Content starts here
CLOSE ×

Search

Popular Searches

Rolling Stones Presale

Games

Car rental

AARP daily Crossword Puzzle

Hotels with AARP discounts

Life Insurance

Suggested Links

Help Show me my account info Change my Address How do I contact AARP? Where is my membership card? How do I get a digital card?
Red Membership Card

AARP MEMBERSHIP — $12 FOR YOUR FIRST YEAR WHEN YOU SIGN UP FOR AUTOMATIC RENEWAL

Get instant access to members-only products and hundreds of discounts, a free second membership, and a subscription to AARP the Magazine.

120x30-AARP-logo-red
Join
Renew

AARP en Español

You're this close to getting so much more ...

Get access to this and all Members-Only discussions, plus a world of member Benefits when you Join AARP!

Become an AARP Member for $12 Already a member? Login >

Members Only

My Settings Guidelines Help

About cair124

cair124
Tell us about yourself:
Married, live in the Pacific Northwest. Work as an Admin Assistant and have been in that field for nearly 35 years.
Area of knowledge and what I know well:
I read 6-10 books a week. My nickname is "Mistress of Trivia".

Learn More

The Online Community ACE program enables you to be recognized by your peers for consistent, high value contributions to the Community.

Are you ready to become an ACE? Here's how:

  • Upload Your Profile Picture
  • Fill Out the "Tell us about yourself" Section
  • Share Your "Areas of knowledge"
  • Receive 25 Kudos (excluding Politics, Current Events forum) during rolling six month period
  • Be In Good Standing Without Community Violations For At Least 30 Days

Understand the Limits of Advice on this Site
The content shared in this community is for informational purposes only. Nothing on this site should ever replace or substitute advice from professionals, particularly in licensed or certified fields such as medicine, pharmacology, law, tax, insurance, real estate, among others. Contributors to this community do not know your unique circumstances and are providing general knowledge only.

All Activity

  • POSTS
  • KUDOS
  • SOLUTIONS
  • TAGS

Caregiving

Husband and his long term hospital stay

My husband has been in and out of the hospital for the past year and a half, both for atrial flutter and for bowel obstruction. Each hospital stay was no more than 3-4 days. He had a heart ablation treatment on October 1st, which went very well. But ...
cair124 10-16-2021 11:42 AM
0
Replies
0
Kudos
1537
Views

Caregiving

Re: I can't do this anymore.

Your reply couldn't have come at a better time. At 11:30 this morning, he asked me to call 911 because of extreme weakness and fatigue, plus horrible tremors in his arms. We spent the day at the nearest emergency room, where they did blood tests, an ...
cair124 07-17-2021 08:34 PM
0
Replies
1
Kudo
4350
Views

Caregiving

Re: I can't do this anymore.

UPDATE: Later that afternoon he asked to be put into bed and since the room is dark he was able to get a good, long nap. When he woke up he was back to himself and in a much more reasonable mood. We had a good talk, me having a nice little breakdown ...
cair124 07-09-2021 02:58 PM
1
Reply
1
Kudo
4607
Views

Caregiving

I can't do this anymore.

My husband has a ton of health problems: Charcot-Marie-Tooth, which leaves him in a wheelchair too weak to stand unaided; Psychomotor seizures; he is legally blind due to wet macular degeneration in his left eye, and the cornea in his right eye is be...
cair124 07-05-2021 02:01 PM
1
Reply
0
Kudos
4774
Views

Work & Jobs

Re: Facing Unemployment at 50

Ditto. In the past, I've signed up with more than one temp agency at a time, usually 4 - 5, and had good results. I would also keep up on a job search if the temp contract was short-term. I've actually ended up on two of my long-term jobs because I w...
cair124 11-30-2016 06:41 PM
0
Replies
1
Kudo
21170
Views

Caregiving

Husband and his long term hospital stay

My husband has been in and out of the hospital for the past year and a half, both for atrial flutter and for bowel obstruction. Each hospital stay was no more than 3-4 days. He had a heart ablation treatment on October 1st, which went very well. But ...
cair124 10-16-2021 11:42 AM
0
Replies
0
Kudos
1537
Views

Caregiving

Re: I can't do this anymore.

Your reply couldn't have come at a better time. At 11:30 this morning, he asked me to call 911 because of extreme weakness and fatigue, plus horrible tremors in his arms. We spent the day at the nearest emergency room, where they did blood tests, an ...
cair124 07-17-2021 08:34 PM
0
Replies
1
Kudo
4350
Views

Caregiving

Re: I can't do this anymore.

UPDATE: Later that afternoon he asked to be put into bed and since the room is dark he was able to get a good, long nap. When he woke up he was back to himself and in a much more reasonable mood. We had a good talk, me having a nice little breakdown ...
cair124 07-09-2021 02:58 PM
1
Reply
1
Kudo
4607
Views

Caregiving

I can't do this anymore.

My husband has a ton of health problems: Charcot-Marie-Tooth, which leaves him in a wheelchair too weak to stand unaided; Psychomotor seizures; he is legally blind due to wet macular degeneration in his left eye, and the cornea in his right eye is be...
cair124 07-05-2021 02:01 PM
1
Reply
0
Kudos
4774
Views

Work & Jobs

Re: Facing Unemployment at 50

Ditto. In the past, I've signed up with more than one temp agency at a time, usually 4 - 5, and had good results. I would also keep up on a job search if the temp contract was short-term. I've actually ended up on two of my long-term jobs because I w...
cair124 11-30-2016 06:41 PM
0
Replies
1
Kudo
21170
Views

Caregiving

Husband and his long term hospital stay

My husband has been in and out of the hospital for the past year and a half, both for atrial flutter and for bowel obstruction. Each hospital stay was no more than 3-4 days. He had a heart ablation treatment on October 1st, which went very well. But ...
cair124 10-16-2021 11:42 AM
0
Replies
0
Kudos
1537
Views

Caregiving

Re: I can't do this anymore.

Your reply couldn't have come at a better time. At 11:30 this morning, he asked me to call 911 because of extreme weakness and fatigue, plus horrible tremors in his arms. We spent the day at the nearest emergency room, where they did blood tests, an ...
cair124 07-17-2021 08:34 PM
0
Replies
1
Kudo
4350
Views

Caregiving

Re: I can't do this anymore.

UPDATE: Later that afternoon he asked to be put into bed and since the room is dark he was able to get a good, long nap. When he woke up he was back to himself and in a much more reasonable mood. We had a good talk, me having a nice little breakdown ...
cair124 07-09-2021 02:58 PM
1
Reply
1
Kudo
4607
Views

Caregiving

I can't do this anymore.

My husband has a ton of health problems: Charcot-Marie-Tooth, which leaves him in a wheelchair too weak to stand unaided; Psychomotor seizures; he is legally blind due to wet macular degeneration in his left eye, and the cornea in his right eye is be...
cair124 07-05-2021 02:01 PM
1
Reply
0
Kudos
4774
Views

Work & Jobs

Re: Facing Unemployment at 50

Ditto. In the past, I've signed up with more than one temp agency at a time, usually 4 - 5, and had good results. I would also keep up on a job search if the temp contract was short-term. I've actually ended up on two of my long-term jobs because I w...
cair124 11-30-2016 06:41 PM
0
Replies
1
Kudo
21170
Views
Latest Tags
No Tags Yet
Public Statistics
Date Registered ‎10-14-2016 09:25 PM
Last Visited
Total Messages Posted 14
Total Kudos Received 3
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Users
kudos
3
posts
5
Solutions
0