It does not pay to air out your home storage area.
Especially when Dahey inadventenly lets in wildlife that dies there and stinks up the storage, and the whole house. It makes bowel programs at the Hotel smell good.
I am so glad I'm leaving for a week soon.
That is all. More to come...
"Fear paralyzes; curiosity empowers. Be more interested than afraid."-Patricia Alexander, American educational psychologist
Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wildlife. Show all posts
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Friday, March 25, 2011
Queen of BBS
Yes, I am old enough to remember this BBS, but I never had a computer to use it while it was in its heyday.
The BBS I'm talking about it is the crux of what we do as rehab nurses. My preceptor G. told me as a young rehab nurse that most of what we do is about "bowel, bladder and skin." Yes, it surely is, and I had a lot of time to discuss these issues with a couple of patients recently.
Eddie is a guy who's had a lot of bad luck. His Hummer was attacked in Iraq and he lost three buddies. He made it out of there with a mild TBI and his life. He recuperated and things were going along nicely, when he was minding his own business driving home one night and ran off the road dodging wildlife in the rural area he lives in. As a result, he became a paraplegic.
He's still young enough to see the bowel routine as a boring routine. And since it becomes a synchronized routine for many patients, you can expect results at about the same time every day or every other day, depending on how you do it. Yes, he had results at his usual time, while he was doing something else he wanted to do. Lots of cleanup followed--to him, the wheelchair and his clothes. He was upset, but I managed everything so in the end, he was laughing. There are worse things...
Happily, while it's been crazy at the Hotel, we've been able to get things done. It's required a lot of teamwork. People feeding other people, people transferring people, people helping vendors bring in new mattresses. I may have only sat down once or twice, but we got things done.
Let's hope it stays that way! Stay tuned...
The BBS I'm talking about it is the crux of what we do as rehab nurses. My preceptor G. told me as a young rehab nurse that most of what we do is about "bowel, bladder and skin." Yes, it surely is, and I had a lot of time to discuss these issues with a couple of patients recently.
Eddie is a guy who's had a lot of bad luck. His Hummer was attacked in Iraq and he lost three buddies. He made it out of there with a mild TBI and his life. He recuperated and things were going along nicely, when he was minding his own business driving home one night and ran off the road dodging wildlife in the rural area he lives in. As a result, he became a paraplegic.
He's still young enough to see the bowel routine as a boring routine. And since it becomes a synchronized routine for many patients, you can expect results at about the same time every day or every other day, depending on how you do it. Yes, he had results at his usual time, while he was doing something else he wanted to do. Lots of cleanup followed--to him, the wheelchair and his clothes. He was upset, but I managed everything so in the end, he was laughing. There are worse things...
Happily, while it's been crazy at the Hotel, we've been able to get things done. It's required a lot of teamwork. People feeding other people, people transferring people, people helping vendors bring in new mattresses. I may have only sat down once or twice, but we got things done.
Let's hope it stays that way! Stay tuned...
Labels:
accident,
bowel routine,
deer,
Iraq,
paraplegia,
TBI,
wildlife
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