I'm in my early 70s living in a nursing home. This diary is about my day to day life, thoughts and feelings.

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Wednesday 4/24/24

April 24, 2024
2:32p.m. I crashed today. I slept in my wheelchair almost all day. I think I just got burned out about my problems with the nursing home. I really was wound up the last couple of days. I reached a point where I just had to let go. So I slept a lot today.   I wasn't…
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  • Tuesday 4/23/24
    April 23, 2024
    7:28a.m. Low and Behold I'm dressed and in my wheelchair already! I also had very nice aides who did a great job. Infact, I had great care last night. I also slept soundly with no weird dreams. Maybe things will be changing since the state crackedk down on them. I was thinking about my talk…
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  • Monday 4/22/24
    April 22, 2024
    7:25a.m. I was without water all night. My mouth is a sandbox. Once again sleep was intermittent thanks to very bizarre dreams. In short I had one lousy night. I'm so sick of this fucking nursing home  Chococolatechip said it is time to move. I agree. I told the social worker I wanted out of…
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  • Sunday 4/21/24
    April 21, 2024
    1:29a.m. I just had a dream where I was in some kind of cross country horse race. We had to go all over the upper Ohio Valley. I had to ride this s horse from Weirton to Mingo Junction. From Mingo I had to go up to through this spooky and creepy woods to get…
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  • Saturday 4/20/24
    April 20, 2024
    1:02a.m. I feel very sick. I had extreme pain. I think it was in my belly. I ended up puking up my supper. Nurse gave me some miralax. That only made things worse.Later on I got something for nausea and vomiting. I ended up puking again while the aides were changing me. I hope I don't end up…
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  • Friday 4/19/24
    April 19, 2024
    2:40a.m.Sleep had been intermittent tonight thanks to weird dreams. I remember this one dream. I was married to a womaone day I had enougj. In who made me do housework naked. we had two adult sons still living with us. They were lazy and irresponsibles. I yelled and cussed at them while they were...
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  • Thursday 4/18/24
    April 18, 2024
    1:25p.m. I can't believe I slept in my wheelchair almost all morning. The aides got me out of bed at nine. I just fell asleep when they left. Right now I feel like I have been drugged or something. I just had my lunch drinks. I had a cold cup of coffee. It was better…
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  • Wednesday 4/17/24
    April 17, 2024
    7:49a.m. I am above the dirt and faced with another day in the nursing home. I had some weird dreams last night. In one dream I had two a cat. She couldn't leave me alone . Then she started going around in circles. I couldn't figure out what was wrong with her. It turinns out…
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  • Tuesday 4/16/24
    April 16, 2024
    10:56a.m. I'm above the dirt and faced with another day in the nursing home. I am having a better day than yesterday. I slept in until 7:00. I ate a breakfast of scrambled eggs and toast. The coffee was hot today. But I went back to sleep until the aides got me out of bed. …
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  • Thursday 3/14/24
    March 14, 2024
    7:41a.m. I had a good night with no weird dreams. The aides got me up at 5:00 this morning. I got a nice sponge bath then she changed my briefs got me dressed and in my wheelchair by 5:30. But I fell asleep in my wheelchair and slept until breakfast.  I had two biscuits with…
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