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thank you both.
Just got back from planning the funeral. Its on Monday. I am not looking forward to it. Its going to be a hard day.
Thank you guys.
thankyou.
My Mom visited my Dad today and he seemed fine. At around 9:00 PM, we got a call from the Rehab place that they found my father unresponsive. The used CPR and they shocked him. He got a faint heart beat. They sent him to the ER. He went into cardiac arrest again and they either shocked him and/or used CPR. I am not sure right now. Then called us. We sped over to the ER. They installed a breathing tube. He had on faint life signs when we got there. The decision was made not to try to resuscitate him again and they removed the breathing tube. He died very quickly afterwards with Mom, me, and my brother in the room with him. He is gone. I am in shock and surprised I am not balling my eyes out right now. Don’t know what else to say. Please pray for my mother and my family.
Seeing another psychologist today, might have a yet another lined up who’s an actual psychiatrist who can prescribe. My nerves are about as shredded as tires after a drag race, God only knows what will happen. I’m going to try to eat in a few minutes. Slept for a long, long time, and I’ll be honest, I’d still be sleeping if it weren’t for the appointment. I’m a mess.
I don’t understand exactly what is going with you, but I do really hope you get the help you need. I’m praying for you.
Definitely worth an entire thread.
in all fairness, for all we know, he might have put this in the first update thread if Jay hadn’t locked it.
Great news!
fixed.
Warbler, if you want to keep us all updated on your grandfather
it is my father that I’ve been talking about, not either of my grandfathers.
The infection cleared up and he is back at the rehab facility. Today, he was the best he has been since the the fall. He could actually talk a little and ask questions. He had some of idea of what was going on around him. I think he understood for the first time what had happened and that he had been out of it for multiple weeks. I’m not sure he quite understood where he was. For a few moments I thought that he might have thought he was at home. So he is not any where near 100%, but he is miraculously better than where he was a few days ago. I pray that he keeps improving.
So, let’s recap: my mother’s best friend, not even 60, was barely able to walk last week. Upon medical examination, she has amazing levels of damage to her spine. God only knows what medical science will attempt to do. My uncle is almost having a nervous breakdown because he is attempting to get my grandfather, age 82, to undergo some tests for geriatric conditions, particularly regarding his balance, and install something in the shower for the same purpose. He has gotten angry, which I have never seen him do, insisting that he wants to continue with his life as it was even after the life-threatening fall he recently took, refusing to slow down.
Warn your Grandfather about my father’s story. This started out as balance problems. He has fallen many times(though not as serious as this recent time). Last October he fell and had a gash in the back of his head that he needed staples in. He fell again in January and we think it had something to do with causing his sciatica. This inflicted terrible pain on him for about six months. He finally got an operation that cured it and was recovering when this latest fall happened. He has had severe bleeding on the brain and may never recover and be sane again. Ask your Grandfather if he wants all that. If he is on a blood thinner, it increases the risk of the bleeding on the brain.
My aunt, who’s parents are geriatric and spends a lot of time helping them, is increasingly frustrated at him because of what she perceives as his inability to help, causing friction in their marriage, with my mother, and my grandfather, whom I live in fear every day of losing or of facing senility. My mother has also discovered that apparently one of her other friends has cancer, and that some personal information she sent to the post office has gone missing. She has long live in fear of identity theft. She’s near tears. This was all just today, mind. God only knows what awaits in the future.
man, that is terrible. I don’t what to say. I will keep your family in my prayers and hope things get better.
I’ve been more comfortable coming home tonight, though from from where I should be. Though I’ve managed to set up an appointment with a psychologist, there’s not telling if he’s good or how effective he’ll be, and it’s a significant ride. More importantly, I need a fucking psyiatrist who can prescribe fucking medication. My OCD-Depression-Anxiety-whatever is not improving, particularly while I’m at work, nor is the dawning realization of what a mess I’ve made of my life. As I text my mother in the throes of some of it further stresses her, making her insist I’m suicidal. I’m not; sometimes, I’m OK, sometimes, I feel like my head will explode or the depression is an unmanageable weight. And I kind of need to keep fucking going to work.
I also have to face my other friend about the fact that this while scenario, not to mention my discomfort, means that we’re going to have to bail on our travel plans, so I’m going to have to deal with that when I get up, and I am not looking forward to it. Really, really, really, really not looking forward to, and shouldn’t have talked about it when I knew I’d chicken out, but I do feel like these recent psychological issues are a sufficient reason too. To be fair.
Good luck getting the help you need. I hope for the best.
I wish I had a vice; I could use some smoking, drinking, drugs, sex, something to take the edge off. I’m sick of not being able to sit and relax and watch TV. At least I think that’s a reasonable request. So yeah. Fun day.
trust me, you do not want to get addicted to drinking or drugs. This would only make your situation worse.
thankyou. He has some sort of infection. CAT scan showed no signs of anymore bleeding. There are admitting him again to the hospital and treating him with antibiotics.
He was not as responsive today as they would like and the his white blood cell count is off. Either he has more bleeding in his head or some sort of infection. Please pray if you are willing.
thank you.
thankyou. I hope the best for you as well.
let us hope so, but he has a long way to go.
My Dad is leaving the Hospital and going to a rehab facility. They will do both mental and physical rehab there.
Sorry for your loss, DuracellEnergizer. I know what that is like. It is very difficult to loss a pet.
As for Cheech, the only advice I can give you, is to take him to the Vet and tell them everything you mentioned on here. It is possible if they examine Pipo’s body, it might help them determine what happened and whether or not Cheech is in danger for the same thing.
Ugh. I’m a manager at Wal-Mart (talk down to me for working at Wal-Mart all you want but management here pays me very comfortably) and I totally lost my cool with a customer today. I don’t feel bad about it either.
Our Wal-Mart has a gas station (an actual wal-Mart gas station not a Murphy’s like some Wal-Mart’s have) and a customer there was so furious about something they demanded to speak with a manager. So I went out there.
So, they wanted to get $4 in gas. (Yes this all happened over $4) They apparently didn’t know how fuel pumps work or something. There was only one attendant on duty and she had a line of customers so she couldn’t just drop them to go pump his gas for him until she got her line down and when there’s input one of them they aren’t supposed to step outside anyway unless it’s an emergency.
Anyway, as I get out there I hear the Bastard screaming at the girl “Well I guess you’re just too stupid to turn the pump on!” because supposedly his gas wouldn’t pump.
So I walked out there with him and proceeded to, without any trouble, pump his gas for him. And, with his recent uncalled for insult on an innocent cashier, I calmly said, “Hey, would you look at that… I pulled the trigger and the gas pumped, imagine that. I guess somebody’s just too stupid to pump gas.”
I don’t feel bad about it either. The trend (in this town anyway) to treat retail employees like absolute garbage knowing they have to just take it is getting old. Normally I would’ve just pumped his gas and left with an obvious smirk but that guy was too much.
Maybe the guy was from my state? We don’t pump our own gas in NJ.
Right, that totally excuses calling me stupid over his mistake. I’m not engaging in a conversation on the evils of Wal-Mart with You from what I’ve seen of others arguing with you is generally useless.
I though he called your coworker stupid, not you.
I was definitely not arguing that his rude behavior should be excused.
My remake about the guy being from NJ was intended as a joke.
I am not sure why it is considered useless to argue with me.
Right, blame an entire company over the mistakes/misdoings of an individual. Reasonable.
well sometimes the mistakes of individual can be due to the company not giving the proper training and/or not going a good enough job deciding who to hire.
I’ve had bad experiences at the Walmart near me. I remember one time I went there to pick up something I had ordered and the teenage girl who processed my order treated me like “how dare I be at her area of the store”. I was very nice, but the whole time she was just rolling her eyes and didn’t have kind word to say to me. Then there was this other time(I think I posted about it while back) when this very heavy box fell from the top shelf almost hitting and seriously injuring my mother. This happened because she tried to get it down, because she couldn’t find anyone to help her. She did end up with a cut. It made a very loud sound. In a place with people that knew what they were doing, people would have checked it out to fine out what happened and make sure everyone was alright. In this store, no one came. Mom finally found someone and told them what happened and showed them the cut, they tried to sell her band aids. In my opinion, if a customer gets hurt in your store, you don’t sell them band aids, you give them the band aids needed for the injury(ies) incurred. I am sure some Walmarts are better, but the one nearest where I live, is terribly run. I refuse to shop there.
I don’t like Walmart because they’re a terrible company. I’ll just leave it at that.
We’re doing just fine without you, and fyi Wal-Mart donates a ton of money to children’s miracle network hospitals. Even more than they advertise they do.
When our story opened up everyone was afraid it would put our local grocery store out of business. And it did. But (almost) everyone that worked there got hired at this Wal-Mart and now makes more money than they did there, so it didn’t exactly hurt people’s jobs.
Its not the villain everyone says it is, it’s just any other large chains where some branches are better than others.
Also did you know all employees get quarterly bonuses based on how good that particular store did? And it is on an individual store basis. So in a sense when you shop at Wal-Mart you are helping the workers in your local community.
Walmart has put a lot of local mom and pop places out of business. These are places each with their own quirks/personalities/character that are now gone and replaced with characterless corporate chain store. Walmart may do some good, but it has done some damage too.
Ugh. I’m a manager at Wal-Mart (talk down to me for working at Wal-Mart all you want but management here pays me very comfortably) and I totally lost my cool with a customer today. I don’t feel bad about it either.
Our Wal-Mart has a gas station (an actual wal-Mart gas station not a Murphy’s like some Wal-Mart’s have) and a customer there was so furious about something they demanded to speak with a manager. So I went out there.
So, they wanted to get $4 in gas. (Yes this all happened over $4) They apparently didn’t know how fuel pumps work or something. There was only one attendant on duty and she had a line of customers so she couldn’t just drop them to go pump his gas for him until she got her line down and when there’s input one of them they aren’t supposed to step outside anyway unless it’s an emergency.
Anyway, as I get out there I hear the Bastard screaming at the girl “Well I guess you’re just too stupid to turn the pump on!” because supposedly his gas wouldn’t pump.
So I walked out there with him and proceeded to, without any trouble, pump his gas for him. And, with his recent uncalled for insult on an innocent cashier, I calmly said, “Hey, would you look at that… I pulled the trigger and the gas pumped, imagine that. I guess somebody’s just too stupid to pump gas.”
I don’t feel bad about it either. The trend (in this town anyway) to treat retail employees like absolute garbage knowing they have to just take it is getting old. Normally I would’ve just pumped his gas and left with an obvious smirk but that guy was too much.
Maybe the guy was from my state? We don’t pump our own gas in NJ.
thank you. My mom says he is more awake today, which is good.
My father is still in the hospital. He is in the intensive care step down unit. He sleeps a lot and tires easily. He spoken a few words but not much. He is still very much out of it. They are giving him some medicine today to try to wake him up more. He has been able to follow a few directions(like wiggling his toes and squeezing his hand). They it might a take a year for the blood in his head to absorb. We still don’t know if he has had brain damage or not. Last Saturday was tough, he didn’t look good and I thought he was going to die soon. He has improved a little since then, his vital signs are better. I wish I knew how this was going to end. If you pray, please keep praying for my family and my father. Thank you.
That’s good to hear, Ender!
My thoughts are with your family, Warb.
Yeah. Put me down as praying for you both. I hope it all goes ok.
Thank you.
He is still very confused. He referred to me by my Mom’s name and my Mom by my name. He keeps wanting to pull out the stuff they got him connected to. He keeps saying “get me up” and we keep telling him we can’t do that. He keeps moaning “help me”. But there is nothing we can do. That was yesterday. Its very difficult to see him like that. Mom said this morning that he was a little more alert. But still a little moaning “help me”. The Doctors say only time will tell. Its very hard
thank you, thank you everyone.