D D I'm giving a SHOUT OUT

and a HEADS UP  to anyone remotely thinking about having the bladder sling procedure/surgery that I just had done.
There was nothing to fear, except FEAR ITSELF.  I shit you not!
NO PAIN !!!!
Was given an RX for 20 Vicoden and have not had to take a one.
Except for some occasional discomfort from the packing up inside me the first 19 hours until a home health care nurse came and removed it, it's been A Walk In The Park.  I shit you not!
BETTER YET....no more leaking !!!!  Now one hundred percent of my urine is released into the toilet.
Poise pads...... are going to be a thing of the past! :0)
It's MARVELOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
I feel MARVELOUS!   I shit you not!
RUN.....don't walk to a urologist if you have been peeing your pants coughing, straining, sneezing, laughing, walking. sitting and in general just BEING! 

My urologist is my BEST FRIEND!  I shit you not!

Great News

I was sworn to secrecy....but I know I can trust you.

My grandson Ryan and his wife Sarah are EXPECTING. :0)

Number ONE for them and number TWELVE great grand child for me.

They live in a small one bedroom apartment which was within their means to rent, BUT signed a contract before they moved in. There is LEAD PAINT in this older building and NO CHILDREN can live there. 

The reason they have only told their parents is because they want to wait until she is further along. 

Being I was having surgery the day after they told Jill they okayed it for her to tell me. :0)

Ryan has lived with us many years. From age one to ten, then again for another year when he was eighteen and we were as close to him as we are to Logan. Ryan will be thirty on September 21st. A good age to become a parent . I wasn't told a due date yet. I'm pretty sure that the weather will be on the colder side and I need to knit and crochet sweater sets and blankets. :0)

More good news........well maybe.

Jill is TIRED of cleaning ferret shit and is now trying to convince Logan that someone else will love and care for them.  Lots of crying from him, but I think he will come around.  :0) :0)

Let's hope it happens while I am here.  I do...I shit you not!

I didn't sign up for cleaning ferret shit either !!!! 

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D D I'm Alive

Feel like I'll be ready to kick my heels when I get this Foley thingie out later today.
The visitng nurse can't come soon enough FOR ME.
I'd much rather do my eliminating of fluid in a toilet than in a bag.

I didn't get into O.R. until around 4 p.m and it was suppose to be 1:45.
Lots of laying on a gurney time with your thoughts. :0(
It's a little after 5 a.m.
Going to go get off my ass. Sitting makes me feel like I am jamming this catherter further inside me. Ouchy.
Thanks to all for your thoughts and prayers. :0)

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D D Will today be the day?

Only IF that urinary tract infection is gone and of course I won't know that until I go in at 11:15 and give a urine sample.
I was worried about how hubby will get his meds on time. My thought was to ask Diane...she has so much to do already in her days.  I've omitted that she talks on Skype to ALL her family members and friends throughout her day.
It's like there is another family living in the house as they watch her day unfold and see what the kids are doing. Talk, talk, talk, talk...talk!  I shit you not!
She has said that they are a close family and THEY ARE! 
   As DIL Deb and I drove to our WW Meeting she told me she had re-arranged her work schedule so that she will be the one taking me to the hospital today. :0)
More smiles :0) :0) :0) .........I've lost ten percent of my weight.  Another 3,2 lbs. OFF and I weigh 191.4
Ta Da! 
Trish at FoxyMoron gave me a few suggestions. Shaking up what I have been eating ...was one besides walking. I ate different things this week, which included MY potato salad ( in moderation,of course.)
I overheard someone at the meeting say that when you get up in the morning, use the bathroom and weigh yourself . That will be your true weight.
I like Deb's scale this morning. 190.0  Happy,Happy!  I shit you not !

Hubby has shown confusion during the night, more than once.  Just awhile ago he came out of our bedroom and when I asked why he was up so early he said he thought he heard me call him.
Then he told me that I should empty his urinal. I'm asking him, :Why." It's full he told me. I lifted it up to his eye level and he mutters that he thought it was fuller than that.  It was 2 inches deep at the most.
I asked him how he felt today and he said "shitty" and laid back down.
DIL Deb is up and I just ran things past her. Confusion is one of the signs of dehydration.
She asked when he would be confronted with the possibilty that he could die from dehydration.
A simple blood test would confirm dehydration, she said. My answer was today after my surgery if I feel strong enough to argue with him. Coming from both her and I he might listen and make a choice.
Be admitted to the hospital again orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Baby Aliya just woke up.  Daddy is with her. :0)

I'm sitting here scared for the both of us.
Three and a half more hours until I know if my surgery is a GO. 


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D D Comedy Central Day 2

It's still Tuesday May 3rd and I'm still waiting to go to WalMart.
No sooner than I hung my purse over my shoulder did I hear..............Hold on. Brian ( Corinne's boyfriend ) is on his way here to have his headlight changed.
He finally arrived and the next thing I saw was him in the house with Corinne and he is playing a baseball game on his cell phone.  My head swiveled around towards the garage where he had pulled his car in out of the hot sun and I headed into the garage. I'm looking at my son and grandson Derek looking at the problem under the hood and here's this guy at least twenty years old playing a game on his phone.
I look at Diane and she looks at me and she says, " Sonny ( meaning my son ) is a good guy."
Around 2:15 Corinne left for work and Brian went out to the garage.
It gets to be 3 and I lie down on our bed beside hubby. 
Around four DIL Deb came home and after much to do.....she and Diane along with Ava go to the Cambodian store for the staples Diane needs.  What would have cost her $25 in RI , she paid $65 here.  Things were marked up upsurdedly.  One two dollar item in RI was seven dollars here.
Meantime Derek is pushing Aliya around in the garage in her stroller to pacify her and I took this opportunity to climb beside hubby and doze off.
It was around five when they got back and I was told by Derek that we were ready to leave. Again I slung my purse over my shoulder.  Then Deb said that she and Derek needed to go to Sams Club first as things ( fruit and veggies ) needed to be bought in bulk to cut the cost down and what they don't find there..then Sonny and I and Derek can get what else we need  at Walmart.  Sooooooooooooooo I sat at my laptop and within minutes as Diane was making baby cereal for Aliya and peeling a banana for Ava I watched from a distance at my laptop as Ava climbed up onto the recliner/rocker and began to rock on her knees and she fell backwards onto the tile floor. From the other side of the room and what seemed like slow motion ( as I sat frozen ) I watched the scene unfold to my horror. :0( 
What a bump she has on her forehead. I ran for ice and a face cloth and Diane had a heck of a time trying to keep it on her..  She's holding Aliya in one arm and trying to sooth a crying Ava and keep ice on her head with the other.
Sooooooooooooooooo that's where I am now at 5:30 p.m.  Waiting.
If we don't get to Walmart....no big deal.  There is always tomorrow.
Meantime....hubby has/had spent the day in bed sleeping off and on.  In all the confusion of getting groceries put away he decides to come out to the couch. 
Oh goody, I'm thinking and rush to make the bed..Fifteen minutes later he was back in it. He was cold.
Let me tell you what I have heard out of him year after year for YEARS as soon as it gets cold in MA.
"I want to go to Florida." I shit you not!  Day after day, " I'm cold..I want to go to Florida." 
I swear he said it more than he needed to just to  pissed me off.  :0(
Now he is here...........and HE IS COLD!   WTF !!!!
Oh and year after year I hear , " I never used one kleenex when I was in Florida." He has gone through at least eight boxes.  I shit you not!
I'm not saying this to be ugly.  I'm getting frustrated standing and watching him deteriate and not helping himself. " I can't help it if I feel sick" he tells me.  Sigh....neither can I.
    So here I sit at my laptop. Diane is making a stir fry . Derek is trying to pacify his kids and is letting Ava tear apart the box of swimmers Pull Ups and open the package.  She likes to count , so she is using her pull ups to count. Kids stuff is strewn about ( kids will be kids ) and it's chaos in general. 
Only four and a half hours before they sleep.  If we are lucky. 
I had seven kids in seven years. I would love to see these two parents handle that when just their two keep them running like chickens missing their heads.  It's comic. 
DIL Deb is not use to this confusion....no siree.  I shit you not !
Now Ava has a bag of chips and wants it opened.  She is banging it around.  They will become potato chip-chips..  ;0)
Diane announced that supper is ready.  I'd like to learn to cook some of these dishes.

This stir fry was okay.  Added some of her Houisan sauce and it made it better than OKAY. 
Ava played with her food and played in her grape juice.  Wonder why. She has been eating junk ...a little bit here that she wants and just takes a nibble of and a little bit there.  She wants...she gets. All she has to do is ask. Not my problem,,,,you say.  Yep, in two weeks when they leave ...it's their life.  Not mine. :0)
The parents have a problem, not the kids. 
Oh well.....I am a good example why OLD people don't have kids. 
I have no patience for this shit and never did. I could say the word "NO" to my kids and their crying didn't harm them physically or mentally.  
Eighteen swimmer pull ups at the cost of $12 and Ava wants them on as a diaper. One pee and she takes them off.  OMG!!!!  Ka Ching, KaChing.

It's Wednesday May 4th ...Hubbies sister Peg's 76th birthday. 
She's a sweetheart. I lucked out with good in laws. I shit you not!

My son, grandson and I headed out to Walmart sometime near eleven.
Walmart is practically empty at that time of night.
 We did one strip mall casino on the way there. I made $33. My son $32 and grandson lost forty cents on our starting twenty dollars.  :0)

It's 7:30 a.m. DIL Deb is almost ready to begin her work day. Grandson L.J. is getting ready to go to his college classes.
It's a new day. Let's hope it's a better day for hubby.

   It's NOT!   He woke at nine.  It's almost eleven and he has come out to sit on the couch . 
That is an improvement over yesterday, but he still says he feels lousy and yet his B/P was 132/69 pulse 48 which is good.  As to what is going on with him...I have no idea.  sigh!
   I will take this opportunity to get him showered as it's been a few day.
Listening to Itsy Bitsy Spider on a ? and Dora on TV.  Diane is singing the song to the kids.
Ava ate less than  half of a banana Diane offered to her, then she wanted yogurt and took a few spoonfuls. Now Diane is offering her strawberries and is rising from the floor to wash them off and put them in a bowl.
All day long this goes on.  Food , interactive play with mom and diapers changed from the time they get up until they DROP..
No one can say that these children are neglected.  I shit you not!  She tires me out.

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D D IIIIIIIIIII t's Comedy Central

The comedy began as soon as Derek, Diane, Ava and Aliya arrived.
My grandson does not like to hear his daughters CRY so consequently both he and Diane cater to every waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
I could not believe my eyes and my mouth was agape every time I watched them jump through hoops. . 
Derek kept saying, " look at nana's mouth."
Last Fall when they visited me Derek had asked me when kids stop crying.
Today I had a better answer for him than I did back then. Girls NEVER!
Told him I saw his twenty year old sister cry three years ago when I visited and have seen her cry this time.
Soooooooooooooo because he doesn't want his kids to cry, he lets them stay up until THEY DROP.
Which was sometime after eleven when I went to bed. :0(
   Then there is the matter of the dogs. Ava is two and a half and she wants to hold little Shiloh.
Shiloh is eleven and has never liked kids.
Sam......I wouldn't trust Sam around kids.
My Ginger doesn't like most kids, but is in our bedroom most of the time, so no problem there.

All day yesterday and so far today hubby does not feel well.
He can't point a finger at what his problem is and neither can I.
Dizziness and not feeling good in general.  Which is vague.
B/P is good today and he took the PINK PILL. :0)
DIL Deb has said that we need to discuss with him what actions he wants us to take. Do we wait until he needs to leave here by ambulance before the 911 call is made is her question.  sigh!
It's one and he decided he would eat a peanutbutter sandwich and drink some water.
He woke around ten and had juice with his meds and one cup of coffee and a couple of his Lorna Doone cookies.  Nothing else until now.
Has got up a few times to go into the bathroom.....insisted on doing that instead of using his urinal even  though he feels dizzy.  MEN!
The kids just got out of the pool. All morning a trip to purchase groceries was their plan and so far it hasn't come to fruition. Diane needs to go to a Cambodian market for the ingredients she uses in her white rice.
The rice has been steamed and that is their main staple. She will add things to the rice and that is what their meal is for the day. 
Interesting...very interesting. 
Maybe I can get away with this kind of cooking once I am home.  Yeah, I'm being funny ....you knew it didn't you! ;0)

Derek with Ava ( the little chatter box )

Mom Diane. Aliya in her tutu bathingsuit. :0)

My urologists office called.    I still have the urinary track infection.  :0( 

My son took me yesterday for a new RX that I have to take twice a day for five days.

The doctor wants me to go in fifteen minutes earlier than my 11:30 admission time and give another urine sample. If I still have the infections....the surgery is OFF. :0( sigh!
This urinary infection is sooooooooooooooo unlike any I have ever had.
I knew  BEFORE my doctor in the past.

Here I sit getting exhausted just from waiting to see what everyone is going to do.
Grocery shop....................what time.........when?
I asked...the answer was SOON. 
Okay I'll grab my purse and LOOK READY. :0)

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D D Happy Birthday Terry

Today is my third borns 55th birthday.
Does that make me feel old.....................naw. ;0)

What is dragging me down is hubby. sigh!
Again this morning , " I don't feel good."
I gave him Pedialite with his meds. Took his B/P  170/90  pulse 59.
This wrist thing isn't accurate, BUT it can't be that much off.
He feels dizzy when he sits up or stands.  That very well might be causing this dizziness.
I asked him if he wanted to go to the V.A.Clinic here in town.
"What can they do for me", he asked. As soon as I spoke the words" they may want you to go in the hospital", I heard "NO".
My son texted his wife. Deb is an R.N. She suggested that by taking that PINK PILL it might make his B/P go down.
I went to his bedside and told him what Deb said. "NO" was his quick retort.
Son again texted Deb and her next question was " does he want to die."
I haven't gone to him and asked him that question yet. sigh!
He didn't want his coffee. Refused food.
Only a few minutes passed before I heard " ma."
Just went into him and he asked for his PINK PILL. :0)
I had told him earlier that he pisses just as much with it as he does without it. Guess that made some sense to him.
Whatever....I'll take it!  I shit you not!

I'm going to go take my shower and get dressed. Never know if a hasty exit will be needed, but hopefully it is just this med that is causing his problems.
He brought it on himself.  :0( 

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D D Breakthrough News

Brand New Breakthrough On Weight Loss

I have finally figured out why I am Fat!! I should have figured it out sooner.
It's the shampoo I use in the shower. When I wash my hair, the shampoo runs down my whole body.
Printed very clearly on the shampoo label it reads, " FOR EXTRA VOLUME AND BODY ."
I have gotten rid of  the shampoo and I am now going to start using Dawn dish soap. It's label reads,
 " DISSOLVES FAT THAT IS OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE."
That's my story and I'm sticking to it!  Blowing rasberries atcha  ;0)

Trish over at Foxymoron probably guessed the reason why I have plateaued..
Haven't walked with my dog around the block.
Been lazy.....pure lazy with a capital L. :0( I shit you not!

Another bad day for hubby. " I just don't feel good " is what I am hearing from him today.
He was dizzy too. Except for two cups of coffee in the morning and a little water to take his meds with ...he has not been drinking much.
YET he filled the urinal almost to the top from noon to 5 P.M. 
Again he looked and spoke accusatory  that I must be giving him theHydrochlothiazide.
I  got that med out and showed him it was PINK and also showed him he had NO PINK pills in his weeks pill  container.
One of his other meds must also make him urinate, but it doesn't say that on the bottle like the other bottle does.
Every time he got himself out to the couch today he wanted back in bed. He requested the ceiling fan on.
   Minutes ago he was freezing so he got under the covers. Now he's napping.
I took my laptop into our bedroom which is probably the best place for it with the little ones coming in tomorrow night for two weeks.
It will also give me a break from the little ones. An excuse to get away by myself. 
Some great grandmother I am....huh !    It's not a question...it's a statement. ;0)
   Ginger is loving this arrangement. Instead of hiding behind the fish tank, she is stretched out between us snoozing away too. 

How's this for 'tough love".
L.J. was RX'd Percocet for the pain he would be in and DIL Deb would not get it filled.
Tylenol ............. is good enough.  Next time he might think twice before he drinks if he remembers the pain.
He went to work again today and he isn't even using the crutches. Damn...kids are tough! 

The outside temp is around 90.  I could use a Siesta having arose at 6, but will hold out.
Yawn.....not going to be easy listening to these two sawing wood beside me. I shit you not!

I am woman, hear me snore.

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