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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 4, 2020 19:25:31 GMT -5
Got my CPAP about a month ago, complete with a full-face mask. Still fiddling with the mask, leak figures anywhere from 8% to 84%. Last night, I couldn't sleep. Turned on election coverage in the living room and parked myself on the sofa. Fell asleep and woke up about five o'clock in the morning. Only spent 3:19 on the machine last night.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 10, 2021 15:01:04 GMT -5
I am currently in a nursing home (hopefully short-term). Recuperating from a partial amputation of my right foot. Was surprised that the nursing home is required by the State of Texas to give me a consent form for my routine psychotropic medication. Houston Methodist Clear Lake Hospital didn't require the red tape to give me the same medications.
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Post by SUVFan on Nov 28, 2021 17:31:17 GMT -5
Sorry to read about your health issue, Sneakers. I'll hope for a short term stay and that your recovery is strong.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 29, 2021 13:01:52 GMT -5
Sorry to read about your health issue, Sneakers. I'll hope for a short term stay and that your recovery is strong. It looks like I'm going to spend the whole month of November here. But they are planning to let me go home Thursday the 2nd of December.
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Post by SUVFan on Nov 30, 2021 10:05:35 GMT -5
That's great news! That's just a couple of days away!
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Nov 30, 2021 11:08:34 GMT -5
That's great news! That's just a couple of days away! I'll be happy to leave the woman in the next room that constantly bellows complaints about everything at most hours of the day and night here. So far, I've found out she doesn't like hot cereal or orange juice. Guess what she got for breakfast? I'll eat almost anything but eggs, shrimp, and some veggies.
I hope the vending machine company comes here and reloads the vending machines. We (the residents and staff) have eaten all the chocolate candy.
Need to discuss my departure time with the staff. My housemate doesn't want to miss work. So he wants to pick me up early in the morning or late in the afternoon. They do have a shuttle bus.
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Post by SUVFan on Nov 30, 2021 16:48:42 GMT -5
The caregivers have really tough jobs. No sense in compounding their work by being difficult. There are ways to approach those things and, @sneakers, I'd guess you are probably fairly adept at it. Constantly whining and complaining doesn't work anywhere.
Hopefully the ride home can be worked out. I'd think they're used to having to coordinate schedules. That lady in the next room would probably demand a specific time instead of starting with, 'I'm probably going to sound like I think I'm your only patient to take care of. Would it be possible to schedule my discharge early in the morning or late in the afternoon?'
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Dec 1, 2021 15:04:26 GMT -5
Last full day in the nursing home. Staff here have been busy running in and out telling me things. I'm scheduled to go home about six o'clock tomorrow. My housemate will be picking me up after work.
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Post by SUVFan on Dec 2, 2021 14:18:52 GMT -5
Glad they were able to work that out, sneakers.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Dec 2, 2021 17:56:55 GMT -5
The bellowing lady in the next room is at it again. She is diabetic and wants her blood sugar checked. You can probably hear her all the way down the hall.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Dec 2, 2021 22:10:57 GMT -5
Got home about 6:30 PM.
Had three prescriptions to pick up at HEB Pharmacy. Two of them are stuff I had already and they're PRN to boot. Will have more tomorrow. The nurse practitioner wrote me prescriptions for everything I was taking in the nursing home.
Home health is coming tomorrow and they will bring me bandages to put on my partially amputated right foot.
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Post by SUVFan on Dec 3, 2021 17:51:59 GMT -5
Gratz, Sneakers, on getting home!
I hope your recovery continues to be strong and that you get some good PT to help you learn to navigate on that partially amputated foot.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Dec 4, 2021 16:57:43 GMT -5
It's the middle of the afternoon in my second full day home.
Friday, I woke up about nine o'clock after a few interruptions in my sleep.
Got home health nurse, came by about ten o'clock in the morning. We filled out a lot of paperwork (all of which was familiar, I've had home health before) and she rebandaged my right foot (big toe is missing).
About noon, I got a phone call from my pharmacy to pick up six prescriptions. They were only $5.32 after insurance. Drove to the pharmacy and on the way home I stopped by Jack in the Box. Got a crispy chicken club sandwich, large curly fries, and a large Diet Coke Cherry.
Slept to almost noon today, spent 9:44 on the CPAP machine.
This afternoon, I needed to do stuff but my housemate drove (thinking I'm impaired with a post-op shoe on my right foot). I get around the house with difficulty. I kind of liked being able to see the scenery instead of concentrating on driving.
I'd gotten a check in the mail while I was in the nursing home, and we took it to the bank. My housemate asked me why I didn't make a picture deposit with my cell phone. I said that all the times I read the instructions, I feel like going to the bank instead. They want the picture deposited check to be perfectly straight.
Escape was out of gas (zero miles to go, it has about a two-gallon reserve). So we went to Costco. Gas at Costco was $2.749/gallon for unleaded regular. It took $43 to fill the Escape. Let's go, Brandonflation! Gas elsewhere is at least $2.799 a gallon and that's apparently a cash price. At Costco they don't take cash for gas (unless you walk into the warehouse and have it put on a gift card, but there is no financial advantage to doing that).
Ate lunch and took my noontime pills about three in the afternoon. Bologna and Muenster cheese sandwiches. Probably will have supper about nine o'clock in the evening.
The last I looked, we had a 47% chance of rain. It is getting darker outside and it's not because the sun is going down.
Sorting through snail mail. I hadn't been through it since the seventh of November (my housemate brought me the mail while he brought me the ThinkPad so I could pay bills). Need to get the instructions for my dietary supplements, it's buried in with the mail.
Need to send in my doctor's excuse for not doing jury duty. County clerk's staff know it's coming.
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Post by SUVFan on Dec 4, 2021 21:04:38 GMT -5
It sounds like you're transitioning well, Sneakers! Gas prices are crazy and Brandon has no desire to help. His plan needs high energy prices.
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Post by sneakers (Metro Houston) on Dec 7, 2021 14:50:14 GMT -5
Still moving around gingerly. Got physical therapist and representative of the college alumni association coming this afternoon. Housemate decided to go out and leave me with the house this afternoon and let the college people talk. Hopefully physical therapist will rebandage foot. I can do it myself but it's easier to have somebody else do it. Still going through mail, housemate thinks I'm going to let it accumulate again.
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