A new ‘work’ week has begun. My last therapy session is today but more will be scheduled in the future. I have to pay my rent today when Jackie comes this afternoon to get Girl Scout cookies from a neighbor’s granddaughter who sells them right at Garden Court. I support Girl Scouts every year! Yummy, cookies!! I have occupational therapy and dialysis today. It’s okay, but kind f redundant in my way of thinking not really necessary to be honest.
My mom and I talked about distance not being necessary anymore. My life as Kristi is the same even though it took me a long time to accept my new living arrangements since my hematoma days of September 22, 2022. I have no idea why my caregivers worry about distance when they were told by my mother to stop it personally. Ugh! My caregivers need to stop some of their shit or they will be fired! I am getting sick and tired of the crap going on. Jackie is so overbearing that it is getting old. She sleeps at my apartment a lot and it is beginning to annoy me a bit. I think Jackie needs to see the doctor about bed inability to sleep.
Dialysis Update
Dialysis went well today. No hitches except an occasional buzzer going off because of the arterial line or the temp of the machine was too high, but I dialyzed to 2543 out of 3010! Saw Dr. Anjum a few minutes before I was done dialyzing for the first time this week.
There is a patient who thinks that he only needs dialysis twice a week and left early during treatment, and refused to sign a paper stating he was leaving. Okay. I get it, but a patient on dialysis needs to dialyze three times a week to get the benefits of relatively decent health by machine, people. It’s just not beneficial to cut treatment short, either! With that said, I am at peace. No name mentioned at this time because it is for the privacy of the patient and knowing him personally through the recent weeks, it is nice to keep some things private the best I can!
I am a little disappointed with a technician— actually more than two. A technician has left to go to Fresenius Dialysis, another technician left, and two others have also left Mercy dialysis. Even a nurse has left Mercy dialysis, and a traveling nurse is done with working with us after sticking around for 2 years here instead of three months and moving on.
The Rest of the Day
I will not argue how my day went but I will gripe about the dang cold weather…winter months are the hardest for me. Brrr! Anyone else in agreement? Oh, please, raise your hand, peeps! Thank you so much for agreeing with me, also, lol. Sometimes I am okay with the cold weather but going out in it … today, for example is ‘I don’t like it right now, though. It’s cccooolllddd ooouuutttsssiiidddeee, people! Ugh!!
I get home and Jackie meets me in the lobby where we sit for an hour to wait for the Girl Scout cookies to get there. I bought $30 worth of cookies as I support the girls selling for a special trip in the summer months as a team. Also, thin mints, peanut butter sandwich cookies, lemonade cookies, and toastem’s (tastes like French toast!) Yum!
After the buying of cookies, Jackie and I went upstairs, and I got ready for bed. A neighbor was having a Tupperware Party from when Jackie had hers last December and we were not invited to it, and that kind of pissed Jackie off a bit. I was too tired and moody to bother going. I guess people will show certain unfavorable colors and opinions of themselves in time. Once in a blue moon I am out of here, most of the neighbors I got to know while living here will be forgotten—nor Donna Cavey and Marie Hartung. Our relationship will be just separate from then on I suppose. I will wait and see. I wish I could take Donna Cavey with me, please, Jesus? Thanks for getting back to me as soon as you can, thanks! Love you, Jesus!
In bed and watching Roku Live’s Midsomer Murders. I love that show—mystery even though, fortunately, one I’ve see several times now, ok? Yep, ok! All is good enough for now. Good night, peeps.