My Dad died on Christmas. My mother was mad when we went home and left her with him but she did not say anything until the funeral. All I know is I gave him his 2 favorite things. Making kruschki while he sat by the box I would put them in and he would take them out and eat them and the next night Christmas eve dinner with all his favorites. I think I hardened all his arteries.
heh my Brother in law got fired from a job he loved in North Carolina for cursing. He ha just moved down from NJ and his office was super religious and no one ever cursed the mildest thing. He was warned once, but he could not help himself when something stupid happened. So they fired him on the spot. The next job he got was filled with northern transplants and they all cursed up a storm.
I live up in the northwestern corner of WA state, and we've had three power outages in the last two days. All of them didn't originate in our county, but in Island County. We joke about the electric cord being unplugged in Anacortes, but this was getting old. And it got down to 12 d, which makes us devoutly grateful to use propane for heating and cooking.
PS - a friend wrote a song to 'Cocaine' but talking about propane. Hilarious.
Sorry about your flooding...never lived in a flood prone area, but after living near flood plains in central Ohio for many years, knew many friends who had to recover from relatively tame flooding. And it's a bitch. Water, and its distribution and allocation to competing interests will probably be a prominent feature of our future in the U.S. as a whole. The southwest has been dealing with this since the early 20th century.
as an internist who tries to advocate against aggressive resuscitative measures and aggressive life-sustaining measures, I understand. But DNR only addresses resuscitation, not measures involving nutrition and nursing tasks and that is why the nurses were allowed to use their discretion. I agree with the spirit of your objection and when I was an overworked house officer, I have interpreted DNR in a very minimalistic way, which is why we had nurses to help us from letting too many people die (not good for the reputation of a teaching institution.)
I'd be pretty pissed if one of my kiddos did a dum like that as well, so I understand your frustration.
I looked a bit more into the dad with the 11 hours in the car with his kiddos. Single father who couldn't afford to leave his children overnight at the babysitter. Meaning he was probably out working to keep food on the table and a roof overhead. Heart goes out to someone needing to make those kinds of hard choices (and who didn't have a babysitter who cared enough to say, "You can sleep on the couch or the floor, but don't take those babies out in this weather.") Hey, I don't know the whole story. It might not have been that simple.
ACT may not own their poles, but they are generating green energy hand over fist...Also, it is in the 30's (celcius, which is about 104 f? i think?) and we're all complaining about the heat (for my area that is a heat wave, although the overnight temps drop by more than half of the daily max)
its been over 104F (above 30 C) here (it is summer tho) for the last three days. We had a roast for Dec 25 and turned on the air con afterwards cos we'd put too much heat into the house with the cooking.
I don't know you. You are just someone on the internet. I'm speaking of my experience, and my distaste for people torturing family members.
My Dad died on Christmas. My mother was mad when we went home and left her with him but she did not say anything until the funeral. All I know is I gave him his 2 favorite things. Making kruschki while he sat by the box I would put them in and he would take them out and eat them and the next night Christmas eve dinner with all his favorites. I think I hardened all his arteries.
heh my Brother in law got fired from a job he loved in North Carolina for cursing. He ha just moved down from NJ and his office was super religious and no one ever cursed the mildest thing. He was warned once, but he could not help himself when something stupid happened. So they fired him on the spot. The next job he got was filled with northern transplants and they all cursed up a storm.
I live up in the northwestern corner of WA state, and we've had three power outages in the last two days. All of them didn't originate in our county, but in Island County. We joke about the electric cord being unplugged in Anacortes, but this was getting old. And it got down to 12 d, which makes us devoutly grateful to use propane for heating and cooking.
PS - a friend wrote a song to 'Cocaine' but talking about propane. Hilarious.
And it's probably headed to more defenestration then. Out of basement windows.
Japan's public transportation is wonderful. Makes me SO jealous.
Me.
Whereas a whole lotta rain after 8" of snow = flooding rivers in the PNW. Not fun.
Sorry about your flooding...never lived in a flood prone area, but after living near flood plains in central Ohio for many years, knew many friends who had to recover from relatively tame flooding. And it's a bitch. Water, and its distribution and allocation to competing interests will probably be a prominent feature of our future in the U.S. as a whole. The southwest has been dealing with this since the early 20th century.
as an internist who tries to advocate against aggressive resuscitative measures and aggressive life-sustaining measures, I understand. But DNR only addresses resuscitation, not measures involving nutrition and nursing tasks and that is why the nurses were allowed to use their discretion. I agree with the spirit of your objection and when I was an overworked house officer, I have interpreted DNR in a very minimalistic way, which is why we had nurses to help us from letting too many people die (not good for the reputation of a teaching institution.)
I'd be pretty pissed if one of my kiddos did a dum like that as well, so I understand your frustration.
I looked a bit more into the dad with the 11 hours in the car with his kiddos. Single father who couldn't afford to leave his children overnight at the babysitter. Meaning he was probably out working to keep food on the table and a roof overhead. Heart goes out to someone needing to make those kinds of hard choices (and who didn't have a babysitter who cared enough to say, "You can sleep on the couch or the floor, but don't take those babies out in this weather.") Hey, I don't know the whole story. It might not have been that simple.
Feeling for those who are struggling.
or its part of a natural pattern that occurred before records started, who can tell? /s
ACT may not own their poles, but they are generating green energy hand over fist...Also, it is in the 30's (celcius, which is about 104 f? i think?) and we're all complaining about the heat (for my area that is a heat wave, although the overnight temps drop by more than half of the daily max)
its been over 104F (above 30 C) here (it is summer tho) for the last three days. We had a roast for Dec 25 and turned on the air con afterwards cos we'd put too much heat into the house with the cooking.
still correct
how the hell did i miss that story