Crazy Cat Lady Chapter 4 - The Aftermath

badmemory

Sorry to put my oar in here but did they do full blood tests on your dad.  When my dad had low potassium levels it was part of his overactive thyroid which causes weight loss.  Hopefully they would have done a thyroid function test as a matter of course but if he is over 70 they may not have done as it would be unusual to go overactive over 60.

ETA if it is don't worry it is a doddle to sort!

apple_muncher

Thank goodness you have done your application form already and aren't trying to make sentences in the heat.

Hope the parentals all recover x

Buffythedebtslayer

I too hope the folks are ok, Mum won't eat in the heat and the worry has driven me a bit nuts! Sending love from a less hot Buffy XX 

beanielou

Sorry to hear about your mam   

Honeysucklelou2

Hope your mam and dad are feeling better .

MeandO

Hope your folks are all on the mend and feeling better CCL, it is such a worry isn’t it. Xx

foxgloves

CCL - If there's one thing I learned over the last 5 years or so, it was how much of a worry poorly parents are. Hope yours are taking care of themselves & have especially been drinking plenty during these very hot days.
F x

crazy_cat_lady

Thanks for the kind words everyone - very much appreciated. 
My mam is quite a lot better now, and went out for another COVID test today. I don't know what happened to any testing that they did in hospital but thankfully her antibiotics seem to be doing their thing.
Dad is the one causing me concern at the moment unfortunately as his doctor has called him back again but wants to do chest Xrays and further blood tests and all sorts of stuff. I have no idea what they're thinking is wrong with him but I'm thinking it's heart disease for sure. He keeps bleating on about how he has improved his diet etc but then neglects to mention that he's smoking 20 a day and has done for at least 50 years, probably more.  He rang me this afternoon in a right stress because he had been trying to buy a TV online as recommended to him by a friend - as he can't really work the internet the bank declined his transaction and flagged it as potential fraud. It had taken him an hour in the bank trying to prove his identity and get his card sorted and working again - which he had but he was devastated that he might miss out on the tv and that the bank would decline his card and he wouldn't be able to get any money etc etc etc... So, I bought the tv online for him and used his card to pay for it - so his card is working AND he hasn't missed out on the telly. If only his health were as easily sorted, but I'll have to wait and see what the docs say next week. It is a worry - I don't consider either of my parents as old (late 60s) but neither of them are particularly in good health. Nothing I can do except nag them to look after themselves and stay in touch with the docs.
Not much to report this end. Procrastination has well and truly set in at this end. I'm due back at work in a couple of weeks and I STILL haven't bothered myself to decorate the stairs. I don't want to. There's too much gloss painting to do... and I'm still pottering with my wardrobes although they are very close to being finished - in fact I might get them done and operational by the end of today if I give my head a shake. Saw my dad and stepdad together yesterday (awkward for me) to help me to get an awkward wardrobe door off that I'd tried to do for 2 days on my own. Then I had a trip to bee and queue to get some more screws and tools, then finally got my lampshades hung up in the outhouse but one of the lights seems to have stopped working so I'll have to get my stepdad to check next time he's over. Hoovered through, did a load of washing and tried to have an early night last night. Failed miserably, slept miserably and woke up this morning thinking that it was a Monday - I was very disorientated and couldn't get going. Fed the cats, changed the litter, washed dishes and hoovered in the living room. Very grey and drizzly here so put the tumble dryer on for the towels I washed last night then went out to meet my friends for a walk on the beach. Considering I'm less than 5 miles from the beach I really don't go there often enough at all - it was lovely out there even though it was grey and the tide was coming in. We walked for a couple of hours and I headed home and crashed a bit (sea air) - then bestie and her ds popped round for a couple of hours this afternoon. I've done no painting and decorating at all and the wardrobe is still needing to be finished. I really need to get going with this stuff - I can't keep making excuses.

janb5

Ooh I`m so jealous you and HSL are sooo near to the beach!  
What a great way to blow away the cobwebs! x

beanielou

Could you pay someone to do the gloss & do the rest yourself?