving me hell this week. Last night I barely made it through my shift. I got home and my O2 sat was 89. So you can imagine how out of breath I was doing my work. The supervisor told me if I needed to I could bring my machine and do treatments during my breaks. The lead doesn't always want to let me have a break if we have a lot of rooms but if she starts that crap tonight I'm just gonna tell her it's either let me have my 5 min. treatment or I go to the ER for 3 hrs and she can take her pick. She was sitting right there when the supervisor told me I could. I get upper respiratory infections sometimes with my sinus infections as well as the heat dragging my air down. I can't be expected to clean 8 or 10 rooms when I barely got enough air to walk down the hall.

It's a little cooler today I think. It was supposed to be for the next 2 wks but here in KS the forecast changes like the blowing wind. *Rolls Eyes*

I grabbed a cheese sandwich and finishing my coffee. I got Vicks slathered on me to break up the congestion and cough drops in my purse. When I get home the a/c is going to 72 and I'm shutting myself in the bedroom with the vaporizer and liquid vicks. I might put on some tea with honey too. Gonna keep myself shut in my Vicks room through tomorrow and see if that helps clear things out a little.

Tonight it's just two of us on checkouts. Hopefully it will be a reasonable night.
 
I am slathered in Vicks. I have the vaporizer going. I am almost done with my tea and I'm watching 2 Broke Girls and getting sleepy. Had a good day at work. Lungs did great till the end of my shift. Boss keeps asking how things are going. He keeps telling me I can come back if I ever want to. *Rolls Eyes* I'd rather slit my wrists than go back to the stressful life. I don't get called in on my days off. I can work on my own like a grown up. I don't actually have to talk much to anyone. It's so peaceful. Have a good Wednesday.
 
Getting ready for work. Been having to take my nebulizer to work with me so I can do treatments at break time if need be. Just been having a hard time breathing. Gonna talk to the doc about it when my next appt. comes up. Our pulmonologist here is a jerk so I'm gonna see what my pcp can do for me. Maybe I can afford to get some oxygen therapy at night along with purchasing a cpap machine. They're gonna hafta do something to help me or I'm gonna end up in the hospital. Not sure what the weather forecast is for today. Yesterday was nice outside. I stayed in and kept myself steamed up with the vaporizer and the Vicks. Got a lot of congestion out. There's only two of us housekeepers tonight. So hopefully it won't be bad. *Fingers crossed*
 
🫖 Having some tea since I'm sort of hoarse and it's Sleepytime tea since I need to relax for bed. I'm tired from work. I did most of the checkouts by myself tonight. I'm gonna ask the supervisor about that cuz I'm pretty sure the lead is supposed to be helping. I think she's sitting on her butt running her mouth. I'm tired of getting the s**t end of the stick. I'll see what the supervisor says about it. I may alienate the lead but I don't think I should have to put up with that nonsense. She always calls me and expects me to go do the stats which is another thing that's getting on my nerves. I just feel like I'm being taken advantage of. It makes me kinda mad.

Been looking at various video games to play to keep myself entertained. I like to have a variety on hand to play depending on my mood. Since none of my friends seem to be interested in playing anymore I figure I might as well keep myself entertained. I've tried Minecraft several times but I didn't really understand what I was supposed to do. One of our charges at work is familiar with the game so he explained that you just go in and do whatever you want. Ok then. LOL! I started an area on my island to live and I went exploring and got lost. Can't find my home base. Go figure.

It's been a little cooler here but still... 🫠

Had some fairly gruesome rooms to clean the past couple nights. Looked like crime scenes with all the blood. We had a patient tonight that was suicidal. I overheard part of his discussion with the nurse. His wife had left him and life was on the downhill and he just wanted to die. I wanted so badly to go in there and just give him a hug to try to comfort him but I knew that would never fly. I'm pretty sure the nurses woulda said no and he had a camera on him so I couldn't sneak in either. I literally cried and prayed for him in the hallway. Been there once. Sometimes I still don't feel like anyone genuinely cares. It's hard to cope with life when ya feel that way. Hopefully they can help him.
 
:coffee: having my coffee and getting ready to go get dressed for work. i have completely lost my voice except for a very harsh whispery sound so i now have an excuse to not talk to anyone at work today. too funny! :ROFLMAO:

tonight i have to take trash out for monday's pick up. deal with some laundry. get my Rx refills ordered. and i have to work on some tests for work. if i can get those done then i can play my video games. probably a nice quiet game of minecraft.
 
Kaila said:
I am concerned about your sore throat. I hope it improves very soon!
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it's not really sore. it just gets hoarse from the cough and clearing throat and then my copd meds can cause you to lose your voice. i'm not sick just can't talk much or very loud. trust me there's no harm in that. lmao!

ty Rads
 
They're already working on tweaking the vaccines for fall to help against this latest omicron variant. Like I said in another thread on here, I will only take what is required for work this time. I'm not taking 4 shots again.

Working the next 4 days then I'm off this coming weekend. I have plenty to do this weekend. Hopefully the weather will be decent. Have a good day!
 
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