. Dad's still in the hospital. As far as I'm concerned, it's the best place for him right now.
Unfortunately, he tested positive for the flu and he has a UTI. He has such limited exposure to people I'm really surprised, unless he immediately picked it up as soon as he entered the hospital. So many people coming and going to do this or do that, plus he was already moved once from an ER bed to a regular bed in a different "tower," so there was a whole new set of care providers tending to him.
He did get a flu vaccine in November, so hopefully that will blunt the worst of his symptoms, but he was noticeably tireder today and a little ill-humored due to not feeling well. Plus the gash above his eye that he received when he fell kept bleeding, so much so that they had to change the sheets 3 times, but once the blood thinner med he was on was stopped and out of his system, the gash seems to have stabilized. So perhaps not surprising he is a little anemic, so now they're giving him an iron pill. ....They seem like they're doing a good job, although he is pre-diabetic and what do I see he was given at breakfast? Orange juice. Maybe not the best choice.
We have overnight snow that ended around noon today, just about 3 inches, which was enough that I needed to shovel the driveway. Temps will warm considerably in the second half of this week so I am hoping to get some winter yard work chores done during that time (pruning this and that), and I also plan to order some heating oil if oil prices fall due to the rise in temps (which I find they often do, though there are also other factors in play). But between now and then, i.e., tonight, temps are going to drop to a littld below zero.
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As for the weather, it has gotten so cold hasn't it? We haven't had snow yet, but I sure hope so. Personally, if it's going to get this cold, Mother Nature should go all the way and give us a White Christmas!
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