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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Spouses and Caregivers => Topic started by: brenda seal on November 10, 2012, 02:48:49 AM

Title: lucky me
Post by: brenda seal on November 10, 2012, 02:48:49 AM

 :sarcasm;
Laurie has been complaining that when he calls out for me during the night for help , I don't always hear him right away ( I am asleep ) . My ever helpful son , Matthew has rigged us up with a wireless doorbell that sounds like a very large ocean liner coming through a very dense fog with all it's very loud horns blaring !! Oh , I am such a lucky girl !!!

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: MaryD on November 10, 2012, 03:22:24 AM

 :rofl; :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: Darthvadar on November 10, 2012, 04:05:16 AM

Wasn't that thoughtful????.....

 :rofl; :rofl; :rofl;

Darth....

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: MaryJoe on November 10, 2012, 04:58:26 AM

Brenda, does your son live with you?  I'm thinking maybe you could buy another doorbell and put the noisy part under his bed and the button on your nightstand.  Then when Laurie blasts you out of a sound sleep you could share the joy with your thoughtful son!   >:D.

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: brenda seal on November 10, 2012, 05:18:12 AM

No Mary Joe he doesn't live with us , he lives a mile or so away but chances are he will hear it too - it is so loud ! It reminds me of when Laurie had surgery to remove his eye and parotid gland and some other thoughtful person bought him a tiny little bell shaped like a cow to summons my help . Tiny bell - I am not kidding it sounded like a whole herd of cows coming down a Swiss mountain slope on unsteady legs ! I can't for the life of me think where it is now - met with an untimely accident methinks !
Matthew's other suggestion was to buy a megaphone off eBay ! Oh well at least we had Laurie giggling for a little while  !!!

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: Rerun on November 10, 2012, 05:30:09 AM

  Ear plugs?

            :rofl;

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: Joe on November 10, 2012, 05:37:27 AM

Remove the batteries...

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: Darthvadar on November 10, 2012, 10:40:20 AM

Connect it on Speed-Dial to your son's house!....

When the bell rings, he gets a (very) early-morning phone call.... :rofl;

Darth...

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: sullidog on November 12, 2012, 04:06:18 PM

I had an issue one time of the nurses not hearing me, so someone suggested jokingly that I get an airhorn, well....I really did!

Title: Re: lucky me
Post by: christijo on January 05, 2013, 07:41:43 PM

Dear Lucky me,
I know exactly how you feel. I am awoken every night. I was 58 when he had his first stroke. Now I am 63. He is in heart failure and kidney dialysis. So nights are rough. And he moans and groans. I have to sleep on a couch near him.Oh honey, when I read  your message, I cried. I know what  you are going thru. My Jesus comfort you. Dear Lucky Me, I   feel for  you soooo much. The gasping for breath, the screaming and moaning, the  yelling for me at 2 am, 3 am, 4am and up permanently at 6 am.  My day never ends.May my Father in Heaven tonight wrap  his arms around you and give you rest tonight, my friend, and know somewhere in America, there is someone up with you just as tired. Hang in there my sister in suffering. :)