gatherings!

You won't believe how frustrating we were this am...it is this paper thing!!! I know you are tired of hearing about it but it is the most aggravating thing I do... we got to the last section and ready to come home and found out we had 4 YES 4 papers without the most important part...the Football section. If you don't know, Alabama is football .....doesn't matter if it is high school, college or pro.... they must have anything pertaining to football. So we had to drive to the nearest store about 1/2 mile one way buy 4 papers and then  1/2 mile back to deliver! Yep! Deliver! Honey was so mad, aggravated, disturbed, animated to say a few adjectives of his behavior!!!! He just doesn't understand why a business can't do their job right.  I can't either but am not as animated as he....just more tolerant. OK now  on to the next thought!  lol PS note! Had 2 complaints one missed and the other a damaged paper...Hello..they are all damaged and she got the best we had to offer...it is just the way they come to us...messed up, torn and what ever....one of the other carriers said this morning " she was lucky to get what she got" they were all a mess! DITTO!

Was thinking about many things but could not decide on one..so I will sign off and think!!!lol

Well I am back and it is Tuesday morning!!!  Honey and I rested yesterday while the weather was really nice to rest by, sprinkled all day on and off. We sat on the back porch, watched the hummers fly , buzz us, shoo each other away from their food and by the way, we have to fill our feeders about every other day...there are so many of them you cannot count. I tried to  video them but they were just too fast for me.! We love watching those hummers, diving up to the sky then back down to the earth around and around then landing in the limbs of the maple tree chattering all the time. We imagine that they are talking to us, so we reciprocate. Talking to them as if they were our friends...lol.

When I was about 10 years old our family went for a ride in our new Oldsmobile which I loved so much, we rode to the beach then came down the causeway , crossed the bridge over the inland waterway (remember this is in Miami Florida) and my dad pulled into a drive in restaurant. We never ate out as he thought my mother was the best cook and she was of course... but this Saturday we ate out at Kelley's Drive Inn. Our hamburger, french fries was served in a green plastic basket with a paper liner and a drink! I though I was in hog heaven as I said  "we never ate out". Sometimes on Saturday evenings dad would take us to the Dairy Freeze or Caravels. We would always get an hot fudge sunday...uhmm that was the best chocolate. I never thought how fortunate I was to have been born and lived in the state of Florida.  I took my place of birth for granted, wondering sometimes as how the other parts of the world would be. Later we started taking some vacations and I saw a little bit of the world. When I married honey I never dreamed that we would live in 23 different places and  nine different states....wow! He sure took me out in the world.! Some of the places I wish I had never lived and others I loved.
In Pascagoulga Ms, we had a wonderful pastorate, making many friends that are ours today, graduated from nursing school, starting work as an RN for the Singing River Hospital. Wow! Did I ever have some experiences.  I worked on the code team and yet just a new graduate...they said I was good at what I did and wanted to make me better. One night I was called to the ER where a young 18 year old male  was out with his father logging, was hit in the head by a tree and quit breathing. It took the EMS several minutes, like 30, to reach him, they got his heart rhythm back but not regular, intubated him , which is mechanical  breathing machine, and tried to find out just where we stood, ever so often his heart would go into another rhythm and then we would have to shock him, then do cpr at times , this went on for a few minutes until he stabilized. I escorted him along with the ER nurse, respiratory therapist, DR and others to the Cat Scan and found he had no blood flowing to his brain, in other words he was brain dead. The decision was to ask his parents to obtain his organs for transplants  and they agreed. I then went back to my unit, tired and emotionally drained.  That wasn't the first time I witnessed death. On the LAST day of my rotation in nursing school  my patient was not going to make it. He had Asbestosis  could not breathe and refused to be put on the ventilator. He made himself a DNR....Do Not Resuscitate . Anyway, I had cared for him for about a week or so and he liked my care of him and requested that I take care of him again. I knew something was up, he wasn't breathing well, sitting on the side of the bed, struggling to breathe, I rubbed his back, washed his face, did whatever I could to make him comfortable. His wife was pacing up and down the room, so I suggested that she go and get a bit of food, take a walk and I would stay with him.  She no sooner left the room than he started struggling more and more, I started rubbiang his neck and he was a very large man about 250 or more pounds, quietly telling him to relax, telling him it will be alright all the time slipping behind him to rub his back . All of a sudden he just relaxed on me falling back into my arms and he quit breathing. I thought to myself no this can't be, he relaxed just too much...I reached up and  pushed the call bell  asked for my charge nurse...she came in and saw what had happened , called for someone to help get him off of me! There I was pinned beneath this large man who was not breathing!!! It took 2 large men to help him of of me. I told her what had happened and she said" next time don't tell them to relax" and laughed....I called honey and told him that I would be late, I forgot to tell you it was about 3 pm when this happened and I got off at 3:30...so when I got through doing all of the paper work, helping the family, etc. I called honey to pick me up. The first thing he said when I opened the door was"you didn't kill any one did you?" I just broke out in tears and cried and cried..he just about died on me, he did not know and was just kidding me. I have to tell you he never did that again when I was late! He learned his lesson in medicine!!!!
Many times I witnessed death in nursing career. One more I have to write about was when we lived in East Gadsden Alabama and I worked in Anniston at the East ALabama Hospital in the ICU. My patient that night was  50 year old male who had had many heart attacks,  had the open heart surgery but then  his arteries clotted again , had severe pain and was admitted to the ICU after having a heart cath. They could not do any more on him and was sent to us to die. The Dr came in and told me to make him as comfortable as possible left me with plenty of ordesr for pain meds but did not make him a DNR. I ask the patient if he wanted to be rescuited if his heart stopped and he said NO. I called his family in , they cried and made  over him until he looked at me and said, send them home! I quietly ushered them out to the waiting room. That was very  hard to do.He asked me to sit in the room with him and I did. I got up to wash his face, give him some pain medicine, then asked him if he was ready to die, he replied" Yes Yes Yes, I made my peace with God many years ago." I asked him if it was ok if I prayed and he said YES, please do. As I was praying with my eyes closed, I put my hand on his forhead, asking God to   heal this man if it be His will. I felt something beside me, assuming that it was his family or another worker checking on us as they will do sometimes, saw only a bright white something then it was gone. It was an ANGEL I am sure. I have never felt anything so precious, soothing, reassuring as that was. He lived that night until the next nurse came on and coded when my foot stepped off of the hospital ground. She figured it out how long it would take me to get out and that's how long he lived.  I have never felt that same feeling as I did that night. I met an angel!  God used me over and over again in the hospital and to which I am grateful. To HIM BE THE GLORY! AMEN!
Thats enough of the hospital, I have many other stories and will tell them some time.
Thank you grandpa for listening, I love you J