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One Step Up And A Dozen Down


SassyBetsy

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Last night and this morning my pain meds did not touch this. My am nurse saw my blood pressure was high,saw my agony and let me have a pill a bit early. She is so kind to me. My leg burned. The pain in turn made me feel light headed and it was hard to keep my balance for some reason dizzy and off the mark. My blood glucose was 61 this morning. So I ate breakfast,but lunch was gross so I ate peanut butter and graham crackers instead. I hurt too bad to think of food. The patch is a joke but norco usually works. I always pay when I walk too much in a store like I did. I am dizzy the same as when it started when I am in big spaces or in halls or when tired or in pain. And vertigo in moving vehicles is same but I want to get out of here as much as possible.

 

Roomie peed the floor. Claimed they were too busy to change her. I say she never tells anyone she is wet. I asked her today if she feels it when she goes and she said yes. So why does she say she is dry and then when they change her anyway at night shift she asks if she is dry...

She says the shoes her daughter bought her are too small.she did not try them on. Said husband said they looked too small. They put them in her closet. If I make any suggestion,she has an excuse or says she tried it and it did not work. I ended up and said oh well you will go barefoot. That did not end it. She tried that before and there is a list why it does not work. I am the stupid one for being drawn into that engagement. I know what she does for everthing that is problematic. Food,the neighbors broken bed..oh she comes up with funny ones. I should write them down. Do you know the book called if you give a mouse a cookie. I know that when she mentions a problem that I need to say,That is an unsolvable catastrophe or merely say "too bad" and put my ear buds in and sing outloud to music. I have never been so tormented and punished for trying to help.

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Sometimes we don't want help but we do want our frustrations acknowledged.  I had to learn to say that out loud as appropriate. or people go into problem solving mode when that isn't really the issue.  So now I tend to say" I'm just venting, I don't expect anyone to fix it, but I do need someone to hear me."  Maybe you could try prompting that way when something is "wrong" for her.

 

Hugs

-Heather

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