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@MyAussieGirl we have locked the cats up since we were first married! Neither one of us appreciates fleas in the bed, and especially we don't tolerate the 4:00am wakeupfeedme call! We've had some interesting setups. The first house, a 1930 townhouse, was special. Hubby put up a double-layer plastic "wall" in a hallway that separated the downstairs from the stairs to upstairs, to keep all the heat from collecting upstairs, which had enough radiators already. The cats would be locked behind that. One of them, an enterprising white youngster, would pick at that "wall" with one claw, carefully. BOOM! BOOM! A 12x16 ft timpani drum! Next house, another townhouse, we could choose to lock them
in the basement, not a bad choice, or
out of the bedroom, not so good. So...the basement door had a grille/mesh thing for ventilation. Same white cat, same claw, poink! poink! Grrr. Different house, different cats, 2007-2014: the cats could be locked into the garage/kitchen/dining/den/sunroom area by closing the den door and using a giant sheet of plywood as a makeshift door in the large opening between the dining room and the front foyer. So here's us, last person up at night gets to cart this 30-lb sheet of wood to its place, and then coax the cats into their prison. One night, mraaaoooww, mrrraaaoooww-- who's this in the bedroom? It's the cat who climbed the 6-ft-tall plywood barrier! (same one who catches squirrels now) We gave up and paid to have a nice glass door put in there.....it did make life so much easier.
Yeah, first hip I didn't wash my stockings every night, but I don't think I was showering every night for a couple of weeks either. I was very unsteady in the tiny tile shower. This time around, my new hip feels much steadier. I don't know if it's me or the hip-- I had the shower bench in the tub, as per safety rules, and I did sit on it one night. After that it was just in the way, and I feel perfectly safe in this shower-bath. Odd; no two hips are the same!
@Layla , ask away! I did not get to be a "don" by keeping my mouth shut here! And that's a very good question, as I can advise on both surfaces. For the first hip I had one of those tiny 1960's all-tile master showers, those little tiles on the floor same as you probably. It did not stick, but as the shower was very small and had a great soap dish/handlebar thing inset, I'd just shove the scrubber into the corner and scrub away. No splits possible for older than a 3-yr-old! This hip, the bath is a late 70's "jack and jill" bath pair, with a tub/shower in the Jill portion. It's got that slightly textured grid surface on it, and even where it doesn't have that, up near the faucet, the scrubber sticks very well. Do you have a bench or something, or a bar to grab? It really is a fun foot scrubber! And the only way for even my anterior approach to go. I have no 90 degree precaution, but it would hurt like the dickens to bend my leg that far yet.
And a great day to you as well!!
Cheryl
@cpollock oh ugh yes menopause.... I remember "let's pretend we are not having a hot flash, let's just lie here quietly, oh **** please don't start sweating, DANG ok I give up, gotta move the covers, and now that I'm awake I guess I have to go to the bathroom, and yeah, now I'm wide awake thanks a whole lot body!"
That's cool you use both a tape and a white noise machine. We have an old mechanical one (the best kind IMNSHO) that we bought for our younger son, who it didn't help at all. 15 years ago I pulled it out again and started using it for me, and I really find it smooths the rough edges off of sudden sounds. When I first got a smartphone, I looked in the app store for a white noise app, and downloaded several before I found a perfect one. I am a good, um, "auditory discriminator"? in that I hear sounds very carefully. That's why I'm a musician, I'm sure. Anyway, I can hear the "loops" on recorded sounds, and they wake me up every time. I start counting raindrops, or waves, or fire crackles, or crickets, until the loop jerks and starts again. Finally found an app that's so good I even can't hear the loop in the cat purr! So my custom sound is a 4-way combo of cat purr, sandstorm, jetliner cabin, and boiling kettle. Very deep total sound, just what I love for hotel nights. You are so right about "doing what we have to do" to function the next day, is it a mom thing?
The itchies....I'm pretty sure it was me freaking out over the percocet itchies. It's happened every night since then, and I am ready to throw the bottle of pills out the window!! Almost two weeks, and I know there's probably another week of near-constant dosing to go. I love the stuff for about 3-5 days per surgery, and then it becomes hateful to me. Ugh.
Canada
please please make it go away!
If I don't I'll get a call.....Where is this in the store? What is that? And you know....men they don't dare ask anyone a question just like they can't ask for directions while lost in the car. Gotta love em!
So when I see his PA tomorrow, I'll have to ask for either another week of meloxicam to go with the extra week of clot-busting aspirin, or to stop the aspirin so I can take advil, which I like best for NSAID quality on me.
