What Scrappy said so gorgeously.

I've had to be very stern with him, pointing out to him that he is dishonoring that person's nobility by refusing to accept an honest gift (I know how my beloved's brain is wired, I know how his values are coded).

It must be very hard. On both of you.

I think the spreadsheet is a really good idea. Something easy to print or send and say, here, here is the exceedingly long list of medications or prior surgeries or evolving taste in cheeses. Probably mostly the medical stuff though.

The way he sees it, he's supposed to take care of me, I should never have to take care of him. I think I could be Black Widow and he'd be supposed to take care of me. to suggest otherwise is to suggest that the Earth rotates around the Moon and chocolate is evil.

My Dad felt (feels?) this way about my Stepmom. Not in a bad way like she couldn't take care of herself and, really, everything else. Just that he loved her and the most important thing in his world was that she was his beloved.

Connie, I can see that that would be hard on both of you. Much surgery and coping~ma to you both.

Connie, we see medical records all the time where the medication, problems, and surgery sections just say - see attached. Then a document listing the printed history items is attached. I don't know where your hospital and doctors are with electronic records, but the EHR systems all create and read CCR files. A file is created with all the history items than can be read by any certified EHR system because of the standards that exist. Our software creates and reads these files and all the other ones out there do too.

But as far as filling out the admission forms, they should be fine with taking a printout of the meds, surgery, and problems. (It will be in the near future when they will ask if you have a CCR, or will just ask you to verify the history your PCP already transfered via CCR)

More blathering after I get more coffee. My son is 21 today. Wow!

More blathering after I get more coffee. My son is 21 today. Wow!

Happy Birthday, son of Laura! My nephew is 17 today.

Connie, so much ~ma for you and your DH today. I'm sorry that you have to deal with these surgery's so often.

Tea: Those beans that I mentioned the other day were apparently destined for the trash. I did make soup with them last night, which we ate several bowls of, and then this morning TCG and I realized it never made it to the fridge.

Happy birthday to your son, Laura. May 21 be a good year for both of you.

We likely should all have died around here for all the stuff that gets left on the counter, in the microwave, in the oven, and then gets consumed. We are way too loose with those rules.

We'll see how 21 goes. I did give him a 'welcome to being an adult' talk where I explained that the buck now stops with him. This is it. Line in sand. I also gave him a Nook that he is over the moon about. His dad and a couple other people suggested that it may get stolen because of the company he keeps. If that happens it is just a lesson he needs to learn. He was so psyched he right away found a pdf version of the book he just took out from the library and zoomed to his current page so he could return the book. It was nice to see him giddy as a kid over the new toy.

We likely should all have died around here for all the stuff that gets left on the counter, in the microwave, in the oven, and then gets consumed. We are way too loose with those rules.

I do admit to being extra paranoid about food safety stuff. I mostly hate to cook with meat, because I worry about raw meat juices getting everywhere and poisoning us all. So usually when I cook with any meat that can just be dumped directly from the packaging into the pan, I leave the kitchen and let TCG prep it, and come back in to cook it. I keep a strict 3 day rule on anything that has been cooked and put leftover in the fridge, but I have started relaxing that rule a bit when it comes to things without any meat in them. No, I have never claimed to be particularly sane.

I hope your son takes good care of the nook, and that 21 ends up being a great year for him. The nephew I mentioned above whose birthday is also today got C's on his most recent report card rather than A's only because he refuses to do homework. He reminds me too much of me at that age (even though we're not blood related), which worries me.

Oh my goodness, everyone. I just caught up on the last few days in here and have a lot to say, but phones are hard for mearas. I must now go track down my laptop so I can respond appropriately. For now, hugs.

Ugh, I know that 17 thing well too! Bobby has senioritis big time and just isn't doing his work. I hope I have made it clear enough that it isn't going to work for me. Other than the school crap he is pretty awesome so I am trying to deal.