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Update from.....Izzy
Izzy_*now*:
Well, Hell's Bells:
I just cannot win. I lost my balance (with paralysis) in that 1969 car crash and have had to be so careful on crutches, reaching, etc. all these years.
Age can take its toll on the bones, as you are aware, and Doctors are now comparing mine....nailing them together.....like nailing a custard pie to the wall. (I rather thought after the 2009 accident and ramifications, that no hardware ought to have been installedd. I was using the term chalk then.
I have had quite some number of falls in 44½ years----- broken bone falls? maybe 4,5.
I never ought to have taken all those "successful" falls for granted, because.....and I think this is 2014 now, about Jan. 5.....am on a Rehab Hospital computer that reads Dec.11, 2013 having had the other end of my femur snap at above the knee, distal end, with the proximal end losing its head in 2009.
Anybody want that spare piece of custard that's floating around in there?
Karla is doing her duties, and I am sociallizing??? with old????? people of all kinds, as this fcility has three se3ctions, A, B (ooops used their dining room the first night, after 2 weeks in hospital) and RehaB.
I managed to find this site, but this portable, wireless, mouseless, is useless and Karla says my own comp's mailbox is not working????????
My brother tracked her down at her yoga work, and she ain't squealing like a rat, details are for me to report......leaving it up to me.......in more detail when I finally get home.....have to adjust knee hinge from 30 degrees (almost straight-legged) to 90 degrees (actual sitting position.)
I think I quoted this once before, "They shoot horses, don't they?"
You wouldn't really want to know, right now anyway, what this staff is like.
I have transferred to and from commode alone and I think they are mad, to and from bed, and I think they are mad. Food is terrible and I might be on the verge of insanity. Time will tell.
If I can get on Facebook, I might get somewhere, but in essence, might just prefer to eat and read.
I enjoy my computer, not this P.O.S.
Love
from "the custard pie, with pieces of chalk" lady
Izzy
Hopalong:
Oh, Izz.
SHIT!
(apologies for the improper language)
I am so very sorry you're in rehab and subject to "staff" and more hurt....but...
I
hope
it
works
SO resourceful of you to find a computer and check in here...know we are thinking of you.
If anyone can bounce back, even when made of chalk/sponge/coral reef...it would be you.
But...I repeat...[aforementioned rudeness].
Sympathy, support, calm, endurance...
and love to you,
Hops
Twoapenny:
Iz I hope this gets sorted out for you soon, what a rotten start to the year. Any indication of when you'll be going home or is it too early to say?
lighter:
Izz:
I'm so sorry to hear about the latest break.
What were you doing when it happened?
It pains me to think of our Izzy going half mad eating shite food, dealing with shite staff, using a shite computer while back in pain.
When are you getting out of that place?
((Izzy))
Liughter
Izzy_*now*:
Hops, twop and lighter, and all
This is the Horror Home for all elders.....I kid you not! Karla told me to "suck it up then I'll be home". That was disappointing, but she is looking after everything else. ....as my POA.
One comes in and is greeted with enthusiasm and kindness only to note that it is the beginning of the "turning of the tides" when the patients become the helpless victims.
---(rang my bell) Nurse enters, "Oh it's you, well I haven't the time. I thought it was her (points to roommate), pivots and walks out.
...asked for Ex-lax (instead of 'laxative'....I wasn't advocating Exlax).....had to get Dr.'s permission then provide my own.
---went for x-ray, yesterday at hospital, new orders from Ortho Dr., handed them in at desk upon return and his new instructions are not yet put into effect. Losing time on recovery if I stay the same....my knee brace (no more surgery in lower limbs.... too chalky, Jello-y, Custard pie-y,...must be extra careful of falls-----even though one fall did correct some previous pain.
---food in hospital was artificial--- awful, only ½ okay here, but is all shipped here in bulk prepared.....must check out Crisco's intent
---loud staff voices ALL the time, night and day
---moans, groans and pitiful "Help me"-s.
---no one on staff follows through, buck the system and wait 2 more days
... $31.90/day, $920+/mo., knee hinge $280.00 ("one size fits all" was fine tuned twice for me)
...Once I yelled, "
" They arrived in 19' 59".
---The recreation guy installed a mouse on this Dell machine, but still the table it's on is at nipple height. The pianos are all out of tune.
---I said I would do "xyz". Nursie said, "I am not doing "xyz". I said, "I said I would do "xyz": you need only bring me "abc"." She turned on her heel, waggled her hands up around her head and left.
---I am to ne Independent, but bedside table, over-bed table, commode and visitor chair are consistenly moved out of place and intertwined with their ability to parl the wheelchair in yet another locatio---------------take it away? I am stranded.
---well, I could make a book out of the last 4 weeks.
Anyway, when D. was an adolescent and had friends in).....)))))) If I were iin sofa chIR, WITH EITHER W'CHair or crutches on hand, AND ONE OF HER FRIENDS BEGAN TO PLAY WITH, AS IN REMOVE FROM MY REACH, SAID ITEM, d WOULD GO GET THE OTHER ONE AND TELL FRIENDS "nEVER TAKE mOM'S CHair without fitst bringing in her crutches, or vice versa. (oops Caps--not going back.)
Anyway, I ought to think of this as a sign to never even THINK of falling, with my eggshell bones. Remove word completely from my vocabulary.
But then Dr. Arrhole had reduced my Prednisone to 1 mg/dly---steady at 5mg/dly now.
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