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candace_redinger

I'm a mother of a three year old girl. I'm a home health caregiver and elderly companion. I live in Vancouver, Wa right over the bridge from Portland, OR. My favorite bookstore is Powells and can spend all day there. My daughter also loves books so we spend a good portion of the day reading. I have listed on my shelves books I've read, own,...more »
  • Vancouver, WA, USA
  • member since Sunday, March 4 2007

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  • TwistedMind

    TwistedMind says

    lol. lord girl, just from your pic and talking to you on here, i know we would have got it trouble!!!! if not for giggling and cutting up then it would have been for spending too much time with one resident........you make that man do the laundry. i decree that the hubby's new part time job will be laundress!!! lmao. if he's like my lynn, you'll have to go buy a whole new wardrobe from where he shrunk everything.

    posted 22 hours ago. ( send a note )
  • TwistedMind

    TwistedMind says

    lol. i'm the oldest of 5 too!!!! well, 2 of them are step sibs, but they came to us when they were little so they're just my little bro and sis..........that may be the very reason you're not a kid person. you got tired of them. lmao. i hated working with those cna's who only wanted to get their residents cleaned and dressed so they could sit and chit chat. i was like you. once you get to know them, they all have little quirks and there's usually a way you can get them to do what you need them to if you're patient. i had one who would do anything i asked her as long as i let her have a handful of those orange circus peanut candies. the other damn cna's started stealing them out of her drawer though!!! b*tches!! (pardon me). i had to start carrying them with me. i had one man who beat the crap out of all the other cna's. they'd call me down there if i wasn't taking care of him that day and i'd talk to him and then he'd be fine and let them do their job. but, yeah, if you took the time to get to know them, and spent a little one on one time with them, they learned to trust you and that made things so much easier. it broke my heart to see the ones who had family right here in town, but never once did i see them have a visitor. how those people lived with themselves i don't know. i always tried to give a little extra attention to them, visiting them on holidays and even taking some of the ones who were allowed out of the home for a day of shopping and eating out at a nice restuarant. you could see the gratitude in their eyes. it was my most fullfilling job too. also my hardest, cause it was like losing a grandparent or a child everytime one of them died. have a great weekend and make the hubby do most of the unpacking.........pull the pregnancy card. lol. it's not often we get to use that excuse to get them to do something.

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  • Alicia

    Alicia says

    Hey Candace, If you don't mind, please send me your new address in a PN so I can get your books out to you. Hope you're enjoying the new place!! =D

    posted 2 days ago. ( send a note )
  • TwistedMind

    TwistedMind says

    oh, most definitely don't hurt yourself or the baby. i really wanted to work in a hospital. i spent 3 months in one when i was a teen and let me tell you if your nurse was a beeatch it sure put a damper on your day.......and you already don't feel all that great to begin with. so i decided i'd be that nurse that everyone wanted to see coming through their door. alas, i never made it out of the nursing home, which is 90% basically big kids. most of them had alzhiemers and it was often like taking care of kids. you fell in love with each and every one of them though. even the ones who tried to gouge your eyeballs out. lol. little kids? i've always been able to relate to kids and animals. i just get down on their level physically.......getting harder to get this big old butt up the older i get though, then we just play and sing and the very best part of it is, i get to play with them all day and then send them home at night. lmao. my fiance's neice is a special needs child and she won't go to anyone she doesn't know very very well. the first time i met her i got down on the floor with her and we played for quite awhile......lynn told me that right there his sister decided that i was 'the one'. lol. the next time i saw her she crawled up in my lap and stayed there until i got up. they were all flabbergasted. said she had never taken to someone like she did me. i was really proud of that and it tickled me to death. it's all in how you act around them. when i'm with a special needs child i will adjust myself according to their mental or physical capabilities, but i don't act any different with them than with any other child and they sense that little bit of respect i'm giving them. they sense i'm comfortable with them so they're comfortable with me. it's like that with other children without the needs and elderly patients both mentally able and not. you'll do great with the new one too. the more you're around kids the more comfortable you feel.

    posted 3 days ago. ( send a note )
  • TwistedMind

    TwistedMind says

    oh, i forgot to mention, we have something else in common also. i was a cna prior to going into daycare. i was about to begin lpn classes when i found out i have degenerative disc disease and couldn't lift that much weight anymore. all i've ever wanted to do was take care of people so i just switched to little people. lol. thought it was interesting that we both love books, rallys and people.

    posted 4 days ago. ( send a note )
  • TwistedMind

    TwistedMind says

    congrats on the baby!!!! my sister just had twins. (double the spoiling from 'teetee'.LOL) i'd LOVE to make it to sturgis, but alas, we've never been able to take the time off from work we'd need to make the trip. we live in paris, tn. northwest side of the state. i missed the last two rallys i planned on going to. my fiance got to go anyway, the turd. we always do a local one. it's hawg holler in atwood, tn. we get people from as far away as canada. it's almost like a big redneck family campout. lol. pretty low key compared to sturgis. we also try to get to hog rock near cave-in rock, ill at least once a year. we have some louisiana friends who run a vending booth (cajun, what else? lol) in atwood. it's the sh*t!! they got hit by the last hurricane and didn't make it this year, but they're all fine. thank goodness. hoping next year i don't cause injury to myself again right before the rally. lol.

    posted 4 days ago. ( send a note )
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