Stijn!!

[nynor]

what's going on with your mother that she needs hospice? that doesn't sound good...

[RKDinOKC]

Well for quite some time she has be having dementia problems. She has be slowly declining since her post cancer drug side effect stroke in 2005.
The recent problems started when I took that vacation last November, she stopped eating solid foods, and fell. The fall got 90 days of in home care that helped her shower, did physical therapy, and a nurse checking her weight. Dropped from 145 to 115 lbs, now back up to 124. Also has arthritis spurs in her knee that keeps her from walking much when it hurts. And any stress it's the first thing to start bothering her.

She was recovering pretty good from the fall, except for the eating solid foods part until our Golden Retriever Camber died. Camber slept in Mom's bedroom, and followed mom around, and always tried to get Mom to let her outside before she came to me. Mom's dog. The day after Camber passed Mom started sitting slumped with her head down, her knee started hurting more, and she started becoming incontinent. That is one of the reasons I ran out and got another puppy. She has started drinking and eating soft foods more. The last week has also started a parkinsons like shake in her hands and the incontinence is getting more frequent. Any changes in her environment typically cause a decline or loss of some ability.

The help I've been getting is because of the fall and can only go for 90 days. The decline because of Camber's death will extend that help, for another 90 days. But the home care people can't really do anything about the pain except what the doctor had already prescribed besides recommending over the counter stuff that doesn't really help much.

Was told to call home care if we needed anything instead of her doctor or calling an ambulance. I have been calling them and asking for more to help with the pain in her knee and her mobility after camber passing. If her knee doesn't hurt she gets around and goes to the bathroom even likes to go to the grocery store and push the cart for me. If it hurts she just sits there. Besides the nurse to re-evaluate her assistance and physical therapy, they also sent out the social worker to re-review her case. He came out when they started the home care after her fall and found she was making too much and had too much money to be put on the advantage program, which is typically about 18 hours of help however I need to use it.

Because of the recent decline, knee pain, incontinence, and shaking the home care nurse AND the social worker are asking her doctor to recommend Hospice. The social worker says it's not like in the past where you have to be 6 months from death, it's a matter of the illness continuing until death, what the patient can do for themselves and what they need to be comfortable. Says they can do more for her pain management, and having people come help with medicare hospice where her insurance won't. The example he gave was the doctor can only give cortizone shots for her knee every few months under her insurance (which changed only this past year thank you insurance company), but hospice can provide a shot every day if needed.

My brother and I are hoping they can do some sort of lapriscopy on her knee with only a local anesthetic. Her doc says it would require general anesthetic, and with dementia if she gets put under, she doesn't wake up. Social worker knee surgery under local very possible because the hospice will bring in another doctor that will take over her case with the idea of making her as comfortable as possible instead of only doing what insurance allows. Says the first thing they do is review and change medications which may help her knee.

And for the record, neither Me or Mom like me changing her diapers or giving her a bath, or even helping her dress. She prefers a woman do it to maintain her dignity.

[RKDinOKC]

Does anyone on here know anything about Active Directory and how users should be managed?

The network guy is reorganizing employees into OU's for different departments and office locations in the company. I thought that is what the fields for department and location are for in the users record, then you just build dynamic groups based on those field values.

I am not schooled in Active Directory, but that's how I've been doing things since 2007 without any problems.

It just seems that this network guy want's to do EVERYTHING with OUs. Says you can set security with them, but you can set security with any group and it does not have to be an OU.

The migration guys also added an attribute field to not migrate users to the hosted environment. There are 15 available custom attributes already available that are much easier to set/unset/manipulate and use for dynamic selections than the attribute they added. Maybe I am just not thinking the Microsoft way.

I just have this feeling that our Active Directory Schema is getting totally screwed up so it will be unusable for actual directory services like password validation. We are already seeing problems with people's login's not working where they have been fine for years.

[RKDinOKC]

Pepper Update:

Pepper has decided bringing toys to me is more fun the running off and chewing on them by herself. This means FETCH! and hunting stuff like Mark and Drop. And tug of war with the knotted ropes and skins off of old plush toys.

She is doing a couple of things that are really cute. About 1/3 the time when she goes to get the toy, she hunkers down and stalks it like a cat, then pounces on it. Also about half-way back, she starts taking really small steps and prances like a horse. Cute, cute cute.

Also "NO" and "Leave it" are sinking in.

[Rick V]

I have been trying to get Beth the learn "No" for a while now, I see you are having better luck than I am

[RKDinOKC]

Immediately after she does something wrong, hold her face up to yours, look her straight in the eyes, and say "No" in a firm deep voice like a growl.

[Jim Richards]

That'll work with Beth, Rick. Just try it.

6 degrees (wind chill is -9) on my way to the office this morning. Back in SoCal, it's 60. The forum's cursing filter might be overloaded if I say anymore.

[GH85Carrera]

Good Friday morning everyone.

Our aerial film is processed in OH and FedEx is pretty good about getting it to them and they process and ship it the same day. We were supposed to get a roll back on Tuesday. We finally called them late Tuesday and asked FedEx WTF? They started whining about the weather. I understand s*** can cause a major fudge cluster, but what is normally a few hours took two and a half days.

[RKDinOKC]

That's what happens when employees start taking snow days.

One winter company I work for provided a snow day taxi service and/or pull you out of the ditch service. Hardly any one called it because they didn't want everyone to think they were weather wimps.

[fintstone]

Hey! It's up to 9F (was 3F a couple hours ago). Heat wave here in Maryland.

[fintstone]

Reminds me of the four years I spent in Minot ND. If it broke the single digits in the winter...it didn't feel bad.

[flipper35]

Richard, the OU shouldn't cause any issues with AD, but that custom attribute for migration could. We use OUs and groups depending on what the need is. We use GPOs for a lot of things and the OU makes that easier to separate who the GPO gets assigned to.

We had a dusting today but above freezing they say tomorrow! Chance of rain though.

[pete3799]

It has warmed up to 5 above.......but the wind is not helping.

[GH85Carrera]

Funny cat video. Watch the last 40 seconds for sure. The very last is the best.

[Noah930]

Ok, from a couple days ago, but it's been a ridiculously busy week so I haven't been around here much:

One of the nurses (pretty, blond) in the OR went to a patient to start an IV before her surgery. Another nurse had already tried once and failed. To calm the patient's nerves a little and bolster her with some confidence, the blond nurse said in mock dismay: "Oh, I can't believe xxxxx couldn't get an IV in you. You have great veins. I'm going to have to spank her."

From behind the curtain the next bed over came the instant reply from a 90 year-old man waiting for his surgery: "Then me next."

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Noah930

Ok, from a couple days ago, but it's been a ridiculously busy week so I haven't been around here much:

One of the nurses (pretty, blond) in the OR went to a patient to start an IV before her surgery. Another nurse had already tried once and failed. To calm the patient's nerves a little and bolster her with some confidence, the blond nurse said in mock dismay: "Oh, I can't believe xxxxx couldn't get an IV in you. You have great veins. I'm going to have to spank her."

From behind the curtain the next bed over came the instant reply from a 90 year-old man waiting for his surgery: "Then me next."

It is great what an 90 year old man can say and get away with. My former boss is the one that took "early retirement" at age 92. He was spry and loved to flirt with young pretty ladies. He could hug ladies in ways that would get me slapped. He was funny with the sexual innuendos and all the ladies just laughed.

[flipper35]

Just think of what you get to look forward to. But then, your wife will probably take the the role of beating you for flirting.

[GH85Carrera]

That is the best part, he did that with any cute lady even when his wife was around. They had been married for a long time and she knew it was just harmless fun.

[Rick V]

Evening Y'all
Just got back from the funeral home, the old man I used to work for when I was a plumber passed away. I went to school with his sone and we have been friends since 79, we have been through a lot over the years.
Yeah leave it to old man to drag me out in the cold and snow. It was close to impossible to find a place to park due to the snow being piled up everywhere. I just planted Peggy in one of the plow drifts. Rear the old man would have laughed at that one

[HHI944]

Went playing with spoons today.
A Marine buddy and I did a ton of lateral bounding drills. Loaded each others mags 5-8rds per with random spent brass and backwards rounds for failure drills and frequent mag changes.
Our bounds were pretty clunky for the first few runs, but smoothed out pretty fast. Then we moved to lateral bounding with fire from the prone...we went through about 1500rds combined and left caked in dirt, sweat and blood.....