I am glad you are still trying, Karen.

Thanks guys I appreciate the support

I haven't posted much lately, sorry. Have had a lot going on and trying to get a handle on things.

I hope you are all doing well. I am keeping you in my prayers and hope you all have a great weekend.

I am trying to get things done around the house, have a legal matter to attend to, have some surgery coming up next week and trying not to panic over that. Trying to arrange for backup at work, and I know I CAN'T COUNT on my backup so it worries me that I will be off for two weeks and I worry about them supposedly typing for my doctors and how bad they may screw things up. I am really compulsive about my work and try to make sure my doctors are well taken care of, but these two are both, I don't know how to describe them, but they travel to the beat of their own drums I guess, and do things their own way, not the way you want them to do it. So I worry about being off for 2 weeks and what will happen. I have worked there since 2003 and have never even had a vacation so have never had to deal with this before, so am nervous about this aspect too.

Have a good day and good weekend. Take care.

That is a long time between vacations, Marie. I hope it works out for you.

((((Marie)))

Thanks guys. Been a long week, hope you all had a good week.
Took dad his fish and chips tonight. Have to meet him for breakfast in the morning and on Sunday morning too, but "wonderful" baby brother will be there Sunday morning. Sorry, I don't like my baby brother, he is the one who doesn't help with anything, but got everything of value. In fact, is coming to pick up the $150 barbecue this time. Funny how everytime he comes over, it is to take something. And, he has never paid for any of it. Wish I knew how to work that kind of deal. Guess I just don't play my cards right. Sorry for the grumbling, I will shut up now.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. Take care and have some fun.

my frend went thru similar crap when her dad died.Her brothers took everything but were not there to help when Dad was alive.Believe me Marie,when your Dad passes you will be able to sleep at night knowing you did right by him.Good luck with the surgery and just leave the office work at the office for the two weeks.The good thing is your doctors will appreciate you all the more after 2 weeks without you.

Similiar thing happened to my grandma, Marie. My grandma was taking of my great grandmother for nigh on ten years. My grandmother's sister was taking my great grandmother's social security checks and grandma wasn't getting a penny of the money. When my dad got there he found it out and grandma was living in very poor conditions. He took grandma's sister to court and got it where grandma was getting the money to take care of great grandmother. Dad and I put running water in grandma's house and modern facilities. While working with the new aide last night I kept wondering why she works there. She looks like one of those high priced models. She was telling me she gives her mother food stamps to pay for the rent. Evidently she must have been a model at one time because she telling her mother about me. Her mother had been getting on her because she doesn't fix herself when she comes work with makeup. What cracked me up was she said that I don't care what she looks like. Hello. But I did see what she was getting at. She had missed work because the friend she had to watch her little dog she just bought let it get away. I thought she must not be all bad; She likes dogs.

Went to the Dr yesterday. I have COPD, pnomonia and sinus infection. The COPD scares me since my gramma is dying from it. I was/am scared, but the doc gave finally gave me my chantix! So I can quit smoking! I am scared but hopeful.

COPD will never go away but it can be slowed down if you tke care of yourself. So I intend on doing just that. I spent a couple of hours on the phone with Gramma and she told me some things I can do like breathing and upper body excersises.

I will be gong in for chest xrays Monday and one thing the nurse did that pissed me off is that when I asked her if the antibiotic he prescribed was related to penicillin, she said no. But when I got to the pharmacy, it was! The pharmacist saved my ass. I could have died. I wear a medical beclet saying Im allergic!

Now I have to wait until monday to start treatment. I also will be talking to the owner of the clinic about the ohter Dr there I had seen seeing who refused to write me a script for the chantix. The Dr I saw yesterday is named Harrman. He told me to complain cuz it is against the law to give up on a patient. You can be sure I will be complaining.

I'm glad you're trying to quit the cancer sticks Karen, I've been smoke free myself nearly 6 months......still a ton of drama going on here with my stepmom and all......trying to handle that, with this new diet the doc put me on and the new meds and my neice's sixteenth bday tomorrow.....the antibiotic is workin pretty good, my teeth aren't bothering me nearly as bad as they have been

Glad you are going to quit the smoking Karen, the sooner the better with the COPD. You won't be able to cure it like you said, but can treat it with meds. You can stop or slow the progression anyways. That doctor's nurse must have been an idiot. Pharmacists are good, and they have everything loaded in computers nowadays so I am sure when they would have loaded your prescription into the computer it would have red-flagged it as penicillin and the pharmacist would have caught it and not filled it and told you about it. Glad things are settling down, but what a bureaucratic nightmare. Just like my dad being on Medicaid, the paperwork is a buzzard, and yearly reviews and all that BS. They look over our shoulder all the time, drives me nuts. Oh well, I don't have $6000+ a month to pay for his stay at the nursing home, so at least they are paying for it, and I sure don't want him back home again 24/7, did that for over a year, was ready to drive my car off a cliff because of the stress of that. He needs too much care and I can't do it and work full-time too. He would call me home from work if he dropped the remote or wanted a drink of water or cup of tea, whatever, I was going nuts, and I am not kidding. Thank God for people like you, Roy and Jax, I couldn't take it.

Glad you are feeling better Amber, don't run out of the medicine before your teeth are fixed or they could flare again, you may need a refill if you run out before your dental appt. Hope things settle down on the home front. Do you have a counselor you can talk to about these things and get some release for yourself??

Take care, hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Good for you Amber for quiting the cancer sticks. I hope to do the same. I just found out that as of May 1st my chantix will not be covered anymore so I have one month to "git er done". Then the money I save from not smoking I can try to use to pay for the meds so I can contuinue the program.

Marie, this was a new pharmacy so the pharmacist didn't know I was allergic. She saved my butt by asking. I appreciate her diligence and consider that she saved my life. I had no idea what Augmentin was but she did and asked me. Thank God for her. And thank God for you and all my friends who care and have supported me through thick and thin.

Love you all

((( Karen ))) Hello Beautiful,,, Hugs and kiss's for you this morning,,, Love you

GM Denise! Thank you, hugs and kisses back atcha!

Well, my friend and her old lady are suspended from work, again. I tried to call them last night because the nurse was trying to reach them. The nurse thought since they didn't call in that she would try to call them. She asked me to call them since they gave me their phone numbers. I couldn't get an answer, either when I tried to call them. We were three aides short last night and they were two of them. The aide I was orientating did call in. The friend called me because they wanted to know what was going on. I am thinking it might have been better if they had called in at work because the nurse and me were wondering what was going on. My life used to so boring before I got a job at the nursing home but now I hear some of the most fantastic stories why people don't come into work. It is some stuff I would never would have been acquainted with. My director of nursing asked me if I only knew how much she appreaciated me coming to work every day. Even the residents are curious as to where are all the aides. The one nurse that I work with I think is going to collapse from all the bull****. I think she is going to leave us and go to work at the hospital. Last night she was asking herself why she even thought of going into nursing. Sometimes I even ask myself what is going on.

jesus.hugs o you and prayers karen.wow.

the scary part is resident care quality goes down because these lazy aides can't get there ass to work or if they are at work they are dragging ass from partying.

Thats true, Jax. I was asking the nurse last night, again how do theses people pay their bills. My bills come whether I have an income or not. My friend was telling me the repo people came by and they have a lot less furniture. That beautiful 42 inch Visio television that the repo man took. It brings tears to my eyes thinking the repo man took it from them. But in the background I could hear the other friend saying she is going after the newer 52 inch tv. It made think of the passage, "I will tear down my barns and I will build greater." All I have is just an old 27 inch tv. Man, that tv was really something.

(((jax)))thanks. I can use all I can get right now. This is not helping my BP. I'm so sick and I havr to go out tomorrow, sighhhh. I just found out that the new insurance company will not cover my chantix again. So I have one month to ger er done.........I have to quit! The sound and feeling of the rattle in my chest keeps me up at might and irritates me as well as this being a serious disease. I can'y believe how many people have said they have it and take so lightly.... Whenever I get sick, it progresses very fast. I dont know why but I have learned that /i have to take care of busuness or Im in deep doo doo.

Karen, is it like pleauracy? My friend told me the doctor told she has pleauracy. I am probably not spelling it right. She told me that was why she didn't come into work last night. Evidently, pleauracy can seem like a heart attack the way she was describing it.