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Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 4:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
RN, hermi, remember that 'possession is 9/10th's of the law', or perhaps, it's '9 inches of the law'..." and take that baby home LOLOL

RN, i just got back from the hospital where my mom and two sisters and some others spent the night in the ICU waiting room. my mom got there about 2:00 a.m. milton had an MRI late this morning and no results at the time i left. they are thinking now that he did not have a major stroke, but is having major seizures. his BP is really low for him (normal for me) at 88/56. i understand his 'coloring' is better than it was yesterday, when he was totally ashen. he is in the shock/trauma ICU, which is even more difficult to get in to visit than the regular ICU. we have to pick up a phone, explain who we want to see and why, and if they decide we can enter, they push a button to unlock the doors.
i was able to stay with him for about half an hour. i have no idea if he will get through this, if he will be allowed to go home or what. i know he would hate to be in a nursing home...

i left kendall outside and i was worried. when i got home after 5 hours, though, he wandered in from a grove of pine trees where he had been napping. no frantic digging to get under the gate, luckily! as long as he knows i'm coming back, and it isn't 10 hours, he seems to be okay.
dd is off for disneyland. i hope she has a great time!
tomorrow, she and dh will be up here for the weekend and i'll take her to see grandpa miltie. she adores him.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 6:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rn ewww I wouldn't take that home, what if it was used. <shudder>

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 8:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ladytex a private message Print Post    
RN I'm saying no wonder I couldn't get into this thread from school today ... LOL ...

Saxywildcat
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05-30-2005

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 9:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saxywildcat a private message Print Post    
RN Sandy is pretending to be a lapdog.. she is curled up on my lap. It's sweet, but she is 55 lbs!

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 10:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
rn, i'm still curious about something. i posted in another thread, but thought i might try here.

does anyone here use a treadmill? if so, how long would a walk/slow jog (lowest gradient) take to "walk" 5 miles on a treadmill. just any estimate/guess?

tia

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 10:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
RN, i walk 1 to 3 miles on my treadmill. it takes me almost one full 'price is right' at 3.7 miles per hour to walk 3 miles, so i would guess about an hour and a half or so for 5 miles.
i find the 2.0 or 2.5 grade to work best for my back. more than that, my heart aches; at 1.5, the lowest grade, i feel almost like i'm walking downhill!

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 10:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
RN, MOCHA, lol at the 'what if it was used'! what else would someone have it around for? i guess if you had two, they could be bookends...i guess you could clean it. i mean, most guys' winkies have been used, too, somewhere else and with someone else!
i wouldn't take it home, either, but i had to use the "9/10th's of the law" line.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 10:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
RN, dd called from disneyland to see who won "american inventor". that part hadn't come up yet, but after she called i discovered the person we wanted to win, did win.
milton's MRI indicated he did not have a major stroke; they did a lumbar puncture to rule out meningitis. the doctors now think perhaps he has a major sinus infection and they said it can cause an abcess on his brain! they are going to flush his nasal passages tomorrow (poor guy is already on a breathing machine because he doesn't breathe without it). i hate all the tests he has to have. even his CT scan and MRI were painful procedures because he is very stoop-shouldered and they had to give him meds to relax him enough that they could 'straighten' him out for the machines. then they have to keep giving him versed (sp? i don't know why my mind is blank!) to keep his seizures down and to keep him under enough to not try and remove some of the iv's and tubes going into him.
my dh hired a friend to clean the house as he empties the rooms out. her husband showed up tonight to help out and my husband said the guy had major burns on his hands from hot tar (he is a roofing assistant). my dh finally convinced our friend to go to the e.r. and babysat their 4 kids and bought them pizza while the parents were at the hospital. the guy has 3rd degree burns on one hand. ouch! he was worried about going to the e.r. because he was afraid his boss would fire him for having a medical claim. isn't that sad? and the way it really is, sometimes. wow.
well, only 2 weeks and a couple of days before we are out of the south house. the new people are having a chimney inspection on monday. the idiot building inspector we had wrote on his report "significant chimney crack" then wrote that he wasn't able to access that area to take a look. dh said all dh can see is a line of soot.
oh well. the 'major crack' in the joist was nothing. the electrical was work that was done by an electrician and he wrote up a thing saying it was all legal. the termite inspection came up with no termites, just to change the wax seal in the master toilet, which the building inspector had also noted. the security light did not work because it was noon time when the inspector came. it needs to be dark. we had the 'asbestos' comment removed from our report. i think we are almost going to get through this.
AND I AM NEVER MOVING AGAIN, UNLESS I WIN THE LOTTERY AND A BIG OL' MOVING COMPANY DOES EVERY SINGLE BIT OF THE PACKING AND CLEANING!

how cute, dd just called after going on two rides to see who won 'american inventor'. i think she was more excited to find out the guy she wanted to win won, than she is to be at disneyland :-)...actually, she said considering all the buses in the parking lot and the crowds for a few rides, she is amazed at how empty the park looks. sounds like she's having fun!

Abby7
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07-17-2002

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 10:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Abby7 a private message Print Post    
thank you so much tabby for answering my question. i really had no idea. i really appreciate that you even replied...because, honestly, i'm getting a bit depressed w/tvch these days, so thank you for taking the time to reply.

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 11:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
RN, you are most welcome, abby!

Dogdoc
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09-29-2001

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 4:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dogdoc a private message Print Post    
Abby, I answered a treadmill question somewhere else. I have a Pro-form 625 and love it. I used to set it for 5 which is 5 miles/hr and run. Recently I have set it to 4 and do 4 miles in an hour and walk fast. For the first 2 miles I use the hill setting 10 and then cut back for the last two miles. Hope this answer helps.

Eris
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11-13-2003

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 5:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eris a private message Print Post    
Right now I am just getting my day started and I am so glad that its FRIDAY!


Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rn TGIF!

Saxywildcat
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05-30-2005

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 7:36 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Saxywildcat a private message Print Post    
RN no kidding Eris and Mocha! Friday is such a good thing this week!! :-D

RN I started a new diet today! Wish me luck!

Kaykay
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01-21-2004

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 7:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaykay a private message Print Post    
rn - good luck Saxy - HI MOCHA!!! I need to go do about 5 loads of laundry - :-(

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 8:01 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
RN I have to get the kids off to school, go grocery shopping, hit Walmart, pay some bills and try to do it all before 10 am cuz I'm going to be an auntie again today! And somewhere in there I have a bunch of housecleaning to do and laundry and no freaking time, lol!

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 8:23 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rn hey Kk!

Serate
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08-21-2001

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Serate a private message Print Post    
RN my husband is being a pain in the patootie. He's organized a Veterans' Night at the Ballpark for the local minor league baseball team for tonight. HE has organized it. But I got to get up at *gasp* 5:30 to take him to work [he doesn't leave until 6:30 - 6:25 would have been fine for me, time to pee and put on some pants and I'd been ready!] which is 30 minutes one way, not counting I came back in rush hour traffic which took longer. He's called me 6 times in the last hour. [I found out I'm supposed to take both cell phone and home phone with me when I go potty!] I get to run back into Louisville to drop off the promotional dvd & video at the ballpark that he was supposed to do yesterday. Then run back home, pick up landlord and his granddaughter, then run to the department [an hour from here] to drop off our car and ride into Louisville with the Commander, tour my husband's office, then go to the ballpark at 5 even tho the game doesn't get started until arfter 7. I'll be stuck with the whiney brat [who I love mostly but she'll whine for her pappy all the time he's not around]. And I just found out that I also get to hand out 3,000 players cards as the 8 people who volunteered to hand them out can't make it and there's nobody else to do it as my husband has to be on field. How I can hand them all out at just one gate I dunno. [My husband didn't like my idea of just walking around the top of the stadium and tossing handfuls down into the crowd, wonder why?] Then after the game I get to ride back to the department [40 minute drive] then back home [an hour] and just might get in bed by 1am. And to think by helping my husband I'm "allowed" to go to Veterans appreciation night at Cincinnati Reds NEXT friday, and the next do it all over again here at a arena football game. And what's the only sport I like less than baseball? You got it, football!


RN waaaa waaa waaaa waaa waaaa.

Grannyg
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05-28-2002

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 8:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Grannyg a private message Print Post    
RN, I'm home making the last of the DVD's for a couple of classes at school. Was suppose to be a simple project but it has taken me the better part of 3 days to get it done. Why does nothing turn out like it is suppose to?

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 9:30 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
RN, serate, my head was spinning as you went into extra innings in your description of what you have to accomplish today!!
i got up way too early, too. some lady called at 6:00 and said, "good morning!" i mumbled something which probably sounded a lot like f-u, and then said, "kathy?" "uh, no." "oh, sorry".
so i had to get up because i could not sleep again. kendall and i were out for our walk at 6:30 this morning, more than an hour ahead of schedule. i am taking him down all different country roads, so that if he ever gets lost or runs away, he might find his house again.
i have tons to do today. i am tired of living with 14 boxes in the bedroom. i think 10 of them have old video tapes; things we taped while watching HBO, lots of blank ones we bought over the years to tape programs we would miss, etc. how the hell do you get rid of old video tapes?! they probably can't go into your regular trash. if they would take them at the landfill, we could dump them there with a load of other crap. i don't know if they take them, though. for now, i want them back in the garage so i have my room semi arranged.
dd and dh should be here about 6:00 this evening. i think dd's bus gets back from disneyland about 12:15 or so. i hope she slept some on the way back! she called twice last night to ask about who won 'american inventor' lol.
i need to call the hospital and see how milton is doing today.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mocha a private message Print Post    
Rn I can't find Rosie's thread about thread ideas.

Irishtxgrl
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12-07-2005

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 10:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Irishtxgrl a private message Print Post    
RN I am stuck watching Lazy Town with my youngest God I hate this show

Kaykay
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01-21-2004

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kaykay a private message Print Post    
rn - Lazytown is a bizarre show but The Backyardigans is worse :-)

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tabbyking a private message Print Post    
RN, i have to go into lazy town soon instead of just sitting in the backyardigans reading!

i am making london broil and steamed veggies for dinner and either mashed potatoes or wild rice.

my step-father is not any better today than yesterday. they are unable to wean him off the ventilator because he breathes quickly and then stops (cheyne-stokes syndrome). his blood pressure is way too low for him. they are talking a feeding tube. my sister says she doesn't think our mom realizes this is worse than any of the other times milton had strokes and had to rushed to the hospital. when the doctor mentioned a skilled nursing facility, my mom evidently said, "absolutely not!" but she doesn't realize what care he would need at home. she would need to hire a nurse for at least 8 hours a day and then take care of him herself, on top of working full-time. my mom is almost 73, so she can't do it all. decisions, decisions. but i guess none will need to made until he gets well enough to leave the ICU and the doctors cautioned he is still not out of the woods and the man he is today may be the man he is forever. milton always said to do whateverit entailed to save his life, but my mom insists he would never want to live with machines. she hasn't accepted that this might be the way milton has to live if he lives through this episode. i seriously think she doesn't realize this time is worse than all the other 'spells' combined.

well, i had best get some chores done and try to make room for more boxes of stuff coming up with dd and dh.

good luck with your diet, saxy! when i was in my 20's i could eat about 700 calories a day and lose a pound every other day or so. now i can eat 7 calories a day and lose a pound every other year or so! :-)

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Friday, May 19, 2006 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Rn no baby yet. Probably sometimes this afternoon/evening. I stopped by to see them earlier they're doing well but tired. I'm scarfing lunch down so I can get the rest of my stuff done for today and get back up there.