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Update from.....Izzy
lighter:
I just wanted to make sure she's still on board, still dependable, and still helping you in the ways you need her to help.
I wasn't sure, but am glad you sound more like your old self, and things are getting back to normal.
Lighter
Izzy_*now*:
Oh what a freezing winter I escaped by being in hospital settings.
Karla accompanied me to hospital yesterday for a second x-ray, and I went barefoot, with a blankie around me. I knew she could ask the proper therapy questions of the Ortho surgeon, after my running the issues past her.
1.) The stockinet, which is on my leg ….to preserve the cleanliness of the padding, sponges and lamb’s wool… is now gone. It caused the brace to slip, even if I sneezed, let alone transferred. (Wound Care nurse's choice.)
2.) They hadn’t seen the x-ray as yet, for today’s visit, but Dr. said, yesterday, that I can start preparing to chuck the brace in the next 2 weeks. (Karla is away next week on training, so we‘ll start after she‘s back.)
With 1 & 2 I am less anxious about the leg movements etc., and after the transfer just now off the bed without the liner, I didn’t feel the brace slip. Each slip is minute, but if not adjusted, as was part of the neglect in hospital when I couldn’t, the wound at my ankle began. Now the bottom of the brace is above that wound at all times and will be better for me to maintain on my own.
BUT, I refuse to lose Wound Care, with the brace gone, so am keeping that to Karla and me for the time being. No advance proclamations!
I had a nurse and a ReHab today to prepare solutions for having only one person come (They had used Karla twice, as she was here both times for a one-nurse arrival, but that is not her job or responsibility, per se, and I told them that I paid Karla, but only a working rate, when she should be doing passive therapy at a therapy rate, so we were both losing, and Interior Health was gaining, by not having to send 2 nurses.... remember it was IH's responsibility that these wounds never occur!
Also I wrote to my doctor, and stated my symptoms, which chalked up to anxiety and/or diazepam withdrawal (had none of my meds all the 6 weeks in hospital/rehab). He RX’d diazepam for a month, and my anxiety level is down, as well as sleep problems etc. so that is another ‘fix-it’ ………………since I chalked it all up to all the hospital noises that were shooting me through the ceiling, and my having so little sleep.
Having to go back 45 years to the original crash, to set the stage for such chalky bones has become a regular with the new people I have here. Too bad it isn’t in their records, so it could be self-explanatory!
Oh Hum!
Xx
Iz
Hopalong:
oh, hum indeed ((((((((((((((((((((Izz))))))))))))))))))))))))
you awe me
LOTS of love to you...and comfort...
Hops
lighter:
Izz:
You're a trooper, I know that.
::sending you warm wishes of Spring around the corner:::
Thanks goodness they have your anti anxiety meds back on line.'
Lighter
Izzy_*now*:
Wow! 2½ months since I wrote.
There are 7 wounds on my left leg. I have been "horrified" with whatever in me horrifies me, but must always look for the best.
When the first Home Care nurse came, she opened the brace and dressings while Karla was here, who said "Oh F___!" and Cathie, the nurse said "This is disgraceful!"
I can now look at that leg, as it has taken me this long to be able to, and ....yes! Horrified. It will take about a year to be somewhere normal. Once a day with 2 nurses to attend, turned into 4 times in 6 weeks. I had no idea this was breaking down my skin---too much lamb's wool to be able to see.......
I was home before I knew the mess and it is finally cleaned up enough to see 6 sores around the top of my ankle (base of the brace moving up and down), and the knee the same from a strap that was too tight for compromised skin.
Nurses came here for a while and worked around the brace, then around no brace, as I accustomed myself to moving with support, then no support but my own and began going into the clinic.....yep about 1 year more. The whole negligence case has been reported to the higher up in this area!
I now have a power chair and haven't totalled it or killed anyone! (Today was my second trip with it, to the Clinic.) Will use it for going to lunch with Karla tomorrow. I plan on keeping both chairs in action, so my arms don't lose their strength.
This is the worst struggle, as I am older now, but am managing.
Love to all.
Tale Care.
Izzy
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