Jewish Musings, Monday May 1

[louise]

What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.

Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:

Angelika
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy

And for those of you who stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to do that but you are also welcome to chime in.

[louise]

I'm not putting out a MayDay (ha ha) for Lee - she mentioned she had a medical appointment this morning and I'm assuming there was no time to post before she left. So I'm just getting us on the board until she's back and tells us today's subject and how the appointment went.

I'll be working on getting our 10 offices at work down to ONE this week.

[gazelle18]

Welcome back Louise.
I have been really quite busy and so when I saw that Louise had opened this morning, I thought : "did I miss a whole week?" Fortunately, no.
Lee, let us know how your appt went...
Hi to everyone else!

[momof2]

Hi all,
Yes, sometimes eating sweets and carbs help.
First of all, thank you to everyone who reminded me that my first priority is to myself, husband and kids. And traveling with 2 little ones requires 2 people. Last night DH and I shared some wine,
I became more at peace with the decision. Also, it was the Yom Hatzmaut celebration. DD knew a far amount of people there, but there were tons. She was over stimulated. Even after her nap, the afternoon, evening, she was very punchy. DH took over during bath time, so I wouldn't hurt myself. Experience is a great teacher, now if I have an over tired, over stimulated daughter and a baby, that trip would be insane. DH reminded me that my job is to maintain the house, making sure things are done and not too much chaos. How could I do that if I am over tired, or in pain from a trip? I think it would be better to meet my nephew without all the people. When my sister came for DS's bris, she drove my parents and a good family friend. Also, she left her daughter with her husband. Every situation is different. Thank you ladies. For now I am at peace with mine (unless she goes into labor early, but the party is always going to be on Memorial Day, as people have made plans.....the bris would be small then)
Sorry for venting.
Time to unload the dishwasher and pack DD's lunch.
Have a Marvelous Monday!

[hollygail]

Just a quick post & run. I'm seeing one adult bnai mitzvah student this morning, then a quick lunch, then one bat mitzvah girl this afternoon. Will probably get caught in rush hour traffic coming home...

More tonight.

[happysavta]

Shalom, chaverot,

Want to wish everyone a fine day! I went to a T'ai Chi class, but I didn't last for an hour standing in one place. It made my lower back hurt. So after half an hour, I sat down and just listened and did the arm movements only. A lot of it is breathing. Matter of fact, the instructor told the class that rhythmic breathing can be very helpful in situations of mild to moderate anxiety. Just thought I'd pass that along.

All good things,

Frieda

[louise]

So maybe Lee's PA sent her off for some testing?

[lee058]

Hi everybody. Hope you are all well. Thanks Louise for starting the thread, and everyone else for joining in. Today has been very tiring so far, but hopefully the rest of the day will be less so, or at least that I will be able to relax. I saw my doctor's PA-C this morning, and told him that my arm and shoulder were hurting worse since I cut down on the ibuprofen. He said to go ahead and up the dose for a short time, and he had me get a blood test to make sure that the ibuprofen wasn't affecting my kidneys. I'll get the results tomorrow, and depending on what they are, I may need to go see the orthopedic doctor sooner than my scheduled appointment for May 11th, and there would definitely be a medication change. So I need to be patient until tomorrow, and hope for the best.

That in itself wasn't exhausting, but what happened afterwards was. I called my mom to tell her what was going on, and got caught up in some major drama that took THREE HOURS and numerous phone calls to finally straighten out. Apparently, mom's aide called her this morning, saying that she had car problems and was waiting for a tow truck, so she wouldn't be coming to work on time. Between the two of them, they got each other frantic that the aide would be stuck on the side of the road after the tow truck took her car away. I told mom that that was impossible, and no tow company would do something like that. On top of that, mom told me that she only had enough medication laid out in pillboxes for today, and that she couldn't see well enough to get her medications out of the bottles in the correct amounts tomorrow. I made sure that she did have today's medications organized and available. Then, I told her that tomorrow, either her regular aide would set up her pillboxes or else the agency would send someone else over to do it. She said that she wasn't sure how much of which meds she was supposed to take, so she couldn't tell someone new what to do. I said that her doctor and/or her pharmacy would know. There was also some confusion about whether or not mom's medication list was up to date, which remained unsolved. I told mom that this problem needed to be worked out as soon as possible, either with her current aide or a substitute if necessary. Mom got more upset about "being at her aide's mercy" to get things like that done.

I called the aide's agency to make sure that I had the right phone number for mom's aide, and to tell them that mom would need someone else tomorrow if her regular aide couldn't come in because of her car. They were upset to learn that the aide hadn't been to work and hadn't called them. More hassles, but at least I didn't have to try to fix those particular ones.

I was able to reach mom's aide and asked her to call mom when we were done talking. The aide said that her car was almost ready to go, and that she would call my mom.

After a little while, I called mom again to make sure that her aide had called her. Mom said that the aide had called, but that she (mom) was upset that the aide wouldn't be in until tomorrow. Her (the aide's) reason was that it was already noon and she usually only worked until 2PM. Mom had told the aide that that was okay, but afterwards, when she talked with me, she was sorry that she hadn't insisted that the aide come in today, even it was only for a short time. Mom then went into another(!!) tirade about how the aide took advantage of her. I did my best to calm her down AGAIN.

Anyway, you get the idea of what most of the earlier part of today was like. I apologize for the length of this story, and I'm sorry that I didn't have a chance to set up a lead for our thread. I will do my best to write an interesting lead for us tomorrow, and I hope you will understand when I say that right now my brain is exhausted. I hope you don't mind waiting until tomorrow. Thanks in advance.

Have a peaceful rest of the day, Lee

[peachymom1]

Lee, I'm pretty sure you would be a candidate for sainthood, if we had Jewish saints!

Hang in there. Gentle hugs (watch the shoulder!) and hand pats to you. I hope things settle down for your mom. You are really a wonderful daughter.