GailR , 07-05-2011 06:41 PM
Happy Post Independence Day!
Last night I had the best time I've had in a long time. Wayne and I went next doors and watched my neighbor and his son-in-law set off illegal fireworks. Then the neighbor that lives on the other side of my neighbor went and found his fireworks and they set them off. They were gorgeous. Beautiful. Then after that we walked up onto the tenth tee and we could see fireworks being set off in 5 different places. Awesome! That capped off the 4th of July weekend for us.
My FIL is still with us. He's now going to physical therapy outside the home. When I drove him down to Va. Beach to see the orthopedic surgeon more x-rays were taken and his leg is healing nicely. Slowly. But healing. He can now put as much weight on it as he can stand while wearing the brace. He's on a walked only because Wayne took the wheel chair from him. On one hand he is better but on the other hand there is a lot of physical therapy in his future. At least 8-10 weeks. Three times a week. Today is Day 1. He likes the physical therapist. He wants to stay here. In my home. Y'all have not idea.
I think I'm depressed. But if I get the usual medication I will not be able to drive him to all his physical therapy appointments. I need to spend time with my own Dad and I cannot do that right now. And he's just had his Parkinson's Disease medication tripled. Which means his Parkinson's is escalating. And that worries me.
And I'm tired. And I feel all I post is negative. And I'm sorry for that. So I'm going to take a little hiatus from posting until I can clear my head and become a happier person.
gma22 , 07-06-2011 06:46 AM
Good morning to you all. Boy we are having a horrible weather week here. The humidity yesterday was near 90% and hot and very sticky. Jack got sunburned working outside the greater part of the day and may head into that again today.
Jack says rumor is the unions got an injunction signed by a judge keeping the city from doing pay cuts as there is a new contract in place signed before the budget was signed saying not pay cuts no holiday cuts. On the news the city council is saying they are not going to cut employee pay because of the fallen police officer. Can't even tell he truth about why they are doing it I guess. I know it is true because Jack's check is posted to his employee payslip page online and it is full pay. We shall see what comes of this now. Jack did say last night that the police and firemen were exempt anyway from the very beginning.
Gail: You take care of what needs to be taken care of. We will still be here when you are feeling better and wanting to post. You have a lot on your plate right now.
Jean: Gail's FIL has pt away from the home. I talked to her yesterday about it and she says that the choice is letting him go back to VA Beach and finding a way for him to get to his appts for 8 weeks or continuing to stay at her house. He wants to stay there and do his pt. Wayne is working a lot of hours and can't help out so she has to take him and pick him up everyday for the next 2 months. Poor thing I think must just be exhausted and so worried about her own dad. No we don't save the medical because we don't do long form. Long story as to why, but we kept track one year and found we didn't have enough to itemize anyway. A lot of what Jack has gone through has been workman's comp. The first knee surgery was as was his hand initially and his ankle when he messed it up and his back so our output isn't all that much in copays and not near enough to itemize them. Even my surgeries only cost us $30 each time and we have never paid for any procedural stuff like my female tests, mammograms, xrays, blood tests and such. That is all covered 100%. Our copays are $12 so it isn't that much.
Maggie: The thing with the acryllic nails is leaving them off every few months for at least a couple months. I always do it and have never had any problems with my natural nails, fungus or turning colors or such. I do have a good salon that puts on anti fungus before doing the nail anyway to prevent that sort of thing. Glad you like your rooster.
I need to clean the downstairs today though am not that enthused about it. I may slough it off until tomorrow. I am keeping the car on Friday to run some errands and take the dog to the groomers and pick up more of his kidney meds. It sure is nice to have him staying healthy. Guess my food is doing the trick keeping him from getting bacteria and such. I know he likes it. I bought a couple lbs of ground chicken and am going to get these tiny star pastas for next time and chop up beets in his food for a veggie and see how he likes that.
Well onward and upward. Need to get some daily chores done then sit and knit I think. Have a wonderful day all. Faye
Good afternoon, ladies! Sun's finally come out - 74 degrees. We have bad storms with wind, lightening, hail and rain in the forecast for the next week. Our Zumba class was just getting started when the lightening began and we had to clear the pool. They were closed all morning so I only got in about 10 minutes of my 3 hours of water aerobics today. I signed on for 5 more sessions with my personal trainer. Time get ramp it up some.
Nothing happening this afternoon but some quilting. My friend just brough me 23 books so I'll have plenty of reading material for the next few weeks. I usually read about 5 books a week.
Gail, I'm sure it is lonely for your father-in-law in VA Beach and he might be aprehensive about falling again. I drove my husband back and forth to dialysis and the only day they closed was Christmas and then that was made up. All other holidays are just regular days for dialysis patients. What do you have to do for him?
Maggie, how do the doggies like their door? Did they run in and out a lot at first and then settle down?
Jean, did you have a pap test done around then? I got 3 bills that Medicare said they paid this year for services from Winter 2010! I did recognize what was billed but was surprised because all my billing goes directly to Humana now and nothing to Medicare. One was for my pulmonary doctor and one for my cardiologist.
Faye, Fortune sure has a good mama. He'll probably love the beets. I was looking at the cats on the Cat Corner (no kill shelter in Hampton) thinking I might get one and just seeing all of them made me cry. I can't take all of them and how can I choose just 1 or even 2? They have 5 who are very old, between 17 and 19 years that will probably live out the rest of their lives there and one poor kitty with special needs that they won't adopt. He was mauled by a dog and it did something to his little brain and he regressed to being a kitten again. I never heard of a learning impaired kitty before. They say he just loves it when they get new kittens for him to play with.
Have a wonderful day!