I've been at the hospital all day w/ my 87 yr old MIL.... also one of my verah best friends. She fell last week and broke her hip. Had surgery, and things were looking pretty good. Yesterday she had visitors, ate well, chatted. Today she is lethargic, non-responsive, and her pat answer to everything is "I don't know". *sigh* I'm worried about her. This is not like her at all. Granted, she's had some pretty heavy pain meds the past few days and her docs say her behavior today is not uncommon for an elderly person who been taking pain meds. But, I still don't llike this one bit.
Older Folks and Vaping
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Ha! Me too. Thought I was going nuts one time when my vivi wouldn't vape after I'd filled it. Turned out I hadn't noticed that the head twisted the same time I twisted the top off to refill. So now I give it a little twist each time to make sure it's tight. At least it was an easy fix, but then most things are if you just know what's wrong.
Whoa, neither of mine had that problem, but that's not good. If you heated the bottom somehow, hot water maybe?
You can buy some "zero nic" juice in the same flavors and dilute what you have to 6 mg without losing any of the flavor. Just keep in mind that some days are less stressful than others and always keep some stronger nic juice available for the days when "Stuff" happens.
Congrats!
Relax, Enjoy!
Thank you, Fran. I left the hosp around 7:30 or so and my sister-in-law and her daughter were there. She said Mom seemed a bit better when they left. The one thing that really concerned me today was MIL'S attitude. It SUCKED... and she is normally very Sanguine....always a happy-go-lucky-positive-attitude. But NOT TODAY. We shall see what tomorrow brings.
it's always tough to see someon you love change so drastically. I hope she feels better tomorrow.
But don't forget to maybe up your nic slightly to help with the stress
There. I made it vaping related!
And I really hope she feels better tomorrow
it's always tough to see someon you love change so drastically. I hope she feels better tomorrow.
But don't forget to maybe up your nic slightly to help with the stress
There. I made it vaping related!
And I really hope she feels better tomorrow
TBH.. my head hurts so bad right now that I am thinking I need some ZERO nic so I can CHAIN VAPE w/out nic-poisoning myself. I cannot remember the last time my head hurt like it does tonight. Granted, there were HOURS of no vape and the onslaught of the headache. But constant vape and 2 glasses of wine since has done NOTHING is helping ebb my throbbing head. I'm wondering if I'm overdoing the nic during the day.
Big congrats on 30 days smoke free Natasha!!!!
Hope and pray that your MIL recovers fully and speedily. What a blessing that you two are great friends!!
Can a family member be with her daily to be her advocate and to stay on top of what meds they are giving her? Watch out for pneumonia, blood clots and urinary tract infection. Also, anesthesia can be hard on people that age. They don't bounce back as readily as a younger person.
I broke my hip back in 2007 and the first thing I read when researching it was that 20 to 35% die within a year after a broken hip. What!?! I was 55 at the time. It's because the demographic of people with hip fracture are elderly and many lose their independence and become really fragile health wise.
My Mom (93 at the time) broke her hip while staying with my brother out in Vegas in 2010. She got pneumonia within a week of having the surgery. I ended up flying back out there and staying at the hospital 12 hours a day for a month until she was well enough to travel back to IL with me. I'm pretty certain that if I hadn't been there...she wouldn't be here today. They were putting her on all kinds of meds that she didn't need and they wouldn't have taken the time necessary to help her eat. She has a hand and head tremor that became so bad after the surgery that she couldn't feed herself.
Anyway...I said all that to make the point that in my experience with my Mom, Dad & FIL...elderly people really need a lot of extra attention from family while in the hospital, and by that I mean questioning the nurses each time they give them meds to find out what it is and why it's been prescribed.
ETA: Having some zero or very low nic juice for when you want to chain vape or for night time is a good idea!
Hope and pray that your MIL recovers fully and speedily. What a blessing that you two are great friends!!
Can a family member be with her daily to be her advocate and to stay on top of what meds they are giving her? Watch out for pneumonia, blood clots and urinary tract infection. Also, anesthesia can be hard on people that age. They don't bounce back as readily as a younger person.
I broke my hip back in 2007 and the first thing I read when researching it was that 20 to 35% die within a year after a broken hip. What!?! I was 55 at the time. It's because the demographic of people with hip fracture are elderly and many lose their independence and become really fragile health wise.
My Mom (93 at the time) broke her hip while staying with my brother out in Vegas in 2010. She got pneumonia within a week of having the surgery. I ended up flying back out there and staying at the hospital 12 hours a day for a month until she was well enough to travel back to IL with me. I'm pretty certain that if I hadn't been there...she wouldn't be here today. They were putting her on all kinds of meds that she didn't need and they wouldn't have taken the time necessary to help her eat. She has a hand and head tremor that became so bad after the surgery that she couldn't feed herself.
Anyway...I said all that to make the point that in my experience with my Mom, Dad & FIL...elderly people really need a lot of extra attention from family while in the hospital, and by that I mean questioning the nurses each time they give them meds to find out what it is and why it's been prescribed.
ETA: Having some zero or very low nic juice for when you want to chain vape or for night time is a good idea!
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Prayers out to ya'll!
Could you have a stress headache? Should have had your BP taken at the hospital.
Good luck!
We've been going in shifts. DH and middle SIL were there most of last week. Middle sister had to go back home. Oldest SIL and I have taken the weekend shifts. And oldest SIL's husband is a surgeon, so he has been there every single day bcuz he can access hosp records and go thru her chart. We also have spoken strongly w/ the nursing staff about her meds. Youngest SIL will come in next week to help. SO, yes... we are trying to have someone there during ALL daylight hrs.
MIL lives in a very nice retirement center here in assisted living. Once the hosp releases her, she will go back to the retirement center in their re-hab facility. This hopefully will be better. I am really disappointed in our hospital here. The attention and care from most has been mediocre, IMO.
Chest xrays are done every AM, tho... and so far, so good there. And they have a compression machine massaging her feet and legs 24/7 to prevent blood clots. We are trying to stay on top of it all.
ITA, the elderly DO need alot of extra attention...and they darn sure don't get it from most of the hosp staff.
93! Good for your mom! Does she know that you vape? We told MIL, and she said "well isn't that just nifty. I would have done that!" And indeed the old gal would have! If she thought her health would allow it, she'd jump into vaping with both barrels blazing. She cracks me up.
ETA.. OK, sorry, no more MIL talk. I forgot this was the oldies VAPING thread!! Appreciate ya'lls well wishes.
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I will be praying for your MIL. I hope she has a quick and speedy recovery. I have seen some very strange reactions to some meds my mom has taken. Please keep us posted.
NatashaR, hope your MIL becomes responsive asap. Hoping for a speedy recovery!
Oh good Grief! In the midst of all the chaos, I was talking on the phone & trying to refill a ce5. I took the drip tip off but NOT the tip adapter. Only to realize that my "refill" is pouring out the bottom of the clearo. I was filing up the center post. It's full! Pffft
So.... I've dried it all off as best I could with paper towel and pipe cleaners. And blown it out about 10 times. Then sucked & got nothing. Left it upright on a paper towel. Anything else I need to do? Besides call the funny farm for a pick up.
So.... I've dried it all off as best I could with paper towel and pipe cleaners. And blown it out about 10 times. Then sucked & got nothing. Left it upright on a paper towel. Anything else I need to do? Besides call the funny farm for a pick up.
. LOL... SO how lucky do you feel? I'll def take that into consideration. Ignorantly, I've always blindly charged EVERYTHING. Maybe now, not so much. Ignorance IS bliss!Maybe I'm tempting fate, but to answer your question, yes I do. I also drive during our 'snowbird' season down here...
You can wash them out and let them dry, can't you? I filled a T3 a couple of weeks ago by just unscrewing it from a battery, leaving the coil section attached to the battery. Then I went to screw it back on without keeping it upside down.
Right. There is a ring at the bottom that is threaded in two places, to attach to the battery, and to attach to the tank. If you grab the tank instead of the ring, you're just as likely to unscrew the tank from the coil as you are to unscrew the entire T3 from the battery.
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Batts - I charge them in a charging bag outside on my concrete porch (it is not flammable). I do not watch them every minute, but do peek out the window once in a while. I try not to overcharge or even fully charge my batts to extend their life. I respect, but do not fear them.
And to add, I never use a freshly charged batt - always let it sit and settle for awhile. To date, from what I have read, this is the greatest safety precaution to take. I have enough batts to allow that - not as many as Mike and Janet, but enough not to be caught with all dead batts...
And to add, I never use a freshly charged batt - always let it sit and settle for awhile. To date, from what I have read, this is the greatest safety precaution to take. I have enough batts to allow that - not as many as Mike and Janet, but enough not to be caught with all dead batts...
So many Li batteries. Only 2 for my Egos, but cell phone, camera, laptop and RC helicopter all use them. I really don't want to worry about charging them because I never have done so before, but (sigh) I guess it won't be too difficult to put them in a pie tin. I find there's a significant lengthening of battery hours if I leave my 900ma Ego batteries connected to the charger for another hour or so after the charging indicator has turned green.
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