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Friday, August 10, 2012

Caregivers: conversations before dawn

This cheerful little night nurse-tech came on with the RN shortly before midnight. She's late 20-something, African American with a dark complexion and beautiful smile. Donna. Checks my vitals: temp, heart rate, blood pressure, makes notes. How you feelin' sweetheart? I think I'm better. But the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

I'm ba-ack!

I missed you guys, and I've got a lot of catching up to do. Will get around & make comments as the energy holds out. Brain fog happens to the best, youngest, etc., so I should not be surprised to find myself feeling out of it... Can you spell relapse? Shortly after I posted last time, I got sick,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Nap time...

I fixed oatmeal for breakfast, ate about half of it. My taster's not working right. I also threw out 3/4 of my cup of coffee. My favorite raspberry tea tastes yucky, and even though I've brushed a couple times, my mouth tastes like the bottom of a bird cage. Got to feelin' whiney, took a pain pill... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, August 4, 2012

Oscar Pistorius / "Blade Runner"

Unless you don't like track & field, the Olympics or human interest stories, you know more than I do about Oscar Pistorius, aka "Blade Runner." He's the superior South African athlete who qualified for the 400 meter race, along with many others who had trained long and hard, sacrificed other parts... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 3, 2012

Old joke

There I sat, morose and blue, when someone came along and said "Cheer up. Things could be worse." So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. Ta-dum dum... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Sleeping much better these days...

It takes a bit of time to get used to a new bed. I've had this mattress for more than 20 years, a Serta, and have over time worn a nice little valley that accommodates my hips very well. The indentation allows me to sleep and get up with only the slightest of back aches, and I've got extra sets of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2012

I've been gone.

Not far - just seven miles up the road to the hospital. Have been suspecting my gall bladder was getting hot for several days, a recurrence of some pressure - pain that had been bothering me while we were all so involved with the kids' father and his long-running crisis. So Sunday afternoon I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Ma Nature is teasing again.

She's flinging scarves of cloud around, and the morning is cool for a change. It feels like it could rain, unlike yesterday which was dry as a bone and smelled of dust. In my reading of Tony Hillerman's series of novels about Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo tribal police and his young Sgt. Jim Chee, I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Good Day, Friday

So many on FB are thrilled to see Friday come, end of the work week, the freedom of the weekend. I remember Fridays on the job, at one point went to happy hour at some neighborhood bar with the kids from the office, or later to a meet market with another single-again girlfriend. I was always paying... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 27, 2012

Twisted?

A few weeks ago when my kids were trying to pull together their father's financial details and get a handle on all the stuff he hadn't done for himself, they came across this one life insurance policy he'd paid on since he first went on the job. It was a low-cost term policy that was automatically... Sign in to see full entry.

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