how about drinking?
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Lively Happy Feet here!
NM, would love to see some of your snarky emails! I'm thinking you did that just for yourself, and won't really send them. Sort of like a therapy soap box for you!
Well, I was supposed to get my markers before my appt., about 10 days or so, in case they needed to get me approved for scans, so I can do them while in Phoenix and then see the onc. Well, he is on vacation! So I ordered another batch of FU pills and will see what he says when I get there. I still feel as good as I have been other than SE's
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NM - I would be worried that I sent the wrong e-mail. Or would that be one of those Freudian Slips?? lol
Adventurous Wiggle Nose signing off...
So Happy Its Thursday!
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy TGIF Day! Raining here, has been since last night sometime. The snow is really melting off now, there is actually grass to be seen in the yard! Sadie found a little mud patch yesterday, so I've had muddy paw prints on the kitchen floor. There is hope for spring after all!
Goldie--the snarky e-mails were all mental. The final e-mail was only 3 sentences:
"Earlier this month I offered to case manage the Xxxxx patients to facilitate new staff orientation. I want to remind you that I offered to do this until the end of March and Friday March 30th is the last working day of March. As of 5 pm March 30th I will no longer be case managing the Xxxxx patients. Nor will I be case managing the facilities and home patients that ware assigned to me without my knowledge or agreement and did not know about for over a week."
I know the very last clause is a touch snarky, but I am PISSED, still, and the statement is simple truth, so they can all just cope. And believe me, the mental e-mail I composed were WAY snarkier and some were downright rude! But they were fun to think about for a bit. How dare your MO go on vacation! How just inconsiderate of him! Glad you are still feeling good.
Misty--I worry about sending the wrong e-mail, too, so the really bad ones never get written down, they just live in my head.
Kindheart Bunny Hop's DOTD:
Sparkling jelly bean martini
Ingredients:
- 1 ounce jelly bean-infused vodka*
- 3 ounces Champagne
- 1 lemon wedge
Directions:
- Pour the vodka into a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake to chill.
- Add the Champagne, and squeeze the lemon wedge into the shaker.
- Stir gently, and strain into a glass.
*To make jelly bean-infused vodka, place 1/2 cup of vodka and 1/4 cup of jelly beans in a glass jar for about 48 hours. Strain. Makes 4 ounces. (Use 1 color of jelly beans for best results.)
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Easter Eve! The snow is really melting off fast now, and the sun feels so warm during the days, it feels like spring may actually be fighting it's way through! Time for me and Sadie to start getting out for walks again!
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Wowsa, I don't think I've ever seen it so quiet up in here.
NM, you will have to let us know the response you get from your email. They so use you! We are having super warm weather, but HOT to me. was 52 out this morning when I got up.
Going to a neighbors, well not really a neighbor, they are about 8 miles away, for a pot luck Easter Dinner. I asked her what I could make, I got potato salad. I asked for how many. She said about 20-25. I said holy cow girl! She asked me if I thought that was too many. I told her "Nooooooooo, the more friends you have the more blessed you are!
Happy Easter everyone.
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Easter! Windy and cloudy here this ayem, with the chance of rain. Lots of snow has melted off, and Sadie has a nice big mud puddle in her yard to play in. I can't wait until she finds it! A true sign that spring is coming!
Cute, Teka!
Goldie--the only response I've gotten so far is a "thank you" reply from one of the Clinical Managers. All the patients that have been listed on my schedule have been moved off. Clinical Manager #1 is now listed as Case Manager instead of me for all the patients. Looks like the message got through. Each week when I send the e-mail with my availability for the upcoming week I am being very specific about what I will do. Got the two word "thank you" reply from CM #1 to that e-mail, too. I guess time will tell. Got a teaching class coming up in a couple of weeks, need to shift my attention to prepping for that class. Time will tell how it works out.Love that the neighbor is having so many people in for Easter Dinner! It is true, the more friends, the more blessings one has!
LOL at the pics, especially the last one!
PEEPS® Cocktail
Ingredients
- Lemon wedge
- Colored Sugar
- 1½ oz. Cherry Vodka
- ½ oz. Triple Sec
- 3 oz. Half and Half
- Dash of Grenadine
- 1 Marshmallow PEEPS®
Instructions
Rim a martini glass with the lemon wedge and then dip the rim into colored sugar. Set aside.
To a shaker filled with ice, add the cherry vodka, triple sec, half and half and grenadine until chilled. Strain into prepared glass. Garnish with the Marshmallow PEEPS®. Serve immediately.
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Hoppy Easter <as u can see> from Cuddly Carrot top.
Hope everyone has a decent day better yet a great day.
Oh Lori I don't blame u for not telling ur mom about Zeus yet, she really dosn't have to know what's going on, hopefully she gets better and can reroute her thinking in her new place. I don't understand about ur counts, but just one is off, is that better. I sure pray it is. Oh they haven't scheduled her surgery yet, I think they would like to try and get this under better control, IDK, but rads started this week and I probably already told all of u this, don't member so I won't go back into this mess.
Kim I had to share ur Sadie story with my kids, it cracked me up, her antics seem human to me but actually nicer than a lot. Good thing u don't put anything in writing until u really know what to say, it's best that way. And ur DOTD are fantastic, oh how I wish I could really drink without getting sick all the time. I was talking to my cousin yesterday and we both said we should start drinking again, we enjoyed it so much before.
Jazzy is hopefully having a relaxing time.
Celia how are u doing???
It's been so quiet in here the last few days, I guess it's the weekend holiday maybe, cuz I hope it's nothing going coceyed for anyone <I use that word every chance I get, even with work and the ballcock in the toilet> When they call about their toilet I work that word in every time. When I have to explain it, they really didn't know that's a real name of it. I end up saying something like oh I never thought of that. Yea right.
I'm planning on going to Dan's house today, hope I get there. My bleeding has stopped so I'm not concerned about that anymore. But this house is how we feel from hour to hour LOL
HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY EVERYONE.
LUBS U ALL
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Happy Easter from Palm Springs. The spa was incredible. Heading home in a few hours
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Good Morning, Loungettes! Happy Monkey Day! Sadie and I hope everyone had ahappy and healthy Easter or Passover or weekend, as appropriate.
Cammy--Sadie is happy to provideentertainment! She loves hearing people giggle and laugh.Praying for Leslie and for you and for Joey and for the entire family.
Jazzy--beautiful looking spa!
NM's DOTD:
Blue Bird
Ingredients
- ½ Part Blue Curacao
- 2 Dashes Bitter
- 1 ½ Parts Gin
How to mix
Fill a mixing glass with ice cubes. Add all ingredients. Stir and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
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Good Morning Ladies.
Jazzy just looking at the pics. is relaxing, I hope u and ur sister had some good time together and her partner is doing better U must be home by now.
Sandy I totally forgot to ask u about the <I think it's called this> Theraflu, what u were talking about Is that from a script??? I thought that was OTC stuff, is this something new or did I miss this whole process. Leslie must be back now so Gordy has to feel better.
DARA, DARA DARA I hope ur doing well.
Kim u must be in a hurry this morning.
I did go to Dan's house yesterday and as usual it was great but I didn't like any of the food, except potatoes. LOL Kat's dad made a leg of lamb, <just don't like meat much, but that is never on my list to eat, but nothing else tasted good to me, even the salad had a bitter taste, it could be me tho. But people were fun and my cousin Nicky came who is one of my favs too , he's just so funny so all in all we had a good time. I brought Sam a little basket and told him the Easter bunny must hear me talk about him so he left something at my house, he fell for it.AHA I can still fool a 3 yr. old, my charm has returned. By next year he'll out smart me for sure.
OK I have to open for work now, but I'd like to go back t sleep.
LUBS U ALL
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NM, so glad you are standing up for yourself re hospice. No more of them taking advantage of your services. Sadie agrees! Cute eggs, eh?
Cami, you and your "cock" words, I love it. ReCOCKulous, COCKeyed, BallCOCK. You are a hoot and I miss you when you aren't here. I hope you were able to get to Dans. And what is this "bleeding has stopped"? What bleeding?
Beautiful pictures Jazzy, looks like you had a great time. Welcome home!
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Hi ladies- hope you all had a nice weekend celebrating or just relaxing. April is suddenly here!
I got back last night much easier than on the trip out. Both flight segments on Wed we landed either a bit early or on time and there were no gates! Nothing like tarmac time, but I finally got there. All the airports were mobbed, but with holidays and spring break for many last week, lots of folks on the road. Yesterday was quiet and like to travel on holidays just for that reason. We had enough time to enjoy some brunch at the house together before I needed to head to the airport.
The visit went well overall, but can see that my sis and her partner have been very stressed. Been going on for awhile with elder care and also just a lot of other things. But we kept things low key and created some new memories at the spa. We had a great time there and I had a mud treatment where you carefully slip in to a pit of peat mud to bake and then wash it off and get an herbal pultice massage to exfoliate. I have done something similar with the mud at Calistoga in CA, but the second part was perfect. Skin as soft as a baby's butt! We had a great lunch there, lots of great pools and cool old CA setting. We learned the place along with being an old Hollywood hang out also used to be a brothel back in the Al Capone days.
The rest of the time was visiting at the the house, playing with the pets, reading, enjoying the hot tub there, some walks, swimming at the clubhouse and a wee bit of shopping in downtown.
Back to life, back to reality. It was a get away, and now I am getting caught up here at home today on many fronts
Goldie- I saw your pics from yesterday on FB and it looks like you had a nice holiday with friends! I like them man bunn eggs you posted above too.....
Cami- I like that you went to Dan's and ate something, although I laughed that the only food you liked was the potatoes. I am super picky about my food these days. Did Leslie get her implant removed? Is she better?
NM- did you and Sadie just hang out and enjoy the day on your own or see mom and Dick? Are they doing okay? I like that you are doing more teaching work. I think the hospice people are just going to be a continued PITA......
Here is a photo from our happy hour one afternoon. I picked up this delish bottle of Rodney Strong pinot noir rose during my visit. Those CA grocery stores are chock full of good wines!
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Sounds like a fantastic time, Jazzy!
Cami, what Gordy took was "Tamiflu," the generic version "oseltamvir." It is prescription-only and fairly pricey. It helps the immune system kill flu viruses quickly. "Theraflu" is the brand name for an OTC combo of Tylenol, a weak decongestant, cough suppressant and generic Benadryl. It is meant to be mixed with water and drunk. It comes in either orange flavor to drink cold, or chicken-soup flavor to drink hot. All it does is help relieve symptoms (fever, stuffy & runny nose, coughing, and aches) but has no effect on the immune system or on the viruses themselves. All it kills is your budget.
Tamiflu, if taken within a couple of hours (one day at most) of onset can get rid of flu with 2-3 days (sometimes sooner). It works only on flu, not colds or bacterial infections. "Theraflu" cannot shorten the duration of the flu, but it can make you feel slightly less miserable (mostly from the Benadryl making you sleepy). And if you have high blood pressure, you shouldn't take it because its decongestant can raise your blood pressure and increase the risk of stroke. (A friend of mine, at only 36, suffered a stroke by taking a cold remedy containing phenylephrine after having forgotten she'd also taken Sudafed--and she had never tested her blood pressure).
Tamiflu (branded or generic) is the one you should have on hand during flu season, whether or not you were vaccinated. "Theraflu," OTOH, is much more expensive and less effective than a can (even a quart carton) of real chicken broth, a couple of generic Tylenol, and some store-brand cough suppressant, decongestant, and antihistamine. That way, you can treat only the symptoms you actually have and not inadvertently double the dose of something you're already taking.
Happy Passover & Easter! Yesterday we (14 of us) had brunch in the Signature Room atop the John Hancock Tower (excuse me, "875 N. Michigan, its address, because Hancock sold it). The restaurant actually gave everyone a free mimosa (mostly champagne) toast. We got another bottle of its house bubbly. Tonight, with my leftovers from Thurs. night, I had a couple oz. of Hahn Pinot Noir.
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Good Morning, Loungettes!Happy Twofer Tuesday! Guess what happened to me yesterday? Just as I was leaving for work at Hospice I got a text that the Clinical Manager had looked at the schedule and they don't need me this week, but let her know what days I am available next week. Fortunately, I hadn't yet left the driveway (was in the car, had pulled out of the garage) when the message came in. Part of me is not surprised, several nurses had only 1 or 2 visits some days last week. Part of me wonders if this is retaliation for not letting myself be walked on and putting that in writing. Part of me is worried about the care some of the patients are going to get. Part of me is chanting "Not my circus, not my monkeys." Ah, well, would have like the sleep in this ayem but forgot to change one of the alarms. Need to get out and run errands before the next snowstorm blows in tonight anyway. Going to take Sadie, she's been a good girl and needs a nice ride.
OK, I eaves dropped on the Hospice morning call this morning. Everyone's got 5 or 6 visits, which is normal, a few admissions in the pipeline but only 2 maybes for today, which is low, Office Director out of the office today (probably at the other nearby office that doesn't currently have a Director), not a lot going on. The other per diem nurse isn't working today. Sounds like they might moving in to the summer slump time when the census tends to run a bit lower.
Cammy--Wasn't in a hurry so much yesterday as there just wasn't much going on. Glad you had a good time at Dan's, sorry the food doesn't taste right. Sometimes that can be caused by medication. I bet little Sam had a ball with the surprise Easter basket! Have a good day at work!
Goldie--Like I told them, I don't have to be a valued employee, but I DO have to be treated with common courtesy. Wicked cute eggs!
Jazzy--Amazing how quickly the weather has turned now that April has arrived! So glad your travel was smooth. Sorry your sis and her partner have been stressed, and I do hope your visit was a break for them. Good new spa memories are a great thing to have. My family doesn't do much with Easter as a holiday. I get together with Mom and Dick and sometimes some other friends of theirs for a bean suppah on Saturday nights.This last Saturday was a rare one that did not have a public supper anywhere, so we went to a local restaurant. Mom is going down to visit my brother and his wife next week. I agree the Hospice thing is going to be an ongoing PITA, and I'm looking around for something to replace it with. Going to talk to a recruiter about a per diem position at another office and looking at some other options, including some outside of nursing. Working on keeping the trust in God, going strong, too.What a pretty happy hour pic!
Chi-- good description of Tamiflu vs Theraflu. Those multisymptom OTC meds are involved in more inadvertent overdoses of tylenol and/or benadryl and/or medication interactions with high blood pressure medications that you can shake a stick at. People just don't think to check the ingredient list of the OTC stuff they take. I feel for your friend, she may not have had high blood pressure, a stroke is a dose dependent risk of the decongestants.
Kindheart Bunny Hop's DOTD:
Drunken Bunny
Ingredients
- 1 oz Midori Melon Liqueur
- 1 oz Blue Curacao
- 1 oz Bacardi O
- 1/2 oz Whipping Cream
Directions
Blend first three ingredients together in a cocktail glass. The color should turn bright turquoise. Top with whipped cream, and serve.
Best served in a Cocktail Glass.
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Jazzy, the mud treatment sounds nice. Glad you got that baby butt smooth feeling!
NM, things always seem to work out for you, just hang in there girl. Drunken Bunny DOTD, cute, but I think it would be quite sweet!
For you wino's in the lounge, have you seen the talking wine bottles? Of course you need the app. But it's pretty cool. It's called 19 crimes. Each bottle has a person on it, I believe men. You put your phone in front of the picture and the person talks, moving mouth and head. It uses your camera, you can even put your finger in front of the talking face and it appears. Each bottle has 3 stories. Someone at the Easter gathering showed it to me. Also, I forgot to mention that my hummers are here. We so enjoy watching them.
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Hi friends- got settled in yesterday and working on some follow up on some new work opps today. More interesting things coming as two of my other things went in to the abyss (one for the second time too). But so it goes with the healthcare world right now (some of you know this only too well too, like NM). The world is my oyster and seeking out all the great new pearls out there!
Goldie- I have a bottle of the 19 Crimes and also the app. I saw it on FB sometime earlier this year and then came across it at Cost Plus World Market. Their wines are very good too, mostly red blends that I saw and tried a different one at a restaurant back in Feb. Really fun.
How is your mom doing this week?
NM- well I won't say that when you speak up, you won't be punished by organizations. However, for me as a consultant and also for you as PRN, you must remind yourself that your career is no longer tied to playing the game. Raises, promotions, bonuses don't matter in our world. We get paid for the work we do, and have to create our own boundaries around it (as they have none, as you know). It takes a good year to get used to this and think you are making that transition. A good reminder to say "not my circus, not my monkeys."
A few years back, I was being considered for something with another area within a local healthcare client's org and it went nowhere. I later found out that someone thwarted that with the VP and after I worked on another project for my primary client, I learned he was very impressed by me but had been told I was "not a good choice" for the work. I knew that was tied to something that happened on an earlier project where I stood up to the project manager who tried to make me work Xmas weekend (which I was okay with) plus the whole week before. I told her I was not able or willing to work 80 hours a week (and my contract read up to 40 hours a week and more if agreed to). I was already working 60 hours a week for the go live which is plenty in itself. Anyways, the same dude got removed from his big role and side lined and Jazzy is just smirking the whole way. What goes around comes around. So yes, people can do things to retaliate but that is not a mature management style.
If the census is slowing down, might be good to get your resume out there for other PRN work?
ChiSandy- your Passover outing sounded lovely (free mimosa's too!) I ate way too much out in CA including at the fab deli that has these amazing sugar free desserts like I have not seen anywhere else. I love your new pic too, BTW.
I have to get out to pick up an on line order at REI and get some much needed food for this household. I am wishing you all a great Tuesday
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Actually, Jazzy, that was Easter brunch on Sunday. We did Passover on Fri. night at Mon Ami Gabi, just the four of us. Wasn't going to drink tonight (other than seltzer with lime to go with a salad and Buffalo wings) but Bob called and is coming home with a Costco shrimp ring--so I threw a few bottles of something white in the fridge. I probably won't indulge (nor in the shrimp--gotta get to bed early), but I'm chilling a 2007 Mendoza valley Chardonnay and a 2010 Maryhill (WA) Viognier--in the "drink now if it's still palatable" category; and a 2015 Graves if the foregoing have oxidized past the point of drinkability.
Have an early followup appt. with the hand surgeon tomorrow. Back in Feb., when I fell upstairs (yes, that's a thing) I broke my fall with my L hand and hurt my TFCC (a cartilage complex by the outer edge of my radius & ulna). No fracture or dislocation on X-ray, but it hurt (with audible clicking) to rotate my hand & wrist away from my body. Tomorrow's appt. was supposed to determine if an ultrasound or MRI would be warranted if I was still having pain. Everything was fine by Sun. (most of last week, actually) so I was going to cancel the appt. Well, Sun. night I was getting into bed and positioning myself just so, pivoting on my left arm; and....OWWWW! I managed to sprain that wrist. Now it hurts to turn it the other way. Can still type, but I can't play barre chords on guitar or make long finger stretches on my larger dulcimers. It's always something...
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ChiSandy, falling upstairs, lol I’ve done that myself a few time but I blame my size 11 feet, sadly I’m not even tall only 5’5
I’m quiet lately, had my 2 month brain MRI last week which revealed 4 new spots, one of which could be in the fluid around the brain (lepto mets), although, the radiologist didn’t think it was. I had a spine MRI yesterday and will have a lumbar puncture on Thursday, I hate needles and am sulking a bit over it. But, no time to dwell on a crappy hand, it’s just not my style.
Oh, and the 5k is next weekend, should be fun!
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Ill- I am sorry to hear about the spots on the brain. You have been doing well sister and hopefully, you will be able to get past this and on to all the good things you are looking forward to (aka retirement). I remembered your run was coming up too (how did it come to be April). Will be in your pocket this week for the test you need to do and praying for good outcomes.
Sending much love
Chi- I hope your apt goes okay with the surgeon tomorrow. It is always something, that is for darned sure. Will be in your pocket too sister.
I like that you celebrated the whole weekend of holidays
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HI girls,
Sorry I have not been around, I am really feeling down these days. Nothing much to report, still looking for work. Had a phone interview last week which got my hopes up but heard yesterday that it is a no go. I am near broke and just dont know what I will do. I cashed an IRA and also cashed in some stock but there is nothing left. Cheryl is helping me so much with bills but does not make quite enough to completely carry me, nor should she have to. Ugh. Prayers would be appreciated.
I will try to stop in again when I am feeling less grumpy.
cheeRless in NJ,
CrankyDara
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Sandy, sorry to hear about your wrist and hopefully it will heal quickly.
Illona, those are not results any of us wants to hear. Unfortunately it's going to happen to us stage IV gals. Prayers and hugs for you goilie. Why on earth would you be given size 11 feet but only 5'5".
Dara, sorry about your financial sichiation. Praying that something comes along.
Jazzy, I think you asked about my mom. Things are going ok, she has a lot of back pain and pretty much just vegitates in bed, counting the hours before she gets her Norco, which is every 4 hours.
Onc appt. for me tomorrow, so I won't be here.
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Good morning, Loungettes!Happy Hump Day! Drizzly and rainy here this ayem, and a very cold rain at that. Took Sadie to the dog park yesterday after running errands, she had a pretty good time but got into a ruckus with another dog (all bark and growls but sounded like it was escalating) so I brought her home. She was a very tired pooch last night! A friend of mine is homesteading and this year raised pigs for meat, and I bought half a pig. Well, piggies went to slaughter a month earlier than expected (they hit 200# and the butcher had an opening) so I'm picking up half a pig's worth of meat this evening. I'll have a well stocked freezer forthe summer and probably into the fall and then some! Gonna have me some nice fresh bacon to go with the nice fresh eggs she gave me!YUM!
Goldie--I know things will work out, it's just hard for me to be patient sometimes. It's been a year since I went per diem, and I'm still here, still have the house, heat, food, electricity and internet so I'm doing ok!I have got to try that wine app--according to the site there are several stores in my area selling 19 Crimes! Fun! Hummers won't be here for another month or so, usually show up mid May. Hummers are so fun to watch.
Jazzy--I actually kind of figured on getting some form of retaliation for making my expectations known. I'm just a little scared right now with some big bills that came up unexpectedly and then a week of no work, but I keep reminding myself that I have 2 big paychecks coming, the emergency account has covered almost all of it and the bit I took out of the house projects fund for a cushion can be replaced when the checks come in. An the other per diem nurse got only 1 day of work so far this week, so it's not just me.It's been just about a year since I went per diem, and I'm still here and better off than I was this time last year, so I'm winning! I've expressed an interest in a per diem position at another office, one that's about an hour away, but have to jump through the hoops of talking to my current Director (who is also part-time directing that other office) about my intention to apply before I can formally apply. That other office has a full time position open (the recruiter tried to get me to apply for that) so there are visits there to be done. I'm also looking at some Private Duty companies, there is a huge need for that in the area.And the summer camp nurse jobs are starting to be advertised, I saw one that paid $1k per week and ran for 8 weeks, but I already have a teaching commitment in that time frame. I can see you smirking on the sidelines as the Big Dude gets shuffled off the field. I would be, too!
Chi--I know about falling UP stairs, it is a very real thing, and can result in some pretty nasty wrist, elbow, and shoulder injuries. Are you using a brace or anything to support it?
Illi--{{{hugs}}}
Dara--oh, hon, this must be such a difficult time for you. I am praying foryou and virtually hugging you.
NM's DOTD:
Big Hug
Ingredients
- 1 oz Irish Cream
- 1 oz Creme de Cacao
- 1 cup (Hot) Chocolate
- 1/2 oz Whipping Cream
Directions
Pour the irish cream into an Irish coffee cup or glass filled 3/4 with hot chocolate. Add creme de cacao. Add whipped cream and garnish with shaved chocolate on top.
Best served in a Irish Coffee Cup.
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Here is my fashion statement:
Hely-Weber Titan Wrist Orthosis. Goes with everything. (Velcro is the new black). My surgeon says the X-ray shows "positive ulnar variance" (ulna too long, due to bone spur buildup replacing nice cushy cartilage). He did an ultrasound, and diagnosed ulnar tendinopathy with TfCC ligament inflammation. Administered a cortisone shot but the tendon was so floppy that it took a few tries to get it to hold still long enough to inject it. I have to wear the contraption as much as I can (but especially during sleep when I can't consciously control hand & arm movements) for the next 6 weeks, which will make me a hoot & a half in the TSA lines. Wondering how I'm gonna be able to don my compression wear for the first transatlantic flight bet. JFK & Rome. Not long enough a layover to corral a flight attendant to help me an hour before the flight--might have to put it on at the Delta lounge in O'Hare and wear the dang thing all the way to my hotel.
I have a followup May 16 for a full-arm x-ray and maybe MRI to check for occult fracture. Trouble is, I have a gig in Madison, WI May 11. Hoping by then I can take off the brace and slather on the Voltaren gel long enough to get through my hourlong set. (Will try to do songs with only open or partial chords, no barres; tune down a step or two and capo up to loosen string tension; and use the shorter-scale dulcimer).
Hoo, yeah, I'm gonna need a drink tonight. I didn't last night--Bob actually broke a corkscrew trying to open the chardonnay--he didn't realize that for that model you have to grip the neck. Anyway, the cork was dry and crumbly. So I rammed the remainer of it down the neck and into the bottle. Poured it into an Aeropress coffee cylinder with paper filter to catch the cork crumbs. (Gotta love multitasking devices). Surprisingly good for a 16-yr-old dry. white, but I preferred my seltzer instead. Tonight, probably some more Hahn Pinot Noir with a grass-fed ribeye.
If that weren't enough, after I got my followup Shingrix shot, when fishing for my keys in my coat pocket with a gloved R hand (can't fit a glove over the brace), my hand slipped and my long middle fingernail doubled back on itself and is hanging on barely, hinged below the quick. Have it patched with a little Scotch tape for now--will probably reinforce it later with tissue paper or a silk patch and superglue.
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Good morning, Loungettes!Happy Thirsty Thursday! "Going" to an online workshop today and tomorrow, should be a lot of fun, going to learn how to write questions for the test nurses take to get certified in pain management. This is going to look so good on my resume when I finish and submit my questions, especially if any get put into the exam question bank. And this will definitely up my credibility in Test Prep classes. Not to mention being a lot of fun to do. Sadie and I went and pick up our half piggy and spent the evening cleaning out and reorganizing the freezer. Which is now FULL! I found food I didn't know was in there, like a case of chicken breasts, and a case of pork chops. I know have enough pork chops to feed a small army one big meal or me and Sadie for a year or more! I'm going to give some of it away, it's way more than I need. Breakfast this ayem was farm fresh eggs and farm fresh bacon. Pork roast in the crock pot for dinner. Sadie was practically glued to my legs while I was cooking. After the third time I stepped on a paw I stopped apologizing and told her to get out from underfoot, she laid down and sulked right where I had to step over her every time I moved. Sigh.
Chi--Lovely fashion accessory! Does the TSA make you take it off? Traveling with the compression sleeve sounds like a pain, but a necessary one. Hope you recover in time for the gig. There are so many corkscrews on the market, hard to remember how to use each one, sometimes! A dry, crumbly cork is not a good sign, glad the wine was good to drink. OUCH on the nail, that hurts so much when that happens. Superglue is amazing for fixing things like that.
NM's DOTD:
Midnight Flight to Malibu
Ingredients
- 1 oz Blue Curacao
- 1 oz Coconut Rum
- 1 oz Creme de Bananes
- (Fill to Top) Pineapple Juice
Directions
Build with ice. Can be shaken, or left layered.
Best served in a Hurricane Glass.
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Superglue met its match--it, band-aid and tape were useless. Woke up this morning and it had broken clean off at the "hinge." No time to kill at the nail salon, so will see if I can scrounge up a spare press-on I might not have discarded.
TSA will almost certainly make me remove the brace, but hopefully I won't need it except for sleep by a week from Sunday. My next task is to see if I can put the compression sleeve on my R arm with my L hand in the brace. Was a challenge this morning fastening my bra--amazing how many things we need a flexible wrist to do. I definitely still need it all day--the cortisone shot (except for the painful "flare") has yet to kick in and when I took it off to apply Voltaren it is definitely painful to try to pronate.
Wine tasting at Cellars tonight but not looking forward to walking through the "wintry mix" they're still predicting. Still gonna get accumulating snow on Sun into Mon. I don't want to have to travel in UGGs & my heavy leather parka, or stash a down puffer coat & gloves into my suitcase but i may have no choice. For really cold weather, I can fit a sock (!) over the brace.
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Spinal tap done. I cried a lot and cussed a little but boy, did I ever earn this!
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You earned a pitcher of those!
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