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KayTheCurler said:
You may want to pop back a little later. I'm making a batch of Not Cross Buns today but they are still at the rising stage.
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I love to avoid madness ... yet here we are stuck in the human condition ... supposed ly to do not hard for some reason psyche is disabled in the majority of cases! Thus we break bread and split brains ... and whine abit ... in some traditions known as Wahls that come across fields ... in the UK these may be mores appearing as Baskervilles! Rare winds ... that whistle through empty residences ... simulating Lazarus syndrome ... somebody might move in with a thought of reconstruction ... recycle?

Maybe an archaic consideration ... thus the auld nautilus lodged in the hills and renamed themselves ... ammonite! It is a chalky matter ... stuff of the Blank Slate; Steven Pinker! It leads to a lengthy story about beadle's and learning crap ... gentile Poo* ...
 
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I hate autocorrect at times. I carefully typed centimated and it got changed to ventilated. I think thought if tenths was wiped out that hundredths would be worse.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Good morning , Red.
My mother has taken a turn to the worse. My siblings are taking turns at the bedside, but she isn’t really close yet.
I had the opportunity to talk to her just now, my sister holding the phone to her ear. She doesn’t want anymore- which is ok for everybody, but why is it that she would not let others make her more comfortable? She can’t swallow anymore, her mouth is dry, but she would not let anybody moisten her tongue. Every person I ever used those things on really appreciated those- my mother makes herself suffer more even in death. How sick is that? How can one be so at odds with life and oneself? It’s just sad.
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Sorry to hear that. Hopefully that will change so she can be more comfortable with what time she does have.
 
Yes, sorry to hear about your mother, Mrs.Anteater. It is sad, I do hope she'll accept some sort of comfort or pain relief, to alleviate the suffering.
 
Mendalla said:
Yeah, there's times I wish we had done hardwood instead of broadloom upstairs. Washing hard floors of any kind is so much easier than vacuuming carpets I find (washing floors and vacuuming are my thing when we do housecleaning on weekends).
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This past year we got a "steam mop" to clean our floors - game changer!! Uses very little (preferrably distilled) water & no chemicals! So simple and quick.
 
Thanks for all the good wishes everybody. I need a couple more- I took some coffee as donation to the homeless day shelter today which has a big step up to the door. Reached the coffee to the person at thedoor and turned around, missing that step and bounced on the pavement, dislocating and breaking my right wrist.
I have to say, I got a different perspective on the service in my hospital - if one comes in with something really serious, the triage is excellent and despite them working short often,they are very professional and I did not have to ask for anything, they kept track of my needs all along, alway explaining and assuring me.
They put me under to straighten and cast my wrist, x rayed before and after and I will get a call tomorrow to come in for surgery. I was in and out in about 3.5 hours. No long wait times between the events. All I could think of was how blessed I am with this health system compared to what is going on inUkraine, and how blessed I am to be able to have shed my mother’s legacy of seeing everything in a negative way.
 
Mrs.Anteater said:
Thanks for all the good wishes everybody. I need a couple more- I took some coffee as donation to the homeless day shelter today which has a big step up to the door. Reached the coffee to the person at thedoor and turned around, missing that step and bounced on the pavement, dislocating and breaking my right wrist.
I have to say, I got a different perspective on the service in my hospital - if one comes in with something really serious, the triage is excellent and despite them working short often,they are very professional and I did not have to ask for anything, they kept track of my needs all along, alway explaining and assuring me.
They put me under to straighten and cast my wrist, x rayed before and after and I will get a call tomorrow to come in for surgery. I was in and out in about 3.5 hours. No long wait times between the events. All I could think of was how blessed I am with this health system compared to what is going on inUkraine, and how blessed I am to be able to have shed my mother’s legacy of seeing everything in a negative way.
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Such rotten luck - good to hear you were taken care of at ER. Hope everything heals up well.
 
Good morning, all. As we share concerns about loved ones at a distance and their suffering (and our own misfortunes from falls). as we enjoy the buns that have been provided, and as a few of us discover that yer basic paper towel works just as well as a serviette, let us gather round the coffee cart, for support, tea and sympathy, coffee and collaboration, and other warming drinks . All is ready.

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Are buns kind of cheeky as Janus ... and thus Jainism fails as they are consumed! For wash there is ale ah! A wee chez will top off the menu Eire ...

Imagine packing all this in the impossible dimension of mind ... unheard of and silent ... just observing lightly ... how to get round this? Well that causes eddies ...
 
Oh Mrs.A! Ouch & ouch. Sounds like a nasty fall you had. Glad to hear your hospital provided good patient experience - it's always so interesting to see things from 'the other side'. Prayers for ease after surgery, and a good recovery. Please take your time with it - although I know how hard that is for you.
 
Ouch, Mrs. A. Prayers for good quick healing.

It's a week for falls. I fell (in the house, on a loose edge of carpet), Monday night. Finally got coaxed into Emerg last night. Was there from 8:30 to 5:00 a.m., and I have fractured seven ribs (one of them in two spots). Nothing to do but wait and take painkillers. Doc tells me that I won't be healed for a couple of months. So I'm off work for a few weeks, can't indulge in my favourite bad habit (because coughing is the most painful sensation ever, which is unfortunate for a very allergic person in an Ontario spring), and I'm telling myself that this is going to let me read all of the Canada Reads books this year within a few weeks of the competition. (Finished one of them last night in Emerg, got myself well into a second, then phone ran out of juice.) Also, I am going to be well fed thx to my friends and church family.

And I share with you, Mrs. A., my complete respect for our health care system. I had nothing but patient, kind and helpful care last night. Also my first CT Scan, which was kinda interesting (and identified another potential problem for which I need a thoracic consult at some point). Le sigh. Late middle age is not for the faint-hearted.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Ouch, Mrs. A. Prayers for good quick healing.

It's a week for falls. I fell (in the house, on a loose edge of carpet), Monday night. Finally got coaxed into Emerg last night. Was there from 8:30 to 5:00 a.m., and I have fractured seven ribs (one of them in two spots). Nothing to do but wait and take painkillers. Doc tells me that I won't be healed for a couple of months. So I'm off work for a few weeks, can't indulge in my favourite bad habit (because coughing is the most painful sensation ever, which is unfortunate for a very allergic person in an Ontario spring), and I'm telling myself that this is going to let me read all of the Canada Reads books this year within a few weeks of the competition. (Finished one of them last night in Emerg, got myself well into a second, then phone ran out of juice.) Also, I am going to be well fed thx to my friends and church family.

And I share with you, Mrs. A., my complete respect for our health care system. I had nothing but patient, kind and helpful care last night. Also my first CT Scan, which was kinda interesting (and identified another potential problem for which I need a thoracic consult at some point). Le sigh. Late middle age is not for the faint-hearted.
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7?! How did you manage that?
 
ChemGal said:
7?! How did you manage that?
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Landed in the wrong spot. Fall was unexpected, so didn't brace myself and fell very hard. Also, I'm 62, fair, and on the fine-boned side. Some degree of osteoporosis, I suspect, although it wasn't mentioned.

Mrs. A., I also wanted to offer my condolences on your Mom's end-of-life complications. I was with both of my parents in their last weeks/days, and I know how helpless one feels when what a beloved parent wants for themself, and what you want for them, differs. Big non-contact hugs (because I won't be hugging anyone for a while, lol).
 
@Mrs.Anteater @BetteTheRed Wishing you some good healing!
Everyone else - watch your step!
Maybe the bit of extra padding I have put on isn't all bad. My hematologist yesterday told me I'm not overweight, I'm just too short. :LOL:
 
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