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08/30/2007
Emeryville.
Emeryville.
Now, I notice you have visited this site once or twice. Wonder if it is by mistake or if you like that Helicopter game? Not played that for ages. Used to drive me mad. Never got a good score.
Is Emeryville near San Francisco? I went there last year and would go again tomorrow if I had the chance. It's a wonderful place.
We stayed near Pier 39. Seals, seafood and such. We live near the seaside here, so not overstruck on seafood. Those lobsters were waving at me but how could I eat one when they were so friendly?
We also had good weather, it was June when we went. I must say, it was a trip of a lifetime.
22:27 Posted in General Chat! | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: pier39, seals, emeryville, sanfrancisco, holiday
08/29/2007
Through this machine....................
Hiya Vic,
Through this machine I got to find out about the man I believe to be my natural / biological father. I also got to ring you and have a little chat. Ok, I did ring 5 am your time but honestly, didn't mean to. I still think you are my half-brother. On the phone you sounded a very nice chap.
I asked if it was ok to write to you, you said yes. So I did then spent days and weeks on tenterhooks awaiting your reply. But it never came. I think I upset your other half-sister, didn't mean to though.
Last year my sister and I went to San Francisco, not far from where you live or lived. I dearly wanted to knock on your door and say hello. But I respected your privacy. Sent you a postcard telling you where we were staying.
Maybe you have moved, maybe you lost my address and phone number. But I think that for some reason, you just don't want to know me. Why? I don't know.
Don't suppose you will ever read this as a few years ago you didn't have a computer.
All the best Vic,
anne. x x x x
00:30 Posted in My Computer. | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: biological, father, halfbrother, SFO
08/27/2007
I don't think..............
I don't think I suffer as much from hypochondria these days. Don't get me wrong, I still have bouts. It's the turn of the "younger" generation now. Not the teenagers but the forty year old or so people.
My aches and pains are real now. My hip hurts, usually after I have been to work. I get cramp a lot. My tum still acts up but at least they are real things.
Maybe now I am older my imagination isn't as good or maybe I think if I worry about imaginary illnesses, I might really get them.
Still battling on with the trying to stop smoking. I will beat it! Oh yes.
Have a good week everyone please.
22:30 Posted in Hypochondria | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: hypochondria, smoking, age
08/25/2007
What do you say????????Hospital food.
A gentleman patient asked me today if his wife was in the kitchen. I could honestly say no as there was no one in the ward kitchen. Then I asked nurse in charge if his wife visits?
No, she doesn't, she died in January.
Some nurses, like I did, gloss it over, I did it because I just didn't know. Then nurse in charge told him, kindly but with complete honesty that his wife had died a while ago.
He became tearful then seemed to accept it.
I am going to work again on Sunday, if the gentleman is still on the ward, what's the betting the poor soul asks about his wife again?
Before my holidays and a very elderly lady asked the nurse in charge to ring her mother and father. No way.
I think it is so sad!
But once, we had a lady in her late seventies, her dad rang the ward to see how she was doing. Of course, the nurse who took the phone call was taken aback. But it was true.
So one must not assume must one?
I have been reading about patients not getting enough to eat in hospitals.
Ok.
Now, all I know about is the one I work at, (part time.) There is nothing wrong with the sizes of the meals.
You could choose from, small, medium or large.
Lunch is a three course meal and so is what we call supper.
I work with elderly patients. Now, my memory isn't good. I am first to admit it.
So, tomorrow (Monday) a nurse will go through the menu with the patient. (Unless the patient can do it themselves.) They will be asked what they would like for lunch on Wednesday. So say, tomato soup, Lancashire hotpot and rice pudding for afters. They will choose for supper too.
Ok.
Later that day.
Supper time, 5pm. Soup, sandwich and Plum Fool arrive. "But I didn't order that" they say, "I ordered Hotpot." Might even remember what they ordered for Tuesday. But it is different to what they ordered Saturday for tomorrow!
Hope you are keeping up with this. lol Of course, not all patients have a memory like me, but there are a few!
Please tell me too, how on earth can you make a patient eat when they don't want to??? It is sad for a nurse to see someone not eating. It's worse if they don't eat for a few days. All the encouraging, coaxing and such in the world won't make them eat if they don't want to do so.
Visitors bring things in and even they are left untouched.
It's so sad.
14:23 Posted in Nursing | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: food, hospital, elderly, patients
08/24/2007
Well? Is life good or bad?
Kids getting shot in the street.
This refuse malarky, I am too old to work out what goes in what. Just got used to the change in money, the new two pence etc. lol But I know what I would rather put up with.
Ok, when I was young there were fights. Bottles and such. But you knew where to keep away from. And what time of the year too. Flick knives had been banned I think.
As I sail on to the winter of my years, I worry, just hope that everything and I mean everything improves.
Why can't people just get on with their lives? Why fight and kill? Those parents that have lost a child, poor things. I can't imagine how they feel. People blame the parents of the killers. Are they right?
12:33 Posted in Life, good or bad? | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: fights, kill, shot
Well.................
I bought some material and my sewing machine still hasn't been cut out. It was to be a simple skirt for summer.
My poor sewing machine. I had such high hopes for it. I badly need lessons. Himdownstairs keeps getting at the little piles of my attempted sewing. He finds it amusing. Huh.
I knew a lady, she went to sewing lessons and turned out all sorts, jackets and coats! Amazing. It takes me three hours to thread the thing. Must get my eyes retested. Well overdue.
00:02 Posted in Sewing machine! | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: sewing, machine, material, skirt, lessons, himdownstairs
08/23/2007
Well, here I am!
Lovely, I have got back on here after a long time. Thank you Arnaud. I had long lost my password.
Update.
Well, where to begin? Hope you are all doing well?
I am now 63 and a half. I have been trying to give up the cigs since October the 21st 2006. Tried all sorts and now on day 4 of Champix. Fingers crossed.
Elder son hit forty in April, granddaughter 16 in July. We are at the moment waiting for a call from her about her exam results!
I still work everynow and then. Aches and pains seem to be getting worse though. Keep saying I will stop altogether but I only do two late shifts still and not as often as I used to.
Notice I have had a few visits from Emeryville. CA. I was in San Francisco last June, anywhere near there? Really enjoyed it too. Would go tomorrow if I could.
Take care everyone.
19:30 Posted in General Chat! | Permalink | Comments (0) | Email this | Tags: Back, password, smoking, champix, update