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WheatenLover said:
My ex is in a nursing home, recovering from an ankle that broke right where it is attached to the leg bone (which bone, IDK). He's been there for 2 months. They recently put a boot on him, and he is having physical therapy now, getting used to it.

Maybe, eventually, the doc will give you a boot so you can get around (at least at home) more easily.
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I have had a boot for two weeks. Not allowed to load bear on it for at least 6 weeks.
Did you know Moon Boots are called CAM Boots - Controlled Ankle Movement ?
 

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WheatenLover said:
No kidding, that would be scary. The smallest Yorkie I ever met weighed just 2 lbs as a fully grown adult dog. I was shocked at her size, but we made friends very quickly. The smallest dog I've ever had weighed 15 lbs, the largest 100.
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Yeah, this is why indulge her over the eating issues. Plus, training is difficult as I treat train and, yup, she just turns her nose up. Vet Google says these small dogs must always have food in their bowl to avoid low blood sugar.
 
Bretrick said:
I have had a boot for two weeks. Not allowed to load bear on it for at least 6 weeks.
Did you know Moon Boots are called CAM Boots - Controlled Ankle Movement ?
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No, I didn't know that. So your boot is just sitting around waiting for you to be able to bear weight on your injured foot?
How are you keeping it entertained?
 
Aneeda72 said:
Yeah, this is why indulge her over the eating issues. Plus, training is difficult as I treat train and, yup, she just turns her nose up. Vet Google says these small dogs must always have food in their bowl to avoid low blood sugar.
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When I trained recalcitrant dogs, I'd use very high value foods - like cutting up a hotdog into 100 pieces, all the while buying different training treats trying to find something they'd like. Dehydrated liver was usually well-received. It can be cut up into tiny pieces. Hotdogs are basically junk food, so I'm not sure that would be suitable for your yorkie. Not sure about anything, though, with a tiny dog.
 
WheatenLover said:
When I trained recalcitrant dogs, I'd use very high value foods - like cutting up a hotdog into 100 pieces, all the while buying different training treats trying to find something they'd like. Dehydrated liver was usually well-received. It can be cut up into tiny pieces. Hotdogs are basically junk food, so I'm not sure that would be suitable for your yorkie. Not sure about anything, though, with a tiny dog.
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I bought beef treats for training, usually a favorite. I put them in her bowl, with her food, to get her used to them to avoid diarrhea. She picks them up, lays them on the floor, and eats her dog food. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I pick them up and throw them away.

Next time I go to the store I am going to get the salmon treats. I dislike them cause they are so smelly, but dogs love them so she might. She eats so little, it’s so strange. I am used to dogs that eat like pigs and finish their food in 5 seconds or less. Dogs that will eat you if you get in their way. 😂
 
Today is the day that the window a/c unit gets covered for winter. It's gonna get downright cold tomorrow, and Mother Nature will have to work hard to even get close to 50. My other chore today is to put away summer clothes, take out sweatshirts, and sort out what jeans I can wear. Most of them are way too big and just take up room on a closet shelf.

Is everybody jealous of the exciting life I lead? Yup...this is life in the fast lane🏎️ zero to 60 in 24 hours;)
 
GeorgiaXplant said:
Today is the day that the window a/c unit gets covered for winter. It's gonna get downright cold tomorrow, and Mother Nature will have to work hard to even get close to 50. My other chore today is to put away summer clothes, take out sweatshirts, and sort out what jeans I can wear. Most of them are way too big and just take up room on a closet shelf.

Is everybody jealous of the exciting life I lead? Yup...this is life in the fast lane🏎️ zero to 60 in 24 hours;)
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yep we've got a sunny day here today but there's a sheet of white frost on the grass..which hasn't melted yet . 6 deg c ... here .I don't have the heating on yet indoors cuz the sun is shining through the windows.. but I am wearing fleecy jogging pants and a woolly jumper.. :D

Just trying to fix my google home hub nest, which has stopped working for no apparent reason.. it's invaluable throughout the day for a myriad of reasons.. information, music , timer , alarm, etc.. amazing how you get used to using these things
 
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I went back to the Hospital for a two week post op checkup.
Infection is no more, operation incision healing okay.
Pain not so bad. Still minor swelling, discolouration.
Physiotherapy begins next week.
Still non load bearing for another four weeks. Next x-ray is on 1st December.

Backed Persan in the Melbourne Cup(Prestigious Horse Race)
Lost. Horse came 20th in a 23 horse race. :cry::LOL:

Watered the garden. That was a chore and a half on crutches :oops:

Supermarket delivered my food order, all packed away now.
Having dinner now Leafy salad with grated beetroot and apple, almonds and cashews and avocado, French dressing.
 
katlupe said:
Today my aide is supposed to be here at noon. Haven't decided what to have her do. Making a list right now of jobs she can do and on which day. I notice that I am not having her do much work at all. It is hard for me to have her do my chores and then not do them over after she leaves.
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Kat, I think most people who are not used to having people work for them in their homes, feel as you do.. they either clean up first before the aide gets there or choose the easiest jobs for them... . Remember she's being paid to do this for you, you need this help.

if you start by giving her the easiest lightest jobs, when she eventually needs to do something more awkward or difficult she'll resent it, so start as you mean to go on, be kind as you always are, and just ask her to please start by doing the X..whatever is the job you least want to do yourself...
 
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Today I will be sending a detailed email to the group home “powers to be” so none of them can claim they are unaware of my concerns concerning my son Joey. First his current “diet” and the need for a meeting to discuss changes. I really hate flexing the guardian power, really hate it.

I have decided the heavy open free standing closets from IKEA need to be removed. They were moved to where they could fall on him and this is when I realized they never bolted them into the wall. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I will replace them with something more lightweight.

Then his missing and broken furniture, his clothes, possibly missing and stolen DS and DVDs.

UPDATES: Joey doing better. Daughter in less pain as long as she doesn’t stand or sit up straight; and she is able to work from bed. She can not walk or put pressure on her leg or lower back.

My Covid test was negative. I do not have Covid.

Consider this: I was in the ER with Joey when he had a fever a d active symptoms of Delta Covid, the most contagious Covid yet. Once he was moved to the overflow Covid ward, I visited him there in his private room. (The hospital only has private rooms.)

He had his mask off, I had a mask on. I visited for a half hour every time, for four days. Once he returned home, if my time line is correct, I visited him for a half hour every day for 3 days. Then I stopped visiting and waited 7 days and was tested.

At 3:30 am, got a text, negative for Covid. 😊. Obviously, the vaccine worked for me.
 
Alligatorob said:
Have you lost weight?
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I'd put on about 15 lbs and the jeans I had were all too small...so I took them to Goodwill and bought the next size up. Those were fine until I started working again and lost that 15 plus another 10. That made the new "next size up" too big. Now I'm down to the next size down from the ones I gave to Goodwill. Trouble is that it's a really hard-to-find size. Yesterday I scored not one, but two pair and am positively over the moon about it.

This time, I'm not going to give away the ones that are too big. I doubt that I'll put on any weight unless/until I stop working again, but I'm going to keep the bigger sizes just in case...

Anyway, I've dug out the sweatshirts, put away the t-shirts, sorted the jeans, and found a bunch of shirts that no longer have a useful life. Annnnd...the sock drawer! I sorted out the sock drawer! Pin a rose on me🌹or give me a medal🏅Yanno all those socks whose mates you're convinced are going to turn up? They're gone now because apparently their mates ran off with that hussy in the bar and aren't ever coming back.

Now to get dressed and dig out the a/c cover.
 
Going to make a big pot of green beans (after I look them), with sausage, potatoes and onions. We organically nuked a huge colony of harvester ants a couple days ago...will walk around the property and see how much of the bait they took into their holes and if we missed any. These things live in tunnels underground that can go for miles. Good news is once you get them, they leave that area of the property alone for year.

Supposed to turn kind of chilly tomorrow. Maybe bring some wood in for the first fire of the season. Its
early this year!
 
Well I couldn't find my specs.. they are pretty new I've only worn them once or twice but I couldn't find them anywhere.

I opened every drawer, emptied every coat pocket, searched in every bag..nothing!! Searched down the back of the sofas.. even took the seats off one sofa ( the other has fixed leather seats).. and realised it needed vac'ing.. so got the mini vac out and cleaned that up of all the dust... but still no specs.. now I was getting frustrated and totally confused as to how they could just disappear..🤷‍♀️

Just as I was thinking I'll have to buy another pair, I looked in a spec case which is in the medicine drawer.. which is where I keep my sunglasses in cases ( don't ask)... and there in one of my sunglasses cases was my seeing Specs.... *phew*
 
hollydolly said:
Well I couldn't find my specs.. they are pretty new I've only worn them once or twice but I couldn't find them anywhere.

I opened every drawer, emptied every coat pocket, searched in every bag..nothing!! Searched down the back of the sofas.. even took the seats off one sofa ( the other has fixed leather seats).. and realised it needed vac'ing.. so got the mini vac out and cleaned that up of all the dust... but still no specs.. now I was getting frustrated and totally confused as to how they could just disappear..🤷‍♀️

Just as I was thinking I'll have to buy another pair, I looked in a spec case which is in the medicine drawer.. which is where I keep my sunglasses in cases ( don't ask)... and there in one of my sunglasses cases was my seeing Specs.... *phew*
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Amazing how often things seem to hide from us. We can look everywhere, then say, "It has simply disappeared" Resigned to the fact that another one must be bought. Even go and buy whatever has disappeared. Eventually the item shows itself, a day, a week, a month later.
 

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