Would appreciate prayer for my aunt

Over there mechanics do mechanical things like fixing cars.

Engineers fix things as well but less mechanical! Like central heating, electric, water,
plumbing. Plus engineers make things as in engineering factories.

But there again I know a sheet metal worker who works in an engineering factory, but
he is just called a sheet metal worker!

The other thing which confuses is me the word technician.
We use to have nursing assistants, vet assistants, paramedic assistants. But now they
are called nursing technicians, ambulance technicians, vet techs etc.

But... way way back a technician was someone who did something technical like
work in a lab or fix electrical components, or weld etc.

I work in the civil service I use to be an Administative Officer my job grade is still
classified as grade 3 AO on paper. But now we are referred to as case workers
or office staff. I think I prefer AO.

Its a bit like that person who collects all the supermarket shopping trolleys in the car
park, who was the trolley collector. Now they are called transport co-ordinators!

Or window cleaners who are called vision technicians. But I thought a technician
worked in a lab - see above.

My dad was a chemical engineer. He helped make oil refineries.

My grandfather, (Dad's FIL, although he loved the man), worked for the railroad. He was a vice president.

When we were little and in that stage of "when I grow up I wanna be," someone, (can't remember who, since we changed our minds every week), said, "I want to be an engineer." Dad perked up, until it was followed by "woowoo." (The sound of a train whistle.)

Despite Dad being dad, I still think of engineers as the guys who have the right to blow the whistle on a train. lol

And technicians get to play with cool equipment at hospitals -- xray machines, MRI's, CT Scans, microscopes, and such. (Vision technician sounds like those people -- aka eye doctors -- who push that big machine with the 20,000 lens in front of the person to ask, "Which is clearer -- this? or this?")

As a paperpusher, my favorite label was "office manager" or "office administer." It sounded like a boss of other workers. Unfortunately, no other people in the office, so I was a paperpusher.

What did your aunt do when she worked?

Hi folks thanks for your prayers.

She finally came home Saturday night. The Carer's can't restart until Monday
morning so the hospital was going to keep to keep my aunt in until Sunday night.

But I finally managed to persuade them that I'm more than capable of
looking after an elderly lady on my own for 24 hours. After all I've been
doing it at this level of care for at least 4 years and for 3 of them we
had no Carer's!

She got two extra medications to take, that takes the total to 14.
Some she needs every day, others she takes as and when required.
I wouldnt trust anyone else with those anyway. Besides I've been sorting
out all her meds for years and can do it with my eyes closed.


Praise God for his goodness.


Ive put big notes on the outside of the living room door asking
family, friends and the Carer's to stay away if they are ill.
Between Nov 16 and Jan 17 my aunt caught everything going and it was all
brought into the house by other people.

She caught the winter vomiting bug from two careers, they actually came to the
house feeling sick and one was sick in her own car on the way to our house. They got
over it in a week but it took my aunt 3 weeks to get over it.


She caught a bad cold which led to bronchitis from one of the carers just before Christmas.
In total including the cold, she had that for nearly 4 weeks.

Then one of her sons visited in January with a chest infection, he said he had just been
to the doctor for a nebuliser. I asked him what he was doing visiting his elderly mum while
carrying a chest infection!

So now I've banned everyone from the house who is sick!

Its not right, people don't seem to understand the elderly can't just shrug off
colds and infections in the same way, especially a person with heart/kidney problems
and COPD.

If you are ill don't go visiting vunerable or elderly people, it's not fair.
There that's my bug bear for the day over with.

John and I haven't had a cold or flu in decades. (He did have pneumonia in 2015, but because they stuck a ventilator down his throat after his heart attack.) We don't get them because we avoid people who have them, and are fussy about washing our hands after coming out of a public building.

You've just reminded me why I'm so very grateful we haven't needed carers in winter.