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Legendary Wise Elder
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#761
My brother fell again about 2:00 am last night and was taken to the hospital by ambulance. They don’t know much right now but that he fractured his femur and broke his ankle. Poor guy! He’ll have to go to rehab after the hospital because that’s beyond my capabilities.
I’m going to file a complaint over the paramedics who transported him. He was crying in pain and one paramedic kept telling him to man up and to shut up. I saw red! Somebody needs to lose their job over that. They are in the wrong profession. I hate that it happened but I’ll use the time he is in rehab wisely. He’s in good hands now and has a family that loves and supports him. I hope things turn out okay. He just can’t win for losing. |
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Legendary Wise Elder
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#762
Update: he also broke his left hip and they will do surgery today. I’ve heard of folks not coming back from broken hips but they are usually much older and I think it’s the pneumonia that does them in. I am prepared for any eventuality.
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Elder
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Location: Czechia
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#763
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I'm sorry your brother is hurt. And that is just terrible how the ambulance staffer treated him. I would also send a complaint. |
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Member Since Feb 2006
Location: Napa Valley
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#764
Yeah, never a dull moment around here. In a few weeks we'll likely be evacuating due to wildfires.
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#765
My jeans fell down yesterday, i've lost so much mass. I put them thru the wash on hot hoping to shrink them, but i guess i was so active they got stretched out. I'm wearing them now with a belt on notch four of seven.
The less i care about losing weight, the easier it becomes. This is because ACCEPTANCE is the catalyst to change and i accept my zaftig self at last. Just wish i hadn't donated those dozen bags of smaller-sized wardrobes last year when i gave up on losing weight. The moment you give up, is the moment it happens!!! Now i'll have to buy those clothes all over again. Well, I'll wear belts until it becomes too absurd and then spring for some new affordable things at Walmart. Dresses will fit for several more size reductions as mine are all loose around the waist anyways. I've got four (4) identical black sleeveless dresses that i can decorate with separates to create many, many different looks. An animation instructor at college said i 'looked like an artist.' I'd just met him on the bus! Wondering if the benzo taper is helping things along too. I'm less sedated so i'm more active. I'm sure it's a contributing factor. Menopause on May 9th was the biggest factor tho. Everyone tells you about the BAD things about menopause, but no one ever tells you about the GOOD things. I just feel better and better since i entered menopause! Hugs, Jane. |
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#766
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Tell your brother he's got people all over the county and around the world wishing him well. It will help him recover. __________________ >< |
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Legendary Wise Elder
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#767
I’m feeling ok today I guess. I got my shot last night right at 5:30 and then I took my 2 80 Geodons right after that and I fell asleep almost immediately. I had taken my melatonin around 4. I didn’t have any of my bad med OD thoughts the way I usually do on Saturday nights. So switching things around is helping. This set up is working well but I am waking up pretty early. These last couple days I woke up at 3:30. Which isn’t bad if I had to work. So maybe I’m doing things right for the long term future.
My mom and I are going to hang up my posters and pictures today. She’s also getting something from Walmart so I can hang up my hats. I have 5 baseball hats and one winter hat. I only really wear one though. It’s pretty grubby and probably doesn’t smell the best. But it’s my favorite and I wear it everywhere even in the house sometimes. I try to keep things as neat and organized and off the floor as possible. I actually got the idea of hanging up my hats this morning from a back to college commercial. Now that I have my echo and TV set up my room is looking pretty nice. It will look even better with the pictures and posters up. I went through my closet and dresser last week and I got rid of a lot of stuff. Now all my jeans and pants fit into my dresser and my shirts hang on the bottom rack and all my hoodies are hung up on the top rack. My 3 (or is he 4?) year old cat acts like a puppy. He likes to chew on things. Especially plastic food bags like the bags that apples come in. I went into the kitchen today and found little teeth marks all over a bag of something I got yesterday. I wonder if he’d use a chew toy. If they even make them for cats. I tend to become passive aggressive when I am creeped out by someone’s strange behavior. My unprofessional therapist would do sessions with her eyes closed and I asked her one time if she was falling asleep. I think it’s just a defense mechanism I have. I’ve been the same way since I was 12 with other people who have been strange towards me. __________________ Ridin' with Biden Last edited by Mountaindewed; Aug 01, 2021 at 01:25 PM.. |
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Silver Swan
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Location: USA
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#768
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__________________ Wellbutrin XL 300 mg Caplyta 42 mg Ingrezza 80 mg Ativan .5 mg 2x/day Propranolol 20 mg 2x/day Mania (December 2023) Mixed episode/Hypomania (September 2023) Depression, Anxiety and Intrusive thoughts (September 2021) Depression & Psychosis (July/August 2021) Mania (April/May 2019) |
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Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system.
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#769
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__________________ Nammu …Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …... Desiderata Max Ehrmann |
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Member Since Mar 2013
Location: NJ
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#770
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For what it’s worth, my grandma had two hip replacements and lived to 97! __________________ Of course it is happening inside your head. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real? -Albus Dumbledore That’s life. If nothing else, that is life. It’s real. Sometimes it f—-ing hurts. But it’s sort of all we have. -Garden State |
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#771
I got my pictures hung up this afternoon. And all 6 of my hats. We used some type of hook you stick to the wall to get the hats up. I think I’ll get 2 more winter hats when I can. I have 5 baseball hats and one winter hat and I have 2 more hooks. My room is very neat now. I think I’ll go get a small baking tray from the dollar store so I can use the Kinetic Sand I got before we moved. I have the beach Kinetic sand which I got 1.5 years ago but this is just the regular stuff. It’s easier to put the sand in a baking tray then it is to keep it in the box.
I couldn’t handle 2 bowls of oatmeal for dinner so I had some cheddar cheese ramen instead. I’ll take my melatonin at my usual time in 20 minutes and then wait until right before they kick in and then take my geodons. My anxiety was a bit sucky today but I had a lot of sugar free sweet tea. I’m feeling better now. __________________ Ridin' with Biden |
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catches the flowers
Member Since Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
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#772
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I'm so sorry to hear of this. Your poor brother - and that EMT was an a-hole in the worst of ways. __________________ |
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catches the flowers
Member Since Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
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#773
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I hope you can find a better route. Google maps can be helpful, then again, sometimes they're wacky. This heat is brutal. __________________ |
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#774
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Your room sounds really nice. What is kinetic sand? __________________ |
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Location: NJ
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#775
Straight nosedive. I woke up extremely tense and anxious because it was 9:20 and I could hear RS washing dishes. I have a thing about cleaning, stems from childhood, but every time RS is cleaning and I’m not I get very anxious and worried he’s going to be upset. Especially on weekend mornings because he just naturally wakes up way earlier than me. It’s a whole thing that’s not worth getting into on here but I jumped out of bed, took a shower, and tried to sit down to get my head on straight but I could only make it 5 minutes before the guilt and fear overwhelmed me so I jumped up to clean the guinea pig cages to prove I was doing something. He’s never gotten upset with me for not cleaning but I haven’t been able to shake the feelings yet.
After that I just felt like my mind was shooting all over the place. It was already 11:00am when we decided to get something to eat, which of course is brunch time and also church people time so it took us awhile to find somewhere that didn’t have a super long wait. He asked me where I wanted to go and I just said “I’m totally paralyzed please just pick something”. The restaurant we chose didn’t have a long wait but it was very busy and so loud! The noise was overwhelming. My son went to his coding lesson and we went home and I planned the week’s meals and made a grocery list. We did go to the store but I freaked out in there too because there were so many people. We just didn’t time anything right! I gave up on a few items because I just had to leave ASAP. I’m kinda like anxious but also “shut down” right now. I want to go to bed and listen to music but I know it will just make things worse. I’m scanning my skills box in my mind. I feel like I need to “wrap up”. I need a blanket and my unicorn but I’m embarrassed to bring it out. I feel like a child. __________________ Of course it is happening inside your head. But why on earth should that mean that it is not real? -Albus Dumbledore That’s life. If nothing else, that is life. It’s real. Sometimes it f—-ing hurts. But it’s sort of all we have. -Garden State |
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#776
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My cats have a great time with mylar crinkle balls (they're available on Amazon, really cheap). They also love plastic balls with a bell inside. It's dangerous for your cat to eat plastic. It could get stuck in his intestines. __________________ |
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#777
It’s this type of thick but really soft sand. You can shape it into a lot of stuff. And it never drys out. It comes with a few little beach toys and a little plastic rake so you can make things. My old therapist had some and it was kind of like her version of a zen sand garden
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#778
I kind of got pretty anxious tonight. I found a few Xanax in my duffel bag. So I took one. I know it’s not the best idea to mix benzos but my anxiety just sucked. I also found an extra 2.5 days of Valium in my pill box from my trip a few weeks ago.
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#779
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That sounds fun! __________________ |
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#780
I'm stunned that it's August 1st. It's something like 7 weeks until autumn!
I'm just about done with setting up my new apartment...only a few little items that I want to keep, but don't really have a place for them. So I will find somewhere to stash them until I have a need for them. A set of really small windchimes, for example. They're so pretty and have a nice sound, but I don't have anywhere to hang them. Mostly, I've been devoting my attention to learning how to care for my newly-diagnose diabetic cat. Feeding schedules are different, and so on. I hope I'm doing everything correctly. __________________ |
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