Whatcha doooooooin'?

[bellbird]

home now and feeling a little bit dodgy

Glad you're home. Dodgy like need to see a doc, dodgy? Or? :hug:

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I'm just sitting on my bed hugging Mr Bear and my hot water bottle.
Tweeter is in his cage about 1 metre away, preening.
Having a tough day so I'm taking it really easy. Will probably eat dinner soon and try get an early night.

 

[bellbird]

Currently lying in the arms of a sleeping L, who came over to comfort me but fell asleep after about an hour, all tuckered out from a long day. So sweet.

It's strange, I thought I'd find being awake while he sleeps stressful, since whenever my abuser slept it was a very high stress time -- I'd barely move for fear of waking him, and I'd be panicking about the mood he'd be in when he woke.

But with L it's the total opposite -- it somehow really soothes me.

Hopefully my sleep meds will kick in soon and then I'll fall asleep here too. ?

 

[Teasel]

Lovely to hear you're with someone good @bellbird really pleased for you, hope you get some sleep soon x

 

[blackemerald1]

Just post anaesthetic dodgy - I'll be fine soon. But thank you for asking :hug:

 

[Changing4Best]

I have been up since about 4 AM, and it is now 6:37 AM.... I did a search for something on Amazon, I found it but it is out of print. Oh well.... I did find some other interesting things: products I have bought before which Amazon is
offering to me again. I found something missing from my apartment. I think I may have loaned it to someone. I don't remember what I actually did with it. UGH! Losing one's memory to old age is not fun.

 

[blackemerald1]

Today I'm recovering from a near miss to my wallet/purse/bank account and solved a mystery too!

THREE weeks ago I noticed several dead birds in my backyard. Not injured but definitely cold and dead. I could find no probable cause so I collected & binned their carcases and went on with my life. ..shrug...

The birds kept showing up. Dead. More collecting and binning.

LAST NIGHT I noticed I had no hot water huh? So I tried for about three hours to relight my water heater.
Eventually I concluded that it was dead too and the water was cold like the birds but it probably died from old age. So, I reluctantly googled hot water service's last night, read reviews for hours and realised I was going to be up for a lot of money to replace it. Noooo! This caused a few nightmares o/night.

TODAY I called my plumber whom we will call Steve. Well, Steve would have to be the best looking plumber in the whole world and well worth a call out just to... say hi....Sssteve... sigh... and, oh yeah to give me a quote for replacing my hot water service. Damn it!

I digress,

Steve took the 'lid' (technical terms here please) off my gas hot water service and found several dead birds and straw and other yukky stuff inside. Hmmm... they had choked my heater unfortunately with their bodies.... gross I know. He cleaned it out. And repaired the hole they had eaten through to get into my hot water service.

We concluded they, the birds, had died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. And no post mortem will be necessary.

Steve is going to send me the bill.

Good news it won't be for the replacement of the whole unit. Yay... good day all around I got to see Steve and I don't need to go into debt for a new hot water service...

The only questions left are how did some birds make it out of the heating unit to then just die indiscriminately around my yard and how did Steve get to be so good looking?

 

[Ronin]

Today I'm recovering from a near miss to my wallet/purse/bank account and solved a mystery too!

:hilarious: Enjoy.

 

[bellbird]

Yay... good day all around I got to see Steve and I don't need to go into debt for a new hot water service...

What a win win!! :hug:

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I just woke up from my last nightmare, it's about 5 am. No more sleep tonight.

Eating snacks, listening to music and doing some reading around the forums.

Going to get up in about an hour for a sunrise run :happy:

 

[Changing4Best]

I can't sleep right now, so I figured I would come here and share. Birds! Mocking birds, sounding like a whole flock of them, and at most it might have been 2 birds. I love birds. they brighten my days.

One thing sad happened today. One of my clients was placed into a facility with higher care than I can provide. I will miss her, but I knew this would happen soon, as she has progressed with her Dementia to a point that is dangerous for her to be living without supervision during her afternoons and evenings. (I had been caring for her during the mornings mostly). I have 2 other clients now, so I should be OK, but I sure will miss her. She is such a sweet person.

So I am probably unable to sleep because of this. I know this is best for her, I want what is best for her, but it hurts sometimes. I do not know yet if we will be able to go visit her. Sometimes the patient has to be left alone with her new caregivers, in order to help her to become dependent on them, and not revolt or something, like my husband did when I placed him in a nursing home. He refused to cooperate with all of them and so I was asked to "disappear" for a while. When I came back he was "behaving" so I could enjoy his company without having to cater to all his needs, which had become beyond what I could deal with.

 

[bellbird]

I have a Tweeter sitting on my right shoulder, and we're just listening to music and unwinding from our days (mine at university, his eating seed and looking cute, probably).

 

[blackemerald1]

Oh I'm sorry @Changing4Best - but I do admire your pragmatic and loving way you deal with this sort of stuff.

Caring for the elderly is a very unique job. It takes much courage to know that your clients are entering the last stage of their life and you cannot do anything to stop that from happening but you can and do make it easier for them.

You have such a loving attitude towards these people. I know it hurts to let them go. The fact that it does hurt means you are doing a great job. I would be concerned if you didn't miss them.

I'm sorry you cannot sleep. It's just turned three in the afternoon here. I've got back from my swim, been to see my psydoc and wondering what the hell I am going to have for dinner.

I hope you manage to get a few hours of sleep C4B. :hug:

 

[Deanna]

Feeding three 18 cc every hour / 1 can ( mixed with water) a day. Blue hole in top. Boyfriend going bonkers. My kitty quit eating on her own. Should be back by next Tuesday, to eating on her own.