Archive for December, 2009

Mom’s Status: 2009-12-30

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Pending Appointments And Issues

  1. Friday, 2010-01-15 @ 1:30 PM: Appointment with her PCP.
  2. Thursday, 2010-02-04 @ 11:30 AM: Appointment with orthopedist for a quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot.
  3. She’ll need more insulin syringes soon.  Order ASAP.  DONE. 

Log 

10:35 AM: Blood sugar: 222.  Covered with 16 units of log insulin.

10:40 AM: Dispensed her morning meds, including the higher dose of N insulin.  See   yesterday’s discussion of that    for more details.

10:55 AM: Syringes have been ordered.  We’ll pick them up during today’s   shopping trip.

02:00 PM: Blood sugar: 179.  Covered with 12 units of log insulin.

06:45 PM: We purchased a new supply of insulin syringes for Mom during tonight’s   shopping trip.

07:00 PM: Dispensed Mom’s evening meds.

10:50 PM: Dispensed Mom’s night time meds, including 30 units of N insulin.

10:55 PM: Blood sugar: 252.  Covered with 20 units of log insulin.

Tom Hesley 

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Today’s Business: 2009-12-29

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Today’s Chores

  • Cat duty. DONE.
  • Dispensing Mom’s meds.  DONE.
  • Launder two throw covers for Mom.  DONE.
  • Shower. DONE.
  • Send out four pending memorial checks for the   WPSBC Alumni Association.

Log 

12:30 PM: Categorized approximately 20 more posts in this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog.  There are now just 300 posts left to process.

01:00 PM: Heard form   [Kar].  She called to wish us all a happy holiday season.  She wasn’t too happy herself; lots of roommate problems of late.  But she talked for around fifteen minutes, which is extraordinarily long for her.  I enjoyed the call. 

02:45 PM: The mail lady brought one item today, which was:

  • Credit card statement (1) for Mom.

 

03:00 PM: Shoveled and swept the sidewalks and ramp, as a dusting of snow did fall overnight.  Mom is having a holiday party tonight, and I didn’t want any of her friends slipping.

03:20 PM: Sister Christine just dropped off two trays of taco dip, one for each of Mom’s parties, tonight and tomorrow night.

04:15 PM: We cooked salmon outside on the George Foreman grill, and heated up some vegetable soup for a late lunch, and drank diet caffeine-free Pepsi; the beverage of choice for this meal.  I braved the cold to grill the fish because we didn’t want a strong seafood odor in the house as an added, untended guest at Mom’s party tonight.  Aren’t I just so considerate?  :-)

06:00 PM: The first guests have arrived for Mom’s mini-class-reunion holiday get-together.  They’re having a cheese-based taco dip with hamburger in it, mini hot dogs wrapped in crescet roll dough and baked, crackers, chicken noodle soup, assorted chocolates, wine, and pop. 

07:00 PM: [Emmy] has the Penguins on the Internet radio and is listening intently to that.

09:30 PM: All guests have now left us, and Mom is quite tired.  But before they left, they helped clean up.  Everything’s all put away and I’ll probably just wash the table cloths again tomorrow, for the next party tomorrow night.

09:40 PM: The Pens just lost to Buffalo, 4 to 3; at one point early in the game they were up, 3 to 0.  But that lead evaporated, tortuously in the second and third periods.  Near the end, the Penguins had several chances to score but just couldn’t do it.  Humph.  Looks like   [Emmy]   will be in a bad mood tonight again.  :-)

12:15 AM: Posted today’s list of added or revised documents to this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog.  Click   here   to see that list. 

12:35 AM: Worked the   DJ Gig: 2009-12-31   project. 

01:40 AM: Rewrote numerous tags in my music library.  Some years back, I used Winamp’s auto-tag feature to tag many of my MP4 files, hoping to get the years of the songs I didn’t know without doing manual look ups.  However, many of the years I got were incorrect, and some of the titles and groups were misspelled.  So when I get bored, I fix these as I encounter them.  Unfortunately, I needn’t look very far to find a tag with errors in it. 

01:45 AM: Okay, and so ends another blog cast day.  Take care everyone, and I’ll be back on here later on, with more tidbits of the saga of my life.  :-)   Until then, so long.

Tom Hesley

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Diary Revisions: 2009-12-29

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary    blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, appearance,  and search-ability: 

  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-29
  • Mom’s Status: 2009-12-29
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-28
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-28
  • Home Repair Bits: 2009-12-28
  • Mom’s Status: 2009-12-28
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-26
  • Significant Dates
  • Today’s Business: 2008-12-26
  • Looking for Cotton Eye Joe
  • I Dazzled ‘Em
  • Wake Up, Lynn!
  • Software Release Successful
  • Reorg
  • No Grocery Shopping Till Later
  • Blood Work
  • Zets Party
  • Chocolate Forbidden
  • Lynn, I’m Coming!
  • Extra Blond Word
  • Multiple Threads
  • More on Modems
  • Tid Bits: 2000-05-10
  • Modem Discussion
  • Planning to Visit Lynn
  • Wasn’t I a Good Tomcat?
  • The Yo-Yoing Nasdaq
  • Lecherous
  • Lynn Going to Work
  • Tid Bits: 2000-05-08
  • Tid Bits: 2000-05-04
  • Retiring Late
  • Work Status
  • Sending Attachments
  • Building an Antenna
  • Printer Problems
  • Lynn Got Home Okay
  • Tid Bits: 2000-05-02
  • Enjoyed Lynn’s Visit
  • Rental Car Reserved
  • Rental Cars
  • Lynn’s Visit
  • Tid Bits: 2000-04-24
  • Preparing for Lynn’s Visit
  • Dumb Blonds
  • Warm Quality Time
  • Being Right Too Often
  • My Weekend
  • Polarfleece
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    Mom’s Status: 2009-12-29

    Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

    Pending Appointments And Issues

    1. Friday, 2010-01-15 @ 1:30 PM: Appointment with her PCP.
    2. Thursday, 2010-02-04 @ 11:30 AM: Appointment with orthopedist for a quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot.

    Log 

    11:25 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds, including the raised dose of N insulin (now 30 units, twice per day, which is up from 24 units, twice per day).

    11:30 AM: Blood sugar: 172.  Covered with 10 units of log insulin.

    03:00 PM: Blood sugar: 119.

    03:05 PM: Dispensed Mom’s lunch-time meds.

    06:30 PM: Covered her supper and snacks with 20 units of log insulin, and dispensed her evening meds.

    10:45 PM: Dispensed Mom’s bed-time meds, which includes the now-higher dose of N insulin (30 units, up from 24).

    10:50 PM:  Blood sugar: 179.  Covered with 12 units of log insulin.

    12:50 AM: She’s experiencing moderate to severe discomfort.  I heard her moaning just now and so, gave her one pain pill.

    Tom Hesley 

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    Today’s Business: 2009-12-28

    Monday, December 28th, 2009

    Today’s Chores

    • Cat duty.  DONE.
    • Dispensing Mom’s meds. DONE.
    • Shower.  DONE.
    • Do more pending laundry (whites, table cloths, and blankets for Mom today).  DONE.
    • Take weekly med and grocery inventory and make list of needed items.   DONE.
    • Send out four pending memorial checks for the   WPSBC Alumni Association.

    Log

    08:45 AM: I’m up. 

    10:50 AM: Added more categories to several posts.

    12:10 PM: Added the   Today’s Business: 2008-12-26   post to this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog. 

    12:40 PM: Completed this week’s grocery and medicine inventory and created a list of items that we need to buy during our next shopping trip.

    01:25 PM: In today’s mail, we received the following items:

    • Mom’s diabetic test strips (200 strips)
    • Credit card offer (1)
    • Credit card bill (1)
    • Ambutech catalog for  [Emmy]

     

    03:45 PM: Wrote 600 words to an upcoming post, about how I learned why vacuum tubes glow blue, and the joys, difficulties, and dangers I endured to get that answer.  But now, it’s time for a little nap.  See you a bit later

    05:00 Watched today’s episode of   The Young and the Restless   on the DVR. 

    09:30 PM: Cooked scrambled eggs seasoned with dill weed, along with rye toast and butter for our supper.  Yum.   Captain Kirk, in the movie,  Star Trek: Generations, knew of the wonderful tastes of using dill weed to add flavor to eggs.  It really tasted good, even if I do say so myself.  In fact, it was this movie where I learned to season with dill weed; after watching my DVD of it twenty times, the eggs-and-dill combination is permanently ingrained in my memory.

    10:20 PM: Worked on several little home maintenance projects, described   here

    10:50 PM: The last of the four loads of laundry is washing right now.  Once this is dried, all pending laundry will be done. 

    10:55 PM: Just scheduled our next shopping trip with Debbie on Wednesday, 2009-12-30, in the early afternoon.  Good thing because my list is again getting long.  :-)

    12:57 AM: Just posted the list of added or revised documents for today, in this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog,   here

    01:00 AM: All pending laundry is now washed, dried, folded, and put away; in short, it’s done! 

    01:10 AM: Well, I’m getting sleepy, and it’s another busy day tomorrow.  So I’d best get to bed.  Take care.  I’ll be back in a little while.

    Tom Hesley

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    Diary Revisions: 2009-12-28

    Monday, December 28th, 2009

    Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary    blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, appearance,  and search-ability:

  • Home Repair Bits: 2009-12-28
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-28
  • Mom’s Status: 2009-12-28
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-27
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-27
  • Mom’s Status: 2009-12-27
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-26
  • Intermittent USB: 2009-12-20
  • Significant Dates
  • Today’s Business: 2009-10-19
  • US Electronics ENT-EXPL-3005 Remote
  • Today’s Business: 2009-09-01
  • Stop iPod Sync Without Plugging it In
  • Site Status: Turning off Post Revision Tracking
  • Girlfriend, Shopping, and Error 404 Problem
  • Today’s Business: 2008-12-26
  • To Tad About Emmy
  • Soy Drink
  • Caller Id Name Mispelling
  • Lions Club Web Site
  • Wrist Broken
  • The Curve Won!
  • Hard Drive Backup
  • Visiting Diane Tonight
  • Broken Office Chair
  • Hi Again, Ellen
  • Installed a New 16x CD RW Drive
  • Lynn’s Dial-Up Problem
  • Good Early Morning!
  • Move Back to Philly?
  • Humorous Responses
  • A Bad Afternoon?
  • Sleeping In
  • Tid Bits: 2000-07-03
  • AIM Setup
  • Beating the Ferry
  • What is IM?
  • Instant Messaging: 2000-07-01
  • Planning Next Maine Visit
  • Good Day
  • Good Morning: 2000-06-30
  • Tid Bits: 2000-06-29
  • The Philly Trip was Great
  • Lynn’s PC Problems
  • Noisy Apartment Status
  • Lynn’s Phone Problems
  • Voice Mail
  • New Virus
  • New Windows ME Web Site
  • Tid Bits: 2000-06-20
  • Good Morning, Lynn
  • Friends Picnic and Bonus
  • Tid Bits: 2000-06-15
  • Problems with Last Landlord
  • Slow Computer
  • The Dow is Up
  • Yet Another Software Release Coming
  • Flabbo?
  • Great Visit We had
  • Outlook Vs. Eudora Signatures
  • Lynn the Ice Princess?
  • My Maine Vacation
  • Windows Millennium
  • Chocolate Knob Pic
  • Not Sleeping with Tabbo?
  • Dr. Laura
  • A Hot One Today
  • Software Release Tonight: 2000-06-01
  • Lynn Getting Ready for Me
  • Tomcat Here
  • The Formal Part of My Day
  • Another Blue-Sky Day
  • I Could Get You
  • Caught Up On Some Sleep
  • TYATR
  • Uninterruptable Power Supplies
  • Weather Report: 2000-05-23
  • Sending Lynn Some Pics
  • I Got More Sleep!
  • I Dazzled ‘Em
  • New Territory
  • Tickling Lynn
  • You Better Run
  • Backrubs
  • One Divided By Zero
  • Tabbo: 2000-05-16
  • Back from Shopping
  • Weather Report: 2000-05-16
  • Don’t Prepare Too Much For My Visit
  • Watch the Moles
  • My Fair Lady
  • Lynn Gets Voice Mail
  • Reservations Made
  • Week After Easter Visit
  • Cleaning House
  • Phantom of the Opera  
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    Home Repair Bits: 2009-12-28

    Monday, December 28th, 2009

    Investigated reduced pressure on kitchen sink faucet.  Looks like our Brita water filter is hopelessly clogged.  I cleaned the screens to no avail, and these things don’t disassemble very much.  At several years old, it’s probably time to replace the unit anyhow.  I might play with the old unit for a bit and see if there’s a way to take it apart without hopelessly damaging it; I have my doubts however. 

    The shameful thing about this is that I just replaced the cartridge a couple weeks ago, which means that it probably still has 80 or so gallons of filtration capacity left.  But unless I can find a Brita unit that takes this same cartridge, that capacity won’t be utilized.  Wasted money.  Hopefully, the stores around here still carry units that accept this type of cartridge.  If not, then, oh well.  Darn.

    Then, I Repaired a kitchen cupboard door that wouldn’t stay latched.  Apparently, Mom or someone ran into the protruding hook, mounted on the door itself.  This hook mates with a spring-loaded catch on the door frame.  But with the hook bent, proper latching would not occur.  To fix, I straightened the hook with bare fingers, fearing that any tools would break it off.  It straightened out okay and the door now closes properly.

    Also, I changed the batteries in the remote outdoor sensor for my Accu-Rite thermometer, to fix a problem of erroneous temperature readings frequently happening.  The new cells seem to have fixed this issue.

    Finally, Mom requested a brighter bulb be installed in her reading lamp in the sitting room.  I had an old-but-still-good CFL lamp in the basement, which barely fit the lamp actually.  Removing the lamp’s harp first was the only way to get the bulb to screw into the socket.  But I managed it and she’s quite pleased with how much better she can read with the new light source.

    Tom Hesley 

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    Mom’s Status: 2009-12-28

    Monday, December 28th, 2009

    Pending Appointments And Issues

    1. Look for more diabetic test strips to arrive here during the next couple days.  RECEIVED TODAY.
    2. Friday, 2010-01-15 @ 1:30 PM: Appointment with her PCP.
    3. Thursday, 2010-02-04 @ 11:30 AM: Appointment with orthopedist for a quarterly checkup on the progress of healing of her charcot foot.

    Log 

    09:15 AM: Dispensed Mom’s morning meds.

    09:20 AM: Blood sugar: 199.  Covered with 14 units of log insulin.

    11:40 AM: Mom just fell in the kitchen.  She called me for help, as she was unable to, without some pillows, lift herself back into the wheel chair.  I got her the pillows from the couch in the sitting room.  But by the time I returned to the kitchen with them, she had crawled into the living room, saying that she’d be better able to get up there, since that room is carpeted.  Once there, she had me bring the wheel chair in, and then she used a pillow from the love seat to kneel upon while getting to her feet.  After a minute or two, she was back in her wheel chair.  No injuries were apparent.

    01:05 PM: Dispensed Mom’s lunch-time meds.  She says however, that she’ll take them later because at present, her stomach is unsettled. 

    01:30 PM: Received the 200 diabetic test strips we’ve been waiting for.  That should be enough for the next 50 days.

    02:40 PM: Blood sugar: 158.   Covered this and her lunch with 14 units of log insulin.

    05:00 PM: Dispensed Mom’s evening meds.

    09:10 PM: Dispensed Mom’s bedtime meds.

    10:45 PM: Blood sugar: 231.  Covered with 15 units of log insulin.

    10:50 PM: For the next few days, I’m going to raise Mom’s long-acting insulin doses from 24 to 30 units, and see if we can’t get better readings; too many of them are above 150 currently.  This change would make her daily intake of the N type of insulin 60 units, which is up from the current value of 48 units. 

    Tom Hesley 

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    Today’s Business: 2009-12-27

    Sunday, December 27th, 2009

    09:45 AM: I’m up and about.  Looks like a clear and sunny day so far.  Hopefully, [Emmy] will feel better today; she’s been naturally sick the past several days.  Need I say more?

    03:40 PM: Doing laundry all afternoon; one load done so far and around three to five more to go.

    03:45 PM: We’re watching KDKA TV’s Pittsburgh Today Live shows on the DVR from the past few days.

    05:15 PM: Watched the 2009-12-07 episode of Dr. Phil on the DVR, called   Inside Infidelity.

    06:00 PM: Laundry work continues.  Three loads done now; two white and one dark load.  Nap time.

    06:30 PM: [Emmy] is listening to the Penguins hockey game on the Internet radio, and I’m fiddling around with a few upcoming posts for this and the   Tom’s Love Quest   blog. 

    08:35 PM: Categorized thirty more posts in this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog.  Now, there are just 360 uncategorized posts left to process.

    09:40 PM: The Penguins just lost to the Toronto Mapleleafs, 4 to 3, and the winning goal was scored in the final two minutes of the game and just after the Penguins had scored the tying goal.  :-(  

    11:00 PM: Categorized 40 more posts in this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog.  Now, there are just 320 uncategorized posts left to process. 

    11:05 PM: Posted the list of today’s added and / or revised documents to this, the   Tom’s Diary   blog,   here.

    12:40 AM: Going to bed now.  So, will see you in the next ten to twelve hours, right back here.

    Tom Hesley

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    Diary Revisions: 2009-12-27

    Sunday, December 27th, 2009

    Today, I either added or modified the following posts in  the   Tom’s Diary    blog for improved brevity, clarity, categorization, appearance,  and search-ability:

  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-27
  • Mom’s Status: 2009-12-27
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-26
  • Diary Revisions: 2009-12-26
  • Weekly Backups: 2009-12-26
  • Mom’s Status: 2009-12-26
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-25
  • Today’s Business: 2009-12-24
  • Hard Drive Backup
  • Visiting Diane Tonight
  • Broken Office Chair
  • Hi Again, Ellen
  • Installed a New 16x CD RW Drive
  • Lynn’s Dial-Up Problem
  • Good Early Morning!
  • Move Back to Philly?
  • Humorous Responses
  • A Bad Afternoon?
  • Sleeping In
  • Tid Bits: 2000-07-03
  • AIM Setup
  • Beating the Ferry
  • What is IM?
  • Instant Messaging: 2000-07-01
  • Planning Next Maine Visit
  • Good Day
  • Good Morning: 2000-06-30
  • Tid Bits: 2000-06-29
  • The Philly Trip was Great
  • Lynn’s PC Problems
  • Noisy Apartment Status
  • Lynn’s Phone Problems
  • Voice Mail
  • New Virus
  • New Windows ME Web Site
  • Tid Bits: 2000-06-20
  • Good Morning, Lynn
  • Friends Picnic and Bonus
  • Tid Bits: 2000-06-15
  • Problems with Last Landlord
  • Slow Computer
  • The Dow is Up
  • Yet Another Software Release Coming
  • Flabbo?
  • Great Visit We had
  • Outlook Vs. Eudora Signatures
  • Lynn the Ice Princess?
  • My Maine Vacation
  • Windows Millennium
  • Chocolate Knob Pic
  • Not Sleeping with Tabbo?
  • Dr. Laura
  • A Hot One Today
  • Software Release Tonight: 2000-06-01
  • Lynn Getting Ready for Me
  • Tomcat Here
  • The Formal Part of My Day
  • Another Blue-Sky Day
  • I Could Get You
  • Caught Up On Some Sleep
  • TYATR
  • Uninterruptable Power Supplies
  • Weather Report: 2000-05-23
  • Sending Lynn Some Pics
  • I Got More Sleep!
  • New Territory
  • Tickling Lynn
  • You Better Run
  • Backrubs
  • One Divided By Zero
  • Tabbo: 2000-05-16
  • Back from Shopping
  • Weather Report: 2000-05-16
  • Don’t Prepare Too Much For My Visit
  • Watch the Moles
  • My Fair Lady
  • Lynn Gets Voice Mail
  • Reservations Made
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