Kristi Karnopp's Diary & Blog

Time For Bed

Well, friends, neighbors, and family, it’s time for me to say goodbye for the night. It was a busy day, and I did get some fresh air this morning and afternoon while out and about for the day. It was a good day getting things done. It was the perfect day to get things done, too. Wintry temperatures may be here, but that is okay . . . I guess, right? I guess so as I clear my throat, good enough, I guess! What do you think? Maybe? Ok! Take your time. Please? Livable!  Time to close up shop. Good night.

Today

This one is going to be short and sweet, I think, anyway. LOL. Today, for Saturday Sabbath, I laid in bed all day after getting to the bathroom and back. Today was my game day of sorts and watching good television. My boyfriend Ken & his mom Tanya Baker came by for a visit and we watched Steve Urkel/ Jaleel White, one of the best actors and comedians our there. I love Steve Urkel! He makes me laugh and smile. Yes, today was Sabbath, and starting next week Sabbath Saturday, I will be attending church, and on the weekends, I will stay in bed all day to recuperate from the week at dialysis.

Today was a good day, although in bed all day was my choice. I was pooped and ready for a break.

Caregivers on the Weekends

When it comes to my caregivers Jackie P and Debbie H, on the weekend, their caregiving is a come and go, and they come in the morning, leave and come back in the afternoon. Jackie wants Sunday and Monday off. I wish she wouldn’t have two days off. I want her every day of the week. How she works here is unacceptable really — fraudulent — I can’t say nothing, either. I feel I am defrauding God! I know God knows how I feel about how Jackie and there’s nothing I can do about it or I will not have no more care in the home, and I would have to live in a nursing home. What Jackie P is doing is WRONG, and I KNOW she is DOING wrong. It is driving me crazy, and I am more anxious and dealing with depression during this time of year. Wisconsin is dealing with wintry weather now this time of year we call January 2024. I have no place to say anything. I can’t say anything! That’s the sad part of it all. On the weekends, my caregivers are in and out because I need a break from them, but I don’t need a break from them. I want them here! They can rest and nap here! I need to make it to and from the bathroom, the bedroom and living room safely with someone here, as I am walking again.

Today

When the weekend comes, I still have cares in the morning and afternoon, but my caregivers Jackie and Debbie come and go. I usually have my boyfriend Ken and his mom come every other Saturday afternoon we call Sabbath day because we are Seventh Day Adventists. Since I was in the hospital in 2022 and lost my ability to walk for almost two years, I haven’t been able to attend church for almost two years. Our pastor Pastor Swamidass allows those who are unable to attend church through a program called Zoom, and I haven’t attended church on Zoom for a long time, either. I should probably get back to church as long as our pastor uses Zoom. 

My Kitty Kiddos

My babies, Magic 3 years old and Millie going to be 6 months old are getting along well. We wanted Magic to have a playmate because his behavior at times can be questionable, but since Millie has been here for a month as of January 9th, 2024, and Magic has grown to love Millie as his little sister. He likes her anyway. They get along most of the time, and when they have rows from time to time, Millie just lets Magic she has enough and runs and hides under the couch or recliner chair. They are good kitty kiddos, and yes, I call them kiddos! Most of my family are dog lovers while I am a cat lover and dog lover myself.  I have cats right now, though.

Good Night

Time to say good night and shut the shop for the night. Tomorrow is another day. Good night

No more Spectrum TV App. I got rid of it today! I watch Roku TV in the living room and watch Roku Live on my Insignia Amazon Fire TV in my bedroom at night. I only have Spectrum internet now. Paying $84 a month was too much and now with just internet, I am paying $25 a month. I haven’t been watching Spectrum TV for months anyway. I have Bren watching Roku Live TV and enjoying it a lot more. It has Murder, She Wrote channel, Midsomer Murder channel, Unsolved Mysteries, classic Doctor Who, Dateline NBC, and game shows I can watch there. Why bother with Spectrum TV app then? It is a waste of money. The live tv is best!

Dialysis Update

This week, dialysis has been smooth sailing UNTIL MY BOOOD PRESSURE DROPS below 100/50 or lower. On Monday I will be seeing Dr. Anjum, so I will be talking about changing my blood pressure med time to after dialysis. I may have to tweak the times a bit because my BP meds are working so well so good. That’s a big plus in my book of life these days, I think and guess. Today is the last dialysis treatment of the week. Yahoo! Maybe tomorrow will be a bed day. I will wait and see. Maybe. , ,

A Busy Day

After dialysis, getting out early today, Jackie and I went to the bank to take care of something so she can take our money from my account because yesterday there was a little problem with getting $33 worth of quarters for the laundry, and $25 cash for a neighbor who baked sugar cookies for my Tupperware party last night. Yum and I had two of them last night.  Jackie went to River Flats apartments to talk to one of the managers there about an apartment because my family wants me out of Garden Court apartments because the place is falling apart to things not being fixed or taken care of, and they are not doing anything about it. Jackie went to someone about Garden Court not doing what they are doing, a former neighbor who lived in #210 had gotten a lawyer and sued Garden Court and won the case. Garden Court needs to have handicap accessible doors for the back door AND THE FRONT DOOR, and the front doors DO NOT have handicapped assessable doors. They can’t not say if the doors break the tenant who breaks them will be paying for it. The former tenant said she was told to pay for the pipes that froze and broke in her apartment. They can’t do that either. They also fix broken machinery instead of getting new machinery. My once happy home has become a my worst nightmare. I want out of here. This place isn’t my happy home, and friends and neighbors are moving out, too. 

Garden Court

Garden Court is no longer my happy home even though I am not unhappy enough that I am glad to leave and come back. Burbank Plaza was the only building I dreaded going back to and glad I was leaving for the day to dialysis until Dawn Kastenmeier Fry and her lovely husband Scott Fry want me to die from Covid and are out of my life since 2020. Yes, I have lived here at Garden Court for three years and I have seen people/tenants come and go from this place believe it or not because the office and maintenance don’t fix things. I think the property management sucks here as they are letting this place rot with mold and are not doing anything about it these days. Jackie went to someone about this place and the building is in violation of a lot of things. The office says no one can use the stairs unless in emergency. Violation 1, allow our door to close before opening the next door or you will be paying for broken door. Violation 2, the doors need to be replaced because they are outdated. Violation 3, the front entrance does not have for handicap people. Violation 4, there is mold in apartments that is not being taken care of. Violation 5, and they have to accommodate the tenants when it comes to putting a walk in shower in my bathroom and they refuse. It’s absolutely ridiculous at Garden Court these days. Tenants are moving in and out every other month or two. Sad? Yes, indeed! Tenants let the homeless into the building and that’s a violation and grounds for eviction, but management does not evict unruly tenants. Management is supposed to do background checks and they do not, and we have a registered sex offender in the building, and the office did not tell us there was a registered sex offender in the building and they are supposed to not let those kind of violators in the building. If they did background checks, this tenant would not be in the building. A disabled, autistic man was raped for four days while locked in his apartment and the police and office did nothing to help when the victim was inconsistent with his story about being raped by the sex offender. Awful and scary, people like that need to be jailed, right? Right, but the court system is broken, or we have corrupt judges and politicians who don’t care, and in this case, management seems to be uncaring at Garden Courts Apartment Building. I do have friends who are living in Garden Court who are looking for a new place to live. I think we need new property management and structure back in the building by finding people who care about tenants and correct the violations that are, according to. Department of Agriculture can help with complaints about apartment  violations. Jackie went to the city hall to take care of the complaints she had about Garden Courts. Brave woman, I can relate to her at times. I should get a lawyer to sue Garden Court? I have no reason to be suing Garden Court, but I have several reasons to get out of Dodge so to speak, though. Garden Court is really not home anymore. I have to be patient with my two applications— one at River Flats as of this late afternoon and Riverview Heights. My family and caregivers, and friends want me to be HAPPY again,

The Kitty Cats Update

Well, rambunctious is Millie at age 6 months she is, is my Millie Rose kitty cat. Magic, who is 3 years of age really do get along together, and Millie, being young and spry, yeah do get along with each other. Millie deemed my emotional support animal along with Magic. Magic, before Millie, was the only cat in the household, and now he has a sister, a playmate while I’m gone for 4 hours every other day or at appointments during the week or visiting friends. It has been a year since I visited friends at Garden Court. The  kitty kiddos are doing great! No arguing there, yet Magic plays too roughly with Millie at times, but she is one cat who can fight and deal with her own self wonderfully, though. She’s a good kitty. Millie loves people food and she’s always getting into my meals when I am eating, lol. I love my babies. A year ago we talked about getting Magic a sister kitty as his playmate, but we waited until the day we or Jackie and Deb brought Millie home from the shelter December 9, 2023. Yes, last month I now have two kitties in the household. I love Millie and Magic equally.

I have one more dialysis treatment appointment tomorrow, so I am saying my good night for now. It’s late, past 10:45 PM, and I’m in bed now. I’ve won $500 dollars of Tupperware at my party thanks to a neighbor who bought $27 worth of Tupperware for me to have my free Tupperware stuff, WOOHOO, I am very happy about that, and I am super tired for the first time in a long time. It’s time for me to say that my day is done. It was a good day.

For some reason my Microsoft 365 (Office 365) is not syncing with my phone and iPad for some reason for the past few days. It is frustrating as hell, too. I don’t have the time to figure it out right now. I do not have the time today to figure it out right now because I have been dealing with a lot of things right now, and I feel a little overwhelmed right now. I will look into it when I am feeling better. Today I am meeting with a new doctor at SSM Health today at 11:45 AM regarding my emotional health because meds are no longer a working for my emotional health anymore, AT MERCY CLINIC w doctor @ Mercy Health is NOT WORKING OUT VERY WELL. IN FACT, Jackie, I can stop yelling now to be honest here, doesn’t really trust Mercy anymore because her husband passed away while in the care of Mercy doctors dealing with his kidney care, and they did not listen to her about removing his leg and ankle that had cancer in it. She does not trust doctors at Mercy anymore, and while I was in the hospital twice in July and September 2022, and when I said no to going to a nursing home; I ended up going to the nursing home twice. Denying me going home pissed off my mother and my caregiver Jackie and my friend Julie who also cared fir me while my other caregiver Debbie was out during her cancer treatment for four to five months because her breast cancer returned in 2021 at the end of the month. Julie no longer works for me but is on back up duty in case she needs to return. Everyone feels for her as she now is fine, and she has both breasts removed now, and she began working for me in April after surgery and recovery from having her one a c only breast removed and again, recovered. I believe my Magic kitty knew she was not cancer-free in October 2021 when he cuddled into her for three weeks when she finally noticed a new lump, and had a mammogram done, and her cancer returned in her breast areas. Satan has been a little unkind to Debbie, and we were working foe a while, and scared for her even though she did not have her cancer metastasized to any other parts of body at that time. Coming back in April was a Godsend though! We needed to improve my home routine a bit, and she was willing to get back to work and cook for me. She and Julie are great cooks in my book of life and Godsends in my life. Julie M and I are okay as far as friends are concerned, too. She just is very busy now with her mom, dad, and older brother dead from illnesses, and she has a full-time job being a morning cook at Mercy Hospital and dealing with family drama and her family grieving the loss of three members from 2018-2022 and she yet has to put her dad and brother in the mausoleum with her mom. I give her credit for dealing with her family and work at the same time, and I haven’t seen her in a few months—since July. Also, there is drama at work, and she’s been working more hours. Employees don’t want to come into work these days. Young generations. Yep, Debbie and Julie are great cooks because God gave them the ability to cook better than ME! Yummy for tummy food! As far my Office 365 not working properly is not concerning between my iPad and iPhone right now.

Anyway, my appointment at SSM Healthcare did go well. Dr. Taylor changed a medication because my prophylactic drug was no longer working for me or the strain of UTI’s I have been having last time I was in for a cath to check for an UTI. The strain.of bacteria was not right with trimythaprim (spelling). He IS looking into what med would work for my anxie as and depression as well. He wants me to get better, too. Having anxiety, mental breakdowns, and depression sucks. The meltdowns have sooooo mmaannyy lately and one of the techs knows and understands them and me because of experience. Christina is a great technician and she had me—a dialysis patient— Wednesday and today. A sweet girl she is.

Oh. . . my goodness gracious, where do some drivers for You Buy We Fly (YBWF) get their licenses from. Honestly, I felt the vehicle go around the corners so fast that I. Was leaning one way and again the other way. It felt like I was being whipped into whipped cream or something similar to that. I am now waiting for my appointment at the clinic at SSM/St. Mary’s. I’ve noticed that the fish and fish tanks are gone. Sad. Must have been hard to keep up with them cleaning and tending to the fishes. I miss them.

After my appointment, I am heading back home to get lunch, get ready for my Tupperware party while Jackie goes to the grocery store for my necessary food and snacks. I had a granola bar for breakfast this morning once I got up and out in the living room this morning while watching Unsolved Mysteries on Roku TV Live.

I am heading to my doctor’s appointment at SSM/St. Mary’s right now.

Jackie has arrived. She is late as usual, lol. She’s not a morning person whereas I am a morning person.