Hi everyone,
Don’t get your hopes up…
No sewing was involved, but safety pins, fabric and an iron were used.
My hubby called me and said he needed some pockets on his hospital gown…to put his Nephrostomy tubes in when he was trying to brush his teeth or wash his face. He said he had it all figured out. Two 8″ x 8″ cotton pockets safety pinned to his gown.
I cut out 2 squares, folded the edges under and iron them, then gathered up lots of safety pins. Here’s what they looked like. The nurses loved them!!
See you tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
Well, it’s good to see George standing up! I’m sorry he’s still in the hospital, but I am feeling a bit more hopeful now.
The hospital-gown company should be consulting with you, Jeanne! I’ll bet you and George could give them several helpful ideas!
When I saw my PCP a week ago Thursday, I told her I hadn’t fallen in about three months, and we celebrated! (I have problems with small falls where I land on my knees, usually–various causes, but they don’t help my bad knees at all!) It seems I spoke in haste. This past week, I fell twice, both times landing on my knees. (BUT…that second time, I didn’t drop the glass of milk I was carrying! Only a few drops slopped out!! 😂) When I mentioned it to my son on Friday, he asked why I hadn’t said anything Thursday when we were with the group at IHOP, and I said I didn’t want to worry our friends, which he understood. Then I asked if he would be free on Saturday to help me with cleaning our church (it’s a very small church, so we take turns cleaning). Sat. morning he called–he would be at my house shortly. We went over to the church after lunch, and he vacuumed the entire sanctuary and entryway for me, AND stayed while I worked on my music! (I think he was afraid I’d fall at church while all alone….). Afterwards, I dropped him at the bus stop before I came home.
I haven’t been back in my sewing room for a few days; still trying to decide about those blocks. Table runner or small quilt? Small quilt or table runner? Decisions, decisions….
Oh, and my friend Leah, who I’m teaching to sew, has the hem of her new top all pressed up and pinned, and ready to sew, but since it’s a curved, shirttail hem, she is waiting until I can be there. I think she’s feeling a little nervous about tackling a “new” technique. I’ll go over there Thursday or Friday to oversee that step, and then we’ll plan what her next sewing project will be. She went to that big sale in August, and bought a bunch of patterns and some fabric, and is excited to be sewing, and making things she can really wear!!
Charlotte, I am glad you do not have any injuries from falling but your knees are probably complaining. The most important lesson we must practice is to not fall and hit our head! As a former figure skater, I surely hope I still have that instinct, but circumstances are not always in our favor.
I am glad your son came to help you clean the church!
I am so proud of your sewing student Leah.
Good save on the milk, Charlotte. Please take it easy. 🙂
I tripped up the steps awhile back and landed on my knees. Since then I’ve been very careful when I come up the steps (there are just three) from my laundry room. That hurt too much to repeat. You reminded me of a funny story. A few years ago when I was feeling young and spry and Dionne and Sean lived next door, she and I were returning from a grocery run. It was before Halloween and I had yard decorations up between their house and ours. I was walking from her car to my house when I caught my foot in one of the strings that hold up the decoration and went down. I had a gallon jug of milk in each hand. Still sitting in her car, Dionne said she looked up and couldn’t see me and then saw me rise up. Then darned if I didn’t do it again. She ran over to make sure I was okay but we were both laughing so hard I had trouble getting up. But when I did we were amazed to see I still had both jugs of milk in my hands safe and sound.
Barbara, I’m sorry for you knees when you fell, but glad you saved the milk the next time, that was a funny story!
Another “Save the milk”, accident. Glad it turned out okay.
😩😂
Charlotte, I am so sorry you fell, especially after a time when you had not been falling. I do wonder how you could fall and not spill milk! I hope you can figure out a way to keep from falling!
Very nice! I bet he is thrilled 🙂 J said I should make pockets for the girls’ dresses 🙂
Up early and going to the Y and then to the grocery store. Yesterday we had at church we had 2 cute boys baptized! Their moms are sisters and the boys looked like brothers. They were about 6 years old and so cute. They never made any noise in church. They had a lovely lunch for every one at our parish house.
Jeanne, it was so great to see part of George with his pockets and also standing. Thank you so much for showing us. Is he getting better, you think???
Jeanne, so good to see George standing there! It gives me hope that he will continue getting better! And how sweet that you are still doing your “inventions” as needed! You always come to the rescue with just about anything that needs doing!
As for me, it was a lovely, lazy weekend for us! It’s chilly now and the furnace is on! I thought the day would never come! The leaves are falling, although I can’t say the colors are here yet, but my little dogwood tree, does have some red leaves, with more to come. I put more of my outdoor flowers to “sleep” for the winter, because it will only get colder and frost is coming. In fact, we had some yesterday morning! I cannot believe that October is already half over, and in a month we will be preparing for Thanksgiving!
We are preparing for Michael’s second cataract surgery this coming Wednesday, and hopefully that will be that! Mine will be next year.
Prayers continue for both of you!❤️🙏🏻
Praying for a good outcome for Michael’s second cataract surgery.
Michael is in my prayers. I am so glad the progress has gone well so far
Good morning dear ones, Happy Monday,
Jeanne, I am so happy to see George standing up! with fancy pockets. I love the idea with the pins, just perfect! Wow, now that I think of it, this would be a great project of
things to make for hospitals. Sew lots of pockets and get a zillion of those safety pins.
hmmmm.
I hope everyone had a very happy week-end.
Here it is much cooler. KittyPrincess spends all day on a heated surface or next to a heat vent.
I have been a “homebody” just how I like it these days. We went out for a lot of walks, and Saturday it was super windy and we just went to the gym.
I have added some photos to Flickr so you can see the latest progress on my blocks and I also added a few photos of KittyPrincess.
My sister, Joyce stayed a few days in the hospital, I am so glad her surgeon decided to prescribe that. She is home now (I think) and there will be a nurse coming to visit every day. I texted her but I am not expecting her to respond. I told her to call me if she wanted to, any time is okay. I have Walmart Plus. Do any of you? November there are special deals to have it for only $99 a year. I wonder if I can order stuff to send to her house in Maryland? I will see.Hey, there is always Amazon…
Love to all of you sisters 🥰
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/195523105@N06/
Rosemary, I loved seeing all your quilts and kitty Princess is lovely. You are very talented. I struggle to finish one quilt and you have made so many.
Wow, Rosemary, you suredo have the quilt technique down! They are just lovely and what a treat to see your darling kitties!
Wow, Rosemary. I’m so impressed. Beautiful quilt work. I can see now why KittyPrincess has a problem with the cold. But she’s in good hands with you looking after her.
Kitty Princess is so sweet, Rosemary. Yes, I can see why she loves her sun porch. Your new quilt is just beautiful.
Oh, Kitty Princess is adorable. No wonder she enjoys the warmth of summer. And the quilting is amazing. So much talent!
Awwww thank you Joy 🥰
Thank you for the photos of KittyPrincess! She is so sweet! It is nice to be able to “see” her when you tell us what she is up too.
What would we do without Amazon? With my daughter and her family being in Maine it’s great for gift cards or anything else they need. Our grandson just had a birthday so I asked what we could get him. He needed socks (the insulated kind that are a bit pricey) and some new winter gloves. We got him a pair of socks and gloves through Amazon and had them sent directly to them. Such a simple process and he got something he wanted and needed quickly.
I use Amazon for gift cards. Especially for my son and family in Australia.
Yes, it is a super great idea.
Lately, I just drop cash in my daughter’s bank account and let her know. 😂🥳 It is easy and everyone is happy
Late and sleepy today. Other person was up and ended up on the small couch because he was having stomach problems and wanted to be sitting up sort of. I got him a blanket. The pain finally went away and he came to bed. Naps today for sure. I asked him if he had eaten anything late in the evening. No. But, this morning I asked him if he’d eaten the greasy chicken nuggets and fries included with the little lunch we had? Yes, he ate them all. I always feed mine to the crows, who don’t care about cholesterol. Apparently, the late lunch caused it. 🙂 Most of the night I was worried about getting whatever other person was coming down with. Glad that is over.
Jeanne’s creative hospital gown is perfect. Seems like all should come with that feature. And so great to see that George, is up and about. Good for George, and thank you Jeanne, for posting the pic.
I finally got some pictures of my Halloween girls. Sent them to Jeanne, to use if she needs them. Still looking at cabins. We really miss the old place. And it’s cool this morning so on came the heat. Other person finally found the old jack at the other house. We have one here too. Neither works, so he is going to Google and see if he can learn how to fix them. We need to jack up the playhouse and add a new pier and post. Yet another project. If they can’t be repaired, we’ll be on the way to Home Depot, I guess.
So glad no buggy viruses came to your house. A lot of germies are going around, I have heard. Hubbs and I continue to be fortunate to not have any viruses or bugs for a long time. The neighbors next door had covid last month!
Oooh cabins. That sounds nice. Hubbs has been looking at fancy compact campers on Youtube. hmmm. I am not sure I would want to have anything huge. Old friends in my daddy’s neighborhood had a little Winnebago van. It was kind of cool. Tiny but they loved living in that tiny van. I am not sure I would like it. Where would I put my sewing machine? 🤔
Have fun at “Homie Depot” or I hope you get your projects done.
I have a long list of stuff to do today.
Yes, the junky food sometimes gives me a tummy ache too. We keep gas pills in stock which helps a bit.
Oh good, Joy! Can’t wait to see your girls Halloween costumes,and your darling scenes!
SL glad no illnesses tnere to catch!
Jeanne, so pleased that George was up and around. I will keep praying. Good job on the pockets. You will probably have a whole lot of people asking for them, better keep some safety pins handy.
Charlotte, I have a friend who has trouble with her feet and she falls a lot. She only has a very small flat and small yard so lots of things to hit her head on, she is a worry. You take care, what a lovely son you have.
Pockets- brilliant! And great to see George standing up🙏🙏
They say necessity is the mother of invention, and you prove that time and time again, Jeanne. What a great idea to modify a hospital gown without a lot of work. So glad to see George on his feet. Always praying for him to do well.
I missed my massage last week. My massage therapist went away for the weekend to his brother’s wedding, came back to work Tuesday and was sick Wednesday. I wasn’t surprised. He really pushes himself because he gets paid by the massage. Between him being exhausted when he left and the change in the weather from here to Iowa, I guess his body had all it could take. I’ll be glad when Wednesday gets here. My chiro appointments have been brutal and I am sorely in need of a massage.
David often was sick after returning from vacation and came back from Hawaii with a very bad case of pneumonia that had to be treated with high powered antibiotics. I swear it was Legionnaire’s Disease. I usually didn’t get sick on or after vacation but three years ago this month when we went to West Virginia to visit my sister I ended up getting sick. Could have been a reaction to the weather since it was still summer here but there it was freezing in the morning already and it got the best of me. After visiting with them we went to Tennessee for a few days and by the time we got there I had totally lost my voice. All I wanted to do was sleep. David woke me to go eat and we did do a few other things but mostly I just slept. Fortunately David had his Nook and he loves to read and he had his laptop to check email, but he said it was like being on vacation with Sleeping Beauty.
Saturday I was on my way out to walk when something shifted in my body and it hurt like crazy. I have no idea whether it was good, bad or didn’t matter. I’ll find that out at my chiro appointment tomorrow. But I gave up on the walk and spent the afternoon with my heating pad. Right now I just feel as usual, like nothing has changed.
My computer desk is on the north wall of my study. The other day I was sitting at the computer and felt something weird on my legs. I realized it was my small heater coming on. Hallelujah!! I have the heater because it gets cold underneath my desk, especially when we get a front through. I have it on automatic and haven’t felt it go on since March. Lately our nights have been in the 50s and the days in the 70s. It’s been lovely. Unfortunately the breeze is blowing from the south today so all that is about to change.
Glad you weren’t seriously hurt when you fell, Charlotte.
It’s wonderful to see George standing up. Love the temporary pockets.
Jeanne….The pockets on the hospital gown are fantastic! You might be able to see if the gown company would consider including pockets like yours on the gowns they offer to hospitals. I can imagine there are a lot of patients who would find pockets useful. I like to have some kleenex and my cell phone handy so love my roomy denim jacket pockets for those items…when the weather turn cooler and even when sitting outside on the front porch chairs.
Yes, Rosemary, we have the Walmart deal of $99.00 for the years worth which covers the personal shoppers fee on items we order online. You would probably be able to send things to another state or address but would want to check on that. However, we have had problems with the delivery folks that Walmart has been hiring to deliver our groceries. Some folks are fine, but more often not…we have had our groceries left at neighbors homes on either side of us (we even added larger house numbers on our house), and our groceries have been delivered to another house one street over from ours….my daughter found the porch from the photo the delivery person takes and she had to load the sacks into her car and drive them back to our house. We have delivery instructions and a description of our home online on the order form for Walmart.
Three times now we have been missing items which are either delivered to the wrong place, or the delivery person might be keeping them. The store receipt/ and emails and texts shows that our entire order was shipped with no substitutions and yet we are missing items…one item my daughter missed was a case of Diet Coke. Its always food items that go missing and not cleaning products or cat food or litter. One of our small deliveries was left outside up against our garage door at the BACK of our house and a neighbor next door who was just leaving from her driveway saw the delivery person SLAM the items down on the ground and said something to her but the delivery person did it anyway and then left quickly. One of the items was a case of Diet Coke which had been slammed down so hard that the box split, several cans were dented and had popped open and Coke was running down the driveway. Walmart evidently has a “Delivery Manager” but we have never been able to speak to him. Walmart simply refunds your purchase.
I had ordered a black printer ink for my printer, which I had ordered before from Walmart with no problem. This last time, I was sent a text that the item was out for delivery and on its way….then received a text a bit later stating that there was a problem in delivering it and the driver returned to the store. So Walmart refunded the ink price right away but come to find out later when I noticed the bank posting that they didn’t refund the delivery charge of $7. (I had only ordered the ink since I didn’t need anything else). Had to call Walmart and they said they could not refund the delivery charge to my account but could send me an email with a coupon number on it to use in the store…but it was only good for a month and I never ended up using it. I don’t drive or get out often and the store does not carry the ink in store and printer ink is what I needed. I ended up ordering the ink from Amazon. I am too leery and angry to order from Walmart at this time.
Daughter and I have been ordering lately from the HEB grocery store and have never had an issue with any order or delivery. I did take the time to look up Walmart reviews online and was astounded to see how many there were and how low their rating was. Live and learn.
Please ladies….be careful about the falls! I use either my cane when walking outside & going places with my daughters or take my rollator for stability. At home I often use my hand on a piece of furniture to navigate and in case I might fall. I have fallen twice this year now and both times needed help to get back up. The first time was just when I was walking barefoot and stubbed my toe on the heavy footstool. Now I keep my Skechers on in the house! When I take a daily shower and need to step into the tub, I now keep my cell phone down low on top of the magazine holder because I figure, if I fall I will more than likely be down on the floor and wouldn’t be able to reach the top of the vanity to get the phone. The vanity is right next to the tub so I use the top of the vanity to hold onto while stepping out of the tub….very carefully and slowly….plus I have several soft plush rugs butted up against each other in the bathroom just in case I fall in there! I read a news article a while back of a woman who fell in her tub and could not get up without help…she remained there for a day and managed to use her toe to turn the faucet on enough to get some water to drink. She was rescued and helped by the next day, the article said.
A family member recently fell in her bathroom and broke her nose, fractured three discs in her neck/upper spine, had to have surgery and now has three screws in her neck /spine bones to repair it. She is doing better and in fact is at home with a daughter. recuperating with daily helpers assisting as needed. So please be careful out there!