Reflections of My Life

katlupe said:
Rabbit's new place to sleep when it is cold. Though it wasn't that cold yesterday and he slept there the whole day. I like it because I can just reach down and pet him. He says, "Don't stop ma, Especially the nose rubs."

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Pretty cool that he started out wild and free and now looks very content as a kept rabbit. My older dog has almost zero prey drive but I think my wild child McNab is different. Otherwise it would be tempting. Seems like they must live as long as dogs judging from yours.
 

MarkD said:
Pretty cool that he started out wild and free and now looks very content as a kept rabbit. My older dog has almost zero prey drive but I think my wild child McNab is different. Otherwise it would be tempting. Seems like they must live as long as dogs judging from yours.
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He probably wasn't living wild and free as he is a Californian rabbit and they are usually raised as "meat rabbits." The owl actually saved his life. From what I see their life span is about ten years though I have seen some in my rabbit groups who have lived to about fifteen or so. Yeah I don't think dogs and rabbits are a good mix.
 
There seems to be a shortage of heavy whipping cream. I am lucky when I can find it. That is what I use in my coffee. I can drink it black but I don't really like it black so much. Dairy products and eggs are part of my normal grocery list and I use them daily. So not too happy about the raised prices and smaller packaging. But not much I can do about that. I am thinking of ordering some powdered heavy cream, butter and eggs. Just so I have it for the various recipes I make. The powdered eggs though are pretty much too expensive for me right now. I would have to save up over about three months to buy a 2 lb. can. I have tried heavy cream powder before and did not like it in my coffee but could use it as an ingredient in other recipes. But do I make that many things that use it? Now that I think about it, forget the heavy cream.
 

Tomorrow I am interviewing a new aide. I could tell by her voice that she was a smoker. I asked her if she smoked and she paused, then said yes. But only two cigarettes when she is at her morning job..........not too sure about this. If she smells like smoke when she comes in then I will tell her no. I told her I cannot tolerate the smoke smell on smokers at all. It is all I can do to talk to my son when he comes here because he has that odor on him. Usually their clothes stink too. I would not accept her normally but she is the only one that they have called me about.

After I wrote that, it made me think I should call the agency tomorrow and cancel her. Why start out with a problem?
 
katlupe said:
Tomorrow I am interviewing a new aide. I could tell by her voice that she was a smoker. I asked her if she smoked and she paused, then said yes. But only two cigarettes when she is at her morning job..........not too sure about this. If she smells like smoke when she comes in then I will tell her no. I told her I cannot tolerate the smoke smell on smokers at all. It is all I can do to talk to my son when he comes here because he has that odor on him. Usually their clothes stink too. I would not accept her normally but she is the only one that they have called me about.

After I wrote that, it made me think I should call the agency tomorrow and cancel her. Why start out with a problem?
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I would cancel her immediately... if you're so sensitive to Cigarette smoke, you don't need to have it in your home.. and it will also save the embarrassment on both sides when you inevitably ask her not to come again
 
katlupe said:
I cancelled my physical therapy appointment. Right now I am having a hard time walking and leaving the apartment has been hard enough. Yesterday I worked on keeping my legs up and will try again today. It is just difficult to do that when I have chores to do around here. And Sonny is sick so do not want to put too many demands on him. He went to the ER last night per his doctor's instructions. Since he was sick they did not want him coming to their office. Turns out he has Bronchitis and they gave him a bunch of meds and sent him home.

So today, I will probably place an order with Instacart since I am out of some things I need. Even if I had someone to take me to the store, I would have difficulty shopping. I have to improve by Friday, since I do have to do my son's money and other errands for him that day. Since I am running low on Rabbit's food (spring mix and fruit) is eating like he is at the country buffet. Most of the day yesterday, instead of napping as usual, he was on to me for more food. Since rabbits do not speak, they have other ways of communicating. One being is to chew on something that you do not want them chewing on. It makes noise and gets your attention immediately! He does that. 😠

Today I will try to walk at least once for fifteen minutes up and down my hall. My goal is going to be to do this four times a day. Not going to worry about going outside except to get to the dumpster. Plus I started using the "Fit Glide" right here at my table. I like using it.

Bingo is today so I will be going to that as far as I know. This morning though, I will try to do a load of laundry.
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Does Bunny like oatmeal? When mine gets cranky I toss some in her cage so she can keep her little jaws busy!
 
katlupe said:
Rabbit was happy yesterday when his Christmas present (the only one I usually buy is for him) came. I gave him one of the grass balls and he attacked it! His need to chew seems to be really strong lately. Maybe due to it being colder. I don't remember him wanting to chew this much since we moved here. In my house, he had firewood available all the time and he chewed on it every day. He loved when a new load of firewood was stacked on the hearth. I miss that for him (not for me). He also had unlimited grass and wild plants that grew outside. I could actually pick grass off the barn floor in winter.

Today I will be doing some laundry. It got away from me because I gave half of my laundry money to the collection we were taking up for our maintenance man. I am glad I did because we were able to get him a decent gift card. I think he will be surprised and hopefully feel appreciated by us tenants. He has helped me so much during the year and the others too.

I am trying to figure out how to help someone who has early onset of Dementia. When I worked as a CNA I took care of a lot of residents with it. But how do you help someone who is in the early stages of it? I have been reading Amy Berger's book (The Alzheimer's Antidote) about it and how to help health wise. It has not mentioned anything yet about how to help when they are aware of what is happening to them. She is scared. She asked me to order that book for her and she would pay me for it. So I did. I know it is important to keep the person socializing. She is fine with that. Told me she won't get mad when others laugh at her. I told her I will never laugh at her and she said she knew that. One of our friends does laugh at her and I did not know that.

So far I know to wait for her to find the word she wants to say. I always had to do that with my son (brain related disability) when he was growing up. It is easy to supply the word for someone because you know them so well and what they are trying to say. Better to make them say it or try to say it. My son would point to something he wanted and I had to make him ask for it. When having a conversation with her, I know to not ask questions or especially not questions about what she just did. Questions about her past is easier for her then about the present.

So the maintenance man has finally been working on some of the empty apartments this week. If they would just get new maintenance men for the other buildings they make him go to, he probably would have had this one done and rented out by now. Friday he was working on the apartment across the hall, painting. I could not help but cry when I saw inside the apartment because I loved Dottie who lived there. She was such a happy little lady with a laugh that always made me smile or laugh. I will always blame that little boy who hit her with his parents' grocery cart at Walmart (by the way, Sonny was knocked down last week in Walmart in another location by a little boy with a grocery cart too. But the manager attended him and helped him get up and wanted to call 911. Sonny didn't let him do that. But he was sore and he did tell off the parents, of course).
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Have you seen Teepa Snow's videos? My aunt had Alzheimer's and I wish I had seen this while she was still alive.
 
katlupe said:
Thank you! It is rare that I meet anyone in person who agrees with eating keto. It is like with many things that people do not want to give up anything even for good results. Every time I eat anything with sugar, grains or starchy vegetable, I can't walk for a week (and other things). It is not worth it for me. Today with my friends downstairs playing Bingo they had a table full of coffee cakes and pumpkin doughnuts. I was the only one who did not eat any. I brought my own keto homemade yogurt and drank black coffee. I was also the only one there that was not on prescription drugs. Even with what is wrong with me, I am not as bad off as most of them. I stopped preaching to them long ago.
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Sometime, the best medicine you can offer is to just listen. When my neighbor had aortic sarcoma she became totally frustrated when a visitor just did a download of all her medical problems instead of being present for their last visit.
 
katlupe said:
Is it just me, or does everyone drop things constantly? Or run my hand/fingers into something so it falls over or spills? My son has always spilled whatever he is carrying or holding and I would wonder, "what is wrong with him"? Get a grip on it! Now it is happening to me! Bending over, way over is not easy for me. Yet that is what I must do constantly. I cannot leave something on the floor, even if it is just a coffee bean or smaller.

It is not just dropping things that annoys me. I can sit all day at my computer and nobody calls me or comes to my door. Just let me get all situated on my bed with my feet up high on the wedge and cushions (hard to move after that) then someone will always knock on my door. It is hard for me to ignore it. Or the intercom will buzz, which means my son is here. I would never ignore him! Might be important to him.

I don't mind talking on the phone when I am on the bed it helps pass the time (I try to do an hour at a time). If it has something to do with an appointment, my calendar is by my computer so have to get up. I try to remember to carry the phone with me wherever I go but sometimes my hands are full. So I leave it. If I am cleaning my bunny's cage and forgot to bring the phone, it will almost always ring. I have the voice mail thing on this phone but it is full. I didn't want to delete the messages because they were made by Sonny in the beginning of our relationship. He was very romantic back then (the new girl attention, I think) and now not so much. I think his health and prescriptions has a lot to do with that now.

I bought a recorder to record those messages but now thinking about it, what is the sense of that? I never listen to those messages now. So why save them? If he dies before me, the messages would depress me. So maybe I will figure out this voice mail on the phone and start using it.
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Yes, I noticed that I drop things more often but I was thinking it is because of a lack of attention. It is getting harder to pick things up so I bought one of those sticks with a gripper on one end, which helps. When I'm outside reaching for things, I use a wood broomstick with a coffee cup hook on one end to help move things closer.
Peace.
 
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Happy Heart said:
Does Bunny like oatmeal? When mine gets cranky I toss some in her cage so she can keep her little jaws busy!
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He loves it! I fed that to him when I first got him because I didn't know what to feed him. I have since learned not to give him oatmeal anymore. Oatmeal made his poop not normal size.........very tiny. Kale, his other favorite food made his cecotropes soft and messy.........known as poopy butt. I gave him things to chew on and he is happy.
 
hollydolly said:
I would cancel her immediately... if you're so sensitive to Cigarette smoke, you don't need to have it in your home.. and it will also save the embarrassment on both sides when you inevitably ask her not to come again
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Blessed said:
I agree, as a former smoker, cancel. I never smoked in the house but that smell still gets on your skin, hair and clothes. I can promise if you are sensitive to it, it will make you feel bad. Better to wait for a better fit!!
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Exactly what I was thinking! Thank you for confirming what I thought.
 
katlupe said:
Is it just me, or does everyone drop things constantly? Or run my hand/fingers into something so it falls over or spills? My son has always spilled whatever he is carrying or holding and I would wonder, "what is wrong with him"? Get a grip on it! Now it is happening to me!

As far as spilling stuff, lets just blame it on G-R-A-V-I-T-Y!
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Today I have been pretty busy. Got everything done except for the vacuuming. I am going to do that after this break. Having a Keto Chow ice cream break right now. Waiting for my water delivery. I hope he comes today because I won't be here tomorrow. I have a hair appointment and my friend is driving here to take me since Sonny is still sick. He doesn't bounce back from anything since he does not eat right. But you can't tell a man......

I have not seen my friend since 2018, so I am kind of excited to see her tomorrow. We used to go on all kinds of road trips a few years back when I lived on my homestead. She is not coming here just because I had a hair appointment, I could have walked there because it is very close. I told her I had an appointment and she said she would take me and then we could go to lunch.

I was just thinking about the block my son lives on......next to his building is a Chinese Buffet, the bottom floor of his building just had a pizza place open. Down a few buildings is a smoke shop/little grocery store and on the corner is a Mexican restaurant. Across the street from him is a drug store (Walgreens) and kitty corner is a new Dollar Store. No wonder he goes through his money so fast!
 
The water delivery did not get here today. I am not happy. I sent them a message telling him I would not be here tomorrow so could they either deliver it before 11:00 AM or wait till next week. But I need it early in the week.

Then my friend/neighbor came by and we watched some television together. YouTube videos. She does not do the computer at home her husband does. So we watched some videos about toppers that are for woman who have hair lost.
Then we went downstairs to check my mail to see if the book I ordered for her was delivered yet. Nope. When she left it was late (for me) so I made bacon and eggs for my supper. My favorite meal anyway.

One of the guys from downstairs was up here this morning looking at the apartment next to mine. It is a beautiful one bedroom. Bright with a lot of light coming in every morning. I will be surprised if he does not take it. Apparently there is some kind of problem in his apartment, maybe a water problem. Right now we have 5 single men on this floor, 3 single women and 1 married couple. Plus 2 empty apartments. I have a feeling they will be trying to fill these apartments now. Time will tell.
 
I am taking a break again from fakebook. Maybe I will still go to my keto groups but not posting on my page unless it is just a good morning. Political stuff starting to cause trouble between people. Not just that though. fb tries to censor everything about your posts and not just political. So I am again...........trying not be a part of that propaganda machine.

I don't know why people with different opinions cannot get along anymore. Now when they disagree about something one of them will become very rude, attacking the other side (or opinion) like their opinion is the only one that is correct. Well, even if I was open to what their opinion was, their attitude alone would make me angry and in a fighting mode. So I would never change my opinion. Sometimes I see someone join this forum for that reason alone. Usually none of us give them what they are looking for. I have only blocked one person on here (what a difference that made!). On the verge of doing it again today.
 
I totally agree. Every election I pray that sanity will return but I'm tired of the let downs so all I can do is express my opinion at the ballot box. Getting old and having time to pay attention means I'm much more aware of the political nastiness which I don't want in my life.
Just do what makes you happy and let them fight among themselves.
You mentioned magnesium oil, do you make your own or buy it? My ankles hurt before I get out of bed in the morning so I thought it might help to rub some on at night.
 
Happy Heart said:
I totally agree. Every election I pray that sanity will return but I'm tired of the let downs so all I can do is express my opinion at the ballot box. Getting old and having time to pay attention means I'm much more aware of the political nastiness which I don't want in my life.
Just do what makes you happy and let them fight among themselves.
You mentioned magnesium oil, do you make your own or buy it? My ankles hurt before I get out of bed in the morning so I thought it might help to rub some on at night.
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I buy it on Amazon. It is Seven Minerals Magnesium Oil Spray. You spray it on wherever you hurt and then 20 minutes you can shower it off. If you need magnesium it will make you itch. After you start taking magnesium or doing foot soaks and are not lacking it, you won't itch anymore. I do not itch any more.
 
I took the cheap way out. We bought some magnesium flakes at the Vitamin Shoppe to soak in hot water until dissolved. It is now cooling down so I can put it in a spray bottle and use it before bed this evening. Did your doctor tell you about it? My husband has diabetes so I'm not sure if that is something he can use, there is contradicting information online.
Dark and cloudy here today, lots of rain expected off the Pacific this evening. We can sure use it!
 
Happy Heart said:
I took the cheap way out. We bought some magnesium flakes at the Vitamin Shoppe to soak in hot water until dissolved. It is now cooling down so I can put it in a spray bottle and use it before bed this evening. Did your doctor tell you about it? My husband has diabetes so I'm not sure if that is something he can use, there is contradicting information online.
Dark and cloudy here today, lots of rain expected off the Pacific this evening. We can sure use it!
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No, I don't always trust the doctors so do my own research. I tell my doctor what I think I need or what I know and she usually will find out that I was right. I know magnesium might be in some heart medications so heart patients should talk to their doctor. Never heard it was bad for diabetics though. I will see if Dr. Ken Berry has a video addressing that. Usually doctors tell patients to take magnesium (Milk of Magnesia) for constipation.
 
katlupe said:
No, I don't always trust the doctors so do my own research. I tell my doctor what I think I need or what I know and she usually will find out that I was right. I know magnesium might be in some heart medications so heart patients should talk to their doctor. Never heard it was bad for diabetics though. I will see if Dr. Ken Berry has a video addressing that. Usually doctors tell patients to take magnesium (Milk of Magnesia) for constipation.
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I totally trust doctors to order tests which aren't needed just to run up the Medicare charges! Don't get me started, I don't want to hijack your thread.
How is Sonny doing today? It seems you are also a good friend to him! You can be my neighbor anytime.
 
katlupe said:
There seems to be a shortage of heavy whipping cream. I am lucky when I can find it. That is what I use in my coffee. I can drink it black but I don't really like it black so much. Dairy products and eggs are part of my normal grocery list and I use them daily. So not too happy about the raised prices and smaller packaging. But not much I can do about that. I am thinking of ordering some powdered heavy cream, butter and eggs. Just so I have it for the various recipes I make. The powdered eggs though are pretty much too expensive for me right now. I would have to save up over about three months to buy a 2 lb. can. I have tried heavy cream powder before and did not like it in my coffee but could use it as an ingredient in other recipes. But do I make that many things that use it? Now that I think about it, forget the heavy cream.
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If you have an Aldi's nearby, they carry heavy cream at a reasonable price. It lasts a LONG time. Check it out. I mix my coffee (decaf) with Almond milk, some heavy cream, and a smidgeon of cocoa.
 

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