Raindrops are falling on my Head
It's raining, and that's all right because that's what it's supposed to do in California in January. Has been raining for days, and will for the rest of the week, according to all reports. YAY. Although, the local ABC news made a storm scale two years ago--so far, 99% of our rain in two years has been a one on their scale. Apparently last night was a four! The first time in two years they ever pulled out a four. We didn't lose power, but some residents did, and trees fell.
Let's see, last time I posted was last year. We had quite the weekend over New Year's. Mother called to tell me her heartbeat was racing on 12/31. She takes her pulse at the gym and knew what it should be. I told her we'd come over sooner than we planned, and as D and I were packing to leave (me for work later, her to stay with mom all afternoon and evening), Mother called in less than five minutes to say she really was worried about her heartrate. We were ready to leave and drove the fifteen minutes over to her house. Yep, she had a newborn's heartrate: 125, and irregular. I suspected atrial fibrillation, one of the most common fast heart rates even before the nice ER doctor explained that to mother. She got digoxin, and was released, luckily in time for me to make lunch for everyone and then drive to work. I left Demelza and Mom happy at 1:45. My sister Lesley was due home from work at 2:30, so they had less than an hour alone. When Lesley arrived, she found mother slumped over her computer, unresponsive and called 911. Of course, paramedics didn't know mom had just been to the ER a few hours earlier, but D did say to take her to Kaiser--and Lesley didn't know where that was! Luckily, D has amazing direction abilities and was able to point the way.
D had texted me when Mom was found, but her texting abilities are limited because her spelling is poor, so I couldn't figure out why she was "sad". I had literally just swiped my badge in the timecard reader at work when I got Lesley's text explaining what happened. I went to the charge nurse and said I had to leave, and did, arriving back at Kaiser by 3:45. I'm not sure mother had had more than her vitals checked by that time! Certainly, I got there before a doctor examined her. Mother was awake, and alert, although naturally confused, and inclined to doubt that Lesley had found her unconscious! A new doc walked in and I told him about the morning so he switched with the cute Dr. Vlahos we'd had before for continuity. You all know ER visits, hurry up and wait, wait, wait. Not to mention that apparently every other admit there was a flu patient and the poor staff was slammed. Transferring to the floors took hours. I was the go between, running back to mother's house for her glasses and a book, getting some food for all. Lesley sat with her for a long time, and we came and went twice, but eventually all left mother there waiting for a room. She was annoyed. lol. Was put in a room at about 2am!
On Sunday morning, I called a friend because I knew her mother might have been admitted to the same Kaiser on Friday with pneumonia. Turned out our mothers were 310 and 312! So when we visited mother, we saw my friend L, as well.
I managed to be there on Monday morning when a neurology doc came by to do what I recognized was a stroke assessment. (A light finally went on for me.) Mother's gait was fine, her balance the same, she's equal bilaterally, oriented times three (who she is, where she is and what date and year it is) and only had some mild oddities in her answers. I suspect that it was a really teeny stroke. A transient ischemic attack (TIA) which I know my grandmother had, too. Ah, aging.
Lesley took Mom home on Monday afternoon, and Mom's most annoyance is that she can't drive anymore. They had lots of doc appts on Friday to decide on meds, etc, but mother seems 98% herself, thank goodness! Had dinner with them last night--Lesley, mother and Demelza made stuffed peppers, I cleaned up after.
So, I suspect I will be driving mother around more in the next few months--less time for writing. I shall have to be much more disciplined in my writing, therefore. I tend to write a sentence, do a game on the ipad, eat a cookie, write two more sentences, read what I wrote...do the laundry, write another sentence, get the mail, write a paragraph...look up pertinent, yet distracting historical facts, write another sentence...you get the picture. Must be more on point with less time to write!
Reading a Phryne Fisher mystery. Such fun. Also reading Wise Men's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, which is a great story, but long, so occasionally, I have to read something else briefly.
Saw Sherlock--hmm, weird and confusing. I personally, don't really like the Mary as a spy subplot, and had already figured out what happened at the end. I have a big question, though, which was not addressed: Did she post all the vids of Moriarity to all the networks? HOW? And why? This was not explained. Grr.
Watched the reboot of Sleepy Hollow, and despite my dire fears, I liked what I saw. I'll miss Abby SO much but I'm glad they basically are starting over, with Ichabod the one who knows all this time and will explain to the new group.
Scorpion. Oh, my scorpion gang, you are geniuses yet what you did to Cabe is NOT POSSIBLE. Really. Had that been a fanfic I was editing, I would have sent it back to be completely reworked. Yes, some of what they did was theoretically sound, but no.
No.
I actually work with body cooling patients, so I know how to do it on a baby. Nope. You guys killed poor Cabe and would have caused permanent frostbite damage to his fingers and toes. And then brought him back with snake bite venom--which apparently did absolutely no harm to his tissues. To top it off, not one of you geniuses, one of whom is a DOCTOR, can do CPR correctly? Oh, they are so lucky I adore my Toby and Happy because...sigh. lol
Let's see, last time I posted was last year. We had quite the weekend over New Year's. Mother called to tell me her heartbeat was racing on 12/31. She takes her pulse at the gym and knew what it should be. I told her we'd come over sooner than we planned, and as D and I were packing to leave (me for work later, her to stay with mom all afternoon and evening), Mother called in less than five minutes to say she really was worried about her heartrate. We were ready to leave and drove the fifteen minutes over to her house. Yep, she had a newborn's heartrate: 125, and irregular. I suspected atrial fibrillation, one of the most common fast heart rates even before the nice ER doctor explained that to mother. She got digoxin, and was released, luckily in time for me to make lunch for everyone and then drive to work. I left Demelza and Mom happy at 1:45. My sister Lesley was due home from work at 2:30, so they had less than an hour alone. When Lesley arrived, she found mother slumped over her computer, unresponsive and called 911. Of course, paramedics didn't know mom had just been to the ER a few hours earlier, but D did say to take her to Kaiser--and Lesley didn't know where that was! Luckily, D has amazing direction abilities and was able to point the way.
D had texted me when Mom was found, but her texting abilities are limited because her spelling is poor, so I couldn't figure out why she was "sad". I had literally just swiped my badge in the timecard reader at work when I got Lesley's text explaining what happened. I went to the charge nurse and said I had to leave, and did, arriving back at Kaiser by 3:45. I'm not sure mother had had more than her vitals checked by that time! Certainly, I got there before a doctor examined her. Mother was awake, and alert, although naturally confused, and inclined to doubt that Lesley had found her unconscious! A new doc walked in and I told him about the morning so he switched with the cute Dr. Vlahos we'd had before for continuity. You all know ER visits, hurry up and wait, wait, wait. Not to mention that apparently every other admit there was a flu patient and the poor staff was slammed. Transferring to the floors took hours. I was the go between, running back to mother's house for her glasses and a book, getting some food for all. Lesley sat with her for a long time, and we came and went twice, but eventually all left mother there waiting for a room. She was annoyed. lol. Was put in a room at about 2am!
On Sunday morning, I called a friend because I knew her mother might have been admitted to the same Kaiser on Friday with pneumonia. Turned out our mothers were 310 and 312! So when we visited mother, we saw my friend L, as well.
I managed to be there on Monday morning when a neurology doc came by to do what I recognized was a stroke assessment. (A light finally went on for me.) Mother's gait was fine, her balance the same, she's equal bilaterally, oriented times three (who she is, where she is and what date and year it is) and only had some mild oddities in her answers. I suspect that it was a really teeny stroke. A transient ischemic attack (TIA) which I know my grandmother had, too. Ah, aging.
Lesley took Mom home on Monday afternoon, and Mom's most annoyance is that she can't drive anymore. They had lots of doc appts on Friday to decide on meds, etc, but mother seems 98% herself, thank goodness! Had dinner with them last night--Lesley, mother and Demelza made stuffed peppers, I cleaned up after.
So, I suspect I will be driving mother around more in the next few months--less time for writing. I shall have to be much more disciplined in my writing, therefore. I tend to write a sentence, do a game on the ipad, eat a cookie, write two more sentences, read what I wrote...do the laundry, write another sentence, get the mail, write a paragraph...look up pertinent, yet distracting historical facts, write another sentence...you get the picture. Must be more on point with less time to write!
Reading a Phryne Fisher mystery. Such fun. Also reading Wise Men's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss, which is a great story, but long, so occasionally, I have to read something else briefly.
Saw Sherlock--hmm, weird and confusing. I personally, don't really like the Mary as a spy subplot, and had already figured out what happened at the end. I have a big question, though, which was not addressed: Did she post all the vids of Moriarity to all the networks? HOW? And why? This was not explained. Grr.
Watched the reboot of Sleepy Hollow, and despite my dire fears, I liked what I saw. I'll miss Abby SO much but I'm glad they basically are starting over, with Ichabod the one who knows all this time and will explain to the new group.
Scorpion. Oh, my scorpion gang, you are geniuses yet what you did to Cabe is NOT POSSIBLE. Really. Had that been a fanfic I was editing, I would have sent it back to be completely reworked. Yes, some of what they did was theoretically sound, but no.
No.
I actually work with body cooling patients, so I know how to do it on a baby. Nope. You guys killed poor Cabe and would have caused permanent frostbite damage to his fingers and toes. And then brought him back with snake bite venom--which apparently did absolutely no harm to his tissues. To top it off, not one of you geniuses, one of whom is a DOCTOR, can do CPR correctly? Oh, they are so lucky I adore my Toby and Happy because...sigh. lol