Top 5 Pet Peeves I just need to scream about

#5. People who say "Baffroom" instead of "Bathroom"

#4. People who drink " EXPRESSO" IT'S not Expresso it's Espresso.

#3. People who say "Bofe" instead of "Both" as in "Use Bofe Hands"

#2. People that use the phrase "No what I'm Sayin" or " Ya feel me?" constantly during a conversation.

#1. People Who "AXE" me Questions. It's "ASK" " ASK" ASK" for Christ sake the word is "ASK"

Debbie is getting worse. Every night she seems to lose a little bit more of her self. Her mind is not working right. She has all the classic signs of dementia. It is happening so fast. The lack of O2 must be wreaking havoc on her brain cells. I am at my wits end. I do not know how to handle this. I try not to get angry but I Get no sleep. My whole life is consumed with fear of what is going to happen next. "Oh Lord I'm not ready for this sort of Thing" I want my wife back. I want my Life Back. I don't want to die like this. But Death almost seems a welcome Relief right now.

Decending Rapidly into the "NyQuil Blues"

This just has not been a good week. I noticed Monday that Debbie had a cough developing. By Wednesday she appeared to have a really bad cold. She took some
"NyQuil" Gel caps and went to bed. About 1 am she awoke with terrible breathing problems. I knew immediately that she had pneumonia again. So I called an ambulance and off we went to the ER. We arrived about 1:45am. After the routine oxygen and chest x-rays and all that I heard the doctor say that he was sending her for a CT scan. I assumed that he meant on her lungs. After about an hour I went out for a cup of coffee and to my surprise found that they had removed all the coffee machines from the hospital. What were they thinking? Any way after a while I heard my name over the paging system. I returned to the ER and the Doctor said that they had done a CT of her brain and that it showed some definite shrinking of the blood vessels and veins. This was probably because her O2 sats were only 84. When she put the oxygen hose on they went up to a proper 98. He therefore admitted her to the hospital. He said that she had a little pneumonia in the base of her lungs and with the low O2 she was in danger of a stroke or heart attack. He said that he wanted to do an MRI. It was now about 4:am and there wasn't anything I could do there and if I didn't get some rest I was not going to be of any use to her when she did come home so I left for home and tried to get some sleep, Yea right, like I could sleep. I was afraid that if I took an ambien I would sleep all day and miss a phone call or something so I just laid there with my eyes closed till about 8:am.

I returned to the hospital about 10:am to find that they had not moved her to a regular room yet and that they decided not to do an MRI but did a second CT scan instead. Now I am being told that both CT scans were normal. This dose not jive with what the first ER doctor on the graveyard shift said. Trying to get a straight answer from any one in a situation like this is like pulling teeth. One shift does not know what the previous shift said or did. It is crazyness. So now she is at home on home oxygen. They delivered aa O2 concentrator that makes pure O2 from the room air and 5 portable tanks for when she leaves the hous. Trouble is that the tanks are to big to carry on her mobility scooter. I have to contact her doctor to obtain a presciption for the smaller unit that can be worn over the shoulder or hung on the back rest of her scooter.

Trying to sleep in the same room with an oxygen conentrator is difficult because it makes this odd sound that I can only describe as "Darth Vader" Breathing.
Oh yea the night she took the NyQuil she had also taken an ativan and later 4 tsp of Robitussin with codeine so she was also over medicated. Reminds me of a song that my band and I used to do.

NyQuil Blues
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Give me a bottle of NyQuil
That restful sleep my body needs
I said give me a bottle of NyQuil
That restful sleep my Body needs
With it analgesic decongestants
and them antihistamines.

Boycott Dollar Tree Stores

I will No longer shop at the "Dollar Tree" store for the following reason.
On March 29th 2006 a girl named Tameka was murdered at her job at our local Dollar Tree. Tameka was the mother of a 9 year old boy and was childs sole support. I read in Fridays paper that the Insurance company for the Dollar tree is denying workers comp. Death benefits that are due the minor child. These benefits amount to $224 a week till age 18 or a total of approx. $81,000. This amount is a drop in the bucket for the ins. co. and the Dollar Tree. Their reason for denial is that the murder was racially motivated. What difference does the motivation have to do with anything? She was on the job, killed at work end of story. She did not know her attacker it was not a personal attack. According to the paper he claimed that he entered the store and killed a woman because she was black. Why would anyone admit to this knowing that it would bring about a hate crime enhancement? I think that the Insurance co. Is just plain looking for an out. Please join me in Boycotting the "Dollar Tree" stores until they do the right thing and pay this claim.

FOGHORN LEGHORN:WEASEL WHILE YOU WORK

It's another beautiful Day in northern California. The sun is shining, it is about 66* or so. The sky Is a beautiful Blue. The other day when I went to My doctors appointment I stepped on the scale and was pleased to find that I had lost 6 pounds. But the next day I took Debbie to her appointment and stepped on their scale. According to the scale at Debbie's doctors office I had Gained 6 pounds. So I don't know which is correct. I guess I'll just have to buy a good quality bathroom scale and go by it and it alone. I bet if I used three different scales I would get three different results.

Cat Gone Crazy

I think Salem Has gone crazy. All Day Long she has been blindsiding me. Attacking me from every direction. Its all playful mind you but she has got a set of claws and every now and then she connects with them. Man it's a beautiful day today. The sun is shining and the air smells cleaner than it has in a long time because of the rain.