Hippy - my baby bro (he’s 64) had a brain aneurysm that was caught a couple of months ago. They snaked in a stent from his leg and I think he goes back day after tomorrow for the final check. It’s strange to me how it was almost a routine procedure - they didn’t even keep him in the hospital overnight! So fingers crossed and keep a happy thought!!
My eating maching of a granddaughter snarfed down an entire can of Progress chicken noodle soup for lunch today! I started her out with half a can, and she kept asking for more. Apart from what spilled down her dress, she ate it all! Either she really really loved the soup or we’re on the verge of yet another growth spurt.
As for me, I finished off some leftovers. Supper will be a pseudo salisbury steak (burger patties with gravy) steamed rice, and steamed broccoli. I may throw some mushrooms into the gravy. Time enough to decide before supper.
Meanwhile, the sun is out and the toddler is sleeping.
Exactly the worry in my head too. Would you consider a proposal for you to PM your cell number to one of us so that Mumper friend of your choice could hear your reassuring voice when those dark clouds drift past ? Nelliebly or Thelmalou have my real live cell number for just such a point of contact. Maybe we could have a Mumper den mother or den dad during these convoluted times. Plus there are all our darling dependent critters to keep in mind. Speaking of this, I’m going to go check and make sure both Nelliebly and Thelmalou each have my contact info. Longhair75 does too since he lives just the next city over from me.
Actually, it’s a good sign, you’ve got robustly smart and coordinated, organized medical care that is taking solid, proactive good care of you. We Mumpers will get to keep you around for a looonngg time.
Have you ever tried a Delsym type cough syrup? It’s an over the counter one that acts through a different mechanism than the other common ones, it doesn’t make you groggy or goofy and a dose lasts 12 hours. It’s what this antique nurse uses when my allergies, usually in the dang fall, give me a chronic sleep shattering cough. The generic works just as well, look for the ingredient in the brand name stuff:
“As far as coughs go, a dry, nonproductive cough 12 Hour seems a bit less dramatic than its productive “mucus-ey” counterpart. But that doesn’t mean a dry cough isn’t disruptive, or that it can’t seriously ruin your day. Thankfully, you can likely get relief using an over-the-counter cough medication, like Delsym® 12 Hour cough relief. Here’s how it works and why it’s so effective against a pesky dry cough.
What Causes a Cough, Anyway?
Sure, you know what a persistent dry cough feels like – that’s why you’re here, right? But do you know what’s really going on? The urge to cough starts at the specialized nerve endings that line your throat and airways. When those nerves get activated by some sort of stimulus – like the irritation caused by an allergic reaction, cold or flu – they send a chemical signal up to the “cough center” in your brain.
When that cough center gets enough signals, it sends word down to your muscles to initiate that unfortunately familiar coughing action. If your airways contain enough excess mucus, you’ll have a productive, mucus-filled cough. If they don’t have excess mucus, then you’ll have a dry cough.
How Delsym ® 12 Hour Cough Relief Works
The cough-relieving action of Delsym® 12 Hour cough relief comes from the active ingredient dextromethorphan polistirex, a cough suppressant. While there’s still more to learn about all the ways dextromethorphan polistirex helps control coughing, here’s what we do know: it changes the way that “cough threshold” works in your brain, making it harder for those nerves in your airways to trigger a cough. While dextromethorphan polistirex won’t wipe out your cough reflex entirely it filters out the “noise” that causes a pesky, persistent dry cough.
A Time-Released Formula for Longer Relief
When you check out the label on Delsym® 12 Hour cough relief, you’ll see the active ingredient listed as “dextromethorphan polistirex.” You just learned what the “dextromethorphan” part does for you, but what about the “polistirex”?
Including cough suppression in the form of “dextromethorphan polistirex” means that, instead of a short-acting dose of dextromethorphan, you’ll get a time-released version. This translates into longer-term cough suppression. This patented time-relief formula means that Delsym® 12 Hour cough relief can help suppress your cough for up to 12 hours.”
Heck, yes! That’s what I do. Living in a single person household I refuse to pay a hundred dollars a month for cable (I wouldn’t watch that many hours a month for it to be worth it, plus I only have social security so the hundred bucks isn’t there if I want to eat in the same month). My first son has a family Netflix and Hulu, his dad, me, his sister and brother each have a sign-in and password so we all have Netflix and Hulu. I have an iPad Pro (big screen) [thank you big brother Randy!] so I just sit myself down and binge away when I feel like it. I can YouTube football highlights and get big doses of classic rock and videos of my favorite all vocal band ‘Home Free’. YouTube Stephen Colbert, John Gilbert and Trevor Noah help me laugh instead of scream. Guilty pleasures like “Longmire”, “NCIS” and “outlander” .
I fell off the edge of the planet, and just now pulled myself back up again.
We’re trying to get organized for another trip to AZ…to vote. Mail forwarding has been screwy lately (probably per directive from the haha Postmaster General) and with all the horrendous hype of absentee/early/mail-in ballots, we just said “piss on it” and we’ll vote in person.
I also had a big change in my pain management meds, and hasn’t that been a fun ride!
So, since I have been sorta AWOL, am I allowed to ask about Beck? I know her son had a terrible accident, but nothing more.
Lawn/Fence/Bathroom guy showed up. Earlier than he said, so it was expected. He didn’t get much done today, as he didn’t have the tub with him. But he checked out a bunch of stuff and the results are making me happy. He said the floor under the tub as far as he can see is in great shape, and he shouldn’t have to knock out and rebuild the wall where the plumbing is because whoever installed the last tub built the wall out to accommodate the shorter tub.
He brought my tub this afternoon, it’s sitting on the back porch. I hope it fits up the stairs. He assures me it will.
I’m still looking at houses, and for those of you who like old houses This is to drool over
Not one I would buy, because I don’t like the idea of stepping out my front door onto the public sidewalk, and it’s way more house than I need anyway. But OMG, I just love all the woodwork and the light fixture at the bottom of the stairs. I wonder though, how does one get a rug under a claw foot tub, I thought those things were horribly heavy. Maybe it’s a newer one that is not cast iron.
It’s a beautiful day outside. I tried sitting out but the skeeters are too bad.
Hippie, I hope all goes well with your medical stuff.
Red, there are times when I practically live on Hall’s mentholated cough drops. I hope your cough gets better soon.
I got rid of cable, don’t miss it at all. It was way too much money for what was available. They love to advertise 1000+ channels, but by the time you eliminate the sports channels, the religious channels, the channels in Spanish, the kids channels, the home shopping channels, the pay extra for movie channels, and the crappy news channels, I was down to about 6 channels.
Beck hasn’t been here in an age - I didn’t know about her son…
Safe travels to you for voting!! And welcome back!
sari - that is a gorgeous house, tho more than I’d want to deal with also. I decided some years back that ours is just about the right size to take us into our dotage. And I’m about to dump cable, too. It looks like youtube tv will offer all we want for half the price. I just need to figure out how to get the digital adapter boxes back to our cable company, since they’ve closed all their offices. Dammit.
OK, off to the kitchen with me - cookage shall ensue!
Amen to this - we got rid of cable a few years ago and I was convinced I’d miss it, but when I really want live TV for a while, I change our hulu subscription, then change it back after a few weeks because ad-free television is delightful. Really it wasn’t the TV last night, but I think the idea of having a little cave of my own where I can be really alone - without people orbiting me, grabbing me, sitting on me, talking to me or - heck - even looking at me.
But now, a few hours later, we’ve already gotten over the hump where we’re being polite and weird to where he’s now running through the house, taunting me because he ate all the cookies. So that’s nice (not the part about eating the cookies - I’ll totally make more and hide them if possible).
@vox nice to see your smiling…hand. Hope the pain meds have settled down.
Beck has let us know that she’ll be back among us when her life settles down a bit. She filled us in that her son’s surgery went ok, he’ll be needing some more surgeries and rehab and that he will be fine.
She will be back when she can-she assured us she knows we’re thinking of her and miss her. She asked for some quiet space for taking care of Beckmom business.
**note to Beck if you see this: we’re thinking of you and miss you. Use some of the quiet Beckmom space to take extra good care of yourself too. Hug yourself for us, prop your feet up on the porch railing at dusk and have an adult beverage on us. We’ll keep calm and carry on. Especially we’ll carry on now that we’re not supervised, although FCMom, nelliebly and ThelmaLou are doing their best
sari - they’re charging me $8/month for each - and have 4. Since the kids moved out, we don’t need 2 of them, and if I drop the service, I won’t need any. Bad enough the modem costs $11/month. What a racket…
I ran to Food Lion and got a dozen more cans of soup - a quick and easy lunch for $1.67 is hard to beat. I’m about to load and run the dishwasher, then chillage shall ensue.
sari, that’s a gorgeous house, although more house than I would want to be responsible for. The tub with the rug appears to be a replica, so likely not iron. Having lived in old houses, I have to wonder what the closet situation is in that one.
Moooooom, when I ditched cable over a decade ago, they didn’t want the cable boxes back. I can get ~30 OtA channels, dependent on whether the leaves are on the trees or off and have a Roku stick for the rest.
I slept a lot today. The coughing is getting a little better, although it comes on shortly before more meds are due. It’s getting to the gross stage and that’s a pretty good sign.
Chilling out with a bowl of soup and watching more TV. Nelson keeps trying to entertain me by bringing things for me to play fetch with.
Beautiful house indeed! (Though I do prefer a more modern decor.)
I plugged the stats from that house into Zillow and searched in San Francisco. The cheapest of the 72 matches was $2.2 million. I would snap that baby up in a hot minute at 300 grand! Yes, I know, location, location, location.
Not that I have anything against Maryland. How are the winters there?
I LOVE that house, Sari. Love. It. OK, not the bathroom so much, but the rest of it. And the mortgage payment is less than my rent. However, I’d rattle around in a place that big. Also, I’m sure the wiring is outdated and there are way too few outlets. Still, I’d snap it up.
Moooom, I was going to drop my cable a few years ago because I never watch TV. When I called to do so, though, they offered me 10 channels for $10/month (on top of Internet). I decided it was worth it, even though Election Night will be the first time I’ve turned on TV in…a year? More? My point is you may get a good deal when you call to cancel.
Hello all. I has a huge sad. Hubby was life flighted to Miami early Monday morning. He is still hanging on but it’s just a matter of time now. His daughter is with him as there is only one visitor allowed period. I was going back to work tomorrow but now my plan is to go be with him job be damned. That is if he makes it through the night. I texted boss and told him I felt that was where I needed to be be. He said “I completely understand, family first. No sorry, is there anything you need, can we help in any way. Daughter drove from Raleigh with the intentions of helping with him so I can get back to work. If I go then she can’t go in again. I really don’t know what to do. She said he has a lot of fight left in him. So, I have made the executive decision to go up tomorrow unless I hear otherwise tonight. He has suffered enough. That puts her unable to visit once I go in unless we could somehow appeal to a kindly Dr to override this Covid rule. I blame the pandemic. Even though he does not have Covid nor has he had it the pandemic slowed his treatment to this point of no return. I hope I am wrong but I know how weak he is and he does not wish for heroic measures- not that are any.
He owns an Air Conditioning business and the entire underneath our stilt home is A/C parts as he likes to keep a good inventory. There are tens of thousands of dollar’s worth of stuff down there that I will have to dispose of some way. I think the law allows me to maintain his business for six months to close out any underway permits. He has a great employee to do that but no license to go beyond six months. He has a new work truck that he paid $50K cash for. How in hell will I get rid of that. I have no idea how much money is owed him nor how much he owes except he tries to keep his suppliers paid timely.
Our home is probably worth 450K but needs small things done and isn’t quite paid for. I could scrounge up enough of my own money to pay it off but the taxes and insurance ain’t cheap. I could buy me a good enough house somewhere else and save the proceeds but I can’t keep my job if I move away. I am three years from retirement. Rentals here for a room in someone else’s home are 1500 a month. I could take in a roommate but that comes with a set of problems unless I find the right person. He owns half a lot in an RV park that has an old trailer on it that is rented to one of his employees. After six months that employee will not have a job. The other half owner is putting it on the market to sell. Houses here sell pretty fast cause they ain’t making them anymore. There can be no more building on my island as most of it is Key Deer Refuge land. I could make it for a while but one does not want to be house poor.
He is still alive but I don’t see any chance of recovery. Not even minimally. I have very little life insurance on him because of his heart condition. Hard to buy insurance on an old man with a bad heart. I have come to know I cannot live in an extreme cold environment. I have been looking in South Ga, Lower Alabama and the Florida panhandle. Without actually going to see the property it’s not possible to know if it’s in a safe area. I want a flat house with a big fenced in yard. I love where I live now but it’s financially out of my reach alone.
Just thinking out loud here. Please do send prayers, good vibes, a spare heart. We will celebrate our 37 th anniversary in Dec. I was 19 years old when I met him. He is a good, good, big hearted man and well loved. I will miss him terribly but I must keep a straight head to make all these decisions. I don’t put our personal health business out on Facebook so you are the lucky ones.
I will get up in the morning and go hold his hand for however long it takes. Daughter can stay in hotel or go home. It’s where I need to be.
and I think he goes back day after tomorrow for the final check. It’s strange to me how it was almost a routine procedure - they didn’t even keep him in the hospital overnight! So fingers crossed and keep a happy thought!!
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