boy am I tired.
Mrs. H is doing pretty well even though she has a broken clavicle. We do have to hold her as she walks from place to place. Unfortunately, this entails me walking somewhat hunched over with one hand under her good arm and the other around her waist while she walks very, very, VERY slowly to and fro. The pain medication is making her Parkinson-like symptoms way worse and she's confused so forgets what she's doing as she walks or freezes up. It's a challenge for my slow twitch muscles for sure.
I had to reload the dirty dishes, put them through a wash, rinse the newly dirty plates that didn't fit so they wouldn't calcify, then unload the now clean dishes and then load the dirty ones. I don't mind this so much when S is working nights--that feels supportive. But when it's the other girls I feel sort of dumped upon. Next time E works I'm doing a check before she leaves and call her on it.
By the time all was said and done I was a limp lettuce. So, I loaded up on caffeine and I stopped by the construction worksite that's by the dog park and got some wood for the salad box I have planned for Lin's House. I got a workout with my slightly buffer abs climbing around the edge of the trash crate and holding myself there as I reached in to grab what I could reach. I felt all Earth Dayish.
I think I look at my projects as successful with slight hitches--like finding out she didn't have baking powder and figuring out how to make it with baking soda and cream of tartar--and she looks at them as burdens that she has to take care of. Well, Lai did try to feed Mr. L one of the peat pots--telling him it was a really good snack--we don't know if she was serious or joking.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Busy Doings
Lately, life has been full of oddments.
Mrs. H fell and broke her collarbone night before last night. She finds her walker annoying so starts to not use it and eventually falls. She's a tiny sparrow, so usually she just bounces. This time she perched on the edge of her chair--as usual but slid off--not as usual. S was with Mrs. C in the bathroom and heard a huge crash. She didn't want to go to the hospital and wait forever, but as she was in excruciating pain, she was up every two hours. Poor S. Mrs. H's son took her to 2 Doctors and so she was gone most of the day.
The lady who comes in at night has simply stopped coming in--no calling or anything--so S is working nights too. This means a bit more work for me, but the real load is on S. It's a combination between doing what needs to be done and not doing what I'd planned to do so I can keep track of everybody.
Mr. L was there for most of the morning but went out to eat for lunch and then the Dr. about the yicky, crusty spots that look like skin cancer (finally). He's had them for a long time but it's hard to get him to the Dr. He HATES to wait. They finally just lulled him into complacency with a trip out to eat and then leapt out of the bushes with a net and a Doctor visit.
That left Mrs. C and L and S went back to bed.
Mrs. C was upset over something. Her brother died last week, and we don't know if she knows on some level--or just knows that something is wrong but doesn't remember what. I think sometimes, emotions linger even when the reasons for them don't. I don't know what her family told her but they all gathered together over the weekend and probably were probably all dressed in black to boot. She refused to speak even more than usual--either looking at S and me with palpable disdain, or outright glaring at us.
L is antsy too, or maybe it's just more confused. She seems to be feeling poorly a lot and her blood sugar is all over the place. I walked around the backyard with her 3x's. phew!
I had looked at the calendar and seen that I hadn't written down my next appt with Dr. B. I was feeling antsy, like it was soon so, I called Dr. B to see when my appt was and it was indeed that day! The car was on empty, empty-empty. Then I discovered I'd left my coat and wallet at Susan's and had to dig out enough change to get 2 gallons of gas so I could go and get my wallet and get more gas. I took Darwin to the park but by that time I could only squeeze out 2x's around.
Today, I had a talk with Mrs H. and she was a tad woozy. She told me about her grandmother taking her to a party when she was 12...or 16....or 8,--she was kinda unclear on that part. She got sick with a headache, dizziness and an upset stomach. They took her to a Chinese Doctor who gave her a tea to drink and she got better. That they didn't have a lot of money for a hospital visit but the Chinese Doctor made her well. She's not sure she trusts American doctors--they just give you a pill and charge you a lot of money--and I think she thinks they don't care.
We planted the seeds in the Incredible Expanding Peat Disks. That took a lot longer than I thought it would. We put in what I had on hand--Bok Choi, Nasturtiums, Zucchini--including ome really old seeds from 2006--Carrots, Potatoes and Edamame. I wonder if any of it will come up. I've discovered that lots of people hold onto their seeds for a couple of years--that they're still good. I thought they wouldn't work. Well, we'll see.
Mrs. H fell and broke her collarbone night before last night. She finds her walker annoying so starts to not use it and eventually falls. She's a tiny sparrow, so usually she just bounces. This time she perched on the edge of her chair--as usual but slid off--not as usual. S was with Mrs. C in the bathroom and heard a huge crash. She didn't want to go to the hospital and wait forever, but as she was in excruciating pain, she was up every two hours. Poor S. Mrs. H's son took her to 2 Doctors and so she was gone most of the day.
The lady who comes in at night has simply stopped coming in--no calling or anything--so S is working nights too. This means a bit more work for me, but the real load is on S. It's a combination between doing what needs to be done and not doing what I'd planned to do so I can keep track of everybody.
Mr. L was there for most of the morning but went out to eat for lunch and then the Dr. about the yicky, crusty spots that look like skin cancer (finally). He's had them for a long time but it's hard to get him to the Dr. He HATES to wait. They finally just lulled him into complacency with a trip out to eat and then leapt out of the bushes with a net and a Doctor visit.
That left Mrs. C and L and S went back to bed.
Mrs. C was upset over something. Her brother died last week, and we don't know if she knows on some level--or just knows that something is wrong but doesn't remember what. I think sometimes, emotions linger even when the reasons for them don't. I don't know what her family told her but they all gathered together over the weekend and probably were probably all dressed in black to boot. She refused to speak even more than usual--either looking at S and me with palpable disdain, or outright glaring at us.
L is antsy too, or maybe it's just more confused. She seems to be feeling poorly a lot and her blood sugar is all over the place. I walked around the backyard with her 3x's. phew!
I had looked at the calendar and seen that I hadn't written down my next appt with Dr. B. I was feeling antsy, like it was soon so, I called Dr. B to see when my appt was and it was indeed that day! The car was on empty, empty-empty. Then I discovered I'd left my coat and wallet at Susan's and had to dig out enough change to get 2 gallons of gas so I could go and get my wallet and get more gas. I took Darwin to the park but by that time I could only squeeze out 2x's around.
Today, I had a talk with Mrs H. and she was a tad woozy. She told me about her grandmother taking her to a party when she was 12...or 16....or 8,--she was kinda unclear on that part. She got sick with a headache, dizziness and an upset stomach. They took her to a Chinese Doctor who gave her a tea to drink and she got better. That they didn't have a lot of money for a hospital visit but the Chinese Doctor made her well. She's not sure she trusts American doctors--they just give you a pill and charge you a lot of money--and I think she thinks they don't care.
We planted the seeds in the Incredible Expanding Peat Disks. That took a lot longer than I thought it would. We put in what I had on hand--Bok Choi, Nasturtiums, Zucchini--including ome really old seeds from 2006--Carrots, Potatoes and Edamame. I wonder if any of it will come up. I've discovered that lots of people hold onto their seeds for a couple of years--that they're still good. I thought they wouldn't work. Well, we'll see.
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