Countrymouse Posted November 2018
On My Mind
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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I feel for you Captain. It must feel horrible to have this unresolved for so long.
I’ve heard from other family members they’ve balked at the increase
mom’s meager LTC policy is up in 4 months
There will be an answer for you.
she had enough savings with her LTC to last 4 years which seemed like a reasonable time frame when I placed her there as she was 92 1/2 then
i am getting ready to make my move to the condo I bought last year after my husband died. My house is sold and closed. I have 45 more days to move. I’ve cleaned out, thrown away, donated and disposed of a pile of “stuff”. still a little to do.
But there are still times that grief takes ahold and just won’t go away. I don’t cope very well. I’ve gone to a grief support group. Best characterized as a cat fight by a bunch of women trying to latch onto the one or two widowers there. I’m going to a psychologist for counseling which helps a little. I’ve gone out on 4 or 5 dates which wasn’t all that special. Perfectly nice men, but not truly interested.
I wish I would get up one morning and this was all over with. I have no real problems. Just the never ending grief.
My Mind isn't on all the time - I was surprised at the old dates and wondered what had happened! Finally I realized that I had wanted to see an entire thread, and had switched to 'Oldest First' ! So glad it is just me, and not the Forum.
the cost of rolled oats amazes me . when i was a kid they were a bargain .
Fast forward to now when the shopping experience is just to fill a need or online to complete a transaction. There is not anything special about it. The clothes even seem to be mass produced to the lowest cost provider and quality is lacking. Maybe it's just me, but I really used to love shopping, now I rarely go at all. Sigh.
Shopping used to be a special treat.
I remember the smell when I entered and the beautiful store window displays,especially at Christmastime.
Now,all the stores look the same and your'e right,the clothes aren't the quality they once were.
When I was a little girl,every Saturday my Mother and I went downtown to shop and have lunch in a tea room at one of the stores we loved.I have the best memories from those days...
But don't shorten them on my account. I will be asleep.
(and to all of those who already have had so much snow I'm sorry, but I can't help but feel better you than me)
Give what’s left of me away
To children
And old men that wait to die.
And if you need to cry,
Cry for your brother
Walking the street beside you
And when you need me,
Put your arms
Around anyone
And give to them
What you need to give to me.
I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.
Look for me
In the people I’ve known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live in your eyes
And not on your mind.
You can love me most
By letting
Hands touch hands
By letting
Bodies touch bodies
And by letting go
Of children
That need to be free.
Love doesn’t die,
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away"
Merrit Malloy
I hate them during the middle of the night even if it was only tiny - 3.7
made a late night run to hoca to check on the Viking - she's on antibiotics again - she told me she didn't feel well - I asked her what was bothering her the most - she replied, too many things
Apparently they had been estranged. She never wanted to meet his children. She didn’t like his partner in life and so forth.
Anyway, Elton reached out to her before she died and he told her that he loved her. She said she loved him too but did not like him. He told her that was okay and he accepted how she felt.
He wrote his autobiography. He wants his children to be able to read his story when they get older. His kids are young so he knows that he won’t live long enough to see them in when they are older adults and this way they will know what their dad was like when they are ready to read his words.
It makes me wonder, how many mothers truly don’t like their children? Or how many children despise their parents? It’s certainly not a given that there will automatically be love because of being family, right?
I can attest to the same thing as far as siblings go. I can’t say that I like my brothers.
Does anyone envy people who do have a warm loving relationship with their family?
As for my relationship with my siblings. There isn't much of one. I discovered a strength I never knew was there being caregiver for my mom and it became even more apparent to me how little my sibs respected me. How little they respected my mom. Their lack of kindness and empathy is astounding to me. They are truly mean, selfish, self-centered idiots. I have very little to do with any of them anymore. They can come to me now. I'm done groveling for any kind of affection from them.
Unfortunately, my mom pitted us against each other.
Glad you had a good relationship with your mom. I did too, off and on.
My grandparents though, they were my constant source of love.
Woke you up Ms. Madge?
Why didn't Tweety bird tell me, I wonder?
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A positive outlook will have you being kind to yourself too!
as long as it’s not a precursor to the big one
Why would any patient be forced to prove the truth about the misinformation they are peddling?
some folks like KP
I'm not one of them
my health insurance premiums are going up 96% if I want to keep my PPO with Blue - 😠
If someone wants the basics and doesn't mind trusting kp to even take your B/P correctly, in other words a patient will be put through the plan standard protocols, standard tests, standard of care for the majority of the population, then it might be an ok plan. But a hospital visit would bankrupt me @ $300/day copayment. However, it is not just kp, but any major HMO, imo.
The PRESSURE from staff protocols to actually have the patient to have high blood pressure is tremendous after nurse takes your b/p, it is high, so she will take it again, she says. (153/73). She does not. How many reading this are on b/p meds?
When it is decided that I will be required to report to their specialty blood pressure nurse in a week (who was so very busy) an appointment was made for weeks away....) I then ask the nurse to retake my b/p, she argues that she already did......
But agrees to retake it (143/73). Wow, that is HIGH??? Not. Not high.
I cancelled the b/p appt. I understand that I can fight this (which makes me so angry, my b/p rises!) and have inaccurate information deleted from my record.
Pain and rushing to appt. can also raise one's s b/p. White coat syndrome can raise one's b/p.
Facts are that a consistently high b/p that is documented over 3 visits may be an accurate diagnosis of hypertension. I deny having hypertension. I have proved it over time by monitoring it.
Often, the B/P device is not calibrated accurately. The cuff is not placed on the upper arm firmly, and is too loose. The device pumps up and "holds" tight for too long, causing pain, and the doctors, do they even know HOW TO TAKE your B/P anymore, at all? Because.....they don't. They don't take a reading, and I doubt they know how. Thus the need/requirement for a specialty bp nurse?
Oops, power is out, due to Santa Ana wind conditions. Temps can get high today. Tweety and I will need cooling. See? Why would I even have to address kp' s errors? At all.......
For those w o n d e r I n g why it is so very important to have accuracy in b/p readings, accuracy in diagnosing hypertension, there is no help for you except
e d u c a t I o n. Imo.