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Two ER visits in 48 Hours

admin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:07:08 +0000

Man, I am tired. This weekend wasn’t good. Lets see I blogged about what happened on Friday night. Dad took a fall, he was okay. Sunday dad fall asleep on the couch and his heart rate had dropped seriously low. He started aspirating and not responding to me. I was very concerned about him, normally I can rouse Dad from his sleep but couldn’t and he was puking. I was able to get him in a position that he could puke up with out coking on it or worst. The EMT came right away! I will say Clackamas County EMTS and Fire department I am impressed with they got here very fast. They had to shock dad heart to get it beating at a pace that was good. So Now I am once again behind in my practicum class, and have fallen behind in my social cultural class, and I am exhausted and have no concentration.
I responded to Dad issues in probably under a minute, within a minute from that my husband was calling 911 and very quickly they came. I am starting to wonder how much more stress I can take in this set of classes before i simply break down.
I normally do not cry but Sunday I just couldn’t stop from crying. I was scared for dad. By the time we got to the ER and was let in Dad was off the machine and heart rate was normal. They kept him for 2 nights because he had a similar episode overnight the first night. They took him off the beta blockers and told us low fat/low sodium diet. Okay I can do that no problem, because I already do that at home. This weekend I really realized how many things I gave up since moving her. Now I would still do this again, but if I could go back I would have brought my guitar with me. It my outlet that I really need.
Dad came home today from the hospital you know, I didn’t sleep good while he was at the hospital, but I felt a lot better that they had a thing on his bed to indicate he gotten up. I was worried he might fall there at the hospital. I have to say I am impressed with the hospital too.

Good thing I know how to fix things

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:39:02 +0000

Last night we had to call 911 for dad. He fall in the bathroom and we couldn’t get him up. He was trying to sleep on the floor and was just not very responsive. The nice thing the dispatcher lift me go right away probably figuring we had everything under control and he was breathing. This is a good thing, and she left me get off my cellphone. Yeah I don’t want to see my cell phone bill oh well. The fire department removed my door in the bathroom. My husband told me to call maint and have them do it. Why do it, I mean I know how to fix it. Just like my guitar teacher is able to teach cords as long as the person has hands to learn with, and it kindof similar. I just had to align the door.

Lots of rain

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:34:09 +0000

Wow it’s raining and you know it bad when a small dog sinks into the mud. Yep the dog is sinking in the mud. I know I do not want to venture far into any of the yards around here. I did the other day and almost slipped thank goodness I had one foot on concrete. It’s amazing how slippery the grassy areas are, almost as bad as snow but not quiet.

No snow

admin — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:10:45 +0000

Wow I can’t believe it there has been no snow down here, I love it. I don’t have to worry about slipping and falling and boy it’s to warm for a down jackets. Even my nice jacket has been to warm… It is so nice not to bundle up to the point of almost not being able to walk. It kind of strange to, to be able to walk where ever I want and see no snow. Even in the part of Washington I lived there was snow around now. I love this

Not again

admin — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:00:40 +0000

I am so tried of dad plugging the toilet this time it was bad enough for maintenance to come and pull up the rug in the hallway. I wonder how much toilet paper one man needs, geesh I am a woman and use less. They had came right away when I called well within a hour. I don’t have a problem with it taking some time. I am proud of my apartment manager they have done good. They came in fix the toilet so dad could use the one he needed. The next day they sent in the carpet cleaners and they cleaned my carpet up. They also sent someone to replace the mat under the carpet. Now I have a nice clean floor..
I am impressed with how quickly things are responded to in my old apartment it would not have happened that quickly. You’d think everyday is Boxing Day a national holiday for some.
I am glad maintenance doesn’t charge to come and help.

Not feeling sorry for you

admin — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:39:55 +0000

Dad has been frustrating me. I understand he needs to get up and go pee, I understand he might have needs in the middle of the night. I don’t mind if he tells me he has a need, especially when he staring at me and I ask him What do you need. What’s wrong. I get annoyed when he tells me after I finally fedup with trying to get some sleep that he was in pain all night his legs hurt. Well why didn’t you ask me for something. I was on my computer till 3Am and then waiting for the stupid Cable box to turn off which it never did. I finally fall asleep and got 2 hours of sleep for him to wake me up. I hardly get a full night sleep, so I get grumpy becuase I can not take naps during the day. Only naps I get is when I am sick, other wise I simply don’t fall asleep well.
Today when he started complaining at me about his pain, I told him I didn’t want to hear it because he could have asked for meds. He often does not tell us what he wants or needs and then get mad at us when we are not mind readers. It not like I have a mobile cell booster in my brain that connects me to everyone needs. Yes I have empathy, sometimes I can tell if he not feeling the best. But how am I supposed to fix it if he don’t tell me what wrong when I ask or what he needs when I ask. He ask for donuts and popcorn but not meds for pain.
Today he told me, find him somewhere else to live. I told him fine you can go to a home, you ungrateful little grunt. He can’t take care of his self, I have to make sure he takes his meds, takes a bath, puts clean clothes on. It like dealing with a 2 year old child, except he mostly potty trained. He won’t even tell me if he gotta go potty while out then want to stay there when he has an accident and get mad at me and hubby when we tell him no we need to go home and change. I know he got Alzheimer but it still hard not to let some of the things that happen bug me. This weekend he ended up in the hospital for dehydration even though I been giving him water. Sometimes I feel like I have failed at my duty to protect him, but as I say you can lead a horse to water but if they aren’t gonna drink it nothing you can do.

Have to go to bed early

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:59:45 +0000

The painters are working on my apartment building today. Oh my goodness can they be any louder in it. I do not mind some noisy but to much is to much. Its not like we have paper thin walls like arv repair would be but clearly the building is not well insulated. You can hear everything upstairs and next to us. I wonder if my upstairs neighbors are elephants they are so noisy. I told dad he could go to bed early tonight, if he didnt sleep during the day I gotta let him go to bed earlier. Hopefully he will sleep through the night tonight.

My windows and doors are covered with plastic so i can’t see outside, I will be glad when they are done painting this building. I have to admit I disagree with their color choices the owners made. This is Oregon, it rains and is gray a lot during the winter and they picked dark color, I think i would have picked a lighter color.

Starting over

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:08:59 +0000

In many ways my husband and I are starting over, we are moving across country. It will be a long ways. I am glad we have some stores which have a good Retail System that we are used too. We have to find a place like sam’s club to shop at now. But that okay I have a couple of ideas. I am excited about our new apartment, I have always liked fireplaces. I like fire. Yes I will say it fires are nice as long as they are controlled and contained. I love hearing the wood crackle and what have you. I also like watching the flame in the dark. I don’t know why. Maybe we can make Smores now anytime we want in the winter fall. I will need to find a good place to get firewood and find a place to store it.
We also get a washer and drier in our Unit. OH YES, no more sharing a bunch of laundry machines with people who want to take way your undergarments. Yeah, nice isn’t it. We will be giving away about 90% of our stuff but that okay, we have planned everything out and it will go better this way plus we will save more money then having a uhaul or something else.

Stop feeding the animals

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:06:09 +0000

I am about to ring someone neck, Don’t worry I wont. I do not know how many times I have to tell my father in law to not feed the dog or cat. Both of these animals are on special diets, meaning they can not have any table foods or any old pet food. I do not mind keeping them on their special foods, but I mind having to pick up poo or vomit because they been feed. I also don’t much like being woke up at 3am or 5am and needing to take the dog out because she crying and then goes outside and poos in 5 different spots. Yeah not fun, like dad thinking table food is diet pills that work on pets because he keeps doing it. My husband keeps defending dad and it driving me nuts. Just leave the animals along, don’t give them anything let me or my hubby do and they be okay. My hubby doesn’t even feed the animals.

Dad otherwise is doing well. He been drinking his water like he ought to. It still like pulling teeth but at least he drinking his water and I do not have to worry so much. I love dad and our pets and I don’t like seeing either of them hurt or not feeling well.

A week break but not a break

admin — Sun, 29 May 2011 01:48:38 +0000

I am off work for a week but its finals week for my quarter in school. The sad thing is I do not get any time off between classes, and I still have organization to do in the apartment to get ready for moving. I might want to look on Wholesaleinsurance.net see if they got any traveling insurance for our stuff that won’t be covered by our insurance. I am not to worried about the move just being able to get everything done. I have a 2 week break between classes, so maybe that will be enough time to pack up and organize I doubt it though. We are hoping to be able to move in Mid-August to allow me a chance to get set up for my classes.