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I tend to hover my hand over the rail - ready to grab it if needed. I would rather not touch them due to germs, but also because the eczema on my palms is sensitive to some metals.
 
I do the hover too sometimes Hilary.

When I'm at work - it's a lot of hand sani! There are dispensers at each stairwell entry point, at the elevators, outside & inside patient rooms.
I'm in the habit of washing my hands whenever I come into my home also.
 
i was thinking of recommending that hand sanitizers be put in the stairways at the facility, thanks for that @Carolla . In our MKE facility, people regularly take the stairs, it is an 8 floor building. People going to & from meetings of 1 or 2 floor differences walk them. Some never take the elevator considering it part of their exercise. I do find in germ season, though, that I don't want to touch it.

I have fallen up & down stairs. Part of it is being overweight, part of it is just being who I am. I fall. I don't pay attention when doing stairs. Shucks, i fall upstairs. Anyhow, for that reason, I do like to always have my hand in contact when one of my feet isn't. That 2 point of contact things.

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On another note, finished my last external radiation yesterday. Slept a bunch last night. Now wide awake at 3:30am and for the first time in a couple of days, not in pain. Having a nice quiet time reading and relaxing.
 
I always look for and use handrails. Lately I'm quite careful on stairs. Andd I'm much more concerned about falls than I am about germs. I seem to have a cavaliar attitude toward germs, bacteria, viruses - they are all around us. We can put aa lot of energy into trying to avoid them, but they are still around floating in the air or waiting on anything we might touch. But many of them are harmless, and if we stay healthy our immune system can usually handle them. I'd probably think a lot differently if I had a compromised immune system. And I do believe in thorough and frequent hand-washing.
 
Did my pickup today. Considering I'm not allowed to get supplies separately they really aren't giving me enough. 25 needles for 26 doses. I average at least 2 due to multiple needle sticks, them snapping when stretching the tubing, accidentally contaminating the tip. No syringes. With perfect use, alone I go through 2 sterilizing wipes 1 for the bottles, 1 for the IV site & finger tips. Add in a 3rd for perfect use again if it's Chemguy doing it for his finger tips. I have slightly more than 2/dose of those. Gauze there's a few extras if I only use one - at least they surpass the number of needles.

The sharps container is about the only thing for supplies that seems on.

It's not the pickup site's fault, they are given orders about what to give me.
 
Is there a reason that you can't get a big box of sterile wipes from any store? It doesn't seem they would need to be specific. Save yourself grief and order an industrial size. Ditto on needles - can'tyou get them from health care supply?
 
Pinga said:
Is there a reason that you can't get a big box of sterile wipes from any store? It doesn't seem they would need to be specific. Save yourself grief and order an industrial size. Ditto on needles - can'tyou get them from health care supply?
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Butterfly needles are very difficult to come by.
I can get the sterile wipes from a home supply store if I get them special ordered, but they are expensive. Actually, I remember getting really low while they were closed last year and I don't even think I could get the 2 antiseptics together, I was going to get 2 sets of wipes.
 
Pinga said:
Probably should be a different thread, but, they look like they can be ordered through midwife supplies. http://www.midwiferysupplies.ca/products/butterfly-needles?variant=909498405

do you have to pay for this stuff? can you order and get reimbursed? I'm sorry chemgal, but, it seems that you keep getting stalemated. Maybe if you start a new thread, we can see how we as a scommunity can help you move out of this roadblock space.
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No, there's no reimbursement. The clinic gives it for free but if I buy it it's out of pocket.

As they didn't give me what's needed I will be able to do an additional pickup, it's just frustrating when they have such strict rules one-way but things aren't followed the other. It probably is better to inform them as well as I would assume others are having similar issues. I also know some of the great staff are getting annoyed, having the extra calls from patients helps to support their case for the issues that they bring up.

Frustrating to have to go make an extra trip for a few things instead of spreading the load more evenly, but I don't need to schedule it around work at least.
 
very busy day today. To an out of town school for an early meeting-and a days full of work there, to the church for 430 to plan covenanting service for minister on Nov. 8 and then to a potluck for the dragonboat team I paddle on. I stopped at superstore and picked up a fruit plate and at my house where I grabbed some wine from the fridge. Home now and tired but also content from the work done at school and church.
 
Had a great time at the book club Luce NDs attends. Met his wife for the first time - nice, quiet but friendly woman.
I had been invited by someone I met at Parkinsons, but it turns out that I knew many of the people there. The club had been started by a congregation where I sometimes do supply.
I didn't sell any books because everybody already had a copy - and had read it in prep for the meeting. And they all had interesting, insightful, and complimentary things to say. One woman grew up on a farm and liked the references to the care the boy gave the cows on board. Another woman remembered the little detail that the Vicar told the boy not to worry about leaving his mother because "I know a family who wants her cow and they will take her in as well." (That was one of my favourite lines as well.) Lots of questions about how I came to write it. Discussion of geography and history. Good time was had by all.
And I'm hoping that with Christmas coming up my visit might have reminded them that books make excellent Christmas gifts.
I did a lot of signing before the day was out.
And the lunch was excellent.
 
Sleep was split into 2 again. I felt quite sick in between. Groggy now, but ok. I had some weird dreams the 2nd shift.
 
Hilary said:
I tend to hover my hand over the rail - ready to grab it if needed. I would rather not touch them due to germs, but also because the eczema on my palms is sensitive to some metals.
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Fancy pair of women's leather gloves, like they would wear in old times, would help. (Just saying, after all, it's the last day of OT onth).
 
Seeler said:
Had a great time at the book club Luce NDs attends. Met his wife for the first time - nice, quiet but friendly woman.
I had been invited by someone I met at Parkinsons, but it turns out that I knew many of the people there. The club had been started by a congregation where I sometimes do supply.
I didn't sell any books because everybody already had a copy - and had read it in prep for the meeting. And they all had interesting, insightful, and complimentary things to say. One woman grew up on a farm and liked the references to the care the boy gave the cows on board. Another woman remembered the little detail that the Vicar told the boy not to worry about leaving his mother because "I know a family who wants her cow and they will take her in as well." (That was one of my favourite lines as well.) Lots of questions about how I came to write it. Discussion of geography and history. Good time was had by all.
And I'm hoping that with Christmas coming up my visit might have reminded them that books make excellent Christmas gifts.
I did a lot of signing before the day was out.
And the lunch was excellent.
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You forgot the part Seeler, where it was said we are a dinner club that sometimes attempts literacy skills ...
Leads to some interesting debates when you raise something you saw in the plot, moral, or ethic of the story that others found obtuse ... and they will swear it just wasn't there. Often we can't see the other's perspective ... or won't accept it as it might cost us something. Such is the give and take of vast stories ... like god's collective as an integral?

Anyone that says such things is accused of occult practice and living with the Shadow ... when they remain quiet and agreeable ... you're liable to be ridiculed for that ... one might as well be considered crazy no matter what ... and just enjoy the short handling of stories that might from another perspective be vast ... like northern realms of Canada ... or even ancient Hebrew arid planes ...

Few can add metaphor to the nature of "survivors" ... and the spirit cools ... especially in the far north when the devil doesn't allow warm winds there ... nor blue-eyed inuit! Perhaps they fade off in the long winters night while digesting life inside warm furzy places ... in spiritually bare domains? If anything changes would they recognize the common thread in the greater story?

f you keep your eyes open and ears clear ... it is amazing what you can conjure from a cool myth! Even if it tends toward the obtuse ... or even the occult and thus the song: "Hello darkness my old friend ..." on the human behavioural scale ... the inking may be your only agreeable neighbour ... the other's are hell-bent for conflict and competition ... co-operatives are failing ...
 
Seeler said:
Had a great time at the book club Luce NDs attends. Met his wife for the first time - nice, quiet but friendly woman.
I had been invited by someone I met at Parkinsons, but it turns out that I knew many of the people there. The club had been started by a congregation where I sometimes do supply.
I didn't sell any books because everybody already had a copy - and had read it in prep for the meeting. And they all had interesting, insightful, and complimentary things to say. One woman grew up on a farm and liked the references to the care the boy gave the cows on board. Another woman remembered the little detail that the Vicar told the boy not to worry about leaving his mother because "I know a family who wants her cow and they will take her in as well." (That was one of my favourite lines as well.) Lots of questions about how I came to write it. Discussion of geography and history. Good time was had by all.
And I'm hoping that with Christmas coming up my visit might have reminded them that books make excellent Christmas gifts.
I did a lot of signing before the day was out.
And the lunch was excellent.
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Seeler - have you met Luce in person? And, there is a Mrs. Luce, and they live in NB?
 
Pr. Jae said:
Seeler - have you met Luce in person? And, there is a Mrs. Luce, and they live in NB?
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Don't believe it Jae ... I'm a deviate from reality ... only a virtuous dream ... a bit ethereal? Many can't see a thing I say ... there's a certain sense of crank value ... to start your private DOS device!
 
Then if one doesn't believe in the spin of the accountable record and it all coming around in time ... what's th' use of intellect ...

I've bben told I'm just a figment of someone's abstract ... a farce ID imagination? This is not unlike vaporous Bacchus ... boiling up from deep pools ...
 
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