Daily Chats and Encouragements

Restfinder

Yeah August birthdays!

Took Mom to one of her doctors this morning and she treated us to McDonald's for lunch. I had the Crispy Chicken sandwich with half of the bun. They don't put anything on it except a couple of sad little pickles, which I threw away! I couldn't believe Mom didn't want them! Anyway, was able to stay on track! Praise the Lord.

bren5535

You did good, Kim. I haven't had a McDonald's chicken sandwich yet but have had Popeye's and Chic Filet ones and the Popeyes pickles are nasty too! LOL I had a sandwich at home on Wednesday night with AF chicken strips and pickle and I think I can just cut the pickle and save the sodium!

I got home yesterday, to a notice on the door...our complex is back in Lock down, pool and all common areas are closed. Possible exposure in the laundry room Mon-Thu, if you'd been in there. I was in there Sunday before work so should be OK. I isolate in general, other than work and the random store employees I see when I do a grocery pick up....and we still use masks for Dr.'s appointments etc.

Chris (maintenance) said he was a bit surprised that we haven't closed the office again like we did for 2020. We closed for a full year, not allowing access to the office and it caused a lot of problems with rentals....like the maniac I dealt with. He wasn't the only one. We had many who never turned the contract in, ended up with 3 at sale stage that we can't sell for that reason and can't reach them so we are stuck with those units being unrentable and nobody paying on them. Oh well...not my circus...not my monkeys!

I was able to print out my appointment log but had to recreate it first! Ack...Then I was out of black ink. At least I have the file saved and will pick up ink on Sunday with my Wal-Mart order.

Restfinder

Mom's birthday today. Wade bought an ice cream cake, and Martha is bringing a chocolate cake for Mom on Sunday. I'll eat a piece of this cake but I'm making Martha and I the lemon coconut bon bons from the THM site for our dessert on Sunday. I'll do those this afternoon. We will be having our Church meeting here at the house on Sunday. He likes to have part of the body together on Sunday for services while the others are on Zoom.

Almost time for lunch! Yeah!

Marilynsretired

connierandel

Bren, when I have been out of black ink, I have been known to change the colors of my documents to what ever color I am not low on. Just an idea.

I bought an ink-tank printer about 3 years ago. It was a bit more than I wanted to pay, but I had about half of it in Amazon credit from my old printer (I had purchased warrantee). They say that the ink that comes with them in approximately a 2 year supply. I was printing way over 100 pages a week, and my ink lasted more than a year. I love that printer....except you can't move it because if you slosh the ink it totally ruins the printer.

bren5535

I considered that just this morning. Changing the color. The heading is in red and that was all that printed out. I'll use that tip for today (thank you) and change it back when I have ink. I thought I had a back up black cartridge but it is the tri-color.
Oh my! I'm glad mine is a simple little thing! I have the HP 1000 for home and we have the 3 in one at the office. I use the fax on it (like yesterday) but have never used the scanner.

I called my endo docs office yesterday for lab work orders. I had misplaced whatever he gave me or I failed to get them when I saw him back in June. I'm good to go now and have orders for him and my kidney doc. I'll slip over to the lab Tuesday morning.

Restfinder

We have a brother printer, copier, scanner and I think it has fax on it too, but we've never used that. It's at least 8 years old now and working great. We usually get the brother powder ink cartridges, but this time I went for the generic - way cheaper and had very good reviews. Over 10,000 reviews and 4.5 stars. Worth a try and about a 1/3 of the cost.

Friends coming over to visit with Mom. Two little gals and their mom.

Church here tomorrow so will be doing some cleaning off and on today. Wade does the floors Sunday morning.

Have a great weekend, y'all.

bren5535

Another good tip...generic ink. I'll give that a try soon as well. With my printer acting goofy sine the last windows 10 updates (2 now), I am very limited in what I can print due to tech issues beyond me. I've had mine about 9 years or more.

Not weight related or anything... but as I was leaving for work, I saw the most precious thing...actually five of them....5 tan and white chihuahua/mix littles, trotting out into the street together....I stopped until they decided where they wanted to go. I pray they have a home and get back to it...and stay safe. I'm a CAT person but love the little dogs and wanted them all! That was a joy sparker for me.

I and other neighbors were made to stop our feeding program for the feral cats at my complex the 1st of this year (second time actually) but I still have a visitor now and then. The one most recent, one of the litter from a year ago March, who is a Mama herself now. I can still pet her and I love them all...and miss them. My Calico Mama that started coming in 2012 and is a great grandma now....so beautiful it's hard to believe she's homeless.

I leave my door unlocked and no maid has stopped by yet to clean for me and do laundry. My Inner Maid has been on extended vacation since about 2016.

connierandel

Bill retired about 18 years before I did. When he retired he said that it was only fair that he did the laundry (except towels), cooking (on days I worked), and cleaned the house. I can't say the house was quite like I keep it, but very rarely did anything about it. If he took the responsibility, who was I to complain? He was a very good cook, too. Funny, though, as soon as I retired, that all stopped!

bren5535

I know you appreciated his efforts while you had them! My ex, David and I had a deal where we traded weeks for cooking. We planned the meals, did the shopping and cooked for our week, but he failed the clean up training. He was an awesome cook tho. His daughter and I would charge him $20 on the weekends to do his chores so we'd have play money.

I loved him madly. We were together off and on for 8 years, only married 1.5 and when he brought divorce papers for me to sign, he said "this may be the biggest mistake I ever made"...I told him "no, honey...I am sure you will make worse ones than this."...and he did... to his and his kids sorrow. He passed away January 23, 2018. He had been saved, an answered prayer...and had made contact with me several years prior, to ask my forgiveness which had been done long ago...and we remained friends and loved one another until the end. His daughter brought him down to my Mom's funeral in 2013, and he told my bosses that he loved me more than ever before....our time was precious and it meant so much to me to have him and Laura there. He slipped a check into my purse for $150...that I found later...and wrote such a beautiful tribute to my Mom, that I have saved in my Memory book. My memories will mean nothing to anyone but me...but I am thankful for them. I started the book the night my Mom died...gathering pictures, cards, notes from our life...

Speaking of retirement! Oh how I long for it! I have a tentative date of Dec. 13, 2022 on my calendar. I'll see how that all plays out. The bosses haven't called me back to the grinder yet about my firing so I will keep on showing up, and hoping I can stay until I'm ready to go.

bren5535

Kim, are you guys OK in your area? Ida is wild and wooly and My heart is sick at the destruction she's brought. Her and all her kin in fact. Prayers for all in the path.

My knee has recovered from my extreme sodium overload a few days back. I don't want to repeat that as it was really miserable and scary.
It's a beautiful day here...sunny skies expected 95 or so but if I can stay inside, I'm a happy camper. I had a restless night last night, tho I stayed up until 9:00 and read until 10:00ish.....busy mind thing going on.

Restfinder

Being on the coast of NC now we weren't anywhere near the bands that Ida put out. Very thankful for that. I haven't seen where she's at this morning, but she was slated to go through Nashville where my sister and her family live. We used to live in Crossville, about an hour east of Nashville, but that was close to 20 years ago now! Wow, time is flying past!

Mom fell again this morning. She was making her bed and apparently slipped off onto her bottom. She said nothing hurt, so I am going to take her word for it. I'm trying to keep her as independent as I can, but I am going to have to step in and do things like close her drapes on the side where her bed is and make her bed in the morning. It is actually pretty much made when she gets up in the morning. She keeps the sheets pulled back to the halfway point on her bed so she can just lie down and then pull them over her. The top of the top sheet was farther than she likes it so she was trying to get it back where it belongs - sigh! She has to have things just the same, she doesn't like any kind of change, even her sheet being slightly off. She used her emergency button at 1:30 one morning to get me to come and get her blanket on her right. It ended up in the same place it was when I walked in there! I told her that can't happen any more, that her button is for when she falls! No more late night calls so far! She had a very good birthday though with lots of love and attention from the folks in the Church. She is very special to all of us.

Not much else going on with me. Trying to stay cool.

Marilynsretired

connierandel

Bill had his surgery follow-up today. The doctor removed all of the packing and bandages and left the toe to get air. I was totally shocked that he didn't put a dressing back on it. He said that it now needed air. It is still in the huge boot and he only wants me to take the boot off every couple of days to change a compression sock under it. He didn't want any type of medicine or bandage on the toe. We go back in 10 more days and they should take the stitches out then, and hopefully allow him to walk and put weight on it.

Anyway - the foot looks a little funny with the toe gone, but the incision itself looks great, and the doctor was very pleased with it.

bren5535

Happy Birthday Kim! Hope you feel well and enjoy the day and any special dinner you might get! So glad Mom is OK....watching them is a big job!

I'll be off in a bit for lab work and pick up my HEB order afterwards...then get some home chores taken care of.

So glad Bill is doing so well Connie, and I know he will be glad to get out of that boot. Those things are beneficial but unwieldy. I have 2 in my closet but for several years now have used a surgical shoe when my feet go south. I remember a 6 week run in the boot years back and my Mom really missed me during that time as I couldn't get over to see her. I'd go over on my off days to do her cleaning, shopping, appointments, laundry and the like.

connierandel

Happy birthday, Kim. Hope that you have an incredible birthday!

Restfinder

Thanks, Connie and Bren. I'm having a very good day so far!

So glad that all is going as it should with Bill. Praise the Lord for that.

Also, I asked for prayer for a cousin-in-law who was diagnosed with cancer. He had his treatment and a new PET scan showed him clear of cancer. Praise the Lord for that too.

Bren, let us know how the lab work looks! I hope we aren't going to have to go to the noodle shed! LOL!

Love y'all.

connierandel

Bren, this is Bill's first time in a boot, but I am a bit too familiar with one. I had a foot problem that my doctor was puzzled by. He thought that maybe it was a stress fracture that didn't show on xrays, so he put me in a boot for 4 weeks. That didn't work, so he sent me to a specialist that I had to wait 4 months to see. I finally went to my chiropractor and he had me use a tens unit on my foot while I was at work. That let me use a regular shoe and kept me pain free at work until the doctor could see me. He had to fuse the bone, so back in the boot and non-weight bearing for another 8 weeks.

bren5535

Oh my! Your experience makes me take mine on with a sigh of relief! What a trial by fire you had. Tho I hate to use those things, I am thankful they are available.

I just looked at my lab results, Kim. My A1c is down 1 point (7.7), Potassium down to normal, CO2 is low (lower than April) at 21. Red blood cells low at 3.54, MCV and MCH both high, Kidney number dropped again...from 65.5 in April to 46.5, That UR blah blah CR Ratio thing that was 1846 in April (normal is 30) is down to 326.8...hooya! Glucose was 191. I'll google some things to see what I can do to improve them. That 46.5 kidney number puts me at level 3...moderate so tho my kidney Dr. says I can only manage at this point and not improve...God is our ultimate physician! I will maintain hope!

I have my endo appointment at Noon today then I have a month reprieve before the other appointments start. I need to reign me in and get with the program. Three days of bad decisions can take a full week to reverse.

connierandel

Bren, have you ever tried a tens unit for your pain? They are pretty amazing at pain management. I haven't used one in a long time and kind of forgot about them, but there are patches that attach to electrical impulses that help to end pain. You can adjust the impulse as comfortable. I used to start low, then turn up as I got used to it. My husband and I have used to end back pain, I have used for shoulder pain and the foot issue. My chiropractors were the ones that got me started on them, but my aunt's back surgeon had her using one after she broke her back, healed and went back to work. She worked with one for a couple of years.