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Skriven 2014-03-23 21:08:18 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 11229 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: a toast!
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Hi Nancy,


 RH> Still, as of last week. No word from my brother since the end of the
 RH> week so presume status is still the same. We've been busy so haven't
 RH> had the "down time" during the right hours to call.

 NB> Hope they get the better of it soon...  I'm sure that if things were
 NB> deteriorating, your brother would let you know sooner... so things
 NB> probably are about the same, if not maybe getting a little better...

They're planning on discharging him tomorrow. Somewhat better but never
will be even what he was a few months ago.

 NB>  RH>> He's getting to the point where he's thinking a nursing home
 NB>  RH>> would be the better route for him, as well as Mom but there's
 NB> "stuff"  RH>> involved with that as well.
 NB>  NB>> A natural thought progression... but always a lot of
 NB> ramifications  NB>> either way...  :)

 RH> Very much so. More to think about than appears on the surface, but you
 RH> know somewhat of the situation.

 NB> Quite.

And I'm glad my brother is up there taking care of the situation. The
way things have been around here the past year or so, we appreciate not
having to be there "on top of things" all the time.

 NB>  RH>> He's not thrilled with the hospital food either. (G)
 NB>  NB>> Is anyone...?   (G)

 RH> It's a smallish hospital so better food than huge hospitals would have
 RH> but he's always been a basic meat and potatoes with one side vegetable
 RH> type eater and that's not always on the menu.

 NB> Well, there is that.  ;)  Hospitals tend to have more of that on the
 NB> menu than I would eat at home, though... and often have some option
 NB> that at least is close...  :)

Yes, but he likes things so bland that I doubt even they can make it to
his satisfaction. I think he's gotten pickier in his eating as he's
gotten older too, and that doesn't help.

 NB> after all...  NB>> Part is probably the timing issue... food doesn't
 NB> usually arrive when  NB>> you want it, but either too soon or much
 NB> later... especially in the  NB>> hospital...  ;0

 RH> Either too hot or too cold. When Steve was in last time, his ICU room
 RH> was on the far end of the floor from where the food delivery started.
 RH> After he was moved to a regular room, he was a lot nearer to the start
 RH> of the delivery. A difference of a good half hour or so in delivery of
 RH> the food made a big difference in its temperature/appeal.

 NB> That's for sure.  My one friend didn't worry so much about the
 NB> temperature, but what bothered her was that their schedule for
 NB> bringing the meals was so different from her usual home schedule...
 NB> she tended to start the day later, and her last meal was usually
 NB> something like 10pm
 NB> or later... She'd have to save food for later, and keep reminding them
 NB> not to take it away yet...  ;)

And by then, the food was probably either cold or warm, depending on how
it started out. Good chance for some nasty bacteria to get to it then
too, and that's not good in the hospital environment.

 NB> connecting with people from my high  NB>> school class was nicely
 NB> serendipitous...  :)

 RH> I had a relatively small, tho it set a record for size at the time,
 RH> high school class. Even so, I've not seen even a quarter of the class
 RH> members since graduation. Most of them stayed in the area; I moved
 RH> away for college and beyond after getting married.

 NB> And, as it turned out, I ended up staying in the same area where I'd
 NB> been to college, and also where I'd graduated from high school..  the
 NB> school I lost track of was the one where I had thought I'd be
 NB> graduating from... back in the Philly area... away from which I had
 NB> moved... and
 NB> since I hadn't graduated with my class there, they were less
 NB> interested in keeping track of me.  That was a very small school, and
 NB> their
 NB> reunions tend not to be class reunions, but just whole school
 NB> reunions, and scheduled for times that I can't get away...

Unfortunate but that's the way things go sometimes. I think my high
school class has stopped most reunions (still a ways to go to our 50th);
the school itself had a multi year reunion a few years ago. I wasn't
able to get to that either. There's only a few folks I'd like to catch
up with anyway.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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