Addendum: Why I remember these important events of the day on the day after, I do not know, but I made my first call to the 24 HR line for Delaware Hospice. It concerned the care of my mother and not my father. Mom decided to take a bath and I drew the water and thought she could do for herself. I checked that she was OK and then attended to some items, one of which included working on the computer (a charge leveled by my brother and indeed, may be true, despite my disputing it, but I was in the TV room when I heard dad taking care of mom after her bath ... she has a fungal infection that has caused a rash and it needs attention, really, as it smells to high heaven, but he can't do this care anymore so thus the call to De Hosp ... I spoke to a wiry and bouncy Hispanic woman, I think, on my way to get a bone for Dancer and a checkup date at the local vet hospital, who told me and recited my message to our case manager, Beth Kincaid, which will be handled on Monday ... we need a CNA to help mom with her bath, at least once a week, and an RN to change the bandage on her rash. There is a possibility that they can handle this concern, despite the fact that she is not THE patient in hospice, her husband is. We shall see.)
Addendum: On a related care note, dad was having a little respiratory difficulty. We did a pulse oxygen and it registered in the 90s, but I started him on the supplemental oxygen and when I went to change the tank I found that one that I brought from my room was empty. (I learned from RSA person, who I called, that they can leak out over time. It had been about a year since they delivered this oxygen. I did find one that was filled, figured out how to affix the guage and then let loose the gas -- WOW!!! what force as it blew off the urinal from the table above onto the floor. Well, the client is mom because, as dad told me, rather surreptitiously, you need a doctor's prescription and a pulse oxygen in the 80s to get the respiratory service covered by Medicare -- dad has neither of those requirements to receive the breathing assistance -- ... regardless, they will be here on Monday to replace the tanks and check the ones we have.
Today is the 64th birthday of Randy Raymond, recovering from bariatric surgery, and Nicola Dovey, whose age is younger and I am not privy to, but it is also, more importantly, the 75th anniversary of the “Kristallnacht” attacks, which mark the unofficial start of the Holocaust. Here is the link, provided by findingDulcinea and it's e-mail about daily history: http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/November/Kristallnacht-Attacks-Mark-Unnofficial-Start-of-Holocaust.html
A ransacked Jewish-owned shop in an unnamed German town, November 1938.
I had this wonderful exchange with a FB friend, who I don't know personally, who shared the above link and this story (Dad is sleeping soundly behind me.):
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