Oh David I'm sorry .
Also smonster I am so happy you have found someone!!
This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
askye - Aug 10, 2023 5:03:26 pm PDT #23753 of 30000
Thrive to spite them
DavidS - Aug 10, 2023 5:05:47 pm PDT #23754 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The hospice was supposed to have a morphine delivery an hour ago but I decided not to depend on that because I knew her meds would be wearing off by 5:30.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 10, 2023 5:09:21 pm PDT #23755 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I will come back on the computer tomorrow but I am cursing our new reliance on mobile devices. I cannot do a true meara like I could at my desk 23 years ago. But I want to bracket everyone.
Steph L. - Aug 10, 2023 7:02:56 pm PDT #23756 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Let me tell y'all about two more people who deserve Fucking Champ recognition: Matilda's teacher Ms. Stuart, and Jacqueline's previous supervisor Tracy.
They are wonderful people!
Zenkitty - Aug 10, 2023 7:22:08 pm PDT #23757 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
David, I hope you were able to get JZ's meds.
lisah - Aug 10, 2023 8:11:16 pm PDT #23758 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
smonster, I’m so happy for you!!!
-t - Aug 10, 2023 9:02:46 pm PDT #23759 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
And being bi, I could never decide between Oz and Tara. And now I don’t have to?
SPARKLY PINK HEARTS EVERYWHERE
Fie on the morphine SNAFU. Of course that would happen but still, fuck that shit.
DavidS - Aug 10, 2023 9:09:43 pm PDT #23760 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
David, I hope you were able to get JZ's meds.
I literally had to run through the Haight with a bag of morphine to get her meds to her before her last dose wore off, and we cut off the breakthrough pain at 2.
And that's the SECOND time this year I've had to run home with pain meds which were stuck in pharmacy purgatory to get ahead of her pain.
It's a stupid system. But at least in this instance I told the discharging doctor I wasn't leaving until I had a scrip for liquid morphine because I wasn't just trusting the hospice would have their meds to her in time before 5:30. (In fact, they did not. They were 40 minutes late and that would have been pain at 7 or 8.)
DavidS - Aug 10, 2023 9:10:41 pm PDT #23761 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
On the plus side, even though I'm 62, I run almost every day so I didn't have a heart attack trying to help my wife. So that's a win that I dedicate to the Kezar Stadium steps.
DavidS - Aug 10, 2023 9:14:57 pm PDT #23762 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My bitter bottom line hard earned wisdom which I impart to you freely: Never ever get in a position where you don't have the next pain dose in hand. Because then you're on a countdown clock and there are so many things that will stop or stall you getting pain meds.
When the hospital says, "Well, the hospice nurse will be there by 1pm and this dose will last until 5:30" it doesn't mean shit. Because as it turns out the hospice nurse was the ADMITTING Nurse and she didn't bring any drugs, and the drugs were going to be delivered by a third party and they were late.
There's this presumption that any handoff is going to go smoothly as intended, but...you can tell when you've been dropped after a while. And I knew the transition between hospital and hospice was not air tight coordinated by the way it had unfolded.
I mean, I didn't talk to a hospice rep until yesterday.