The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

I have to admit when I met the cop right before heading to the camper I was so scared I was whole body shivering. And my belly fat was jiggling so hard. Weirdest feeling! I wasn't sure what I was going to find, but I did know if she was still alive and I came with the cops that it wouldn't be a good outcome, so I had to go in there alone. The cop was pulled around right around the corner just in case.

I was supposed to call last night and get an update, but fell asleep right after I put all the birds to bed at dark.

I'll call this morning and get an update and try not to get too angry when they still don't have answers or have answers I don't want to hear.

As a nice distraction... can you post a photo of your favorite colors?

HUGS to those in the midst of crisis. Life is hard enough without the added chaos.

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I, too, have a password book. Actually, it's an address book which makes it very handy for alphabetizing the accounts and the accompanying passwords. Much needed as there's no way to memorize all of them and retain for years afterwards.

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A little happening here...
Yesterday I was delivering hatching eggs and decided to turn on the air-conditioner. Fine, but it was warm, so I turned it up to the max and HORRENDOUS NOISE!!! Well, that's not right. I had been to Jiffy Lube the day before and thought maybe they hadn't after their systems check latched in the air-filter properly (sometimes -- pet peeve -- they can be lax on their details.) So the tech entered via the glove box and pulled out the cabin air filter and it was filthy, full of plant debris and had a big hole in it (so, obviously, they hadn't checked it the day before.) Then they scoped down into the air-con fan drum and couldn't see anything, but the noise was still present. I sat in the waiting area while they dissembled the housing unit and then the tech came in to show me the genesis of the noise... A mouse had entered the unit and had been Cuisinarted into mouse chowder by the fan blades. EWWWWW! (I think the guy was a little too much thrilled by this discovery. "I've heard of it happening, but I thought it was a shop urban myth!") The nice folks at Jiffy Lube then used solvent to get the mouse bits, fur and smears off the blades and drum, reinstalled it and a new cabin filter, and only charged me for the filter!

Afterwards, I got a Febreeze air vent. I'm hoping no mouse bits migrated into the vent tubes to create a rotting stench-of-death odor later. My trusty 2005 car has 186K miles on it and runs great, but Hubby is suggesting -- and possibly the universe is hinting -- that *maybe* it is time to think about getting a new(er) vehicle.

Hilarious!!! Glad the mouse didn't eat up all of the wires.

 

[Alaskan]

I know ya'll are smart folks, but for anyone in the market for a used vehicle any time soon, two words - flood cars. They'll be around; maybe a long ways away from here.

While on the subject of despicable people . . . .

Situation: 90-some-year-old lady that my husband knows and her son evacuated for Florence (not sure to where, it's not important). They just got back, hadn't even had time to unload the car, and these guys from a tree company are in their faces, demanding money. She'd had a tree go down on her property, and apparently the HOA had gotten these guys to remove it. They insisted that they had to be paid now, but finally left when the son informed them he didn't even have any checks at the house; they could just send a bill, and get paid in due course. This morning, the old lady woke up to find that someone had dumped a large truckful of pine tree debris across her driveway. I know they always warn about the fly-by-night shysters that descend after any disaster, but these guys are supposed to be a local company!

Wowsers. They lost their grip on reality.

One time they .... Pulled a mummified rat out of mine.... must have died stayed put till mummified then fell into the fan one day.... Mummified rat smells quite a bit like burned wiring....

deb

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[superchemicalgirl]

As a nice distraction... can you post a photo of your favorite colors?





Hilarious!!! Glad the mouse didn't eat up all of the wires.

Right now my favorite colors are fall leaves. LOVE FALL.

But I'm a blue girl.

She got seen by crisis and about 2 hours ago got into an inpatient bed in the SUD ward.

Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts.

Now she just has to stay and work it. I still don't have high hopes for continued remission but getting her out of the crisis is the first thing.

 

[Alaskan]

Right now my favorite colors are fall leaves. LOVE FALL.

But I'm a blue girl.

She got seen by crisis and about 2 hours ago got into an inpatient bed in the SUD ward.

Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts.

Now she just has to stay and work it. I still don't have high hopes for continued remission but getting her out of the crisis is the first thing.

Soooo.. for colors, oranges and yellows and bright blue?

Glad she got a bed.

 

[microchick]

There's a place in heaven for caregivers. Good job @superchemicalgirl.

 

[getaclue]

scg, does she have a regular mental health care professional that she sees? Can they see, and treat her at the hospital?

 

[pennyJo1960]

SCG I am so glad they got her in a room and that she has you

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Soooo.. for colors, oranges and yellows and bright blue?

Glad she got a bed.

Favorite colors are blues and greys. Right now I can't wait to see fall leaves, though.

scg, does she have a regular mental health care professional that she sees? Can they see, and treat her at the hospital?

Of course not. She's homeless, no job, no insurance, no transportation...

I told her today that BF and I, with enough notice, can serve as transportation for her needs, like appointments and AA. She's applied for our states version of medicaid.

However, she has literally burned every opportunity she has ever had. The last time BF's mom let her live with her it ended in her getting hammered, stealing her car and taking it on a joyride that ended in it getting totaled.

I do not need that in my life.

 

[sourland]

@superchemicalgirl, Hopefully this is her 'bottom'. People can get better, but they have to want to. I am living proof of that. Your offer of help is generous, fair and thoughtful. I wish her well.

 

[perchie.girl]

Right now my favorite colors are fall leaves. LOVE FALL.

But I'm a blue girl.

She got seen by crisis and about 2 hours ago got into an inpatient bed in the SUD ward.

Thank you all for the kind words and thoughts.

Now she just has to stay and work it. I still don't have high hopes for continued remission but getting her out of the crisis is the first thing.

its a start... blue girl....