Recent projects... Not all sewing. but sewing related! - Page 7

> BEI Design wrote:
> > > BEI Design wrote:
> > > > I am sending good thoughts your way. I know how
> > > > stressful a loved one's health issues can be.
> > > > Take care,
> > > > Beverly
> > > Thanks. It helps to know that people are sending good
> > > vibes. Things are better today, the pain problem
> > > seems to be licked. He still prefers for me to
> > > administer the
> > > drops, but I'm sure that given time, he'll get better
> > > at that, too. I wore hard contact lenses for 30
> > > years,
> > > and learned to stick my fingers in my eyes. It wasn't
> > > easy at first. So I'm confident that he'll get a
> > > handle on
> > > eyedropping himself.
> > I also wore contacts (for 40+ years) so I'm also
> > accustomed to having "stuff" in my eyes. The glaucoma
> > test the
> > ophthalmologist performs where a little device actually
> > advances to touch the eye was never a problem for me,
> > although I like the new "puff of air" one better.
> > My brother has started having to put eyedrops in his
> > eyes. I shared with him the method that works best for
> > me:
> > Instead of tipping the head way back and trying to drop
> > them into the eye from above (and sometimes missing
> > completely or at best getting just a small amount in),
> > look into a
> > mirror, gently pull the lower lid down and put the drops
> > in the
> > little cup that forms. Then tip the head back just a
> > little and roll the eyes around to distribute the drops.
> > Beverly
> I think that's what he's doing. The eyedoc talked with
> him about "techniques." He uses the mirror. Of course,
> it's a lot easier to sit in the recliner, tilt his head
> back and have Nurse Pogonip administer the drop. ;-) Know
> where I could find one of those little white caps?

> I am also scrupulous about washing my hands before doing
> his drops. What with cooking (salt, onions, etc.) and
> cats, I take no chances. I did walk into the living room
> once holding both hands up as if waiting for the rubber
> gloves, and cracked him up.

;->

> Pogonip wrote:
>> BEI Design wrote:
>>>> BEI Design wrote:
>>>>> I am sending good thoughts your way. I know how
>>>>> stressful a loved one's health issues can be.
>>>>> Take care,
>>>>> Beverly
>>>> Thanks. It helps to know that people are sending good
>>>> vibes. Things are better today, the pain problem
>>>> seems to be licked. He still prefers for me to
>>>> administer the
>>>> drops, but I'm sure that given time, he'll get better
>>>> at that, too. I wore hard contact lenses for 30
>>>> years,
>>>> and learned to stick my fingers in my eyes. It wasn't
>>>> easy at first. So I'm confident that he'll get a
>>>> handle on
>>>> eyedropping himself.
>>> I also wore contacts (for 40+ years) so I'm also
>>> accustomed to having "stuff" in my eyes. The glaucoma
>>> test the
>>> ophthalmologist performs where a little device actually
>>> advances to touch the eye was never a problem for me,
>>> although I like the new "puff of air" one better.
>>> My brother has started having to put eyedrops in his
>>> eyes. I shared with him the method that works best for
>>> me:
>>> Instead of tipping the head way back and trying to drop
>>> them into the eye from above (and sometimes missing
>>> completely or at best getting just a small amount in),
>>> look into a
>>> mirror, gently pull the lower lid down and put the drops
>>> in the
>>> little cup that forms. Then tip the head back just a
>>> little and roll the eyes around to distribute the drops.
>>> Beverly
>> I think that's what he's doing. The eyedoc talked with
>> him about "techniques." He uses the mirror. Of course,
>> it's a lot easier to sit in the recliner, tilt his head
>> back and have Nurse Pogonip administer the drop. ;-) Know
>> where I could find one of those little white caps?
>
> http://www.cheap-scrubs.com/html/nursing-caps.html
>
> ;-)

>
>> I am also scrupulous about washing my hands before doing
>> his drops. What with cooking (salt, onions, etc.) and
>> cats, I take no chances. I did walk into the living room
>> once holding both hands up as if waiting for the rubber
>> gloves, and cracked him up.
>
>

>

>
> For almost six months following DH's ileostomy, I was his
> "stoma dressings" nurse. We had wonderful instructions from
> the nurses at our HMO, and all the supplies were provided.
> He also had a very slow healing surgical wound on his
> backside, where they removed the coccyx. I changed the
> dressing on it every day. It was *almost* healed when he
> was killed.
>
> Beverly
>
>

> BEI Design wrote:
> > > Know where I could find one of those little white
> > > caps?
> > http://www.cheap-scrubs.com/html/nursing-caps.html
> > ;-)
> They remind me of Chinese takeout boxes for some
> reason.....

> > > I am also scrupulous about washing my hands before
> > > doing his drops. What with cooking (salt, onions,
> > > etc.) and
> > > cats, I take no chances. I did walk into the living
> > > room once holding both hands up as if waiting for the
> > > rubber gloves, and cracked him up.
> >

> Have a good supply (box of 100) vinyl gloves that I use
> when tending litter boxes and doing other things around
> here I don't
> want my natcheral hands in. Switched to vinyl when my
> hands
> started itching...

> > He also had a very slow healing surgical wound on his
> > backside, where they removed the coccyx. I changed the
> > dressing on it every day. It was *almost* healed when
> > he was killed.
> > Beverly
> That's icing on the cake in reverse, isn't it? Insult to
> injury, or injury to insult?

> Know where I could find one of those little white caps?

> wrote:
>
>> Know where I could find one of those little white caps?
>
> I don't have the exact measurements, but Mom used to cut squares out
> of two corners of a rectangle of white muslin, shirttail-hem around
> the notches and the adjacent sides, very wide hem on the crossbar of
> the T, dip in starch, slap on fridge, peel off when dry, fold wide hem
> back, then use little gold safety pins on the inside to connect the
> corners of the notches, attach to head with white bobby pins.
>
> I believe that it was also done to work buttonholes in the corners and
> use teeny-tiny cuff links -- two collar buttons sewn together would
> work.
>
> I think you could make one out of a sheet of typing paper.
>
> Joy Beeson