2020: One Day At A Time, We Will Achieve!!
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I know they say there will not be another shutdown despite the calls for it based upon the contagion rate and increasing numbers. I decided to play it safe and ordered another one of those NS dinners and snacks for two people for two weeks. Since there is only me, that will be a month's supply of shelf stable food. Now, are you ready? The expected delivery is August 11.
I considered ordering directly from NS but this deal is cheaper than NS's al carte, and definitely cheaper than its full week ends off program for one. I can easily use instant oatmeal for breakfast. I have two big boxes of the Great Value instant oatmeal on hand right now that I got in the last order.
I'm always a little cautious about making sure of having food on hand since we have only one supermarket locally with the rest 30 to 60 miles away. The shelves locally got a little scarce on some foods.0 -
Trump said that Baron would be going and his grandchildren would be going back to school and he felt it was safe. He never mentioned that Baron’s school was closed. Another lie by omission. I saw on the news that he’s canceled the Jacksonville convention. I’m not surprised it’s a hot spot. We stayed there overnight on our drive home and almost no one was wearing a mask. Even if they started wearing masks now, that many weeks of dangerous behavior and denial.
I’m sorry that you’re so stressed. It doesn’t help your physical or mental health so I hope you can find ways to destress. .Exercise can help so keep using your treadmill. I find being out in nature helps too. I love looking at a blooming garden or a water view. I can feel myself breathing slower and deeper when I see the beauty of nature. I try to concentrate on what I can do to stay safe and I keep my distance from those who refuse to wear masks. I try not to bring home the aggravation of behaviors I cannot change. Perhaps some will realize the error of their ways when someone they knows gets sick and will start being more responsible. One can hope anyway.0 -
Dr. Fauci threw out the first pitch of the season. Really, really badly.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/us/fauci-first-pitch-nationals-yankees-trnd/index.html0 -
Maryanne, you raise an extremely important point about hospitals becoming so overwhelmed with COVID patients that they are unable to provide appropriate care for other patients with emergent needs. That is already happening. I don’t recall if I shared this story or not, so if I did, please excuse the duplication. MY SIL does utilization review for a hospital chain, which entails reviewing the medical records of patients in the hospital to coordinate with their insurance provider to make sure their stay is covered. She told me about a case she reviewed recently of a young man who had suffered a fall and hit his head. Upon arrival at the ER a CAT scan showed a small bleed in his brain, so he was kept for observation with a plan to repeat the scan in a couple of hours to make sure the bleeding had stopped. The ER was so busy with COVID cases that the follow up scan was not done for 12 hours, by which time the bleed had become huge and the patient was non-responsive, basically brain-dead. A tragic story, and should have been preventable if the staff hadn’t been so overwhelmed.
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Maryanne, you raise an extremely important point about hospitals becoming so overwhelmed with COVID patients that they are unable to provide appropriate care for other patients with emergent needs. That is already happening. I don’t recall if I shared this story or not, so if I did, please excuse the duplication. MY SIL does utilization review for a hospital chain, which entails reviewing the medical records of patients in the hospital to coordinate with their insurance provider to make sure their stay is covered. She told me about a case she reviewed recently of a young man who had suffered a fall and hit his head. Upon arrival at the ER a CAT scan showed a small bleed in his brain, so he was kept for observation with a plan to repeat the scan in a couple of hours to make sure the bleeding had stopped. The ER was so busy with COVID cases that the follow up scan was not done for 12 hours, by which time the bleed had become huge and the patient was non-responsive, basically brain-dead. A tragic story, and should have been preventable if the staff hadn’t been so overwhelmed.
How sad! It's bad and really bad in some places.0 -
Not that funny, per se, what but a cute picture!
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What a tragic story about that young man. Cases like that will probably happen more often as things get worse. I wonder if my friend Ray, our choir director, was able to get his hip replacement surgery in FL. He was delayed last spring during the shut down When they canceled all elective surgeries. The surgery was rescheduled for summer but consider the hospital situation in FL, he may have been delayed again. Maybe he was lucky enough to get it done before things closed down again.0
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In spite of the cheeto, the changes are spreading:
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/eastern-shore/bs-md-salisbury-confederate-sign-20200724-hmlcbdh5gbgyza3viroy3awmjq-story.html0 -
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We met our friend and a friend of hers for lunch. It was a beautiful day and we opted for outdoor seating. Only one other couple had chosen to eat outside and we were at least 15 feet away. Perhaps others felt it was warm for eating outside. There was a nice breeze and I thought the weather was perfect. We enjoyed meeting her friend as well. She was recovering from rotator cuff surgery. I was surprised she had it done arthroscopically. She said the surgeon had put a couple of dissolving screws inside because she also had a broken bone in there. Jean, was your surgery arthroscopic? She at about the same point in her recovery as you are.0
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I'm sitting here wearing my Arendtsville, PA t-shirt. What's wild is I didn't have to custom order it. Someone was selling them on ebay. Who'd think someone would list a t-shirt for a town with 900 residents on a good day? (more like 500 when I was growing up there).
Someone has a ton of old photo post cards on ebay right now. Fun to look at the town in the "olden times".0 -
We lost power for about ninety minutes. It’s on the warm side so I was debating our options if it stayed off too long. I had downloaded some movies on my IPad so I watched one but I didn’t charge it overnight so I didn’t have much battery left. About then, the power came on and went off again after five minutes. It came back half an hour later and so far, so good. I had considered going out for ice cream, listening to an audiobook in the car and enjoying the AC. Didn’t have to do that but that’s my plan B if it goes again. The message from the power company was they had damage to their equipment. I figure that means a car took out a power pole.0
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I forgot to say the IPad is charging now in case the power goes again.0
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Helene--I have two backup battery chargers, each of which is capable of charging a tablet almost 2 times, and my smart phone three times. You asked about my surgery. It was arthroscopic. I had three small incision points for the camera and instruments. I've not regretted having it done. I have no pain and my range of motion, thanks to physical therapy, is far better than before surgery.0
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We lost power for about ninety minutes. It’s on the warm side so I was debating our options if it stayed off too long. I had downloaded some movies on my IPad so I watched one but I didn’t charge it overnight so I didn’t have much battery left. About then, the power came on and went off again after five minutes. It came back half an hour later and so far, so good. I had considered going out for ice cream, listening to an audiobook in the car and enjoying the AC. Didn’t have to do that but that’s my plan B if it goes again. The message from the power company was they had damage to their equipment. I figure that means a car took out a power pole.
We have a generator. I thought that was really neat, and it is, but when I learned there are whole house generators I asked DH why the heck we don't have that and he still doesn't have a great answer. LOL!0 -
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Maryanne--Check out Amazon for power banks with minimum of 10,000 mah. This is one:
POWERADD EnergyCell 10000, Ultra-Compact High-Speed Charging Portable Charger, Smallest and Lightest 10000mAh Power Bank There is another brand that is almost double the charging capacity.0 -
I had my routine follow up with my primary doctor today. I've gained ten pounds since early March.0
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We have a battery charger that we keep in the car. We use it for jumping a car battery. It never occurred to me that I could charge a tablet with it. Thanks for the suggestion.
I had my annual eye exam today. They had a drive up check in. They took cell numbers and asked you to wait in the car until call. I was to use door 3. When Mary came out to get me I joked it felt like Let’sMake A Deal and I pick door 3. She explain that each doctor had a door so their patients didn’t mingle. They had numbers on the exam rooms so Mary knew she was taking me to 6. She also explained that everything had been sanitized before I entered and would be done again when I left. She dialed my eyes and I had to wait in a waiting area, socially distanced from the few other patients waiting to see the doctor. I saw him in a different room than Mary’s. They were like a well oiled machine and I felt pretty safe in there.0 -
We have a battery charger that we keep in the car. We use it for jumping a car battery. It never occurred to me that I could charge a tablet with it. Thanks for the suggestion.
I had my annual eye exam today. They had a drive up check in. They took cell numbers and asked you to wait in the car until call. I was to use door 3. When Mary came out to get me I joked it felt like Let’sMake A Deal and I pick door 3. She explain that each doctor had a door so their patients didn’t mingle. They had numbers on the exam rooms so Mary knew she was taking me to 6. She also explained that everything had been sanitized before I entered and would be done again when I left. She dialed my eyes and I had to wait in a waiting area, socially distanced from the few other patients waiting to see the doctor. I saw him in a different room than Mary’s. They were like a well oiled machine and I felt pretty safe in there.
i know I'll have to see my eye doctors when the appointments come around. Eyesight is important!
I saw my endocrinologist today. Office was incredibly empty. Everything felt very safe but I have to wonder how they're going to keep the lights on if this goes on for awhile. She wants to see me again in 6 months to see if she needs to biopsy one of the cysts again. Who knows how the world will be in 6 months?
She immediately commented on how thin I looked (and they hadn't weighed me). That made me feel good. She asked me what I was doing and I basically gave her a quick rundown of the "Maryanne plan". LOL!
They weren't making people wait outside but had only 3 chairs in the waiting room spaced widely apart. For some reason a part of the waiting room was totally closed off with portable partitions.
One thing I found strange was they still had a human in the parking "booth" taking money if you didn't pay at the machine inside (which I had). I guess those parking fees are important enough to risk someone's life?
One good thing? They didn't have the awful "tv" on - they always showed a constant stream of infomercials.0 -
Gee, my eye doctor seems to show HGTV design shows anytime I’ve been in the waiting room. Since I like those shows anyway, it helps pass the time.
Jean, I agree that 10 pounds isn’t so bad with what you’ve been through. They call it the Quarantine 15 so You’re below the average.0 -
Actual TV in a waiting room is bad enough - one of my pet peeves (as well as DH's). You can't escape it and you can't even wear ear plugs because you have to be able to hear them call you. A screen that shows a constant stream of commercials is beyond the pale (I've only ever seen that at the endocrinologist).
I can remember some specific doctor waiting room/tv episodes.
I was at the eye doctor during the cheeto's inauguration which I did NOT want to see. I sort of hid out in a far corner of the packed waiting room, out of eye shot.
I was the only one in the car dealer's waiting room one day and I went out and asked if they could turn off the TV. Looked at me a little funny, but did it.
Sitting in the waiting room waiting for my wrist surgery, their tv was blaring daytime talk shows. DH went around the room, quietly asked everyone if they'd mind if the tv was turned off, and then asked the front desk to do it. He wasn't about to sit there for hours waiting for me with that blaring and they wouldn't let him leave.
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I suppose the TV in waiting rooms never bothers me because I ALWAYS have my reader with me so I tune out whatever is going on around me.0
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I usually bring a book with me. There are no more magazines in waiting rooms so you definitely have to fend for yourself.0
