OOO AAAHHH OUCH
November 10, 2008
How is that for a post title huh? Huh? Huh? That is so describing me at the moment. Very hectic Monday. It all began on Saturday when la coffee pot took la crap! Our coffee pot has two jobs in this house, to brew coffee and to brew tea for Iced Tea! So our coffee pot is used well more than the average coffee pot in la home! I wanted to buy la BUNN but la hubby won’t la let me!
So this time we got a Brewing Station, its is pretty cool actually. BUT no brewing Tea in it anymore. So we got this Toast Master Kettle that boils water in lickity split (is that a word lickity, cause if not there is now). Well I tried it out and have to tell you I didn’t like it at all! Personally I could smell something burning and the bottom of the inside of the kettle is metal but had scorch marks on it ( 1.7 quarts of water in it so not like I didn’t have enough water in it). Well that didn’t set right with me not to mention, to me, the Iced Tea just didn’t taste the same. Via the coffee pot it “brewed” slower, so the taste, to me, is different. So I packed her up and back it went to la Target this morning and exchanged for a 17.99 cheapo Mr. Coffee to make la tea. I didn’t want the Iced Tea maker, because picture if, if you will, my son who is ADHD and doesn’t line the little pitcher up correctly with the brewing part what is gonna happen?? hmmm?? YEP hubby all mad cause its gonna go everywhere but in la pitcher!
Hubby doesn’t want me using the “same” pot anymore for both. We seem to average one coffee pot maker per year. Personally when you use it as much as we do, I think that is pretty fair, seeing how Mr. Someone (and I won’t mention any names) comes home from work and drinks a gallon of Iced tea in the evening! I kid you not. NOW that dad is limited on what he can and can’t have I have another tea drinker on my hands so its possible that we will be making tea a little more frequently! I am lucky to drink a glass a day. Personally I like Lipton tea with Lemon, or Raspberry Tea or Nestea Lemon! But no one else likes with lemon so I don’t make it by the gallon!
So then my dad’s oil filled heater in his room took la crap so I had to send my son into the attic to get out another one, which hubby didn’t cover with plastic so I had to scrub it (not happy hench the ouch). Add this to the mix of washing towels, changing bedding, cleaning bathrooms, kitchen and I just put a meatloaf together and threw that puppy in the oven! Finally off my feet for a moment.
BUT the OOOOOO AAAAAHHHHH??? OH my my order arrived today (remind me to kick the USPS postman in the shins for leaving my box out in the snow/rain) ((not my regular guy)) from Lara (aka The Sage Grove, I’m telling ya girls, your soooo missing out here) and it was all good!! OH yeah, I got my PUMPKIN CHEESECAKE Crumblies (no tart hogs allowed to touch em either), some Blueberry Cheesecake something something (can’t wait till bath time… is it bath time yet, please I want it to be bath time) and a bottle of lotion!
I sent my wedding rings and my other ring off to the mall with dad since he was going this afternoon, for their annual 6 months cleaning and check up. They are insured so I have to do it twice yearly. My fingers are feeling Naked Naked….
Worst night of sleep in weeks!!
November 8, 2008
Wow last night was the worst night of sleep I had in weeks, I mean worse than the nights dad was in the hospital and how in the heck is that ever possible? I am trying think really hard what it could of been. I am wondering if I forgot to take my Xanax last night as well as in the morning because honestly I don’t remember taking it, but at the same time I know the doctor put me on this for about 4 months to help my nerves so I don’t want to have to depend on it for sleep you know? That is like saying OK for the next 4 months I will sleep and after that I am on my own! If my daughter could of been anymore noisier this morning getting ready for work. Funny when hubby is home in the mornings she is quiet! (He got a few hours of over time this morning thank gosh since his last pay was under 80 hours).
So my poor dad, the kids set the coffee last night, so all dad had to do was push the button this morning, like always. Well what a mess to clean up, I guess the pot wasn’t put on right or something and grounds and water all over the place and my dad cleaned it up, instead of coming to get me!! I finish cleaning up the pot the but burner is pretty black from the burnt coffee and I burnt my left fingers (I am a lefty here). I said you should of come and got me dad, he said no no, you need to rest. My son ended up out here and helped my dad finish cleaning up the mess. All over the floor, everywhere!!
If I have to get new coffeemaker my hubby will have a fit in a half times two! We average a new one yearly. When you think about the usage ours gets, its not uncommon really, as I use it to brew tea also. So its really used more like a commercial unit. I will test today, going to clean the warmer/burner pad up best I can but if the pot sticks, well then I have no choice but to get a new one, not taking chance it that breaking and dad or anyone else cutting themselves, just not worth it ya know!!
So me thinkith its going to be one of those days-ith!!!
If I could describe in one word
November 6, 2008
If I could describe in one word how I feel right now it would be rundown. I am so exhausted and tired beyond belief and my family doesn’t to understand this. I feel that at any given moment I could just pass out that is how tired I am! I constantly hear mom you look so tired. Yes I am tired. I feel like I am catching a cold, my throat is scratchy and my nose is sort of itchy.
Today I was so upset I was trembling. My dad’s doctor said to him “no restrictions” “as tolerated” and I wish they would not of said that to him. He just had to go out, gas up the car (that had well over a 1/2 of a tank of gas), put money on his Sams card to get gas, get the car wash, go to the post office to mail out a bill, came home for some lunch I begged him to take his albulterol because I could hear him wheezing, so he took it, ate a grilled cheese, and headed out to the mall, and did not come home until 5 tonight. I was just beside myself this afternoon!!
After I made dinner I headed to the grocery store because we were down to bare bones, I had no soft foods like applesauce for example because a certain son of mine helped himself to things while I was gone with dad in the hospital so I need to pick up stuff for him and things we needed. I just now finished putting everything away. I guess after I left my dad went to lay down. Hubby said he was walking pretty slow, yeah I think he over did it today… but sadly enough he just won’t listen to me.
I realized something when I got home from the store tonight. I ran around making sure I got stuff for everyone but myself (except my Cheez-It cracker packets). I always do that. I always make sure stuff is here for them and then when I get hungry I am in the cupboard or the refrigerator looking for something for myself! I dunno why I do that……
So I am off to visit blogs, then take a bath and debate if I will head to bed or play a game or something since the Browns are on tonight.
Quicke post Dad is home!
November 5, 2008
I just finished getting dinner fixed and ate and thought I pop on and let you know dad is home. By the time we did paperwork, stopped to get his meds (OMG now he is taking 14 different medications right now, holy molies), and got home I had to hurry and get dinner going. I have “cheat sheet” for meds and times for taking but pretty much the same thing, twice daily except the Klor packet (potassium), that’s twice daily but more with breakfast and after dinner.
I have to take him on Monday, December 13th for a repeat CT scan of his lungs and we have to bring the films home, then see the lung doctor on December 17th. Those appointments are already made. To check those “spots”. Then go from there.
I am really annoyed with medicare right now. They did not cover the Prevacid or the Albuteral inhalation aerosol medication that he needs. The Prevacid was changed to Prilosec OTC and we paid for the other out of pocket but the pharmacy gave us a $15.00 coupon/check off the Albuteral. Pretty bad that is something he needs for the COPD and it’s not covered!
He is still eating dinner…taking it slow and easy. I made mashed potato’s, homemade hamburger gravy with green beans and soft biscuits. That was the quickest thing I could come up with.
Thanks again for all the thoughts and prayers everyone!! Means a lot!!
Dad may come home tomorrow!!
November 4, 2008
As hard as dad was trying to come home today, it looks as if tomorrow just may be the day he can come home, as long as he continues to do well this evening and tonight. Still some wheezing a bit but that is to be expected. White blood cells count was at 10.1 so that was good! He only has to have the I.V. hooked up when getting his antibiotics! He was pushing, I mean pushing, pleading to come home today, all the doctors were okay with it BUT the lung doctor. He wanted another day on the I.V. antibiotics first! Honestly that is the best thing.
So today I took dad his card from my sweet friend Lara, it was addressed to “Dad” on the envelope, that was so sweet. I said hey, you got a card in the mail, he said I did, I said yes and gave to him and he read it and said awe, that was so nice and I said lets take a picture so we can post so Lara can see, he had to “comb” his hair first (how cute was that?). So then we took the picture and he put up on the little shelf where my purse was sitting so he could see it when he was laying in bed. He said he hoped he could sleep tonight like that teddy bear on the card! Doesn’t he look so much better? As you can see he is in his new room off the heart ward, woohoo!!
I took my laptop today, darn hospital could of told us they had wifi all this time!! I didn’t know that!! I took it so my dad and I could play some Wheel of Fortune together, we had fun, I thought it would help pass some time away! We played a few hours. Then he was ready for a nap after that!
Now I think the doctor should not of said to dad that once he was home he could do what he felt up to doing, cause now he says when he gets home he going to take the car, go get it washed, and go do this and do that. I made him promise me to please take it slow at first. He still isn’t totally out of the woods and needs to rest and will listen to his body and not be out. He is dying to go hang out at the mall. ARGH! I am going to have my hands full I think. What am I going to do?
So I was telling my hubby tonight one of the nurses asked me if I was the one who made the roast? (remember what started this was the meat caught in dads throat). Well I just feel so terrible and told hubby about it and said I won’t be making that anymore and do you know what he said to me? That sometimes “I” forget who the “man of the house is” What the hell is that suppose to mean? Excuse me? I started to cry oh OK, that’s nice thanks! Seriously its in my dad’s chart, he choked I cooked it, does it make you want to cook one again? Man oh man I am so hurt it is not even funny. Its sort of like when he choked at Applebee’s in May on an overcook potato skin and the potato stuck to his throat, we have not been back since and I will never go back again. Its a traumatic thing you know. “This is why I don’t say nothing when your already upset” OH yeah, love my life sometimes!
What a difference a day makes!!
November 3, 2008
Got some good news on my dad today!! Finally something positive starting to happen!! Getting a new doctor, I personally think that right there made a huge difference with my dad attitude wise. I arrived as early as I could after paying some of his bills and taking care of a mess at his bank. Not a bad mess just that his current bank bought his old bank, gave him new account number but let him use the old account number too and well it made paperwork too confusing so I just took care of it all today.
They were treating dad for a staph infection in his blood with an antibiotic. They stopped that today, they said the blood sample must of been contaminated when they took it, so NO bacteria in BLOOD after all!! He is now down to two antibiotics for the pneumonia and for the stomach. They will continue to give him those via an I.V. until he is discharged to come home (this week sometime) and then he will take orally for up to two weeks.
The lung doctor said he thinks dad just has infections in his lungs, (those nodes too) and wants to recheck him in 6 weeks (left me his card to make appointment at his office).
Dad looked better today!! Poor guy his I.V. came out of the vein but stayed under the skin so his left arm is swollen with fluid (same arm they did a T.B. test on too) so he is sore and has one hell of a nasty nasty bruise! Doing warm compresses. I kept changing them all afternoon and brought the swelling down.
They are going to move him off the heart ward, as soon as a bed opens up on the other floor. That is a good sign too!! Another step closer to home!
My dad and I were talking about those gosh awful uncomfortable seating in there. He thinks the waiting room should at least have home theater seating with a huge wide screen TV that he can sneak down and watch. I thought that was funny. Wonder if that was the pain medication talking again? The waiting room has an old television with rabbit ears on it. I took a picture of it to show him. He could not believe it! He can’t stand that little bedside television he has. I threatened to buy one for home so he could just stay in bed and watch it. I got the stink face for that one. So his spirits seemed better today.
I got a card for him in the mail from Lara I can’t wait to take tomorrow, that is so going to make his day, you have no idea how it will!! I will have to take a picture so post tomorrow!!
It’s ironic that just yesterday I told Dr. “A” that he wasn’t to see my dad anymore and he is starting to feel better. He kept prescribing things and it seem to make him feel worse then would say oh we should check for bacteria for this or that now. Needless to say, by the way, that stool test was cancelled, it was a no brain-er after all! I am very proud that I stood up for my dad, what a difference a day makes!!
Pictures of my dad
November 2, 2008
I took some pictures with my cell phone of my dad over the past few days: I can’t get the darn words to line up right with the pictures so bear with it OK???
This is dad in E.R.
This was dad the next day when hubby and I came in, he looked like he was making some progress.
This was on Friday, dad got worse over night and of all days my son had to go with me. Broke my heart.
This was a pic of my dad on Saturday morning still not doing so hot… just really breaks the heart doesn’t it?
This is today, I had them get a chair so my dad to get up out of that bed and sit for a while.
My heart is just breaking for him….
Quick note about a Hospitalist verses Primary Doc
November 2, 2008
I wanted to post really quick this morning so folks who read who are emailing me or leaving comments suggesting I call his primary doctor to have another doctor assigned to my dad. It doesn’t work that way, unfortunately.
The way it works here with our hospital system, they wanted our doctors to carry their (the hospital) insurance in order to continue to treat patients in house there. There are many in the area who choose not to do this so the hospital said OK then if your patient comes in, for insurance reasons you can not come in see patients in house and treat and give orders. So as long as my dad is in the hospital they “will not” call them. ONLY his specialists, like they did with his Rheumatologist.
That is where the Hosptialists Doctor (sort of like a “company”) comes in. They are the hospitals in house doctors (contracted). They do not treat patients outside of being in house patients. They work 5 days, 12 hour shifts, three per hospital. I did ask about getting him “switched” but asked for them to find out without making “waves” so if it was not possible, that it would not make things worse for my dad between him and the doctor. Because of how the patients are assigned and by condition, he is stuck with him for (counting today) three more days. If he has 4 to 5 days left, then he should end up back with the original doctor he had just before allowing him to come home, thus hoping making the end of his visit a pleasant one!
Trust me when I tell you I already tried, but behind the scenes so this arrogant jerk didn’t know it and not make things worse on my dad. I can tell you this much, honestly that idiot better stick with being that type of doctor because he will never make it in a private practice with an attitude like that!
Now at least this is how it was explained to me by the nurses for how it worked here for us at our hospital. In past admissions for my dad, he had others who were much kinder. This is the first time he has had this particular doctor. The rest are awesome! When hubby was in this past January he had a wonderful doctor and I wish he and the doctor my dad originally started with did have private practices, because we move in a heartbeat!!
I am off to gather myself, get dressed and hopefully catch that lung doctor I keep missing all week long!!!
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