Ever just want to tear your hair out, or someone else's? If you cannot restore a sense of balance, you will run away from home? Just want to say some things without the constraints of staying on topic? Well, this thread is for you! If you just need a short break to let it all hang out, be a brat, then come on, you can do it. No holding back! Go for it, you can do it.
NDD Level 1: Dysphagia-Pureed (homogenous, very cohesive, pudding-like, requiring very little chewing ability).
NDD Level 2: Dysphagia-Mechanical Altered (cohesive, moist, semisolid foods, requiring some chewing).
NDD Level 3: Dysphagia-Advanced (soft foods that require more chewing ability).
Regular(all foods allowed).
And there is no reason they can't feed her the real or less altered foods just as easily as they help her with the puree.
(believe me I know it isn't that simple, but it d**ned well SHOULD be)
Help me! I can't see!
Sudden onset of vision symptoms-a black circle only in my right eye.
Went to show my dH. Poor thing had that deer in the headlights look. What could he have done about it anyway? He started to panic, quietly though. Afterall, his wife was crying out:
"I CAN'T SEE! " Over and over.
Never eat Pizza in bed.
A tiny black olive slice fell on my glasses. It stuck there, so when I put on my glasses, all I could see was a black circle in the center of my rt. eye.
He says, " Now that was a senior moment!" lol.
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(well I guess it's true - there is no bad publicity)
I hope it is not just having sex.
Yeah, you shoulda been here to see hubs face. And then, his laugh, leaving him with a smile. He also said similar: "You had me going there for a minute".
Lizzy,
I still ate it.
Why are you eating pizza 🍕 In bed in the afternoon?
CWillie, yes, Hedley, one of those bands that will never have International success and probably have lost their Canadian fans too.
Lunch.
We have been buying out a lot, eating out much more to stay away from home during the asbestos demolition in our neighborhood. There were no construction workers today, so I was resting from being away from home so much.
Flynn had his bodyguard put my uncle in a trash can so he could get my aunt on his boat 🚣
Swashbuckling pirate
This is just a rumor mind you..............May or may not have happened. But with all these stories going around........everyone is suspect, right? :)
Back in the time, I don't know how a woman could feel a pinch all that well what with wearing girdles and all.
I tried bribing her
that didn't work
I tried holding her hand
that didn't work
So I gave up and let her cuss a bit then scolded her
When she was done and we were headed out
The receptionist said the patients in the waiting room were
Getting scared
MsMadge, why *wouldn't* you eat pizza in bed in the afternoon with your loving SO? Certainly beats eating it on the sofa in the evenings with your (pizza-)loving dog.
Happy Birthday in remembrance of your lovely Mom, who shares a birthdate with Luckylu's kittens, today one year old.
MsMadge,
Imo, that remark was very unprofessional coming from the receptionist.
If you wanted to behave badly, you missed your chance to say to the waiting patients,
"Run, NOW, don't go in there!"
Doing rounds they went into one room and found a female patient had died. They were terrified of what night sister would do when they called her. The patient had been dead a while and was very cold.
So being resourceful girls they filled the bathtub with hot water and carried the body to the bathroom. they let her soak for a while till she was nicely warmed up , put on a clean gown and carried he back to bed. Night sister duly arrived when called and pronounced the patient dead. As she was leaving she turned back and said " Funny how did her hair get so wet?"
The Medical student on pain of death were forbidden to set foot in the nurses home, but their residence looked out over some of the nurses home windows. On morning there appeared a mysterious set of white footprints on the wall of the nurses home and appeared to enter a room on the 4th floor. No one ever found out who did it. Matron was not amused.
Thankfully I went to college the "regular" way but my days in Catholic school sounded a bit like that nursing dorm. 😉
There have been so many advances in nursing that we could probably write a book.
Remember when;
Glass IV bottles?
Needle and syringe choppers?
Metal bedpans coated with white enamel?
Flat bed sheets for the top and bottom?
When smoking was allowed in the hospital?
Glass (Mercury) thermometers?
Manual blood pressure cuff and a stethoscope?
Cooling someone down with an alcohol bath?
With ice added if Temp. over 106*?
A mortar and pestle to grind meds?
Charting on paper (in a hard bound chart) with black pen (day shift), green ink (swing shift) and red ink (night shift)?
Those crazy "Flying Nun" nursing caps?
White dresses (uniform) with white stockings and white nursing shoes?
Medicine cards with patients' name and drug that sat in a little slot behind the paper med cup in an aluminum tray?
Showers lined up in a row...down the hall from your room?
When we used soap and water to clean our hands?(instead of antibacterial gel)
Fingernail inspection every morning by the nursing teacher? "Nail polish hides a multitude of sins", she'd say. She also checked the size of earrings (tiny or none at all), length of hair (off the shoulder) and proper stockings.)
"Latex" gloves?
Etc., etc.
Sometimes progress is a good thing! 💉