Hi, Jess!!! Great to see you again!!

Hi Everybody 🙂

Take care & keep us posted about your day. 🙂

Good afternoon. I've thoroughly alarmed my brother by sleeping all day. I'm sure he's dreadfully remembering my first days here before I ended up in the hospital.

Tat, Tillie and others ((((((((((())))))))).

Oh, this is "What am I doing today" so...

Today I am doing laundry, cleaning out the fridge, and sweeping the front porch.

I want to decorate our front porch now that the weather has broken. Nothing too crazy, just a couple planters to make it look more pretty and inviting.

Hi guys! Does anyone remember me? I'm going to do some reading to catch up.

I think when I posted last my husband and I were moving into our first house. Things are good! I regularly see a therapist for my OCD and have learned a great deal about coping with the issues that come with that. I've been able to take on something I was afraid I couldn't handle - We got a dog!! He is wonderful 🙂

Thank you Roxie and Tillie for sharing even more of yourselves. Although the information itself is upsetting, I love all of the friendships on here and it is great to catch up on your lives. So much to work through.

Wishing everyone on here a wonderful, safe and healthy day. Do what you can and know when to stop.

Roxie

(((HUGS)))

Good morning everybody 🙂

So, let me know what you all are up to today.
(((hugs)))

Whoa, what a loud color I used. Hit the wrong button.

I have congestive heart failure among other things. I am proof that getting with the program can improve you physically and mentally (being so depleted for a long time can get depressing).

Off to the doctor in an hour. I just feel a little run down and I start pulmonary rehab next week. I want to stay out of the hospital. My last discharge date was February 13, so I am doing well for my goal of 60+ days with no hospital visits!

Roxie (((HUGS)))

Thank you Roxie for lifting my spirits an giving me hope.
(((HUGS))) 😀

Diane, I hope you are reading and are okay. Worried about you, dear. Please let us know.

hello everybody

Thank you 🙂

Yesterday the hospital basically dumped him on me after his 20 day stay in their care.
Gave me a briefcase full of written material and a suitcase full of pills and prefilled syringes.
There is a lot about his medical condition I have not written about here.

Anyways...
now I am a full time nurse and baby sitter with a patient who just does not "Get it" and wants to do all the things that would undo all the progress he's made.

Today I will be taking him to the local lab for a blood test to monitor his Coumadin levels and
arguing with him, again, as to why he can not have a pizza or a bag of chips.

Also, back to the electric issues
Found the problem and fixed it.
Going back up on the roof now to do some preventative maintenance to keep this from happening again.
Need to wash some dishes.
Should do some general cleaning in here but may not have the time or energy.
Cat just vomited on the carpet. Soon as I post this I will clean that up.

My lilacs are slowly starting to bloom and I have been spending time out there smelling them.
Heavenly!

😀

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It was so very big Sylvie couldn't lift it. So instead she rolled it across the field, just the way you roll big snow balls in wintertime. (In the picture, Wiggy is "helping", as small dogs are wont to do.)
to be continued (and Sylvie will face a challenge)

Just checking in. As you know, I am trying to establish maintenance routines. What I'm trying to incorporate is dusting bedroom furniture and vacuuming bedroom. Just dusted bedroom--also helps to keep me from piling stuff onto dresser. I'm glad to start this as a routine. Have also been going to bed at a decent hour, not napping and getting up on time. It is a relief to actually get something out of my days again.

Tillie, that is a satisfying exhaustion--I am so glad you had help. Tillie, I don't know if he will appreciate it or not, but I certainly appreciate your hard work and dedication and tireless efforts to make a clean, safe home for both of you.

Hope everyone has a great day! I plan to dust bedroom, as part of my weekly maintenance.

Thanks, Tatoulia.

Wow, Tillie . . . sounds like a lot of hard work. Glad you were able to get so much done, though.

Hi Tatoulia 🙂

HEY EVERYBODY,
two friends came over and together we worked very hard and fast doing a major clear out.
We got a wide path through the carport area all clear.
YEA !!! for us. 😀

Tossed all obvious garbage/trash and relocated the other stuff to other areas.
Got filthy doing it.
Cory and his crew would have been impressed with how well and fast we worked together. 😀

Hope he appreciates that now he will be able to get into the house when he does come home from the hospital. ;D

Happy Anniversary, LR! Isn't it amazing to look back on the year? Fantastic work!

Hello Tillie, what a tough time. Keep your chin up (easier said than done, I know). Glad to see everyone posting--you are keeping me honest and working and I learn new things from each of you. Thank you!

I am working in a bag if stuff right now--treasures for the people at goodwill. I take my stuff to get rid of it and forget to think that it will go to someone who needs it. I have been relishing the feeling of just shedding the stuff. I will, when wavering over whether to get rid of something, remember that it could do someone some good. So thank you for the re-focus, Roxie.

Everyone, stay well and know that your posts have changed me. I feel better and free and appreciate each and everyone of you.

Missing Diane!!!

Last night about 9:30 the power went all funky again.
So I went to bed and tossed and turned till the wee hours then fell fast asleep.
When I woke up the power was back on. "?"

So, this morning went up on the roof and did some connection/connector cleaning on the drop wires to the house and the house wires they connect to.
Power back on.
Fingers crossed it was the issue.

Just made a toasted cheese sandwich for lunch and am taking a breather by being on the internet.

Looks like it will still be more days before he is released from the hospital.
Tomorrow I will make the 150+ mile round trip to Reno and see him in person.
Been doing a lot of phone calls and emails every day.
He is terribly depressed, understandably.
If I could bring him Marty (the cat) I know it would do miracles to cheer him up.

Should get up now and go outside to enjoy the lovely weather here.

🙂

Hi LR2014 🙂

So very happy for you.
Yes, Dave's post about space as an item is great motivation for all of us to look around and see if there is any space we can "purchase".

Hi Dave 🙂

Hi Tatoulia 🙂

Hi to everyone, even those who haven't posted recently or never have posted here before but read. 😀

Diane

(((HUGS)))

Roxie (((HUGS)))
Thank you Dear for sharing your very valuable, first hand knowledge with me.
Looks like now he is agreeable to being home with physical therapy sessions on the side and visits from a home health care nurse.
He realizes now that it will take so much more than bed rest and time to be able to even easily get back and forth to the bathroom.

(((HUGS))) 🙂

I am concerned with have not heard from Diane in awhile. 🙁

Hugs to all

Good morning to Tillie, Tatoulia, Roxie, Diane, bitsy, MW, dave, Karl, and others who might be reading or posting right now whom I have not yet mentioned. Iced tea clink, Roxie.

Tillie, I hope that the electrical issues are indeed resolved. Glad that your lilac is about to bloom.

I have been getting a lot of "inner mileage" out of dave's reminder (on another thread) to think of space as an "item." Maybe I could become an "empty-space collector." I dropped something on the floor this morning and then put it temporarily on top of a previously-clear countertop. A little while thereafter, I decided to remove it from that countertop in order to "buy" some empty space. Perhaps in the next few days I'll take the "shop at home" idea and tweak it: perhaps I'll "shop" for more empty space on the table that is next to me at the moment. Perhaps I will "shop" for more empty space in some other parts of the room as well.

PS I am inwardly celebrating the fact that I've been in this group about a year now. Thanks for everybody's help and encouragement.

Hugs to all.

Hello

HI LR2014 😀

Hi Dave 🙂
WAY TO GO!!!! FANTASTIC job!
You have come a long way (((HUGS)))

Been one of those days here.
Electrical issues raising their ugly head again.
Purchased some new components and installed them.
Hope that is the end of this issue.

Hospital people still trying to normalize his blood values.

Today I had plans to do some laundry and vacuum but those things require electricity. 😛

Lilac hedge is almost ready to bloom. 😀

Was another clear cloudless hot day here in northern Nevada.
Now time for me to get ready for bed and read the bedtime story.

Tomorrow will be a fresh new day to get back to doing whatever the day requires of me.

Sweet dreams. 🙂

Sorry-spelling error.
That is hordes (building hoards)!

Bedtime story, page 3

When they reached the field, Sylvie looked among the shocks of corn for the very fattest pumpkin. Way across the field she found such a fine one!
to be continued

Languid wave. Tired here. Weeding books. Mrs Dave took some to the recycle center for me today. I didn't see them alltogether in the trunk, but my guess 2-3 copier paper box equivalent. The recycle center has a little area with bookshelves. She said she left the bags (from the plastic bag collection full of the books to go) in that area. The hoardes were swarming over them as she left, one patron already having his hands about half filled up.

Very challenging, giving up old wants and identities.

Readin' posts. Sayin' hi.