CLEAN UP DADS HOUSE DAY

Weight watchers went well this morning im now taking 2 meetings so its up at 6.30 to be set up by 8am for the first meeting which went well then at 9.30 for the second meeting. My friend Chris D arrived today back from England it was so good to see her and she had fotos of all the foods available for weightwatchers members over there i think im gonna move cause they had some amazing stuff

Then over to Willard home and pick Dad up its gonna be hard we going thru his place and chucking out what he dont want

We found mums death certificate brought me to tears as i hadnt seen it before was something i couldnt look at before so ive had an extremelly emotional day.

Then when dad had had enough we went to the warehouse his favourite shop now hes happy got some more dvds (like he needs anymore hes only got about 600 at his house) and a laundry basket for his room then back to willard home just in time for his tea

so now im gonna go and get ready for the party and gonna go have some of that fun im been telling yous about

till tomorrow nite nite

YEAH ITS FRIDAY

Thank god today is over. It has been a very hard day its the first day back at work since i got sick on tuesday and i can tell ya im knackered.

I was gonna go visit dad after work but im just to tired and tomorrow im picking him up after weight watchers and we are going to get some little nit knacks from his house and take them to his room at willard home.
He is really enjoying it there hes got lots of people to talk to so he wont be alone any more this is good :-)

I have my nephew staying this weekend hes a bundle of beans so Neil had better look after him cause im gonna have me hands full with dad.


And today at 9.25 my neice Kaylynn had a little boy :-) great aunty sandra ohh that sounds old i will have to pop over to feilding and see her in the weekend

Ive got a big 40th party tomorrow so im gonna let me hair down and have some fun cause god nows ive not had much of that lately


so untill later chow........


Well i lost 500gms im pleased with that didnt want to put on as i havent eaten and i allways put on when i dont eat so next week it will be a good week as im feelin better and went to power plate for the first time this week :-)

I took my nephew Jamie totally buggered him out i bet his mums gonna be impresssed with that hes bet me to bed lol

whos the old fart now eh hahaha
nite nite

BUGGER ME 2 DAYS IN A ROW LOL

Well i bet this has given you a shock Sandra Blogging 2 days in a row i must be sick eh YIP crook as a dog been to the doc what an idiot told me to gargle salted water for me cough (which ive had for a month) gave me some pills to block me up as i cant fart or otherwise you guessed it need to change me knickers then sent me on my way.

I think i better go back and ask to see my doc dont like that other one.
I havent eaten since monday cant hold anything down ive coughed so much that my stomach hurts and last night my chest was getting tight so i poked me husband and sure enough he just kept on sleeping to bad if i'd died eh.

Well dad has settled into to his new home and we are going to sell his little flat.
Me big bro Mark not happy im sure he thinks dads gona go mad and spend his inheritence but who cares its his money not ours let him enjoy it i say

I cant go visiting yet as im to sick and dont want to pass on this nasty bug but i must say i think ive had a good loss this week not a good way to lose weight but its the only possitive thing to come out of it but next week when im eating i bet i put some of it back on :-(

It seems that when dad was in hospital i got made chief toe nail clipper im not to happy bout that it wasnt the nicest thing ive had to do but it beats washing his bum yes i did that too seems the nurses to busy for these basic nessiseties same that cause now i have images i dont need lol

They also lost his teeth so im having to chase up what they gonna do about that aswell. Its not like im busy or anything eh i just got work, family, weightwatchers, soccer, all the farm animals.

Then 2 weeks ago i got home from work to find my beloved cat not well by the time i got her to the vet she had gone down hill real fast
she was completly blind and couldnt walk so we had to have her put down i just sobbed and sobbed it had been the most horendous month what with me heart then me dad now i lost my cat we had her for 16 years so we have had her cremated and now shes back here in a rimu box i just cry everytime i see it :-(

well lets hope that this month gets better eh

well i better get back to bed so i can get better

HES HANGING IN THERE............

Well hes survived the week all of us are here now Rosalie and Elizabeth arrived thursday nite Liane arrived wed nite so were all here and things are really strained.
I had to have my stress test which didnt go well now i have the girls watching me and telling tales to the nurses my blood pressure is now 175 over 115 so they not happy and i have to wait around like im going anywhere lol.

dad is now out of danger for now he needs dialysis and now he has a falling blood count they have told us that if his count goes below 80 he is in danger of a heart attack and he has a non resus order out so we are geting a bit stressed eh

well its 4 weeks down the track every one has gone home so its up to me and Erica and Stephen to look after him its getting a bit much now hes very demanding but hes alive if only just 30% of him
his kidneys are working at 30%
liver at 20 %
lungs at 25%
so hes a bit stuffed.
they have transfered him to star 2 and making him do things which is good as he wants to go home were not happy about that as he cant walk let alone get out of bed and clean him self hes incontentent so its a big problem how do you tell someone who is extremelly independant that it dont look like
hes going home.

Well they have taken him home for a home visit to see how he copes and he didnt as we expected
on Tuesday we had a family group conference which went well the doc told dad that if he went home and he fell then he would break his hip and would prob not survive it so dad has some thinking to do
Well he has decided to go into a home so on thursday we are going looking.
Well he seams a hit with the ladies they swarmed around him like fresh meat lol
he has gone back to hospital with some reading to do but he seems to have made his mind up

well hes made his mind up hes going to Willard home so he moves on Wed and hopefuully the pressure will be off us a little and he can get back to living as god nos he not done to much of that lately hes looking forward to getting back to Lodge so lets hope that goes well

AND THE SAGA CONTINUES....../.

NOW WHERE WAS I ........



Dads in ccu hes not breathing to good and my big brother is on his way its now 8pm and we have been here all day. Amanda came up from wellington and is here for the week





Jillian my new daughter in law tobe has arranged things at work so i can be up at the hospital as they have told us dad isnt expected to make it. :-( Im sitting in his room when he informs me mum is here now im worried as mum died 16 yeasrs ago so is she here to take him away or to reasure him he gonna b ok?



So i just say HI MUM but its to late shes gone oh well maybe she will come back im real upset as dads dying and im alone in his room then me brother turns up and we have the best chat we have ever had.



Dad is in and out of it but we manage a few words which where special



Mark tells dad that on the way from rotorua he was trying to think of his time with dad but couldnt think of any good memorys and Dad said he wasnt a good dad had no time for us and he was sorry for that then he said something that made my whole upbringing finally make sense he waid that out of all the kids (there are 7 of us) 1 was picked on the most. Yip you guessed it he said it was Sandra (i knew this as i allways thout i got the raw end of things ) it was just so cleansing finally having some one say they were sorry for the way i had always been treated.



SUNDAY

Dad makes thru the night. I have a house fill of people my brother Mark is staying Neils cousin and his partner and kids where there when we got home last night so there are bodies everywhere i just have to get out im not coping to many people to feed and not enough food so i went shopping Mark comes along and helps replenish my cubboards as we have my sisters coming over from aussie.

We arrive at the hospital dad is not doing well hes kidneys are failing he cant speak to good its realy heartbreaking to watch, mum has been back and bugger me if my brother dosnt go and knock her over scared the shit out of us all when dad started going crazy at him poor stephen doesnt know what to do he couldnt see her we all ask where she is before we move as we dont want to go knocking her over again.

its now 11pm and the fone goes we need to get up to the hospital ASAP so me and mark go as fast as i can drive and bugger me if i dont beat him to dads room (he has running medals) lol me training is paying off i think.

Dads not to good wants to sort his funeral hes been blacking out so wants to put things in order. Doc not happy with his progress told us get family over asap

IM BACK.............

Well last time i blogged i said it was a nighmare week WELL GUESS WHAT its been a NIGHTMARE 5 WEEKS.
Let me explain
on the 18th july my son geoffrey had his engagement party I was doing the catering (the good mum that i am) and it all started badly when i pulled a muscle in my back so to get thru all the things i had to do i just popped a pill and off i went but me back didnt like that so i took a stronger pill. My lovely friends from my soccer team (GO THE MUPPETS) came and gave me a hand i would have been screwed without them i can tell ya.
Then my dad turned up and he was mad as he hadnt got an invite ( yes he did he just forgot) so when we finally get home to get changed i sit down and bugger me if i dont go and have a slight little HEART ATTACK got rushed to the docs who put me in an ambulance and sent me to hospital and you guessed it i missed the party.

At the hospital they found a heart murmer and high blood pressure and asked me if i was under any stress DERRRRRRRRR my whole life is stressful what with the lightening strike, sons engagement, my dads deterating health , not to mention my job it gets a bit much sometimes but i manage you just do eh
Well that put paid to me playing soccer on the the sunday the coach and the doc said NO so i wnt and watched :-(

Well all week i was knackered it just took all me energy to get round so i took the saturday of weightwatchers and slept in

THEN ME FONE GOES nads its my sister from aussie she had juwst rung dad and was concerned with his breathing so i rang me big sis who lives round the corner and wake her up (shes a night nurse in a nd e) she said just check hes taken his meds so off i go i had me sister txting me from aussie telling me hes real bad and then another txt saying dads rung an ambo love and death
i didnt check the sender just thout it was my sis telling me he was dying so i put me hazzard lights on and speed like crazy didnt do me heart any good i can tell ya
When i get to his place which is 20 mins from mine i find me brother in law there hes rung the ambo seems love and death is my nephews signiture on his fone (little shit) so he got a telling off and changed it pronto
Well dad was in a bad way i went in the ambo with him to the hospital where my sister met us and there we waited while they tried to stablize him.
they transfered him to CCU he had phenumonia, kidney failure and he was septic as he hadnt done anything bout his legs being ulcerated what a mess
well i have to go and help Neil clean the carpets but i will be back to finish off me story till later

WHAT A NIGHTMARE WEEK SEE IF YOU CAN BEAT IT

Well to say that i've had the week from hell is no understatement let me enlighten you
Friday was cooking meat at work for the soccer club mid winter xmas dinner and you guessed it took it out of the oven and got covered in boiling hot water badly burning my arm (crap it hurt)
then the fone goes and its me dearly loved son MOM WE HAVE NO WATER seems we have a leak in the water tanks, i've got a burning arm and he wants me to go find the water nahhhhhhhh, ring the plumber god dam it i go so he rings around and the only 1 available comes around looks at said pump and informs us we been struck by lightening so that explains a few things
1. no oven
2. no microwave.
3 no dishwasher
4. no water pump
5. 7 lightbulbs blown
but we got no water and its pissing down outside so when hubby gets home he goes investagating and finds 50,000 LITRES OF WATER in the pig paddock, pigs happy as larry, hubby not so.
SATURDAY
shut of one of the tanks that is leaking and wait for rain to full up the other tank
piddling down with rain so should not take long.
borrow a pump from the neighbour (lovely guy) but something not right with that one as well
ok so by this time im dirty need a bath
need to get washing done
need to do the dishes
need to spend a penny so i get handed a bucket of water (not impressed)
SUNDAY
sick of eating out not good for weight loss not looking forward to weds weigh in.
get hold of insurance agent (finally) he says get fixed now sort out on monday
still cant get a decent plumber shit im not impressed
now have a hose from the tank straight to the washing machine with a submersible pump to get the water out
still using a bucket to flush
pain in arm getting better.
MONDAY
YAY the plumber here
pump stuffed (no kidding)
put temp pump in but it got no shut of valve so can only use when need water so shit shower and shave, do dishes and washing all at once think im gonna knacker this one too.
now waiting on assor to come at take a look at me oven, microwave, and dishwasher, got new light bulbs in
arm on the mend.
Been up to hospital to vist me friend Chris and had her in stiches especially when i told her that on my way to work on monday
i got a flat tyre and was an hour late, my baker was gonna come looking for me

dont think i could take much more so went for me weigh in expecting a gain and bugger me if i aint gone and lost 1.2 kgs so hopefully things getting better cause god knows i cant take any more