Frustratedearthmother's Journaling Journey

[NH Homesteader]

Yay on the rain! Perfect for your seeds!

Boo Conan, what the heck are you thinking? That's why I wouldn't want a bottle baby buck, but you know how to handle him! Hope he knocks that off!

I've been on interview committeea before. Hated it, there were times I wanted to stop and be like yeah this is a waste of all our time, you don't fit in here, bye bye! Lol

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I've been on interview committeea before. Hated it, there were times I wanted to stop and be like yeah this is a waste of all our time, you don't fit in here, bye bye! Lol

Uh - yea....had one of those today. Bless his heart.... He had a communication degree and couldn't form a sentence....bless his heart!

 

[NH Homesteader]

So.. Bless your heart is southern for you're an idiot... Right? Lol

 

[Mini Horses]

So.. Bless your heart is southern for you're an idiot... Right? Lol

Pretty much ...

Nice that you all get to hire your own boss. Why didn't you just vote for appeasing the one that is leaving?

I'd retire the DAY I got to "whatever" you needed to get out. There is always part time things you can do. I found it hard to NOT work at all but, since I am alone here that was another factor. You do get used to "payday" and hard to give it up.

 

[sumi]

I've had to interview too and it's so hard… I hope you'll find the perfect candidate soon.

Goodness, Conan, but GREAT timing with the hose pipe! lol Hopefully that will make the little beggar think twice next time.

How is your DH's eyes and eyesight now?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

So.. Bless your heart is southern for you're an idiot... Right? Lol

You got it!

Nice that you all get to hire your own boss. Why didn't you just vote for appeasing the one that is leaving?

I wish we could have kept her. I've worked with her for 15 years and watched her grow up. She's already moved to a different department and I can't blame her. She really wants to advance on campus and to do so needed to move into a director position in a bigger department. The blessing in that is she can still help our department by offering services to our students. So it's not all bad.

I think DH's eyesight has stabilized for now. The left eye is probably just about as good as it's going to get. The right eye still has some blood in the field of vision but we're hoping it will eventually settle out. The only alternative is to go through the same set of surgeries on that eye and that is something we're NOT interested in doing at this time. With correction his vision is 20/50 so not awful. His biggest concern is loss of peripheral vision in the left eye which will never be restored...

Of course all that doesn't even matter if he repeats what happened last night. The man was as close to death as he's been in forever. Totally nightmarish night. He was having trouble with his insulin pump and the sensor that communicates with it. The sensor tells the pump when to send an alarm if his blood sugar gets too high or too low. The ONE night it doesn't work he decides to have a severe hypoglycemic episode. I'm not even sure what woke me but I think I heard him moan in his sleep. I always reach over and touch him when that happens and he was drenched in sweat. That sets off huge alarm bells in my mind and I jumped out of bed yelling at him to see if he would respond. Nope - he's totally out of it. He's supposed to keep his "kit" upstairs at night so it's closer at hand if needed. Could I find it - nope. I tore down the stairs and grabbed some honey because I didn't think I would be able to rouse him enough to have him chew anything. I also grabbed the Smarties - BEST candy to raise blood sugar. Also poured a cup of milk - and ran back up stairs with all of it. I got the honey into him first, which is good because he was basically semi-conscious at that point. I was deathly afraid he would start seizing - but thank goodness he didn't! After two spoons of that he barely roused enough to try and figure out what was going on. He kept asking me if he was dead...geeze! At that point I was finally able to check his blood sugar and it was 35 - and that was AFTER treatment. Low 30's and down is seizures, coma and death territory. Very scary stuff. Ever heard of "dead in the bed syndrome?" A lot of times that is the 'diagnoses' of a diabetic whose blood sugar went so low that they never woke up.

And, his brain does NOT work with a low blood sugar. I've been after him to give me a lesson in how to operate his pump. I needed to turn it off so it wouldn't continue to deliver insulin - which would continue to lower his blood sugar. ARGH! I finally at least learned enough in my emergency self-teaching moment to see that it wasn't delivering insulin at that point....good thing because I was about to rip it out of his skin!

 

[sumi]

Oh my goodness, FEM Hope your DH is o.k. now. When I was in my early 20's my grandmother, who was diabetic, had a hypoglycaemic episode. I didn't know what to do! I knew something was wrong, but wasn't sure what and couldn't figure out her new test machine, so I could check her blood sugar level and she was beyond explaining to me how to work the dang thing. Thankfully my aunt was in the house and she helped. It was so scary.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

The first time that happened I was terrified! But, you learn...cuz you have to. I'm just really thankful that DH doesn't get combative when he's hypo....that would be very hard to deal with. I always tell him he gets stupid when his blood sugar is low and gets grouchy when his blood sugar is high, lol. And, I don't call him stupid to belittle him - but in reality the brain uses sugar (glucose) for fuel...when the glucose level is low - the brain cannot function. That's when you find them "dead in the bed."

 

[NH Homesteader]

Some people who live alone have dogs for that right? I had a severely diabetic friend who did that, seizure and all. I managed to get him back high enough to tell me what to do, sorta. It was terrifying. And due to his Thanksgiving meal choices!

 

[tortoise]

So scary!!!! I'm sorry you both experienced that! Way to save the day! Hopefully he will teach you how his equipment runs now. (Unless it needs to be replaced?)