Text 29544, 132 rader
Skriven 2012-09-13 13:54:23 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 29352 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: Mom
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Hi Nancy,

 NB> stove would have  RH>> to be reachable without having to reach over
 NB> the coils/burners.
 NB>  NB>> Perhaps that would be best addressed if/when the time came...
 NB> swopping  NB>> in lower height sink and stove,

 RH> Yes, but build the house with that in the back of your mind.

 NB> Of course...  :)

Levers, instead of knobs, work well for doors. Only down side is
catching a sleeve in one. (G)


 NB>  NB>> and have the knobs at the front of the stove... the latter could
 NB> be  NB>> done anyway, I suppose, with one's choice of appliances...
 NB> :)

 RH> I've had some like that. I think they tend to put the knobs (or
 RH> buttons) on the back of stoves as a child safety issue. Most gas stoves
 RH> have them on front tho, and I want my house to have a gas stove.

 NB> Logistics for the wiring/"plumbing" probably...  I think I've mostly
 NB> seen controls on the back for the electric stoves, and on the front
 NB> for the gas stoves (as you said)...  So getting the gas stove you want
 NB> should give you the knobs in front...  Except for visiting grandkids
 NB> (and, later, their kids), there shouldn't be any child safety issues
 NB> to worry about...


Knobs can always be pulled off and put out of kid's reach. Wireless mice
can't; Logan made off with Dad's oce.


 NB>  NB>> Depending on how much your mom is actually going to be doing, it
 NB> may  NB>> not need too many adjustments...

 RH> I think she'll be doing very little. Biggest thing needed is the ramp
 RH> for going in/out. Dad says there's time to get one built before winter
 RH> so it sounds like he's considering it more so now.

 NB> Next visit, you may be greeted by one... ;)  With her less mobile,
 NB> that probably IS a priority for him now... :)

I hope so but right now he's more concerned with getting things running
well inside the house. Sounding somewhat frazzled but enjoyed the
cooking Deborah did for them. She got a few extra meals into the
freezer.

 NB> day in her  RH>> recliner semi sleeping.
 NB>  NB>> That doesn't bode well at all...  unless the therapy can help
 NB>  NB>> increase her baseline some...

 RH> Hoping so but not holding my breath. She's very much like I remember
 RH> her mother after her strokes and hip fracture.

 NB> Not so good.  And the fracture we know about, and the strokes we
 NB> suspect, in her case...

All in all, not too well. We'd told them repeatedly about my wrist
surgery, called after we got home Friday, etc. Still, first thing out of
her (on Skype Tuesday) was "What's with the bandage on the
wrist?"--sigh!

 RH> paperwork but all you did was sign in with your time arrived/time
 RH> scheduled. For that, 10 minutes early was 9 minutes more than needed
 RH> but 30 minutes was ridiculous.

 NB> Perhaps you have more of your information already in their computer.

Not really, I'd never had contact with them before. OTOH, the
cardiologist I saw on Tuesday had all my Wake Med records.


 NB> I've arrived at places for procedures or pre-op stuff, both for myself
 NB> and with others for theirs, and sometimes I get handed a clipboard
 NB> with LOTS of questions on medical history, meds, etc, and sometimes
 NB> there's
 NB> just the billing and consent to sign... In the former cases, one needs
 NB> the whole 30 minutes, in the latter, no time at all...  It does seem
 NB> however that that place may be taking people in the order They
 NB> scheduled them to be there...

I'll not try to figure it out.

 NB>  NB>> Depending on how you react to sedatives/anesthesia, and how
 NB> hungry you  NB>> end up feeling, no doubt....  I wasn't expecting to
 NB> be all that hungry  NB>> for lunch after the colonoscopy, but going to
 NB> Tandoor of India for  NB>> lunch, I discovered I was ready for real
 NB> food, and plenty of...  ;)

 RH> I'm having a regional block with something like Versed also. Shouldn't
 RH> remember much of the procedure but not be fully out of it. I'll
 RH> probably get something like crackers and juice before I'm released,

 NB> A regional block with Versed they might not even have to give you

They gave me Propophol instead; I was awake even before leaving the OR.


 NB> anything to test your ability to hold things down, but they might give
 NB> them to you anyway since you are diabetic...  I didn't even get
 NB> offered anything when I came out of the colonoscopy, I think I asked
 NB> for some
 NB> gingerale (all their juices had apple in them), just because I was so
 NB> thirsty afterwards...  :)

They only offered me soda so I guzzled one glass of diet Coke, working
on a 2nd as I was discharged.


 RH> then see what I feel like for supper. I'll have a couple of weeks to
 RH> get my appetite back before we go out for our anniversary later this
 RH> month. (G)

 NB> That will be plenty of time... :)

Yes, just have to figure out where we want to go now. Maybe our favorite
Indian plave, maybe some place new.............


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