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what's going on with you?
I got offered that other job. After reviewing all the pros and cons about it balanced against health concerns, I have ended up staying where I am. For now, I may or may not regret my decision, but ultimately I can't do a lot of things requiring me in full sunlight for numerous hours of the day. On the personal front, I have gotten business cards and a website beyond Facebook up and running for my sewing. April was my best month ever for personal sales. I was really grateful for this since right after all that my rescue kitty was determined to be a diabetic, a week at the veterinarian clinic later and a shot a day of insulin, he is on the mend. I'm just really grateful my beloved kitty is going to be ok.
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(05-07-2016, 10:34 AM)Danilynn Wrote: what's going on with you?
I got offered that other job. After reviewing all the pros and cons about it balanced against health concerns, I have ended up staying where I am. For now, I may or may not regret my decision, but ultimately I can't do a lot of things requiring me in full sunlight for numerous hours of the day. On the personal front, I have gotten business cards and a website beyond Facebook up and running for my sewing. April was my best month ever for personal sales. I was really grateful for this since right after all that my rescue kitty was determined to be a diabetic, a week at the veterinarian clinic later and a shot a day of insulin, he is on the mend. I'm just really grateful my beloved kitty is going to be ok.
I'm glad that you can still hold the same old job.
I had a cousin with lupus... and he survived for 38 years with it after he was diagnosed with it. I regret to say that it wasn't really living.
I did my first freehand painting ever. I think that I know what my birthday and Christmas presents will be this year.
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Oh no! 
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I may have saved my father's life.
I got a call from the nursing home about 8 AM EST stating that my father was showing signs of circulatory failure -- discoloration of his knees -- due to dehydration and malnutrition. I was asked whether I wanted to have the nursing home 'make him comfortable' or send him to the hospital. I went to the nursing home with my dog (the dog has a right to know if the end is nigh for a loved one, I suppose, as he got to know for my mother), and my father responded more to the dog than to me. But he did face me.
I am not writing him off. I decided to send him to the hospital so that he could be treated for the dehydration and malnutrition. Guess what happened? The hospital took him off Fentanyl, and he started moving his legs about.
"Make him comfortable". I am glad that I could read between the lines on that piece of Orwellian deceit.
Nursing homes -- where capitalist greed meets socialist irresponsibility.
It's too bad that Dickens or Hugo isn't around to relate such a nightmare. You have seen it from me, from someone with practically no literary talent.
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(05-12-2016, 06:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I may have saved my father's life.
I got a call from the nursing home about 8 AM EST stating that my father was showing signs of circulatory failure -- discoloration of his knees -- due to dehydration and malnutrition. I was asked whether I wanted to have the nursing home 'make him comfortable' or send him to the hospital. I went to the nursing home with my dog (the dog has a right to know if the end is nigh for a loved one, I suppose, as he got to know for my mother), and my father responded more to the dog than to me. But he did face me.
I am not writing him off. I decided to send him to the hospital so that he could be treated for the dehydration and malnutrition. Guess what happened? The hospital took him off Fentanyl, and he started moving his legs about.
"Make him comfortable". I am glad that I could read between the lines on that piece of Orwellian deceit.
Nursing homes -- where capitalist greed meets socialist irresponsibility.
It's too bad that Dickens or Hugo isn't around to relate such a nightmare. You have seen it from me, from someone with practically no literary talent.
Sorry that you and your father have to suffer this type of 'care'.
Too many nursing homes fail us in time of most need.
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(05-12-2016, 06:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I may have saved my father's life.
I got a call from the nursing home about 8 AM EST stating that my father was showing signs of circulatory failure -- discoloration of his knees -- due to dehydration and malnutrition. I was asked whether I wanted to have the nursing home 'make him comfortable' or send him to the hospital. I went to the nursing home with my dog (the dog has a right to know if the end is nigh for a loved one, I suppose, as he got to know for my mother), and my father responded more to the dog than to me. But he did face me.
I am not writing him off. I decided to send him to the hospital so that he could be treated for the dehydration and malnutrition. Guess what happened? The hospital took him off Fentanyl, and he started moving his legs about.
"Make him comfortable". I am glad that I could read between the lines on that piece of Orwellian deceit.
Nursing homes -- where capitalist greed meets socialist irresponsibility.
It's too bad that Dickens or Hugo isn't around to relate such a nightmare. You have seen it from me, from someone with practically no literary talent.
Good to hear!
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(05-12-2016, 06:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I may have saved my father's life.
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Nursing homes -- where capitalist greed meets socialist irresponsibility.
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In my work I'm in and out of nursing homes all the time. In our area there may possibly be one or two that can claim the term "healthcare facility."
The vast, vast majority are shitholes. Despite my excellent health at this time I've decided to execute a DNR/DNI this year.
Whoever coined the term "sanctity of life" is a seeping, pus-filled lesion on the ass of humanity.
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(05-13-2016, 06:38 PM)TnT Wrote: (05-12-2016, 06:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I may have saved my father's life.
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Nursing homes -- where capitalist greed meets socialist irresponsibility.
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In my work I'm in and out of nursing homes all the time. In our area there may possibly be one or two that can claim the term "healthcare facility."
The vast, vast majority are shitholes. Despite my excellent health at this time I've decided to execute a DNR/DNI this year.
Whoever coined the term "sanctity of life" is a seeping, pus-filled lesion on the a** of humanity.
Thank God for living wills.
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Don't get me wrong, DNR/DNI's and living wills are very, very important. However, you really need to be attentive and assertive about their use and application.
It's good to have many, many copies and to carry them to every significant healthcare event, and insist that they put them on the chart that is to be used during THIS event.
And, one has to be wary of relatives and/or home healthcare folks. I've been on several 911 calls where the patient has done all the paperwork carefully and correctly, all the t's dotted and the i's crossed. Then someone else on scene loses their nerve and either "loses" the paperwork, or tears it up, and there we are, working a code on someone who did not want any of this. And now the patient, if we get them back, is likely facing egregious disability, pain etc. instead of what they wanted.
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Well, it's obviously been a long time, but good to see all of you again, albeit in a different venue. There's been no singular reason why I've been absent, simply been busy with life in general. Who knows if that busyness will reduce my presence in the future or not, but just wanted to let you that I'm still around and well. Finally, I still think about S&H and the theory plenty, especially with the current events at hand. But I'll save those for other threads here!
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My father is doing much better. He is becoming more coherent and presentable.
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(05-14-2016, 10:06 PM)taramarie Wrote: (05-14-2016, 07:32 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: My father is doing much better. He is becoming more coherent and presentable.
Great news! 
Even better -- he has quit treating me as a whipping boy.
I will be heavily involved in his rehab, as I will need to seek to make him as independent as possible for however many weeks or months that he has left. So far I have managed his finances and his medicines. I will be involved in more intimate, and often unpleasant activities.
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(05-18-2016, 10:26 PM)Odin Wrote: A cousin of mine was murdered last weekend.
RIP Cory 
My deepest sympathy.
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(05-18-2016, 01:44 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: (05-12-2016, 06:29 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I may have saved my father's life.
I got a call from the nursing home about 8 AM EST stating that my father was showing signs of circulatory failure -- discoloration of his knees -- due to dehydration and malnutrition. I was asked whether I wanted to have the nursing home 'make him comfortable' or send him to the hospital. I went to the nursing home with my dog (the dog has a right to know if the end is nigh for a loved one, I suppose, as he got to know for my mother), and my father responded more to the dog than to me. But he did face me.
I am not writing him off. I decided to send him to the hospital so that he could be treated for the dehydration and malnutrition. Guess what happened? The hospital took him off Fentanyl, and he started moving his legs about.
"Make him comfortable". I am glad that I could read between the lines on that piece of Orwellian deceit.
Nursing homes -- where capitalist greed meets socialist irresponsibility.
It's too bad that Dickens or Hugo isn't around to relate such a nightmare. You have seen it from me, from someone with practically no literary talent.
With all the aging Boomers and a decent number of them with significant assets I'm confident we are going to see yet another Boomer led revolution - this time in the realm of dealing with aging. This is the one area where I look forward to walking in the footsteps of the Boomers. Xers will have all sorts of options to deal with aging and the costs will just get lower and lower the more we age (well, at least true for us Ataris - longer lived Nintendos will experience increasing costs due to the onset of Millie aging ... ).
But I am a Boomer, and my father is a Depression-era Silent. Nursing-home costs have destroyed my chance of starting over. I am beginning to wish that I had chain-smoked so that I would already be dead from cancer. I have no real way to start over. I am in a community that I loathe and have no reasonable way out. Medical insurance costs more than the payments on a Mercedes-Benz at my age.
A few Boomers have unimaginable assets because they are members or have been members of the Executive elite, people paid very well for treating workers very badly on behalf of even richer people. These people get rich by creating and enforcing mass poverty. Those Boomers are conspicuously successful. Now what about those who have had blue-collar, pink-collar, or low-paying white-collar jobs all their lives? Boomer elites have never shown solidarity with any other than people richer and more powerful than themselves.
What meaning have those elites left the rest of America?
Boomer economic elites are the worst exploiters in American history since the antebellum planters who had the audacity to claim that they were the best thing that ever happened to their slaves. Gilded elites? They had so little polish that they were easy to lampoon -- but at least they were the pioneers of Big Business that allowed economic modernization. Boomer elites have the polish -- and the power. Boomer elites are experts at treating other people badly while insisting that they be seen as benefactors to those that they exploit and abuse.
It's narcissism, folks. Someone who makes his living as a subordinate to the economic elites gets slave-like humility enforced upon him early. I can't imagine a waitress or checker-cashier of even the Boomer generation holding onto any conceit. What younger people hate in Boomers is what they see in Boomer elites -- men my age with wives less than half their age, two-ex-wives, and a raft of spoiled-brat kids who are never going to amount to anything. They went to college and had a fun official major with a minor in living beyond the means of most working people before they have ever held a job.
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Update on Huntsville Research Park.
Quote:http://www.al.com/business/index.ssf/201...river_home
… “ the Chamber unveiled a new blueprint for CRP, the second-largest research park in the U.S. and fourth-largest in the world.”…
… "CRP has more than 300 companies and 29,000 employees. Officials hope an updated master plan will bring CRP into the future, produce jobs, attract and retain businesses and lure young professionals to the area.”…
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Some early history of missile development in Huntsville AL. From the Army Redstone Arsenal, two major programs were launched:
1. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center(MSFC) in 1959
2. The pioneering development of the nations ballistic missile defense program. This research formed the basis for the Strategic Defense Initiative(SDI) in 1983.
Quote:http://themilitarystandard.com/missile/redstone.php
… "Huntsville's Role in Ballistic/Guided Missile Development
In 1950, 120 German scientists led by Dr. Wernher von Braun along with American scientists and military personnel arrived from Fort Bliss, Texas, to begin work. Work at Redstone had initially centered on rocket-related research and development including basic and applied research on free rockets, jet-assisted takeoff engines, and solid-propellant fuels. With the arrival of the von Braun team, Redstone also became responsible for research and development of guided missiles. Their first major project was to develop a surface-to-surface missile with a 500-mile range. This missile became known as the Redstone.”..
… "February 1, 1956, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) came into existence at Redstone Arsenal under the jurisdiction of the Chief of Ordnance and assumed control of the facilities of the former Guided Missile Development Division of Redstone's Ordnance Missile Laboratory. Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris became ABMA’s first commander.”…
…The October 4, 1957, Soviet launch of Sputnik proved to be an important factor. Although earlier ABMA offers to launch a satellite were spurred in favor of the Navy’s Vanguard program, on November 8, 1957, Defense Secretary McElroy ordered ABMA to prepare a Jupiter C missile to launch a satellite.”…
… "On March 31,1958 the new Army Ordnance Missile Command (AOMC) stood up at Redstone Arsenal with Maj. Gen. Medaris in command. ABMA became a subordinate command of AOMC on the following day, as did the newly formed U.S. Army Guided Missile Agency (ARGMA),
… "On October 21, 1959, President Eisenhower ordered components of the military's space program to be transferred to NASA. Thus in July 1960, a substantial proportion of ABMA facilities was leased to NASA to become the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center.”….
… "In 1963, Nike Zeus became Nike X. The Huntsville Project Office continued to fund research to develop vital components of what eventually would be dubbed the Sentinel and later Safeguard ABM systems.
… "With Secretary of Defense McNamara announcing in September 1967 his decision to deploy Sentinel, another reorganization placed the Huntsville Project Office under the new U.S. Sentinel Systems Command (SENSCOM). Because the Department of Defense restricted SENSCOM to functions relating to the engineering requirements needed to support Sentinel deployment, the Army set up an additional organization to support research and development (R&D) for an advanced system. This organization eventually became the U.S. Army Advanced Ballistic Missile Defense Agency (ABMDA) and reported directly to the Army's Chief of Research and Development. Although collocated in Washington with the SENSCOM System Office, ABMDA also maintained a presence in Huntsville adjacent to the SENSCOM field quarters.”….
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Although Huntsville in known as the ‘Rocket City’( and NASA still gets most of the Press), you can see from the employment numbers that Huntsville is more of an Army town.
( The MSFC employment peaked at ~ 7500 Civil Service in the mid 1960’s.)
http://www.huntsvillealabamausa.com/inde...Itemid=355
Top Employers:
Company/Agency
Employees
U.S. Army/Redstone Arsenal **~ 20,000 Civil Service****
31,500
NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center*~ 2600 Civil Service*
6,500
Huntsville Hospital
6,341
Huntsville City Schools
3,000
The Boeing Company
2,600
Madison County Schools
2,389
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation)
2,277
City of Huntsville
2,206
http://www.businessalabama.com/Business-...c-Engines/
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(05-24-2016, 04:03 PM)taramarie Wrote: (05-24-2016, 03:58 PM)radind Wrote: Although Huntsville in known as the ‘Rocket City’( and NASA still gets most of the Press), you can see from the employment numbers that Huntsville is more of an Army town.
( The MSFC employment peaked at ~ 7500 Civil Service in the mid 1960’s.)
http://www.huntsvillealabamausa.com/inde...Itemid=355
Top Employers:
Company/Agency
Employees
U.S. Army/Redstone Arsenal **~20,000 Civil Service****
31,500
NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center*~2600 Civil Service*
6,500
Huntsville Hospital
6,341
Huntsville City Schools
3,000
The Boeing Company
2,600
Madison County Schools
2,389
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation)
2,277
City of Huntsville
2,206
http://www.businessalabama.com/Business-...c-Engines/
This probably is not the thread for these kinds of posts as this is more for light hearted, more personal discussion.
OK with me to move it.
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