Archive for September 23rd, 2010

Today’s Business: 2010-09-23

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Today’s Activities

  • Shower.  DONE.
  • Cat duty.  DONE.
  • Vacuum upstairs.  IN PROGRESS.
  • Pay all pending bills.
  • Clean roof gutters and downspouts.  DONE.
  • Repair roof heaters on south roof, just above Mom’s bedroom.  They’ve come undone and are hanging.  DONE.
  • Make sure all of Mom’s borrowed books have been returned to the library.  IN PROGRESS.

Log

07:30 AM: I’m up.

10:00 AM: Facebooked, and added my part of the resulting content of that session to the   Tom’s Views –> Thoughts On Bigotry   piece.

11:00 AM: Talked to our financial planner guy to strategize about how to safely invest our funds in the months to come.

11:15 AM: Worked the   Water Heater Replacement: 2010    project.  Called the contractor to speak highly and truthfully about the plumbers that performed this job this past Tuesday.

12:45 PM: Posted the    Mom’s Status: 2010-09-23   piece.

12:55 PM: I’m pondering and mouth-watering over a big bowl of Cocoa Wheats with organic “raw” sugar and half & half. Mmmmm. Sounds like a great lunch; except for the 2:30 PM doldrums that all those carbs would surely induce if consumed. So, will I actually eat a bowl in spite of all that? Of course! If that seems crazy, don’t blame me, for it runs in the family. Just kidding, sisters! Well…  :-)

02:45 PM: Worked the   Gutter Maintenance: 2010   project.  The annual gutter cleaning is finished.

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

08:30 PM: Watched the 2010-09-21 episode of   Dr. Phil,   this week’s installment of the   Dr. Phil Housewives Get Real Tuesday   series.

10:30 PM: Talked to sisters Mary Ann and Christine, and [Emmy] tonight on the phone.  I love these cordless phones because I can take them out on the back porch.  It’s beautiful out tonight.  The moon is out and nearly full.  So it’s quite bright, and I enjoy phone chatting in the moon light.

12:00 AM: iPodded on the same porch with the moon, and let the cats out there with me to bask in the fresh air and chase each other around.  But it’s bed time again.  Boy, the days zip by so quickly these days.  So good night.  I hope to visit Mom tomorrow.  More then.  Take care.

Tom Hesley

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Mom’s Status: 2010-09-23

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

Summary

Mom continued her mental improvements.  I talked with her last night and she definitely seems more jovial and less apt to be drawn down into the blues.  However, because she’s only shown modest improvement physically over the past week or so, she is being relocated to (yet) another facility in the Altoona area; one that focuses squarely on physical therapy and strength-building issues. This transfer was approved yesterday. Her memory is good and her voice is louder but still week.  She’s wasn’t as cold; now that she has more coats, blankets, et al.  Her run of antibiotic is finished today.  So the intense monitoring begins, as noted in Tuesday’s update.  We’ll watch for a return of her fever and other signs of a MRSA comeback.  However, we have high hopes that  if that does occur, she won’t have nearly the pain she experienced in her legs while a patient in Pittsburgh.  After all, in this event, there’s no internal bleeding.  

Log

06:30 PM last night: Mom called me.  We didn’t talk but for about ten minutes.  Since this conversation was short, and since I did not visit her yesterday in person, I’ll not go into exhaustive detail in this log, as there aren’t many details to supply.  The relevant items we discussed are mentioned above in the summary; the most noteworthy of which is that Mom is moving to a specialty care facility that offers expert and frequent physical therapy.  More later. 

Tom Hesley

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Today’s Diet: 2010-09-23

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

I keep this food diary to stay aware of just how many calories I’m eating daily, with the hope that it decreases the likelihood that I’ll overeat.    It seems to work, so here we go with another day…

Today, I consumed the following items:

  • Herbal tea and diet pop throughout the day. 0 calories.
  • 12:00 PM: 1 bowl of Cocoa Wheats with organic “raw” sugar.  1000 calories.
  • 04:30 PM: 1 peach.  50 calories.
  • 06:30 PM: 1 Sheetz steak sub with vegetables and pesto sauce.  1000 calories.
  • 08:00 PM: 2 bowls of blueberries with sugar.  500 calories.
  • 10:30 PM: 2 bowls of Cheerios with fat free milk and sugar.  1000 calories.

Total calories: 3550.

Tom Hesley

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