There's nothing wrong with me, other than I seem to have lost my get up and go. Nothing interests me right now and I'm even having a hard time reading blogs or leaving comments.
My sister in law is visiting right now and I took Jack over to visit her at my niece's place. My niece doesn't have children, she has cats, hence the fish head shaped cat bed.
The trees continue on their yearly ritual of changing colours. I walk the dogs. I worked last Friday and we had a gentleman with a severe allergic reaction. A code was called but no compressions were needed. Sadly it will be this gentleman's last CT scan because it showed the tumour had collapsed the right upper lobe of his lung and was pressing on his SVC. The doc talked to him and the patient now was days to weeks, and not months. So my heart broke at little. And then I had a thirty-nine year old man with metastatic rectal cancer; I don't realize how hard my job was, until I go back there. The grief is overwhelming sometimes.
I went to see "Come From Away" with three friends on Saturday night. I can't say enough good things about it. It made me laugh and it made me cry. My ex-husband was flying on 9/11 and I remember the terror I felt, the terror so many felt, that day. We didn't know what was happening, or what else would happen. The musical was about the planes that were forced to land in Gander, Newfoundland on 9/11 because American airspace was closed. It was the stories of the people on the planes and the stories of the people in Gander who took strangers into their homes. Turns out my sister in law, my niece and her boyfriend were sitting not far from us, but none of us knew that.
The hurricane and the aftermath have gotten to me as well. It's not bad enough that people have died, or lost everything, or been cut off from the rest of the world, trump has to make it even worse by spewing lies. He is an evil, vile man. I'm tired of his shit, beyond tired.
On the last two sentences. Yes and yes. I know the feeling you are having well. I'm sorry. I could not do your job, it's understandable you feel low.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to never end with trump. He can never have enough attention, never have enough money, never have enough love. He is a hungry ghost of a human.
DeleteI am sorry that you have lost your get up and go. That happens sometimes to me as well. I always appreciate your comments about tRump because I feel the exact same way. Every time that man opens his mouth, I get angry, and then saddened that so many minions blindly follow him. If he wins in November, I am afraid of the tailspin that I will endure. And I also appreciate that you being a Canadian have an interest in what happens here in the USA. The events of the hurricane magnify to me what a poor excuse of a human he is. He can't open his mouth without disparaging someone or lying. Oh..I am on a roll! I could go on and on!
ReplyDeletePlease, feel free to go on and on:) We all feel the same way.
DeleteI read the book, Come From Away. I enjoyed it a lot. That was such a surreal event. We were in West Seattle, over looking Elliot Bay. After the ground stop there were no planes into Sea-Tac. It was eerily quiet.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to take a look for the book. It was eerily quiet, that's for sure.
DeleteGlad you enjoyed "Come From Away" -- I wonder if they'll ever make a movie of it?
ReplyDeleteI don't know but the musical was amazing.
DeleteI seem to have a day wherein I have some energy and then follows a day I don't. I have no idea what's going on. I keep thinking- well, I'm just old.
ReplyDeleteThere is a powerful lot of really bad things going on in the world right now. But we can only do what we can do. Having said that, I am grieving too, for all the folks who have lost their homes, their cars, their places of business- everything. Many have lost their life.
As to Trump- as much as I cherish the hope that he ends up in prison for the rest of his life, I think it would be best for all if he just POOF! disappeared into thin air, leaving behind nothing but the slight smell of sulphur.
Perhaps someone will throw some holy water at him and he will disappear, as you say, poof!
DeleteThe world seems to suck a lot lately. We need some good news.
I'll have to read that book. I'm trying to convince my Oh So Christian relatives that Trump is the anti-Christ. It's not working, but it gives me something to do, ha.
ReplyDeleteI think I'll read it too. trump is a POS (piece of shit). I post that on his facebook page, imaging that most of the people who visit his page, won't have any idea what POS means. Brings me a little satisfaction.
DeleteI got to see Come From Away and was amazed by how it was staged. Also, incredibly grateful to our Canadian neighbors.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine ever being able to do the job you did and so grateful that there are folks like you in the world.
I hope you get your mojo back soon, but in the meantime, take gentle care of yourself.
That's what go me with the musical, it was really only chairs, a few tables and our imagination, but it was wonderful. The actors brought the stage to life.
DeleteIsn't a lack of motivation, that is get up and go, a symptom of depression?
ReplyDeleteNo one doubts the care and skills of most nurses. I think our nurses are reasonably well paid but I am not sure about yours.
Sadly while I know Come From Away, I've haven't seen it.
Nurses are reasonably well paid here as well, but there is a deep lack of respect for nurses, and health care professionals in general, by our present provincial government.
DeleteLack of motivation is a symptom of depression. I had to chuckle to myself when I read that. I appreciate people who don't sugar coat things.
I think I'm finally ready to read about that time; it was surreal and painful, even living on the west coast. Come from Away sounds like a heartwarming story; isn't there another book about that event "When the world came to town?" or something like that. I'm not good with titles! It sounds like you're experiencing low grade depression and yes, Trump is awful but the people who support him are even worse. They enable him and want to live in a country of his making. I'm terrified that he'll win especially with all the machinations the GOP are cooking up. :( A young French teacher I worked with has Stage 4 lung cancer and the oral drug she was taking has stopped working 8 months before it was supposed to, so she's getting a port and headed to hard core chemo. I'm heartbroken for her, her husband and her little ones. I know lung cancer well and it's not kind.
ReplyDeleteCancer is just an indisriminate asshole. If trump was a disease, he'd be cancer. I had a patient about six months ago, a young nurse in her thirties with lung cancer. She'd never smoked and her first symptom was blindness, a brain tumour that had spread from her lungs.
DeleteThat is the name of the book and I might get it out of the library because it sounds like there were a lot of amazing stories from that time.
Yeah, trump just adds to everything bad that one is feeling -- he really is vile. I get your mood -- I've felt much the same way of late, and I'm trying to be patient in hope that it will pass.
ReplyDeleteThis too shall pass, except maybe not fast enough for my liking:) I'm an impatient cow.
DeleteI had to laugh when I saw that photo. My first thought was that scene from Mr. Bean when Bean ends up with the Christmas turkey on his head!
ReplyDeleteIn North America, my first thought was the "Friends" episode where Joey ended up with a turkey on his head. I had forgotten about Mr. Bean:)
DeleteIt's a difficult time, you are just barely into retirement, with part of yourself still at work, the days are getting shorter and colder, the news of devastation due to climate change is getting louder and closer, and so on . . .
ReplyDelete"Do not talk down to yourself for struggling; the struggle is part of the transformation. Trust that the version of yourself that emerges on the other side will be stronger for it." (Maggie Smith)
Thank you Sabine.
DeleteI love that top photo! And it's nice to see your autumn leaves, which are already looking more colorful than anything around here.
ReplyDeleteI've heard a lot of good things about "Come From Away" over the years but still have never seen it. One of these days!
"I think less of people who are able to relax and sit and enjoy life. Sigh." Sorry, I was always the "lazy" one in my family because I focused on the things I cared about. I still do. ❤️
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