What are you doing today 2023

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Yesterday……accomplished all the tasks I set out to do……garbage bin to the curb last nite for today.
Was an amazing day out yesterday…..got up to 0 for a short time, then down to -4c, where it stayed for the day…..not a snow flake was moving…..beautiful blue sky…..not a cloud to be seen.
Looked at some sNOw that needed shovelled……but…..the pulled muscle in my back said no, not yet.

Today……need to do a couple things downtown.
Cooking up some boneless skinless chicken breasts right now, almost done.
Usual morning cleaning chores.
Hope to go through some more sewing stuff.
 

Love the pet stories. There are two hairball babies here. I love dogs too but it’s better for me not to have one now. The kitties keep me on my toes.

Its cold, snowy and windy so I may not get out today again. At least I’m not as grumpy about it as yesterday. :D

This place is habit forming. Wishing you all a great day with sunny skies! 🌞
 
Forecasters say a 'Complex' storm is heading towards Great Lakes....duh
so think I will be heading out to do some shopping.
Neighbour dropped by with two slices of Christmas Fruit cake..you know, the kind that gets started in October and gets fed rum at intervals until Christmas....yum yum.
 
Had the doctor this morning for a check up, she was a no show, ill. At least, the staff checked and I could go ahead and have the blood draw. I had fasted and did not want to have to do it again.

Joy, I beat the trash man, did not have time to drag to the curb when I left. It is done now. I am going to have some toast or something and I am off to bed, only slept a couple of hours last night.

The air this morning was clear, cool and fresh when I took out the trash. For some strange reason if made me feel young again. Rushing to get everything done before work, taking the son to school etc. Enjoyed a nice memory.
Have a great day!!
 
Still don't feel 100% today but I've managed to clean the house, vac all the way through.. and make a big pot of Lentil/Bacon and veggie soup...so I don't feel as tho' the day has been lost.

Update on the Ex.. He went into respiratory failure last night in hospital, and they had to resuscitate him... :oops:.. yet despite that the Doctors who came to see him this morning said he can go home.. .:oops::oops::oops:... he's clearly not fit to go home, he can only walk a few steps without collapsing breathless, and he lives at the top of a 3 floor apartment block, with no lift!

He's happy they've said he can go home soon, because the AC affects his breathing badly and they can't turn it off.. so now he's on Oxygen all day long in hospital , which he feels should only be a last resort and he doesn't want to have to rely on it.. but due to the effects of the AC, he fights for breath.
 
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@hollydolly OMG! Home? Stairs and no elevator? Agree with @Teacher Terry that's bizarre. Has there been a diagnosis?

I'm home. I'm tired or, as we say in the South, "tard."

Maybe some good news. I get three days off next week. Three. Count 'em👉3👈! I've been asking, nay...begging, for the longest time for either fewer days or fewer hours/day. Maybe it'll stay at only working four days/week. Fingers crossed🤞

It's still very warm here. 70F and sprinkles off and on, with the heavy rain on the way sometime this afternoon. "They" say the risk of a tornado is low, but the risk of damaging wind is moderate. I guess that covers their arses no matter what.
 
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So did the doctors even determine what is wrong with your ex holly? That seems bizarre.
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Lung infection is all they've said... they say they need the bed.. . I insisted that they add to his notes that he lives at the top of 3 flights of stairs, and needs some help put in place.. they've agreed to do that, but will they ?..I don't know, and even if they do will it help in any way .. I don't know. Anyway I do know if he was to die any day, I wouldn't be surprised.. :(
 
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hollydolly said:
Still don't feel 100% today but I've managed to clean the house, vac all the way through.. and make a big pot of Lentil/Bacon and veggie soup...so I don't feel as tho' the day has been lost.

Update on the Ex.. He went into repository failure last night in hospital, and they had to resuscitate him... :oops:.. yet despite that the Doctors who came to see him this morning said he can go home.. .:oops::oops::oops:... he's clearly not fit to go home, he can only walk a few steps with collapsing breathless, and he lives at the top of a 3 floor apartment block, with no lift!

He's happy they've said he can go home soon, because the AC affects his breathing badly and they can't turn it off.. so now he's on Oxygen all day long in hospital , which he feels should only be a last resort and he deosn't want to have to rely on it.. but due to the effects of the AC, he fights for breath.
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@hollydolly, I cannot formulate coherent words to express how I feel about the hospital situations you’ve described recently and how angry I feel about your loved ones‘ treatments. It’s probably best I just keep my mouth closed. ::muttering like Yosemite Sam::
 
Been busy today: early AM MD appt (fasting labs, yearly wellness check), new eye glasses ordered, stopped at the local office that services people with disabilities and hopefully some info will come from that for helping with me caring for my autistic granddaughter, got in touch with local “Friends of the Library” to volunteer once the local branch is up and running in March, knitting on my cap/ear warmer band, baking and worked out with son to dismantle and cart off the defunct tv in the armoire so I can store other (unsightly) electronics In there.

I’m headed to my daughters home this afternoon to spend time with my older granddaughter while her mom takes younger sister to her weekly speech therapy appt.
 
We went to Dels Tasty Freeze for lunch and had hot dogs and thick milk shakes. Stopped on the way home and got a couple scratch off tickets. Mine won, my wife’s didn’t. Came home and Amazon package was on my door step. A 25 foot rubber hose for her to water our outdoor plants. Old one sprung a leak and when you used it, it looks like you wet your pants.
 
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Lung infection is all they've said... they say they need the bed.. . I insisted that they add to his notes that he lives at the top of 3 flights of stairs, and needs some help put in place.. they've agreed to do that, but will they ?..I don't know, and even if they do will it help in any way .. I don't know. Anyway I do know if he was to die any day, I wouldn't be surprised.. :(
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@hollydolly If it has not already been done, ask the hospital to appoint an OT (occupational therapist) who should be able to assess your ex's needs and arrange help. Also would be useful to contact Help the Aged to see what help (if any) is available within the area your ex lives, in some areas they have teams in local hospitals who can organise home help i.e. someone to help with housework and shopping after a stay in hospital. Your ex might also want to consider speaking to his GP to see whether it would be helpful for a social worker to be appointed, I believe a GP can do the referral.
 
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@hollydolly If it has not already been done, ask the hospital to appoint an OT (occupational therapist) who should be able to assess your ex's needs and arrange help. Also would be useful to contact Help the Aged to see what help (if any) is available within the area your ex lives, in some areas they have teams in local hospitals who can organise home help i.e. someone to help with housework and shopping after a stay in hospital. Your ex might also want to consider speaking to his GP to see whether it would be helpful for a social worker to be appointed, I believe a GP can do the referral.
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thanks Trish. Yes apparently he has already spoken to his GP and got nowhere. he's hoping to apply to the council for a Home help.. however I fear now that he's so poorly he just won't have the energy. I will help him as much as I can and I have been.... but of course I don't want him to depend on my help that's the only problem.. he's my ex for a reason iyswim .. and I'm beginning to think he's becoming too reliant on me ( altho' he's ordinarily very independent) .. not that I can blame him, I'm sure if I couldn't breathe I'd be grateful for someone else taking charge.. but I've just come out of my marriage, I don't think it's a good idea for me to become involved with my EX husband from 40 years ago again..
 
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thanks Trish. Yes apparently he has already spoken to his GP and got nowhere. he's hoping to apply to the council for a Home help.. however I fear now that he's so poorly he just won't have the energy. I will help him as much as I can and I have been.... but of course I don't want him to depend on my that's the only problem.. he's my ex for a reason iyswim .. and I'm beginning to think he's becoming too reliant on me ( altho' he's ordianrily very indpenedant) .. not that I can blame him, I'm sure if I couldn't breathe I'd be grateful for someone else taking charge.. but I've just come out of my marriage, I don't think it's a good idea for me to become involved with my EX husband from 40 years ago again..
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Yes, that's what I was thinking, you are wise to be wary. It is good of you to help him out but, it's not an ongoing solution and some services will be less helpful if they know there is someone around who will help. It seems to depend on what area you are in as to how good/bad the services are. I hope he can get some help soon. 🤞
 
Today I am 3 months post surgery for my knee replacements. October 3 I got total knee replacements both sides. My recovery has been good, but slower than I'd like.

Pain is not gone, but it is much more manageable, no need for any kind of pain killers any more. Mostly they hurt when I do certain movements, like going down stairs or trying to stand up from a seat without arm pushing. Does not keep me from doing anything, mostly irritating at this point. I am told this could last another 3 months or more.

I still have some swelling, not too noticeable, and some stiffness in my knees, I am told the stiffness is caused by the swelling. I am told this could also last another 3 months or more. Related to the pain I think.

I am told the residual pain and swelling is the result of my tendons and ligaments adjusting to my new knees and perhaps some reaction of my immune system to the foreign objects they put into my knees, a lot of metal and plastic my body is not used to.

Something I had not thought about before hand is that these knees are different from my natural ones, not just my bad ones at the time of replacement. We live our lives unconsciously adapting our movements to what works best for our joints. Problem is suddenly my joints are different. I think I am having to relearn how to use them. Result is I cannot walk quite as confidently as before, and I think it will take time to learn to.

Due to bad knees for many years, knees that would not straighten out, I walked a bit bent over and was bowlegged. Now I can fully extend the new knees and am no longer bowlegged. However learning to walk fully straight and upright is a challenge. I can do it, but my brain doesn't want to. It's going to take a lot of retraining I suspect.

On the positive side there are a lot of things I am better able to do now than before the surgery. My knee joint has much better range of motion. I can do things I could not before, like walking up and down stairs normally, one foot after the other. Only have a bit of pain on the way down, but it will get better, already is... slowly. My pain is probably less than before surgery, kind of hard to remember. Big difference is this new pain is different and getting better. The old pain just got worse.

All in all I am happy I did it, suspect I will be happier in a few more months. And I am very glad I did both knees at the same time, only one recovery is a whole lot better than two.

Double replacements are quite rare, and I don't know why. Maybe the surgeons and hospitals make more money doing it twice. When I first asked for the double my surgeon said no. I was fortunate to have a friend who got both done a few years ago, he helped me put a good case together for the surgeon. I went in with things like recovery statistics, and the names of a few doctors who would do it. After some negotiations he agreed, and then told me he did doubles on occasion, but rarely. This is a guy who does almost nothing but knee replacements, he did two others the same day he did mine.

Knee replacement is not minor surgery, in some ways worse than I expected. I knew it would be very painful for the first few weeks, and it was, but I thought it would be over sooner. They cut off the ends of 3 leg bones, and the back side of the knee cap and replace them with metal and plastic. So for both knees that's 8 bones... Not minor. Don't do it if you don't need it, but if you do I recommend considering it. At this point in time there really is no other cure for osteoarthritis of the knees.

If you do it physical therapy is an absolute necessity, particularly in the first weeks, at least once a day starting within 24 hours of surgery. It is quite painful. Some people take a strong pain killer before PT, I did not need to, but its better than not doing the PT. If you do not do PT as your knees heal scar tissue forms that blocks knee movement and recovery. Not something easily fixed. It can mean more surgery. So be prepared for a hard PT regiment. It also helps to exercise the legs before surgery.

I'll report back in another 3 months or so to let y'all know if things really do get better. I believe they will.
 

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