each day an adventure in alaska: cleaning spree ends in injury...

felt like a lot of blood. hematoma, instant bruising...looks so much better today after ice and elevation and rest. now i look like a wimp. i am a bit of a wimp. many of us are here. i mean as Afghanistan falls and people cling to a plane taking off in fear of what will happen when they are left behind...here in the USA people having melt downs over being "forced" to wear a mask. ridiculous. talk about pampered, entitled humans. it's really embarrassing.

for me i was cleaning house and organizing. i get in those moods on occasion. this one closet door has seemed loose since the floors were put in several years back...last night when i tried to open the door it all just came flying down. it is heavy but luckily for me foot, my shin broke the majority of the fall or i may have had a broken foot.

still lots of blood and a string of swear words for sure

3 nights, back in the ICU. my home for the time being. i was lucky and had 2 patient assignments all week. many were not so lucky. management stopped by to say they'd gotten permission from the State of Alaska to decrease our charting requirements...this because they were and probably will continue to have to make icu assignments of 3 patients each. dangerous at all levels. there were 6 such assignments the other night. no management was there, but they sent pizza so all is well i guess.

i'm getting ready for a few fun visits coming up. it's a rarity but one i do enjoy. covid will no doubt add some challenges to it all. i do not want to bring them something and i'm sure they feel the same.

Afghanistan is a disaster. i suspect nobody wanted to be the one in control when this ended in mess...the only way it could have possibly ended. trump set up biden by making deals with the taliban that everyone knew they would never abide by and then dumping those deals into bidens lap at the last minute.

the gop has a gift for never taking any blame for anything but instead heaping it on the dems. so even though Bush and crew got us in to this mess, they will take zero responsibility for any of it.

the humanitarian crisis will be made worse by the fact that because of us the taliban will be better armed than many much more civilized nations. we left behind training and equipment and the Afghanistan military and leadership folded like it was all planned in advance.

getting out those who helped before the taliban kill them will be an impossible task at this point. lessons never learned. my heart breaks for those good and decent people who were just born in a nation that seems hell bent on causing them the most pain possible.

we should have never entered that place. we should have learned from Russia,who had done similar and failed.

we did give them an opportunity but there just has never been enough desire or ability to create anything more than a tribe mentality.

we have our own tribes going after each other of masks and vaccines and the constant blame and fear mongering. we are in no position to help others until we can get out own crap straightened out.

we have spent trillions over there and the gop still always says we do not have the money to take care of our own citizens and infrastructure. we have trillions to give to military, who then just leaves it in places like Afghanistan, to be used against us at some point...but we can't provide medical or education for our own people and we can't fix our own roads and bridges. so short sighted. such lies but they are believed

we are all really just pawns in many ways. you vote and you try to do what is right in your own little world but it's others who take the taxes and start wars that you are never consulted on.

Haiti just had a large quake as well. 7.2...which was about the same size as ours was a few years back. always amazing what building codes can do to save you in the face of a large quake. of course one big enough and there won't be enough building codes to save anything but it does go a long ways.

they are not equipped to handle those injured and left homeless.

it is disconcerting when the ground below you becomes unstable. the aftershocks are a constant reminder of how truly powerless we all are, nature and this planet are more fragile than we care to believe.

it is also astoundingly beautiful when we give ourselves a chance to get out in it.

i have been getting back to my shroom strolls. i always feel mixed. like i should be doing some grand mountain hikes but i am drawn back into the land of the mushrooms this time of year. will head out in a bit to walk these pups and then back to the to do list.

want to get a few more things done on this stair railing.

my injury put a quick stop to that last night. it began swelling so fast...it was better to just stop and elevate/ice the injury. now i need to stop by Walgreens for some more bandages.

as they say, first world problems. there are so many out there who have it far worse.

i did manage to put some stuff out front in the free pile. brings me a smile to see the pile of odd stuff disappear. one persons trash really is anothers treasure. i'd put some blankets in there and a neighbor grabbed those up. her friend is taking in a member of clergy from a village who has been diagnosed with cancer. so she thought it would be good for the apartment she is letting him use.

my neighborhood is a bit ghetto at times. as a singleton i guess in the end i'm kind of happy to be here. we all are watching each other. we are close so we see each other, harder to just avoid your neighbors in a tight place like this. i also like that there is diversity here. everyone and every belief is no doubt to be found here.