D D The Rusty Years

Thursday June 9,2011

It started all over again today.  When I offered hubby some coffee he didn't want his coffee yet. Two minutes later he did.
Phone call came from the Spinal Cord Injury department at the V.A. Hospital in West Roxbury.  They/she needs to meet with us.  ???????????  Asked me how he was doing.  I have no idea what she needs to speak to us about. I've never had anyone from SCI come out to the house.  ???????
   Later he made his way into the bathroom to brush his teeth. Once done he needed help back into our room and Jill helped him get back and on the bed. She hung his Foley on the lowest rung of his bed railing. Within seconds he takes it off and begins looking at the tubing. Then he hung it up on the TOP railing. I told him to lower it. MOTHERRR leave me alone. Kept trying to explain to him it needed to be lower than he was to no avail. All I got was LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!
  Why in the world he came back to the bed, I know not of because in less than a minute he stood up. What are you doing I asked him. Going into the bathroom was his reply.  Me: Why? Him:To get my shower. 
All I keep saying to myself is " you have got to be fucking shitting me."
Both while undressing and dressing him he constantly yelled I was hurting his pecker. sigh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My back is spasming as I type.
I just can't seem to wrap my head around any of this......................

P.T. Andrea came before I could get in the shower. She did say between 11 and 11:30 and it was ten minutes of eleven. Time flies when you are having fun. Ha! Ha! She spent better than an hour familarizing herself with his medical history and what he uses to get from Point A to Point B. .
Neither of us can stand her voice. It goes right through you like someone elses we know. "Tracie."
P.T. gets their schedules on Sunday so she will call us sometime Sunday and tell us which three days she will be here next week and the times. 

I'm in the shower when Sharrie from the Spinal Cord Injury department at the VA came. She told me 2:30 and came at 1:30.  I like this gal despite the time mixup ..........I shit you not!
She departed at 3 and guess who came along not too long after. Yep " Tracie"
Made linguine with clam sauce for our supper. In the back of my mind I knew Tracie doesn't like it. :0)
Neither did hubby!   What did I leave out he's asking me.  Smart ass me told him...the salt.
Nothing was left out. I swear his taste buds are going South like his hearing has.
He ate a little.  So let's review this. He had a few shortbread cookies with his coffee, a peanutbutter sandwich for lunch and then the small amount of linguine. 
Sharrie from SCI had told him he has to eat and drink MORE. Up until the time she came he hadn't finished his first bottle of water. sigh! His urine is suppose to be alot lighter than it is and he isn't putting out a day what he should as he is not drinking enough. Showed her all the gatorade, pedialite, apple juice available to him. Gatorade is right at his bedside and he has only drank one since we got back from Florida.
He did begin to drink a bottle of gatorade while she was here and finished it.
Water has no electrolites.  He needs electrolites. 
He got upset at me more than once during her visit. She asked me how I dealt with it....walk away from him????  I nodded yes. She said " I'd want to punch him."
Dear Diary....I have entertained the thought of hitting him over the head with a frying pan more than once, if the truth be told.  I shit you not! 
Here it is 7:30 and he's been snoozing since he left the table at 6:30.  I'm jealous....

T Storm has passed by and it's cooled down to 70.  Opened slider and shut A/C off.  Fresh air ..mmmmmmmmmmmm!
Going to check my email now.
You just know............I'll be back!!!!  I shit you not!

Friday June 10,2011

Hubby slept straight through to morning. I woke at 4 and went to sit at my computer to enjoy the new lit keyboard for a half hour. I LUB IT! Then I used my brain and went back to bed. :0)
The sound of Logan taking his morning shower woke me at 6 and I got up to give hubby his morning meds.
My day began. Hubby wanted to use the bathroom before he took his meds. I emptied 700cc's of urine and helped him in there. BM was solid and formed. :0)  
Like SCI Sharrie said yesterday, " we talk poop." ;0)
Once I got him back to bed and in it I took his BP.  140/63 104 (Wrist.)  Pulse is very high.  It was 76 this time yesterday .   Sharrie told me that when I relate this info to a doctor , nurse or other health provider to tell them where I took it. ( I'm learning :0)  )
Hubby took his meds at 6:30 and has been complaining of dizziness ever since. 
He's sitting up in bed drinking his coffee and eating his fave cookies.   His regular early morning ritual for years. 
I see a big problem. He does not change his position much and laid with his head inclined on 3 pillows on his back all night. He and I have been warned about bed sores.  Looks like I will need to wake him to get him to change position at night.
I zonked out around ten sitting propped up in bed myself with the TV on and woke at midnight and shut it off. Can't even tell you what was on tv. It was a channel he had on before he fell asleep at 6:30.

It's minutes away from 7:30 a.m. 
Need to get my ACT together.  VNA Carly/Karlie ?   coming at ten. 
I hear him moaning and groaning and just asked what was wrong. I get an aggitated " nothing".
"Oh shit, Oh shit" just minutes after. Ask again what's wrong and I get an agitated " I don't feel good " out of him.  More groans are coming out of him.  Ten o'clock nurse can't come soon enough for me. I shit you not!

That's All Folks!