Weekend Check in Thread: Friday, June 19, 09 Here we are.
 

Hello,
It's the weekend again.

I have a 9:00 am appt this morning with the sleep doc to go over my sleep study results. Yes, 9:00 am! :eek:

Hubby is going to come with me.
I need someone to drive and I need him to hear what is or is not going on.

I'm hoping that my mood will start to improve soon.

I miss seeing the beach. It's been a long time. Maybe I should figure out a walk on the beach when it is not hot or raining.

What are you up to?

M.

I love the beach. I live in Ohio so that's not an option for me. My Son live on the coast of SC....SO I try to get beach time every year. Just walking it is great, I can barly make myself go out of the house into my back yard even right now...Working on that,, I plan to go back to work Monday...Maybe just having my routine back will help. Enjoy your blessing of being near a beach! Pam

Hi Everyone
 

wow, is it already friday again? this week flew by.

Pam, i too miss the beach. i spent the first 33 years of my life within reach of a beach and now... just knowing i can't get to one, let alone a NICE one, sometimes just creeps me out. i love the sound of the ocean. wow... work on Monday! Do you feel ok with that? It does sound like you look forward to having the routine back... anyway good luck! :)

Mari, good luck at the sleep doc's. sending you good vibes. looking at the time, it is 10 mins before your appointment right now... so i'm really sending you good vibes... in "real time" ;) so glad hubby could drive you and also be there to hear what is going on or is not. i hope weather is favorable for you to go to the beach this weekend. :)

i ... don't have plans this weekend. got labs back and am high in cholesterol :( so i need to do something... not sure what... dang it. first time ever. my last tests were just after i moved here with my parents. darned fried foods and cheese and icecream and.... grrrrr. i cannot avoid having the foods in the house (my management scheme for not eating them) because they want them. i am just going to have to learn resistence. :(

now i gotta go wash up a cutting board i left soaped up, before dad has kittens.

~ waves ~

Pam,
Good luck in returning to work. Did you get over the sleepiness you mentioned after stopping a med?

Waves,
Thanks for the good vibes with the sleep doc.
I sort of remember that Fish oil can help with cholesterol. Maybe the mayo clinic site says that. Pracititioners of Non Western medicine say that our lab ranges in the US are too tight -- that higher cholesterol is good.


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Visit with sleep doc was ok.

I had a little over 2 hours of sleep and just enough data for him to say that I have moderate sleep apnea.

He demonstrated how the machine works and the three categories of masks he has.
Hubby got very interested when the doc was talking about machines and tubing and such and even tried to pick out what seemed like the best mask. (Doc said that that was not for him to decide but for me to decide!)

Sleep doc said that I did not grind my teeth.
That is good to know.
I think that stupid mouth guard I wore for a while kind of cured that. But now I am wearing braces. So I can think of wearing the braces (thanks to the guard) as the price I am paying to get rid of the grinding.


I started crying when I asked him if the second sleep study (to determine pressure and find a mask that is comfortable) is going to be as horrible as the first one. Short answer: yes.

In order to make me slightly less miserable, he can schedule me later the next time: arrive at midnight, sleep around 2:00 am, . . . .

The way he treated his staff in front of me confirmed my feelings from my other visit with him that he is a bully. He was bossy / nasty with them about chair arrangements in one of the rooms and something else not hugely important. -- kind of explains the emotional atmosphere in his lab at night. He's a perfectionist.

I made an appointment for the second sleep study two weeks from now.


M.

Ohhh Mari
 

I'm so sorry you have to go for another study with this guy. At least he isn't there himself at night. I hope the fact that you are now familiar with the process, even if it is expected to be uncomfortable, will help lighten the anxiety. I especially hope it does not have the opposite effect!

Do you feel the later hours will help you? I wonder if you can arrange for hubby to drive you and someone else to pick you up? Just thinking out loud about logistics that might lighten the load... you wouldn't have to worry about being road-ready either before or after. But maybe you prefer to have your own vehicle at hand.

While the sleep apnea is not good news in itself, it is good that you have found a problem to which there are solutions. I am not sure if it it can fully tie in to the anxiety about sleeping at night vs. day, and sleeping vs. napping on couch... but perhaps it does... those other ways of sleeping might not feel so vulnerable. and if breathing is affected that is even greater vulnerability, so perhaps it manifests only at night... when everyone else is sleeping... not available. i dunno just a way of saying that, while this may not be the complete solution, it may turn out to go a long way in helping your anxiety about nocturnal sleep. or possibly better enable you to address the anxiety about it.

i am sorry you have to go through another study though. i understand why you would have it in the same lab even if you don't like the guy. also there is an advantage to his being a perfectionist, as far as his interpreting data and getting the mask set up right for you.

i hope you are home, comfy, now and able to wind down after the appointment.

how is the weather? do you think you will be able to go to the beach?

((( Mari )))

~ waves ~

I am weird....
I have this boil/pimple in my eye lid upper area under my brow.
I keep trying to pop it....I know that I should not do this and it is counter productive to irritate it...but it really hurts when I do that...but yet I keep doing it.
~sigh

You guys know how insecure I have been about not being CPR certified for the past 12 years....
Today I took the second step in the process of my getting certified officially.
The first step was actually signing up for the class which i did months ago and forgot about it but got a confiramtion email saying that the class was on friday....today.
the first class that I signed up for thru continuing ed was cancel due to lack of participants.
The class was called cpr for pediatrics and basic first aid.
It lasted 4 hours this morning and we went thru the material, cpr on the dummies, short written test and I got my little card.
This was not the "real" healthcare professionals level course but by gosh it is a step in the right direction!
This was a big step for me.....I am proud of my self today.
beth

Dear Waves and Beth,
I like reading what you write.
Today has been odd.
Most of the day, I felt too out of it to post. Very sorry.
I'll be back tomorrow.

M.

saturday
 

Well Done, Beth!!! :yahoo:I recall how afraid you were of taking a class at all. You have good reason to be proud. I am proud of you too! I hope this gives you a bit more confidence about going through the professional class you need to do.

Dear Mari, after that appointment yesterday, that is understandable that you would need downtime. I hope today finds you feeling more together. :hug::hug::hug: Post when you feel like it. Your presence was felt, anyway. ;)

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Today is saturday and i had intended to wash the floors. but i just woke up and i'm so tiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrrred... i don't know if i'll make it today. we'll see after the caffeine goes in.

i also need both parents out the house. first, so the housework police doesn't tell me harrass me about my methods the whole time :mad:, and second, to avoid the other parent from tracking dirt between done and not done areas in outdoor shoes to boot :hissyfit:. ideally i would need to do the whole apartment in one fell swoop but i don't think i would have the stamina on the best of days :o (i'm so out of shape!). the living room requires moving/scooting a lot of small stuff so i will be lucky even to finish it before the dirt-tracker returns home... sigh...

so.... why bother? well, ultimately, even if i do only a part today, and it gets tracked on immediately, less dirt is still less dirt. my mom can no longer wash floors. and it's beyond what a swiffer can do now. i like to go around barefoot so you could say i am very "in touch" :rolleyes: with the floor.

sigh. tile is nice and cool in hot weather but wall-to-wall carpet sure is easier ... just run the vacuum all over the place!!!

today used to be my day for Poirot and Monk, but now they are showing other stuff instead. :(:mad: oh well...

the wellbutrin seems to be increasing my energy... not sure yet if for better or for worse... i.e. if it will escalate past what is reasonable. i was kinda wacky yesterday.

ooo, ooo, mom is leaving... and dad may get called out to meet her...

hope everybody has more exciting (or relaxing) prospects for today than mine! ;)

~ waves ~

Pam, nice to be able to get back on rountine. Work on Monday should do it.

Mari, I'm sorry to hear you need to go through another sleep test. It is good though that you can go later. Can you take anything for sleep?

Bizi, I think I'd want to pop the boil too. Try to leave it alone if you can.

Waves, cleaning floor is hard work. I should do mine too so there will be less dirt on them when I move.

Today I will be going to my favorite restuarant hangout to see if I can run into Bobby. I plan to give him my phone number today if I can get up the nerve. At the moment I am washing clogthes.

barbara

hee hee hee
 

hey there Barbara! good luck with Bobby! :inlove: whoohooo!!! it's about time for something good to happen in your life. :)

Beth... you know that thing might be anything ... even a small mole... which would NOT be a good thing to pop. and yes it would hurt to try. other things often reabsorb... but you can get infections and/or scarring if you pop things and near your eye would be one of the worst places... :eek:...!!!. please resist, desist!!! do not pop bump!


well i copped out on washing the floors today. i actually semi-napped by the time dad left and he wasn't out long anyway, so just as well. i was roused just as i was on the edge of sleeping by a phone sales person grrr :mad: so i didn't actually sleep. just as well - it would mess up my day/night schedule again. i still feel tired, but i am trying not to escalate on the caffeine...

think i could use another cup of coffee about now though.

~ waves ~

Thank you Waves.

Did you say coffee? I love my coffee but it doesn't like me.

I've been walking around the neighborhood today. When I move I'll be walking around the neighborhood across the street to avoid my next door neigbhor. The neighborhood across the street was my old nighborhood I lived in with my ex so that will feel funny.

I've got a headache now and I hope it doesn't ruin me being able to go see Bobby at the restuarant. I think that my blood pressure it up.

barbara

awww
 

i'm sorry you're feelin' bad Barbara. hope that headache goes away. if it's your blood pressure though, walking should help. do you have one of those machines to check it yourself when you get back home? or maybe go to a drugstore if you have one nearby.

ironic you say coffee doesn't agree with you... it can actually help my headaches.

well anyway i hope you feel better. perhaps the walk will help. :o and then maybe resting a while after you get back home.

i'm playing mahjongg solitaire right now... gotta keep the brain trained at least, if not the body! :p

~ waves ~

Thank you guys about the boil, it is smaller today so it must be reabsorbing...sorry if I grossed anyone out with my TMI.

Barb-I hope you get up the nerve to give bobby your phone number, you can always wait and see if he asks for it.

mari-hope you canrest today and possibly get to the beach this weekend.

waves-sending some luck positive energy that the welbutrin will help you with the depression that you have been suffering with. yeah I can see where a dirty floor would get to me if I went barefoot...but I don't and my floors are really bad. makes me feel like I should be wet swiffering them soon.

pammie, when does the trike get in? hopoe you are enjoying the pool! are you able to get a pass?

just wanted to send a hug to bobby, sweetie post when you are up to it.
((((((HUGS))))))
beth

yeah
 

i second that.

and that goes for BJ too.

:grouphug: ((( Bobby ))) ((( BJ ))) :grouphug:

~ waves ~

Thank you Waves and Beth.

Bobby and I had the conversation of getting to know each other today at our hangout. We talked for over an hour. I gave him my phone number early on. I had it printed on a business card I made up last year. Bobby starred at the card for a long time like he was checking it out. He gave me a kiss on the neck today outside before he took off. When he came in there we hugged each other. Gosh, I think he likes me. I know I like him. Then my friend Phyllis came in to get her check. Phyllis is the one who is after Bobby too but he would not even look at her. She did not come over to talk to us. Bobby is 10 years older than me. He doesn't look that much older. I told him to call me later and he said he would. He has 2 horses up in the mountain where he lives. He has a creek on his property.

Barbara

Oh gosh I hear you all,
Beth, after years of being a first responder, police, ambulance driver and needing the cert for work, I find the basic is best because, it is concise, a level that I do with out thinking.

All the extra material of the long courses, even a 4 hr is overwhelming for all these years.
The best thing for me, is not concentrating and hands on. Get up there, check the ABC and start doing it.

THe practice just enforces what is stored in the memory. I had waited several years until my last update for work. But as soon as I got hands on, it flowed back.

I sympathise with those that never had a course and how they are anxious., been there when I went through tthe police academy.
When things happen in the work place, social, church, or public, I don;t even need to think it just happens.

To all
I know how reading the post are nice. It is like a kitchen clatch during the day.

The talk of the beach, family coming home, reading about plans or relaxing.
Feels good. For lack of having a family attachment to keep up with I love reading about my family here.
We are having rain. No summer temps. only 4 days since Memorial day of no rain. The temps are 60's and lack of even a 75*

I live in my snuggie....
Fathers day we are going to Smokey Bones because it is going to rain all day,
AGAIN!!!!
di

Hi all
I've been lazy today. Not been feeling the best. I had a massage on
my legs that bruised them pretty good yesterday. But if I ever have
hope for them getting any better, and my being able to walk on them
without being a old woman then it was necessary.

I am doing okay. Derrick is at a birthday party and Dale will pick him up.
I was supposed to go also. But just to tired.

Not sure why but my blood pressure was down to 90 over 60 yesterday
I am going to have to figure it out.

Donna

Hey Mari, I am so sorry it turned out you have apnea, the machine will help, I just wish that they had done it all in one study for you. I was lucky enough that my PCP who wrote the RX for the sleep study asked for Eval and Treatment so they put the mask on me during the night and adjusted it to make it work properly. I wish I had said something about it sooner, I just haven't been up to my usual on the ball-ness since this year began due to the change in psyche meds. :(

I hope the second study is easier setting it later for you. Hang in there, we're all here for you. :grouphug:

As for me I had a nice time with Mom today but the contest was a bust and I had an AWFUL time yesterday I wrote about in the thread I posted earlier. I just want to give up on things with this behavior staffers. I just can't stand myself right now. Having a rought patch I guess. All I can think about is waiting for it to be bedtime. :( Sleep is my only escape anymore. :(

I am sorry for all of the emotional upset for you...it has been a rough couple of days. I know how tiring of the aides....feeling like they are not willing to work with your schedule for the summer. It doesn't seem fair.
I wish Jack were more of a comfort for you....maybe he is....
(((((HUGS))))))
beth

The trike will get in next week MAYBE the dates given are between the 25th and the 2nd. No pass to the pool yet, will happen at the beginning of next month IF it's going to happen. I really don't feel good at all since Friday and it's just been terrible emotionally. Thanks for caring Beth. :hug: Not winning the contest really bummed me out too. All that effort for nothing-except the risk of ridicule by people. I still have a feeling I ws laughed at by some people. :(

sunday
 

Hey there

Donna... your being so tired can come from low blood pressure... i do hope you figure that out why it is so low. :o

DiMarie... Our weatherman said that the country was to have rain "in leopard spots" yesterday... how's that for a "graphical" image!!! :D:D. Yes there was a graphic to go with it with the little icons and stuff (no leopard skins, lol), but he cracked me up saying that. Then to top it off he said that today (sunday) "the sun would be fighting with the clouds!" You figure, if i look out the window i might sneak a peak at Apollo and Zeus dueling? ... lol. Well, in fact... it is sunny and partly cloudy. we are especially thankful for a cool breeze - or we would die without air conditioning. Anyway, Here's sending you some sunshine, Sunshine! :)

Pam... i'm sorry about the contest and all the nutsy stuff you are having to deal with right now. I hope today is a better day for you.

Mari... hope you're hanging in there. ;) thinking of you and wondering if you made it out to the beach.

Beth... just want to wish you a good day today also. you don't have to work today as well I hope!!!

Barbara... It sounds like Bobby really likes you. :)

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i have to find some paperwork today... blechhh... i have gone through two of my "miscellaneous" piles... only one left. if i don't find it, i have to go to town hall tomorrow morning to get a replacement. heck. i hate paperwork. any paperwork. :mad: hard to keep it organized here too, with my filing boxes put away and a pain to access... this increases my (normal) tendency to let things pile up... and now i'm paying for it. but i can't believe i misplaced this thing. certain stuff i am usually pretty good about. :o argghhh.

but dad made pasta for lunch and it came out really good. i had a reduced portion coz i am watching carbs. now mom just brought me cup of coffee #2 for the day, so i can hopefully, fully WAKE UPPPPPP!!!

and, at least there is nice light for my plants - oops, i mean plant - and a cool breeze. :)

:grouphug:

~ waves ~

Hi Waves. I hate paperwork but have a lot of it. I can relate to it all.

I am really super tired today. I have not heard from Bobby yet but then today is Father's Day so he's probably tied up. I hope I will get to see him this evening. Our hangout is closed today so we can't meet in there.

I've got a bad headache I think from lack of sleep. I went out to get some fried chicken and had that for lunch.

barbara

Hi,
No beach yet.
No one wants to come with me.

Tdoc tomorrow. I lost her card with our time on it (it is always a different time). I'll have to call and ask her to call me back on Monday regarding the appt. time.

I only slept a few hours last night and have felt yucky all day. Can't do anything.

I feel like I should try to stay up a few hours and then maybe go to bed for the night.

M.

Mari, I would go to the beach with you.....

Stayed up watching a bad movie, too much skin for my comfort level, jeff loved it! call me a prude but for crying out loud people!
anyway.
Went to a local pool with my girl friend and her 2 1/2 year old gillian. Had a good time, it had been ages since I got together with them.
Playing was so much fun, she is in swimming classes and is learning fast.
She can already hold her breath and go under the water and even opens her eyes!

jeff is recording some more of his cd tonight so I need to fix supper real quick before he goes. He is baking his cinnamin friendship bread right now.
It is so good and not on my diet.
it continues to be hot here but unlike poor waves with out ac...ours makes the house quite cool.
have a great rest of the weekend.
beth

Went to son's and the family for father's day cook out.

And today Derrick and I went out to lunch with a friend her son and then to a movie.

Donna