Two mornings in a row ....up and to the hospital by 8 a.m. so we can catch hubby's doctors.
We have met two now. They both work ten day shifts , so we met the one doctor and a few days later it was a new doctor.
Hopefully hubby will be in a rehab facility by the time the first doctor begins his ten days again.
Today Deb chose a terrific rehab place ( she know them all and some leave much to be desired as far as nusring care goes. )
This place is the Creme of the Creme. :0)
It's on the gulf and my grand daughter Corinne's boyfriend Brian works there in Rehab. :0)
P.T. saw hubby yesterday and recommended In Care Rehab rather than At Home Rehab to get him back to where he was before he landed in the hospital.
We still haven't met his cardiologist or neurologist.
No reason for the numbness episodes has been found, BUT they did find a problem with his heart which justifies him being there this long.
His low heart rate was up to 111 yesterday. Too high. Today it's 71.
They have been tweeking his med's ...taking some away and adding some.
We left at 10 a.m. and will go back tonight.
He isn't too ill to g r o w l at me.....so I'll growl here. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Would probably have stayed a little longer, but when he growls at me, I see no reason to stay. sigh!
Took his first SHIT since he was admitted while we were there. Maybe that's what made him so grouchy!
His nurse listened to his lungs and did all his vitals while we were there. He has some fluid in his lungs she said and told him he needed to take deep breaths in.
Hell...he's always full of Hot Air and lets that OUT! :0) This will be new to him.. LOL
Deb just made reservations for some harbor cruise to see the dolfins at 2 today.
It's a few hours tour in the gulf of Mexico. Sounds good to me. I shit you not!
She bought a bunch of flowering plants yesterday. Four flats....and is planting them at the moment.
Lots of color. :0)
Other than a call from son Randy yesterday telling me he painted my kitchen and his future plans ...bathroom and cleaning my kitchen cabinets things sounded calm..
No complaints about Logan. :0)
He has gone to Jill ( Logan's mom ) with his complaints in the past, but feels she takes up for Logan.
Therefore he CALLS ME to complain wanting me to call Logan and talk to him. :0(
Going to go try to do something to help Deb out inside the house.
She had Sonny put central vacuuming in the house, but prefers using a broom on the ceramic tile and wood,
I'll use the broom too.
Corinne and L.J. are still sleeping.
Late to bed and late to rise. Just like some of mine were.
Will admit... IT PISSED ME OFF!!!
Their Master bedroom is many feet away from the family room. They seem unbothered by it.
Mine wasn't and I heard every sound my kids made. :0(
Thank you all for your kind words.
That's All Folks!
I AM WOMAN! Hear me ROAR! February 2012
WARNING !! Not for those with a short attention span. ; 0 )
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
D D Ringy ding ding!
Been calling the hospital since 8 this morning and hubby isn't answering his phone.
It's either out of his reach or he don't hear it orrrrrrrrrr he is out of his room for another test. sigh!
This be HE yesterday at lunch time.
He had the MRI with the dye yesterday morning.
It's either out of his reach or he don't hear it orrrrrrrrrr he is out of his room for another test. sigh!
This be HE yesterday at lunch time.
He had the MRI with the dye yesterday morning.Don't know if anything was found yet. Neurologist was thinking maybe he had another cyst in his spinal cord up higher than his other two were. That would cause arm problems. Who knows..could be.
Went to Weight Watchers last night ONLY to get weighed in. Didn't stay for the meeting. Next week we definately will.
Didn't think I lost any weight as I ate at a Chinese buffet last week after my Wednesday weigh in, those 3 slices of Philly Steak and Cheese pizza on Saturday, A Sonny's sliced pork BBQ sandwich and beans on Monday , a tuna sub from a fast food place on Tuesday evening and didn't feel any lighter. sigh!
LOST 1 pound and 6 ounces in Spite Of Myself!!! :0)
Going up to the hospital now.
Called the main number at the hospital and was put through to his floor.
Just getting back in his room from a TEST. Ca Ching!!!
That's All Folks!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
D D Ca Ching
I can hear in my head the monies being added to a hospital bill.
My son and I took hubby to the VA Clinic here in Sarasota and on the way in he tells me to tell them his primary care doctor at the Lowell VA ordered a blood test to check his potassium level.
After this poor woman entered hubby into their computer system she made numerous calls trying to find out why she could find no records for him.
One person was off for the day, another was at lunch and another was in a meeting all afternoon.
She was getting more and more frustrated and finally i hear her tell someone she can't get ahold of anyone to help her out and she is unable FOR SOME REASON to see an outstanding potassium level order in the computer.
It was then and there I passed the buck and told her that hubby does not always hear things correctly and maybe there is NO ORDER.
Her words, " I hope there is after all the trouble I have gone through!"
It took more convincing from moi and she gave us directions to the VA Hospital in St.Petersburg which was quite a distance away ( especially to visit him if he was admitted orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr we could go across the street to the E.R. at Doctors Hospital.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm An hour or better away or across the street. No Brainer there! ;0)
We explain our reason for being there and how we would like his potassium level checked out and before I knew they whisked hubby into E.R. and told me I could come in in a few minutes.
Twenty minutes later I walk in to hubby all wired up to monitors. :0(
Next thing I knew they were taking him for a ? scan.
Which I find out after the fact that at that time they also took chest xrays. Ca Ching!
Like what does chest xrays have to do with anything.
We are told that the neuro doctor is at another hospital and can't see hubby until LATER and he wants him to be admitted for at least a day. :0(
If anyone could understand how confused hubby gets when he is out of his own surroundings or be a fly on the wall ...........they would know that to let hubby out of your sight was to invite TROUBLE.
Lord knows what he told them in that twenty minutes we were not allowed back there. sigh!
Even the nurse commented to herself when she picked up some paper work and read it. How strange...he came in complaining of periodic numbness going on for some time now and now he's being ADMITTED.
YEP! ADMITTED! I shit you not!
Was it an EEG he had done up on the floor in his room or and EKG?? Little wires placed all over his head with cotton balls placed there too. Dang! I forgot my camera. CRAP! Ca Ching!
He kept trying to wash the jell crap out of his hair and it was like candle wax. i shit you not!
They used a lift and weighed him. 177 pounds.
Now it is here that I will expose .................( tell all ).
When we went to North Port I brought him two sets of solid pajama bottoms that he now likes to wear instead of jeans. He now claims the jean material is too rough on his skin. Okay...I'm cool with that! Wears a pocket T shirt with them and who can tell????
With his sensation of when he has to urinate getting shorter and shorter he needs to be close to a bathroom orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. He can't get there fast enough and by the time he puts his Canadian crutches against the wall, turns around to pull his pants down a sit.....(can't stand to pee ) he had an accident two times.
WTF! I didn't know wether to shit or go blind when he hollers to me that he needs another pair of pants. :0)
Ran to my closet and grabbed a gray pair of my longer in the leg shorts with a tie waist to hand him.
He puts them on and doesn't say a thing. Now mind you he does not wear shorts. ;0)
He gets back to where we were all sitting watching TV and I'm looking at his face as he as talking to me and all of a sudden he hollers something. I was confused and didn't understand what he said. With his next words I did! I shit you not! Looked from his face to the floor and there were he pants on the floor and he couldn't yank them up by himself. Was asking me to and I roared when I saw this picture with Sonny and Deb sitting behind him. Which of course wasn't a laughing matter to him. :0(
Ohhhhhhhh did I mention that nine times out of ten he doesn't want to wear underwear under his pj's.????
It is only when he is going out that he wants his underwear underneath his pajama bottoms.
Back to the beginning of this story...... he is telling anyone he sees at this hospital that we are on a Weight Watchers diet and have him on it too and he has lost so much weight that his pants fell off him....LMFAO!
He never figred out that it was my shorts he had on. :0) GRIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm BAD! I know it............ ;0)
He came out with some other beauties in E.R. and up in his room.
Takes pills to shrink his liver. Ahem! Takes pills to relax his bladder.
He had us laughing with some of his answers to intake questions.
Why were you admitted. For brain bleeds. Ahem...numbness radiating from hand to face in up to 8 minutes in duration before it's normal.
Another answer was fluctuating heart rate. He got that from when he was in E.R. The monitor read 140/76 and at one time went up to 185. When I questioned it as to being correct it was explained that sometimes excitement can cause his BP to fluctuate. Personally I think the machine was whacky.
The head nurse thought she found the reason for his problem numbness when she saw his heart rate.
I had to bust her bubble and tell her he s always had a LOW heart rate. 50's and 40's.
Okay...long story shorter if I want to get back up to the hospital before a neurologist sees him and hears hubby's explanation of what is going on with him. I can only imagine what he will tell him.
He was telling people that his doctor in Boston asked him if he was from Scandinavia. Ahem...of Scandinavian descent. It appears that some of these people have an enzyme in their brain that causes bleeds.
Nope..he's Irish and Irish.
Then another person was told they want his brain when he dies to study it. Ahem...it would be an interesting study ( some words to that affect).
We left at 9:15p.m. . Got there at 2. I emptied 2 urinals in E.R. Did I tell you they were busy as all Hell.
They were! People were on gurneys in the aisles around the nurses area.
Upstairs I emptied it 5 times. Each place I had to ask for a urinal.
Where the hell did all that piss come from.!!!! Just before we left his urinal, wash basin and all those goodies were brought into his room. Upstairs they are just as busy as downstairs. I shit you not!
Private rooms on the floor he is on. Ca Ching!
Son Randy called me with more about what he was or wanted to do about my home computer while I was in E.R. I shit you not!
WHERE'S THE CLOSEST FUNNY FARM ?????????????????????
P.S. His potassium level is within NORMAL limits. A little low, but still within Normal limits we were told. :0)
To Be Continued!!!!
That's All Folks!
My son and I took hubby to the VA Clinic here in Sarasota and on the way in he tells me to tell them his primary care doctor at the Lowell VA ordered a blood test to check his potassium level.
After this poor woman entered hubby into their computer system she made numerous calls trying to find out why she could find no records for him.
One person was off for the day, another was at lunch and another was in a meeting all afternoon.
She was getting more and more frustrated and finally i hear her tell someone she can't get ahold of anyone to help her out and she is unable FOR SOME REASON to see an outstanding potassium level order in the computer.
It was then and there I passed the buck and told her that hubby does not always hear things correctly and maybe there is NO ORDER.
Her words, " I hope there is after all the trouble I have gone through!"
It took more convincing from moi and she gave us directions to the VA Hospital in St.Petersburg which was quite a distance away ( especially to visit him if he was admitted orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr we could go across the street to the E.R. at Doctors Hospital.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm An hour or better away or across the street. No Brainer there! ;0)
We explain our reason for being there and how we would like his potassium level checked out and before I knew they whisked hubby into E.R. and told me I could come in in a few minutes.
Twenty minutes later I walk in to hubby all wired up to monitors. :0(
Next thing I knew they were taking him for a ? scan.
Which I find out after the fact that at that time they also took chest xrays. Ca Ching!
Like what does chest xrays have to do with anything.
We are told that the neuro doctor is at another hospital and can't see hubby until LATER and he wants him to be admitted for at least a day. :0(
If anyone could understand how confused hubby gets when he is out of his own surroundings or be a fly on the wall ...........they would know that to let hubby out of your sight was to invite TROUBLE.
Lord knows what he told them in that twenty minutes we were not allowed back there. sigh!
Even the nurse commented to herself when she picked up some paper work and read it. How strange...he came in complaining of periodic numbness going on for some time now and now he's being ADMITTED.
YEP! ADMITTED! I shit you not!
Was it an EEG he had done up on the floor in his room or and EKG?? Little wires placed all over his head with cotton balls placed there too. Dang! I forgot my camera. CRAP! Ca Ching!
He kept trying to wash the jell crap out of his hair and it was like candle wax. i shit you not!
They used a lift and weighed him. 177 pounds.
Now it is here that I will expose .................( tell all ).
When we went to North Port I brought him two sets of solid pajama bottoms that he now likes to wear instead of jeans. He now claims the jean material is too rough on his skin. Okay...I'm cool with that! Wears a pocket T shirt with them and who can tell????
With his sensation of when he has to urinate getting shorter and shorter he needs to be close to a bathroom orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. He can't get there fast enough and by the time he puts his Canadian crutches against the wall, turns around to pull his pants down a sit.....(can't stand to pee ) he had an accident two times.
WTF! I didn't know wether to shit or go blind when he hollers to me that he needs another pair of pants. :0)
Ran to my closet and grabbed a gray pair of my longer in the leg shorts with a tie waist to hand him.
He puts them on and doesn't say a thing. Now mind you he does not wear shorts. ;0)
He gets back to where we were all sitting watching TV and I'm looking at his face as he as talking to me and all of a sudden he hollers something. I was confused and didn't understand what he said. With his next words I did! I shit you not! Looked from his face to the floor and there were he pants on the floor and he couldn't yank them up by himself. Was asking me to and I roared when I saw this picture with Sonny and Deb sitting behind him. Which of course wasn't a laughing matter to him. :0(
Ohhhhhhhh did I mention that nine times out of ten he doesn't want to wear underwear under his pj's.????
It is only when he is going out that he wants his underwear underneath his pajama bottoms.
Back to the beginning of this story...... he is telling anyone he sees at this hospital that we are on a Weight Watchers diet and have him on it too and he has lost so much weight that his pants fell off him....LMFAO!
He never figred out that it was my shorts he had on. :0) GRIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm BAD! I know it............ ;0)
He came out with some other beauties in E.R. and up in his room.
Takes pills to shrink his liver. Ahem! Takes pills to relax his bladder.
He had us laughing with some of his answers to intake questions.
Why were you admitted. For brain bleeds. Ahem...numbness radiating from hand to face in up to 8 minutes in duration before it's normal.
Another answer was fluctuating heart rate. He got that from when he was in E.R. The monitor read 140/76 and at one time went up to 185. When I questioned it as to being correct it was explained that sometimes excitement can cause his BP to fluctuate. Personally I think the machine was whacky.
The head nurse thought she found the reason for his problem numbness when she saw his heart rate.
I had to bust her bubble and tell her he s always had a LOW heart rate. 50's and 40's.
Okay...long story shorter if I want to get back up to the hospital before a neurologist sees him and hears hubby's explanation of what is going on with him. I can only imagine what he will tell him.
He was telling people that his doctor in Boston asked him if he was from Scandinavia. Ahem...of Scandinavian descent. It appears that some of these people have an enzyme in their brain that causes bleeds.
Nope..he's Irish and Irish.
Then another person was told they want his brain when he dies to study it. Ahem...it would be an interesting study ( some words to that affect).
We left at 9:15p.m. . Got there at 2. I emptied 2 urinals in E.R. Did I tell you they were busy as all Hell.
They were! People were on gurneys in the aisles around the nurses area.
Upstairs I emptied it 5 times. Each place I had to ask for a urinal.
Where the hell did all that piss come from.!!!! Just before we left his urinal, wash basin and all those goodies were brought into his room. Upstairs they are just as busy as downstairs. I shit you not!
Private rooms on the floor he is on. Ca Ching!
Son Randy called me with more about what he was or wanted to do about my home computer while I was in E.R. I shit you not!
WHERE'S THE CLOSEST FUNNY FARM ?????????????????????
P.S. His potassium level is within NORMAL limits. A little low, but still within Normal limits we were told. :0)
To Be Continued!!!!
That's All Folks!
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
D D Comedy is good for what ails ya!
Used muscles that I haven't used in a long time this Saturday night.
I was laughing so hard at the jokes and antics of the featured comedian...I was strangling on my own laughter. I shit you not!
This guy Al ? was hilairious! :0)
What a menu this place in Port Charlotte had , but when I saw Philly Steak and Cheese pizza on the menu...I went for it! Heavenly........but I limited myself to 3 slices and tore myself away from it.
:0( or :0) depending on which way you looked at it.
Hubby ate a Queen prime rib dinner. That's how varied the menu is.
The next night while watching TV I laughed at the sight of some bridesmaids dresses that the brides sisters chose and then and there realized my upper rib cage was SORE.Painful to laugh. I shit you not!
Son Randy called a few times Sunday. First to talk to Sonny as I wasn't available at that time.
Thought that he might want to tell me that my grandson Logan was being disrespectful to him.
Sonny said, nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....he didn't want to tell me that, so Randy called me later.
Logan has not been shutting my computer down at night.
When Randy gets on to him about it he asks him why he cares. THAT'S DISRESPECTFUL!
If you remember ...........my son Randy is ANAL about everything.
Logan also does not close cupboard doors. That's a Cardinal Sin with Randy. sigh!
He tells me that he has been observing him while he is there painting my room. ( Which he has finished :0) )
Logan is LAZY he says. Does not even take the trash out.
He had chores when he was young and Logan doesn't. Logan got too much for Christmas too he tells me.
He was lucky if $40 was spent on his gifts. Right mom??? Right Randy!
He went on and on. sigh!
Didn't bother to tell him that my mom got an apple, orange and a cloth rag dog her mom made her.
He couldn't rationalize the THEN and NOW!
I have mentioned that Randy has MANY mental and other issues. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Thank the stars above that he never had children. Couldn't function in a marriage either due to his obsessive compulsive behaviors. :0(
He wants my room to look like it did when he finished painting it and cleaning my OLD rug when I come back home and we have allowed Logan to use our room while we are away.
Logan left a finger print on our sliding bedroom glass door too. :0( This would be funny if it wasn't sooooooooooooo ( the wording slips my mind ).
I can understand where Randy is coming from, but to call me about this??? Of course ! It's sooooooooooooo RANDY. I shit you not!
I took a Dipsy Doodle in North Port. Was walking Ginger in the yard and my right foot stepped into a armadillo hole. Down to my knees I went and then forward onto the palms of my hands.
Nothing hurt except my pride. :0) Still can't believe that I rose up as fast as I did. Think it was because I was wondering if others around the pond were looking out their windows and saw me fall and I wanted to assure them that I was OKAY and a 911 call wasn't needed. ;0)
Hubby had more SPELLS ( I now hesitate to call them TIA's ) Saturday.
DIL Deb is an RN and she has been observing what his symtoms are and she and now I believe it's something else causing these spells.
Today we are going to go to a V.A.Clinic here in Sarasota and ask to have his blood drawn to test the amount of potassium in his system.
A few years ago on admittance his level was low and he was put on a much larger amount of potassium.
His symptoms read like symptoms of too much potassium in ones system.
We shall see.
Sonny will drive us there as Deb works this morning. Has one facility here in town that she has to look at open wounds with a doctor beginning 10:30 a.m. when he can get there.
Here it is 8:30 and hubby is still sleeping. We went to bed at 10 last night. I was up at 6.
I was a good girl about counting POINTS yesterday. :0)
Two more days until I get weighed................ :0(
Looking for a MIRACLE............. :0)
Pictures taken in North Port....maybe tomorrow. My camera is in the bedroom.
That's All Folks!
I was laughing so hard at the jokes and antics of the featured comedian...I was strangling on my own laughter. I shit you not!
This guy Al ? was hilairious! :0)
What a menu this place in Port Charlotte had , but when I saw Philly Steak and Cheese pizza on the menu...I went for it! Heavenly........but I limited myself to 3 slices and tore myself away from it.
:0( or :0) depending on which way you looked at it.
Hubby ate a Queen prime rib dinner. That's how varied the menu is.
The next night while watching TV I laughed at the sight of some bridesmaids dresses that the brides sisters chose and then and there realized my upper rib cage was SORE.Painful to laugh. I shit you not!
Son Randy called a few times Sunday. First to talk to Sonny as I wasn't available at that time.
Thought that he might want to tell me that my grandson Logan was being disrespectful to him.
Sonny said, nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....he didn't want to tell me that, so Randy called me later.
Logan has not been shutting my computer down at night.
When Randy gets on to him about it he asks him why he cares. THAT'S DISRESPECTFUL!
If you remember ...........my son Randy is ANAL about everything.
Logan also does not close cupboard doors. That's a Cardinal Sin with Randy. sigh!
He tells me that he has been observing him while he is there painting my room. ( Which he has finished :0) )
Logan is LAZY he says. Does not even take the trash out.
He had chores when he was young and Logan doesn't. Logan got too much for Christmas too he tells me.
He was lucky if $40 was spent on his gifts. Right mom??? Right Randy!
He went on and on. sigh!
Didn't bother to tell him that my mom got an apple, orange and a cloth rag dog her mom made her.
He couldn't rationalize the THEN and NOW!
I have mentioned that Randy has MANY mental and other issues. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Thank the stars above that he never had children. Couldn't function in a marriage either due to his obsessive compulsive behaviors. :0(
He wants my room to look like it did when he finished painting it and cleaning my OLD rug when I come back home and we have allowed Logan to use our room while we are away.
Logan left a finger print on our sliding bedroom glass door too. :0( This would be funny if it wasn't sooooooooooooo ( the wording slips my mind ).
I can understand where Randy is coming from, but to call me about this??? Of course ! It's sooooooooooooo RANDY. I shit you not!
I took a Dipsy Doodle in North Port. Was walking Ginger in the yard and my right foot stepped into a armadillo hole. Down to my knees I went and then forward onto the palms of my hands.
Nothing hurt except my pride. :0) Still can't believe that I rose up as fast as I did. Think it was because I was wondering if others around the pond were looking out their windows and saw me fall and I wanted to assure them that I was OKAY and a 911 call wasn't needed. ;0)
Hubby had more SPELLS ( I now hesitate to call them TIA's ) Saturday.
DIL Deb is an RN and she has been observing what his symtoms are and she and now I believe it's something else causing these spells.
Today we are going to go to a V.A.Clinic here in Sarasota and ask to have his blood drawn to test the amount of potassium in his system.
A few years ago on admittance his level was low and he was put on a much larger amount of potassium.
His symptoms read like symptoms of too much potassium in ones system.
We shall see.
Sonny will drive us there as Deb works this morning. Has one facility here in town that she has to look at open wounds with a doctor beginning 10:30 a.m. when he can get there.
Here it is 8:30 and hubby is still sleeping. We went to bed at 10 last night. I was up at 6.
I was a good girl about counting POINTS yesterday. :0)
Two more days until I get weighed................ :0(
Looking for a MIRACLE............. :0)
Pictures taken in North Port....maybe tomorrow. My camera is in the bedroom.
That's All Folks!
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