Rant ONnnnnn

RANT ON!!!


Most of the day was pretty good but at our last family meeting things were horribly out of control. The resident and her son came to the meeting on time, the daughter was late. When she did arrive she breezed into the room and began to tell us all about her horrid day and her Dr. appointment, she was talking to her brother over her mother's voice so we couldn't hear her. .... Now i have been trying to be good, I have ran these meetings for years but since I am no longer working in that position I have been trying to let my predecessor to the job..... well do her job. The talking kept getting louder and louder nobody was paying attention to the resident and the activity director, Linda kept kicking the bottom of my chair... Finally I let out a whistle and said..... Okay everybody! We need to get this meeting back on track..... every one quieted down and we tried to start the meeting. The resident is on an 1800 calorie diet and has gained some weight since admission. We started talking with her about that and the fact that she has many food allergies so it is hard for her to find something to eat that is allowed. The daughter's cell phone began to ring.... Let me tell you it annoys the hell out of me when people bring their cell phones to this meeting. I have had nurses, families and even a couple of residents bring their phones.
The daughter answered the phone and said she had to take the call..... she walked over toward the door....... did she go out of the room and close the door. HELL NO! She then started to have a really loud conversation with someone ... and I mean loud enough that she once again interrupted the meeting... finally she shut the hell up and came back to the table.

She then immediately began berating us because her mother has gained weight and she had brought her a twelve pack of diet pop a few days ago and she had given explicit orders to the nurses that Mom was only allowed to have two pops per day. She then took out a Kleenex and said to her Mom you have something on your chin and proceeded to swipe at her chin... then she began to wipe her nose saying loudly, "For God's sake Mom you have bugger!"

Once again the activity director began kicking the bottom of my chair while everyone else was looking on aghast. I decided to address the pop situation. I said, "Well first of all let me talk to you about the soda. Your mother is an adult and if she asks us to give her one of her own sodas we have to give it to her. It is her right she is an adult." I sort of thought that this needed to be explained to her because I kind of had the impression she thought Mom was a 5 year old,, but I could have been mistaken.. I don't know maybe the bugger thing confused me.

Now lots of people seem to think that once they put Mom or Dad in long term care that they can give us any kind of instruction about choices that Mom/Dad can make and we are bound by some law that says Mom/Dad's ability to make a decision left the minute they signed them up to stay with us. SO NOT TRUE!!

There is a little thing called Resident Rights that all long term care facilities have to abide by. If people are admitted and are not deemed incapable of making their own decisions by either a court or two Dr.s we can make suggestions and tell them what their Dr. says they need to do but we can't MAKE anyone do anything because it is their right to make their own decisions even if they are bad.

I have had people tell me that they expect me to whip Mama into shape or tell her we are going to kick her out into the street if she doesn't do therapy ...... NOT GONNA HAPPEN. One woman wanted me to tell her mother in law that if she didn't follow her diet we could make her stop going to Dialysis. Holy Jumped up ??????????????? what kind of place do they think we run?

Anyway back to the meeting. After our/my conversation about resident rights everyone got kind of quiet. Linda stopped kicking my chair and we ended the meeting. I went to the resident taking her diet card with me so we could talk about things that we might work into her diet so that she would be happier. She mumbled something about her "Nazi daughter" and grabbed my arm and burst into tears. The family immediately started berating her for crying and for gaining weight.

I had to leave the room, I couldn't stand it one more minute or someone was going to get hurt.

The sad sick silly thing about this.... they both are overweight themselves, the son probably weighs 400 pounds and I wanted to go into my office and cry instead I went to the activity office and kicked Linda's chair for awhile. I also told her then when we are old and in a nursing home if one of my kids even thinks about treating me this way I will get up out of my wheelchair and kick her ( I have four daughters) ass out the door and around the block even if it frickin kills me dead!

RANT OFF

Oh Happy Day!!

Take a tip from me...... never ever buy a new computer and be ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE that you have backed up your webpage and format your old computer to give to your kids before CHECKING AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes I am have been rebuilding the 4thekids website from the ground floor up in fact it is not done yet. But I am still plugging away in my free time.

This morning I am eating my pancakes...... made from the Chocolate cake recipe that goes in the microwave with a few revisions.

Have a happy day!

Journaling

Journaling:

This is something new to me. I have stared this week due to the fact that I went off my guiafenesin for a couple of weeks when I was sick because I was eating cough drops and didn't want to waste it.

When I started the protocol over a year ago I neglected to take care of this and start a symptom journal to see when I was clearing and cycling. I have decided after this holiday to get things right and do the journal. I have been writing something in it everyday today I wrote all of my measurements. How does this pertain to low carb? Well because the diet that goes along with the Guiafenesin protocol for Hypoglycemics is a low carb diet.

See sometimes I think I have so much trouble staying on my diet is because it is some kind of rebellion (subconsciously of course) on my part to keep on denying that I have a life altering disease. Even though I was diagnosed over ten years ago I have continued to do things that were bad for me and that I knew could cause consequenses with my pain.

I think now that I have come to terms with the fact that I must deal with this. Am I going to have bad days..... yes I am. Am I going to have times where I want to eat something bad for me and am I going to do it. Yes I probably am but now comes the time to recognize that this is going to happen, stop burying my head in the sand and come to grips with the fact that I have a disease and I need to do everything I can to take care of my health.

Looking at Myself

Things are still on track and my cheating genes appear to have gone into remission this week. I am feeling much better pain wise and irritable bowel wise. Also much more organized and clear headed about work etc. I have not had so much depression this week. I know all of this is true of myself when I am low carb stable so why am I typing this here? So that I can go back and look at these words when I am considering falling off my eating plan.

Greek Yogurt

Why didn't anyone tell me how crazy good this stuff is??? ? Okay well someone might have mentioned it. I just didn't want to lay down the 4 bucks for it... buy yummm it was worth it. I put about a tablespoon of finely chopped pecans and some SF Caramel syrup in it. So smooth and creamy.

I am now down 6 pounds in three days and feeling very unstressed about life and eating right now.
I spent Saturday with my daughter, son in law and grand kids. Little baby is growing like a bad weed and thinks she should be able to stand. Ian was much calmer then he has been. I think having the baby around has actually been a good influence. I was afraid he would be horribly jealous and be even more attention seeking but if anything he is less and is spending more time keeping himself busy with his toys etc. We grilled out and I had steak and salad.

Last night I had roast beef and a weird salad I concocted. I will have to work on a recipe as I just threw a few things together.

CostCo Heaven and Misc. Gossip

A couple of months ago we decided to get a membership to Costco. We had in the past had one for Sam's Club but had not used it for quite some time. Last night we decided to go there and buy some meat.

Man!! Did we ever buy some meat. I bought a large pack of some of the best looking Ribeye's I have seen in years! They are about two inches thick and very tender. I cooked two of them on the grill last night and in the great Rachael Ray's words YUM O!!

I also bought roasts and some very nice looking round steak. This morning I packed it all up and put it in the freezer well except for the roast I put in the crock pot today.

I also bought Romaine Lettuce, Baby Belle Mushrooms, butter, cheese etc. Other half wanted me to buy him a 50 pound bag of rice in the case the world comes to an end... but I declined and told him to buy his own. ... I guess I created a monster when I bought him that little rice cooker so that he could make his own since I am not eating it.

Yep I am back to low carbing.

I have made some large changes in my life this past month and believe it or not I actually am feeling much happier. I got rid of one of the jobs I had at work so now am down to one and loving it. I am much more relaxed this past two weeks. Although it was very hard for me to let go and I had some misgivings about giving up the nursing part of my job I have to admit I am much much happier with what I am doing. On top of all that I got a new office that actually has a freakin window!! YEAH ME!

I also bought a few weeks ago the cutest little egg cooker you have ever seen it looks like a chicken and you can either boil or poach eggs in it. It makes a little chirping noise whenever the eggs are done... or the water boils dry. My kids think I am nuts but oh well they have thought that ever since they were teenagers anyway so LIKE I CARE!

Chicken Sausage and Beans

4 Chicken sausages cut into slices
1/4 Cup chopped Sun Dried Tomatoes
1 Roasted Red Pepper
1 Can Cannelloni Beans
1 Cup Chicken Broth
1 Small Onion Chopped
2 Stalks Celery Chopped
1 Lg Clove Garlic Minced
1 tablespoon Olive Oil
1 Tsp Smoked Sweet Paprika
Salt N Pepper

Saute the onion, celery and garlic until starting to soften in the olive oil. Add the Chicken Broth, and Sausages. Cook for ten minutes. Add the beans, spices and Peppers. This can be eaten like this or over brown rice.