I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
Don't worry, I'm just pulling your leg, but honestly? It sounds as if you're having the same pangs we feel when our children stop hanging on to our legs at the school gates and run in to join their friends without a backward glance. I agree that appreciation, more recognition of how much you did to help them through their transition, would be nice. But they're thriving! - and after all that is what you wanted, yes?
Oh, I just remembered, my mother-in-law uses Coke to settle her upset stomach.
And mom is all happy because she got something into him-but it has no nutritional value and now I can't get one of the supplements in and....waaaah. He has only been home 2 weeks, this is all very new, but JEEEZ!
Take this time to enjoy yourself now !!
i dont think your bellyaching at all . my mom really lost her mind at her end of life and i remember the phsycological effect it had on the people around her . i think my mind is just now getting better over a year later . some of the combinations of emotions i may never be able to fully understand . your own life being " caged " may be the most difficult when you look back on it later . im free now but minus my domestic partner . moms decline and death rate right up there with the darkest moments of my life . ( again , in hindsight ) .
you are living a nightmare . i wish you and mom the best ..
Many drugs do come with the recommendation that certain tests be performed regularily because they have the potential for to have adverse effects on various organs like the liver and kidneys.
Trials of new drugs are done with the supervision of physicians who work for the drug companys following rules set out by the FDA. Nothing can be administered to someone without informed consent. it is against the law. Not to say that captive communities like military and prisoners if they are used don't have their arms twisted a little. I know Jeannie Gibbs was taking part in a clinical trial so she can probably comment on the kind of information she was given.
As far as Ebola is concerned. There has been a glaring lack of common sence in dealing with this and the media is having a fine old time whipping up a frenzy. there was a complete lack of preparedness for this type of infection even though eveyone state how terrified they are about terrorists spreading diseases, things like TB, AIDs not to mention a few others like Plague and Black Death. hospitals that are equiped and trained to handle Ebola and similar are few and far between and I believe there are only a hand full of beds in the whole country. I believe the CDC only has a total of three. up till today no hospitals had been identified as centes to provide care. In NYS the Governor has designated several to serve this purpose and degreed that staff recieve special training and proper equipment be provided. at least it is a start and hopefully it will be contained as long as people stop doing stupid things and stop making stupid announcements pretending to be experts.
It has been a particularly rough week here...mom's had several bad nights, constipation for 4 days, left foot swelling like a mellon, a funny looking bruise on a toe that sort of looks like an infection. SIGH. Took her to the doc today. For once I felt like he was really paying attention ( there's a reason/more to come)
Again she's lost weight. 3lbs in 3 weeks. Even though I am having her drink a minimum of 3 weight gaining Ensure's per day. BP, 127/78, although this is a normal range it was higher than her normal. Oxygen was 95. Now, I know this is a pretty normal number, but again, for her, it didn't seem to be. Her's has always been 99. Doc said as long as it was in the 90's there was nothing to worry about. As far as her foot.... I am to "try" and limit her salt intake. Her diet hasn't changed in years and this is a "sudden" thing, so.... limiting her salt limits her weight building foods. Her left foot and a solid red ring/bruise around her ankle area where the top of her sock was. It's this same foot that has the suspicious looking toe. The warm prune juice finally had some effect. Whew!!
Things he changed; He took her off the Exelon Patch. Apparently he feels there is no longer a need to slow the progression, if it even did slow it at all. He also added Depakote to the mixture, this was decided after he got an earful of "you're just trying to kill me. I'd rather be dead". Just shoot me, shoot me"!! All along her right leg was tapping at warp speed. I told him she was nervous/scared and this did not happen all the time, but does so at least twice a week. If her sleeping is bad, her day is bad, my day is bad and it's just all bad! Thus the addition of depakote, with the dosage to be adjusted as time goes on.
I won't even mention how she's used her nightstand at the foot of her bed as the toilet lately.
I pray the change in meds will give her some anxiety relief, which will allow me some relief. whew...
At the moment people are more apt to die from complications from the flu than from Ebola. I got my flu shot but I plan to drag out all the hand sanitizers and Lysol wipes. Time to start wiping down the keyboards, staplers, tops of desks and doorknobs.
i recieved good news today . va letter said my kidney function was back to baseline .these letters are in code but i know how to decode them . what it meant was " ya see screwball . we get better labs when your not chomping down every unused prescription in morgan county " .
My parents are into football, but now narrow it down to one team [they can't stay awake enough to watch it all day long like they use to].... my ex-hubby was a big football fan, and so was his mother. My sig other is glued to football, basketball [both pro and college] and baseball. Talk about feeling so alone :(
my friend betsy's ( flatline ) son tickled me last evening . he said his sister in college should stop gallavanting the country doing stupid drum line and get herself a job . he dont realize it yet but hes picked up a huge portion of that cynicism from me over the years . drum line -- no wonder this girl is 60 % ego and 40 % spoiled brat ..
My Mom also has the same opinion about female sport announcers... "what do they know about sports?".... my Mom can bore me to tears talking about pro football, the names of all the quarterbacks, names of all the coaches, and the teams standing.... wait a minute, I thought women don't know anything about sports :P