BYC Café

[Offshoreorca]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee DL! I'm sorry to hear about everything you are going though - feeling very fortunate that I get along with (generally) my only sister. I'm very glad you were able to reconnect with you mom, even in these difficult times.

I'm back up in Cape Breton with dogs on my lap and a never ending stream of eggs. Haha. Had fresh lobster yesterday that DH caught in the morning. Buoy may look concerned here, but he really just wants to eat it (he goes nuts for any kind of seafood).

 

[Sally PB]

Watching fish is hypnotic! That and the sound of water together... what a soothing thing that will be.

Cool that your white fish lured the others "out to play."

Hubby would love to have a pond. I don't think he realizes how much work it would be to build, and how much upkeep there is involved.

 

[aart]

I can hear toads singing out in the pond now.

I was thinking last night that I hadn't heard any yet this year...they are LOUD!!

 

[DobieLover]

how much upkeep there is involved.

The way I designed my pond should minimize upkeep and maximize water quality. So far, I just hose off the filter wrapped around the exit pipe from the settling tank and scoop out string algae daily. The scooping is super addictive so maybe that doesn't count.

 

[aart]

Speaking of loud......
Had a pileated woodpecker banging on the front deck bench ...scared the sh!t out of me!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good morning Cafe, second cup here.
Woodpeckers can be truly annoying.

 

[DobieLover]

I'm back in the ER with DH.

He was in his bed at 5:45 am bed check and found face down on the floor in the hall at 6:13, couldn't get up and had abrasions. They sent him to the ER by ambulance then called me. When I got here he was fighting them so they sedated him with valium and haloperidol. He's completely OUT and has been for 5.5 hrs. I'm stuck until he wakes up.
Again, all tests showed nothing wrong. Other than the advancement of the Alzheimer's.
We have the follow up with his PCP on Monday morning. I'm going to wait to contact his kids until after that appointment because they will just ask questions for which I have no answers.

My sister and I were supposed to visit the natural cemetery today to pick out a burial site for our parents. And go over finances. That is now off the schedule.

It just never stops.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Good morning Cafe! Thanks for the coffee DL! I'm sorry to hear about everything you are going though - feeling very fortunate that I get along with (generally) my only sister. I'm very glad you were able to reconnect with you mom, even in these difficult times.

I'm back up in Cape Breton with dogs on my lap and a never ending stream of eggs. Haha. Had fresh lobster yesterday that DH caught in the morning. Buoy may look concerned here, but he really just wants to eat it (he goes nuts for any kind of seafood).

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Yum!

 

[CapricornFarm]

I'm back in the ER with DH.

He was in his bed at 5:45 am bed check and found face down on the floor in the hall at 6:13, couldn't get up and had abrasions. They sent him to the ER by ambulance then called me. When I got here he was fighting them so they sedated him with valium and haloperidol. He's completely OUT and has been for 5.5 hrs. I'm stuck until he wakes up.
Again, all tests showed nothing wrong. Other than the advancement of the Alzheimer's.
We have the follow up with his PCP on Monday morning. I'm going to wait to contact his kids until after that appointment because they will just ask questions for which I have no answers.

My sister and I were supposed to visit the natural cemetery today to pick out a burial site for our parents. And go over finances. That is now off the schedule.

It just never stops.

So sorry you are having to deal with all that. I had Mom, Dad, and Aunt with Dementia. It was so hard on me.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

I left the hospital last night a little after 6:30 to come home to tend to my animals. About 5 minutes after I got home I got a call from the ER doctor that took over the cases in the ER from the first shift doctor. He told me that DH was dehydrated, running a fever, had a cough and he catheterized him for a urine sample and didn't like the looks of it prior to the full analysis coming back so they were starting IV antibiotics, getting an MRI, another chest x-ray and admitting him!

Now wait a minute. The first shift ER doctor was trying to send him home early afternoon and I refused because I didn't want him going back to the Hearth in an ambulance completely sedated. If I hadn't done that he would have gone back to the Hearth sick.

I went back to see him at 9:00 and he was still in the ER waiting for a bed. And still completely out of it. I think they gave him way too much sedative. By the time I left at 10:30 it had been 15 hours since they'd sedated him and he was still out.