GO SMASHVILLE!ruble, doggio has a connection in Nashville too, slthough, with the CMA Festival overlap, it will be gridlock traffic.
Moooom, if Higgs has a surprise encounter with Senor Skunk, be prepared not only for the stench, but a pretty sick pup.
swampy, need a choir? I’m glad that y’all were there for JDD’s 'rents.
I have a mater that’s beginning to ripen! By this time next week, I should have at least one to snack on. Sis sent more puppy pics today and the little booger is just getting more adorable by the day. Glad you’re considering another dog sari.
FCM, hope Sis gets to feeling better quick. You can use the extra cash to take her out to dinner one night.
Sari, sort of depends on the person. Most people who lose dogs get new ones relatively quickly. For others it was that one special dog and they have trouble adapting.
I would imagine that Sah-son will try to ignore a new puppy as much as he can, but puppies have a way of getting into one’s heart…
Bumba, hope both eye and elbow get to feeling better.
The window guy came out and gave me a bit of a tutorial along with a good quote on my windows. I was a bit embarrassed about their not being very clean but I guess he’s probably seen it all. Next guy is due tomorrow morning.
Got sleepy and took and afternoon nap, now will have trouble going to sleep tonight or waking up way to early tomorrow. Such is life.
If they have Beers & Hers, call me; however, iffn it’s Beers & Herr’s, that I can haz at home.
:mad: I typed a long & eloquent counterpoint & it went ::Poof:: :mad::
Anyway, let me try again, at least some part of it (& where’s Bobbio to back me up on this?)
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[li]50-60% of the calls for the bambilance are to about ½ dozen addresses, the various assisted living/nursing homes in our coverage area. Not surprising, lots of elderly congregated there, many with medical issues, some with ‘staff’ issues.see below[/li][li]Especially at night, there can be one RN for the facility & the rest of the staff is nursing assistants, techs, & orderlies. [/li][li]9pm ish - we’re dispatched for Hemoraging - pt has fractured a toof & the sharp edge has cut the inside of their gum, causing bleeding. Obviously, pt needs a dentist; however, I don’t know of an ER with a dentist on staff. Not sure what the ER can do over & above what the facility staff can do - use gauze to absorb any blood, put pressure on cheek to stop bleeding, repeatedly put & replace gauze over toof to prevent further issue until a dentist can extract it/put on emergency crown.[/li][li]4am ish - dispatched for Nausea & Vomiting. Get there to find the pt has puked one time. (Translation: If I send them out, they won’t make it back until after my shift has ended & iffn they do puke again, it’ll be someone else’s problem to clean up. :dubious:[/li][li]The ER staff musta realized pt was there for a BS reason & gave the pt the necessary level of care.[/li][li]Anyone in an assisted living facility / nursing home should have should have advanced directives filled out as it’s hardly surprising when elderly people not in good enough health to take care of themselves pass away. [/li][li]If it was a true emergency, they’d escort the family out while they worked on the pt to stabilize them. [/li][li]What happens if one sibling is close & the other lives on, say, the Left Coast? The nearby one can never go on vacation?[/li][/ul]
I say good on the sibs for going on vacation together. Let them live & enjoy their lives. Decisions can be made over the phone iffn a real emergency comes up that isn’t covered by existing AD.
Speaking of which, they showed Blazing Saddles on screen nearby this weekend, with a certain Mr. Brooks in the audience giving commentary & Q&A afterwards. Unfortunately, I didn’t find out about it until after the fact because that woulda been killer to go to!
I once met a very nice blonde skunk at a petting zoo. She’d been raised by humans, spayed, and descented. Quite the snuggler, too. When she was handed to me, she just grabbed onto my sweater and settled right into my shoulder, all “oh yeah, this is good, this works for me”.
I have started a thread in IMHO for suggestions on where to stay when we visit Washington DC in August. It’s a mahoosive place and we have no idea where to start.
Irk continues to be irksome, exams continue apace and my bit of them is almost over. Two today (one student failed to show up), two tomorrow and one last one on Friday although I won’t be here for that one as we’re going to Belgium for the long weekend. Public holiday here on Monday so we are taking an extra day and going by Eurostar to Antwerp.
Swampy, good on you for telling them about responsibility to aged frail parents! If they value your friendship, they will understand that you’re talking sense, especially since you’re right about not being able to make weighty decisions on healthcare issues because you’re not family.
Sari, I would say go for it with the puppy and wait for your son to come around. After all, it’s your life too and if you want a dog then why not? You can’t be pandering to other people all the time
The last 7 years of my real career, I had a wonderful job that I literally could not take home with me. I couldn’t talk to anyone about it, and I got to be really good at turning my work brain off when I left the building.
I wish I could get that back.
Last night, I was in bed, getting comfy before dropping off to sleep, when I suddenly realized that I’d forgotten to put any dimensions on a drawing I’d passed back for check. WHY would I think about that?? It wasn’t urgent or anything, but for some reason, my brain decided to say “Hey, dummy, guess what you didn’t do!!!” Dammit.
It rained all night long - no t-boomers, but steady drops falling till this morning. The t-boomers are supposed to hit tomorrow. I’m going to need a herd of goats to beat the lawn into submission after all this rain. But that’s for later in the week. Just gotta get thru today and tomorrow.
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 72 Amurrkin out and cloudy with a predicted high of 79 with rain/tstorms/apocalypse predicted for the day. It does look like a storm front is headed this way so maybe TWPTB are right. There was some severe weather all over the area yestiddy includin’ a couple of tornados east of here. Today I shall launder and dindin will be the salmon patties I was goin’ to make on Moanday. 'Tis an easy meal to make and if’n it is an icky day, some good southern comfort food.
Spidey FWIW Mr. Frank does have an advanced directive and I was in possession of it while at the ER. However, five hours is too long for anybody not to be at least acknowledged, especially since at that time nothin’ had been done to determine whether or not the leakage was anything of consequence. I see no reason to let somebody lie there that long. As to JDD and Sis bein’ gone at the same time, sorry, they get no slack from me on this. If it were a case of livin’ far apart then they need to figure out sump’n but this is not the case. Both live close by where their parents are and as I said, since both parents are frail, elderly, and in a nursin’ home, you never know when some kind of medical crisis may arise. I should not have been the one who ended up sittin’ with their father in the ER for ten hours. One of them should have been here in case of things such as this. So, no slack from me.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants sustenance. Then I suppose I should be somewhat presentable even though my plans are to be right here in da cave. No where I absolutely have to go today which is fine by me.
What I didn’t say as eloquently (the second :mad: time) was that facility staffs send out a lot of dubious things, in many cases, I believe, to make it easier on them. (It’s less work to do paperwork on why you sent someone out than actually taking care of them.)
In any ER, if you’re stable & they’re busy, you’re gonna sit.
If you’re stable, there for dubious reasons, & the ER is trying to find a transport bambilance to take you back for borderline medically unnecessary reasons (which means payment could be denied) you’d sit longer. It’s a game & you became an unwitting pawn in it.
Like Mooommm’s poll a week or two ago of whether you have a family member there when you have scheduled surgery or not. If something like this were to happen to me, at some point, I’d talk to ER staff & then call JDD, “He’s stable, they’re not doing much for him, he’ll go back as soon as transport gets here. I’m going home.”
I decided to make a trip to Ferd’s for some household items I needed so I donned presentable for the public clothin’ and went. Now second load of laundry is in the washer and first load is in the dryer. 'Tis rainyish out but I managed to go to the mailbox and back between rains, so go me.
Spidey it took eight and a half hours to determine there was no problem and one and a half hours waitin’ for transport back. Way too long.
Unless its me in the days when Divine Providence was open. They liked me and with the heart and all the work on the house I was doing unsafely back then I was pretty much a regular. The OW fell on a neighbors porch, twisted up her ankle really bad, and I ran her down there. I snagged a wheelchair near the door (I knew where they were) and rolled her in. Before the doors closed they already had my records up and were calling the attending. I had to stop and say “No – Not me this time ----- see? Lady. Leg out. Not me!!!” :smack: But they did manage to slip her in at the front of the line so it wasn’t all for the bad.
It’s cool outside and for a while the sun came out. Now it’s cloudy again.
We got groceries and most of them have been put away.
Check has been sent off to the breeder. The puppy she sent me a video of got adopted before I could get back to her. Hopefully there will be a pup available from the June litter. If not, I can wait. It helps that I don’t care about gender or color.
I look around though and see how much my house needs to be puppy proofed. We were spoiled with Mackie, even when he was young he left things that weren’t his alone. I doubt I’ll get that lucky again.
MetalMouse, I hope you are right and when he sees the puppy he will want it. How can anybody resist a puppy? BooFae - he will have to help take care of it. Well, maybe not, but I hope he does.
I think you’re right.
Glad your sister is doing well FCM. My mother has had both knees replaced, and it hurts just to think about it. Anyway, she would tell your sister to make sure she does the therapy and use the knee. She knew somebody who didn’t because it hurt too much and it caused a lot of problems for them.
Swampy I think it was very nice of you to sit there all those hours. You’re a good friend.
I would tell her that too, and probably will on FB. (I’m not her friend but I’m her sister’s friend and see her a lot on there.)
Wifey had her right knee done about 3 years ago and did a lot of exercising before and after the operation, and still goes to the pool as much as she can. It really makes a difference. She needs to have the left one done but is stubborn about getting around to it.
My mother had hers done and didn’t do the PT because it hurt. (Mom was kinda self-indulgent. And stubborn.) and had trouble with it 'til the day she died.
It’s cool here today too. This would be an excellent day for me to mow the [del]dog’s potty room [/del] back yard. And then I think I’ll get cleaned up and go rent a movie for tonight. The vast wasteland that is Wednesday night TV doesn’t appeal at all.
Speaking of which, I have a cousin whom I am very fond of back east, who post the winners of reality contest shows on FB the minute she sees them, and it’s annoying. Last night I found out who won Dancing With The [del]B-list celebrities[/del] Stars before we watched it. And I had to keep it a secret from Wifey, and I also knew who won The Voice ahead of time, not that I care about that one. But Wifey does. I’ve told cousin how annoying it is to be spoilered like that, to no avail. I may have to unfriend her on FB, and I don’t want to. She’s the only one of my relatives who came and sat with me the whole time Mom was in hospice. Every one else popped in once, or sometimes twice, and said a few words that Mom couldn’t hear anyway, and scooted out as soon as their duty was done. Can you tell I’m not overly fond of most of my family? That’s okay, as the feeling is generally reciprocated. I’m that godless liberal who lives out west. But has guns, :eek: which confuses the hell out of them.
Enough of this self-pity. I’ve got things to do, as soon as I remember what they were.
I’m glad that y’all were there for JDD’s 'rents.
By this time next week, I should have at least one to snack on. Sis sent more puppy pics today and the little booger is just getting more adorable by the day. Glad you’re considering another dog sari.
But they did manage to slip her in at the front of the line so it wasn’t all for the bad.