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| Bill looking at the hole in the ground outside my bedroom window where the sealant around the sewer pipe lets in ground water down the wall of our finished basement. When it rains it pours. |
Busy day today and the day isn't even half over yet!
As usual, first thing in the morning is to get Bill ready for the day. Even though today wasn't "Shower Day" (that's every third day), it was the usual preparing Bill for his/our day.
If I get up later than seven o'clock, I immediately go downstairs to his bedroom to tell him I'm up lest he worried that I checked out in my sleep. I know from past experience if I don't do this he'll come upstairs to my bedroom in a panic thinking I died in my sleep.
Once I prepare myself for the day (bathroom ablutions) I bet Bill's morning meds out on the counter with peach juice to wash those three pills down (also three pills at night before bedtime, two of which are different than the morning meds). I get his packet of oatmeal ready also. Then I go downstairs to his bedroom, turn on his light to wake him (he's sitting fully clothed in his Archie Bunker chair). A morning kiss and then help him up so I can help him take his pants off because he has to wash himself (head, ears and private parts) and put on a fresh Depends underwear. I prepare a pan of Dial anti bacterial soapy water for this daily routine. Once we struggle to get his old Depends off and put the new ones on then I have to change the dressing on his edema swollen leg. That has to be done daily. Take the dressing off, wash the wound, and put new dressing on. Before I do that however, I wash down his whole legs with the same Dial anti-bacterial soap and soak his feet. I think the washing/massaging keeps his edema swollen legs from getting worse.
Then we put on his socks and pants and I help him put on his sweater (always a challenge for him, he had it on upside down last week when I let him put it on himself).
Then we're off to upstairs and breakfast. He always has the same breakfast, oatmeal with an extra tablespoon of sugar. Bill loves his sugar.
After breakfast Bill always has to go to his bathroom for his daily bowel movement (thank goodness that's still working). I tell him he's a "processor of oatmeal" which he always thinks is funny (doesn't take much folks).
After this is when I have my breakfast of cereal and then I take my morning walk. It's been so cold lately I haven't been taking my morning walk and my legs, especially the left one where I tore my quadricep muscle a few years ago, lets me know by swelling up and going numb.
This morning was a bit different because at 9:30 AM I was expecting my local geek squad (i.e., "Computer Guy") to come over an install a driveway sensor to let Bill (us) know whenever someone drives up our driveway. Bill had made one some years ago but it stopped working and I'm not the electronic genius that Bill was before he lost his eyesight and cognitive abilities so I have to hire someone to do these jobs. "Jake" did a find job and new we have a bell that goes off every time someone dares to enter our space.
Then it was off to our local supermarket to see if they got any food in. They did get in my favorite crinkle cut French Fries but now I see where the meat shelves are empty? WTF?
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| Empty meat shelves at our local supermarket. Where will the folks get their protein? Beans? |
I also had to stop at the Post Office to return my latest DVD to Netflix. A really good one called "The Forgotten", a PBS Masterpiece Mystery Theater. I can't wait to get the next DVD to find out who killed that skeleton they found in the basement of that old house builders were excavating. Oh I do love a good mystery, especially one that is well written and acted and this one is EXCELLENT!
After the Post Office (lots of cars in the PO parking lot, what's going on? It's not Christmas), I had to stop at Ace Hardware and get a tarp to cover that gaping hole I have outside my bedroom window where the guys yesterday dug out around the sewer pipe that exits out basement. That was/is the source of the groundwater leak (every time it rains) that drips down and sometimes cascades down our basement wall). HAVE TO GET THAT FIXED. I'm told they're coming by tomorrow to get it ready to epoxy.
I got the tarp at Ace Hardware and while in the parking lot I called Touch of Italy restaurant to order their Tuesday special of Chicken Parm which is half price today ($16.95 - man oh man I couldn't pay full price on my retirement income). That an a tip of $2.00 and I have a meal for four days or five depending on how hungry I am. I had to go to Lewes to pick up the Chicken Parm. While I was there I took my old People magazines and dropped them off at my barber, Hyatt of Hyatt's Just Cuts. This time I included the Royal Special Editions of People magazine. Hyatt will like those! Even though she's Moroccan she loves following the British Royal family shenanigans.
Then back home here. I laid out the tarp to cover that hole (actually before I went to Lewes) and then in the house to put everything away. Bill still gets mixed up getting out of our car. He keeps locking the car instead of reaching for the handle. Then he gets so frustrated. When we first went out this morning he was having trouble putting on his outside Crocs. I look and sure enough, he didn't take off his inside Crocs first. Not the first time he's done this. Again, he gets so frustrated when this happens but he'll do it again.....tomorrow.
Now I'm back home updating my blog. Haven't have a chance to update "the boards" (the twelve online Scrabble games I play with Pat). But I'm disciplining myself to update my blog everyday even if it is with boring and mundane nonsense like I just posted now.
Have a great day!