• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    14·
    4 months ago

    Bit of a health scare for the ol’ girl yesterday. Fainted, collapsed went to bed. I was in the garden and had no idea. ol’ boy was down the bellarine gave me a buzz to see where she was. I found her completely out of it with fever symptoms. He comes racing back directing me on what to do / look for over the phone. Fuck she’s lucky to have a medico hubby.

    but jeez ol’ boys language / demeanor changes when there are problems like the ones we’ve seen in the last 6 months. Shit gets calm, direct and accurate. He’s normally a grumpy old bastard. We have our differences but with mum’s polycrisis, we’re both on the same page which has completely surprised me.

      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
        7·
        4 months ago

        Thanks man.

        I just wasn’t prepared for all these things to hit at once. Vision (and the shitload of drugs), teeth / food, physical mobility (and the risk of falls), hearing, memory, depression. It’s hard to know what’s feeding into each problem.

        Used to visit my gran all the time at a ‘well to do’ nursing home and I really didn’t like what I was seeing. The thought of it for the ol’ girl scares me as there’s a bit of complex care involved and I’m not sure they (or she) would cope and decline would be rapid.

        I suppose age comes for us all, if we’re lucky or unlucky.

        • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          I can understand that man. It’s a lot to take in at once.

          The reluctance to go into an care place I completely understand. I hope things improve so she can stay at home ❤️

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      3·
      4 months ago

      Damn, just saw this. What a lot to go through mate, I’m sorry you had to go through all that (and sorry for your parents too). Mum is indeed very lucky to have a medically trained husband. And it’s good that he’s able to see what matters and put the grumpiness aside in this sort of situation. Lucky he was not the one to have started losing faculties/abilities first…

      If you feel okay with sharing it I’d be interested to know what happened to your mum to have gotten so acutely ill. I do worry about my mum because of her living alone and the kinds of things that can befall her

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    10·
    4 months ago

    Yesterday the husband and kid went and looked at a few cars. They rock up to used car yard. Spot a car. The husband says to the kid “jump in. Have a look around” then a stranger appears and in his limited English and no teeth starts a convo with the kid. Then she jerries and apologises profusely. The stranger laughs and says “no worries. No worries”. Yeah, she made herself home in a strange old man’s car.

    What he was trying to say was “this my car. This my car”.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    10·
    4 months ago

    DOOM. For I am blind to my most important need and ran out of coffee on this fine morning …

    …guess after such a long time I shall treat myself to a cuppa outside, at the laundromat. And then promptly pick up supplies on the way back.

    Because of the sunny days I’ve been able to resume my prematurely terminated data collection for uni - definitely finishing today and then tomorrow I head back to some of the initial sampling sites out west to see how the readings might’ve changed from the same time of day between early March to now.

    I’m so glad I’ll be seeing a friend for dinner tonight. I would hate having to spend the entire weekend on uni.

    E: I have finally finished PHM. Face may have leaked a bit near the end when somebody went back to find somebody else. Fist my bump! 😭 I found out they’re doing a movie adaptation, I won’t get my hopes too high as to how they’ll pull it all off but I have to watch it just to see how they depict Rocky!

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    After 10 days of no guitar, I played non stop for about an hour without thinking. All improvised and it was fucking awesome.

    Goodnight everyone ❤️

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    4 months ago

    Can definitely tell there’s been a slew of reddit refugees, the cunt quotient has upped in various comms this past week

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
      4·
      4 months ago

      conservatives/maga don’t like what they are reading, the cognitive dissonance is too painful

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
    7·
    4 months ago

    Used my new glasses at work for the first time yesterday and it’s crazy toggling between glasses/no glasses just how blurry the screen of the computer is without them, and I’d just been dealing with it for so long.

    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Speaking from personal experience, as someone that got glasses relatively late in life, be very very careful going up and down stairs. Getting glasses really fucked over my proprioception, and several near disasters later I still find I have to take my glasses off to tackle stairs.
      I also found that my naked sight deteriorated very fast after I got glasses. Fewer headaches though.

      • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
        4·
        4 months ago

        Appreciate the advice thank you! The optometrist started me on a lower than ideal prescription for that very reason, while I adjust. When I tried the correct prescription it was very disorienting