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Oct. 30th, 2022 08:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ravena_kadeThere isn't enough caffeine to keep me going.
Yesterday I got up and stripped Dad's bathroom. I asked my sister to do it a week ago. It took longer than I wanted because I could not get the streaks off the shower door. Its clean and bleached. I did that so I know what base I have to work with. I'll have to do all his cleaning now.
I also asked the cousin to help me drain the blow up spa. Dad usually does this. IF I did it wrong I would wreck the thing. She has one and pulls it down herself. Well help always has a price. For the next 2 hours it was lecture time about me taking trains...gggggrrrrr The trains are were no family bothers me. A quiet place in the middle of chaos. Not that it is as peaceful as larger rail trips...there are plenty of weirdos on the subway.
Took the train to see Dad. They were shuttling between stops and the stop they have you get off at is one were you to 4 different sets of stairs. It is not usually and issue, but I still cant get my foot into a tie shoe and the stairs just killed it....that and an older woman stepped on my foot as we crowded onto a bus.
Dad was still in ICU. He is bored. He has bed sores on his butt and is uncomfortable. He is only on 2 medications and they are pills. One is a Beta blocker that he will probably be on forever. There are no IV meds. That is good. I found out that he could have been moved from ICU on Thursday but there are no beds. Sigh. He wants out of ICU so he has a room with a bathroom...so he can get comfortable... umm..yeah... His pacemaker/defibrillator combo is scheduled to be put in tomorrow...unless there are any emergency cases that come in. Then its Tuesday. They toss him out the next day.
Him coming home will be easier, but I dont know what to do next. I guess I have to find him a cardiologist within days to see him in a week of coming home...then he is supposed to see his primary care...but the primary care doesn't have anything until January 13... It confuses me.
The TV is in. It is a behemoth. My sister and I lifted it onto the stand and it almost too much for us to deal with because of the size. It is pretty much the entire wall.
Today's 3 AM nagging thought was/is that I will have to give up that trip to the North Carolina outer banks beach house trip. I just cat leave him 3 weeks without a care person. His sister is not reliable any longer due to age. And my sister is going somewhere that time. Maybe I can find a travel buddy for a trip when my cousins are home.
Yesterday I got up and stripped Dad's bathroom. I asked my sister to do it a week ago. It took longer than I wanted because I could not get the streaks off the shower door. Its clean and bleached. I did that so I know what base I have to work with. I'll have to do all his cleaning now.
I also asked the cousin to help me drain the blow up spa. Dad usually does this. IF I did it wrong I would wreck the thing. She has one and pulls it down herself. Well help always has a price. For the next 2 hours it was lecture time about me taking trains...gggggrrrrr The trains are were no family bothers me. A quiet place in the middle of chaos. Not that it is as peaceful as larger rail trips...there are plenty of weirdos on the subway.
Took the train to see Dad. They were shuttling between stops and the stop they have you get off at is one were you to 4 different sets of stairs. It is not usually and issue, but I still cant get my foot into a tie shoe and the stairs just killed it....that and an older woman stepped on my foot as we crowded onto a bus.
Dad was still in ICU. He is bored. He has bed sores on his butt and is uncomfortable. He is only on 2 medications and they are pills. One is a Beta blocker that he will probably be on forever. There are no IV meds. That is good. I found out that he could have been moved from ICU on Thursday but there are no beds. Sigh. He wants out of ICU so he has a room with a bathroom...so he can get comfortable... umm..yeah... His pacemaker/defibrillator combo is scheduled to be put in tomorrow...unless there are any emergency cases that come in. Then its Tuesday. They toss him out the next day.
Him coming home will be easier, but I dont know what to do next. I guess I have to find him a cardiologist within days to see him in a week of coming home...then he is supposed to see his primary care...but the primary care doesn't have anything until January 13... It confuses me.
The TV is in. It is a behemoth. My sister and I lifted it onto the stand and it almost too much for us to deal with because of the size. It is pretty much the entire wall.
Today's 3 AM nagging thought was/is that I will have to give up that trip to the North Carolina outer banks beach house trip. I just cat leave him 3 weeks without a care person. His sister is not reliable any longer due to age. And my sister is going somewhere that time. Maybe I can find a travel buddy for a trip when my cousins are home.
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Date: 2022-10-30 11:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-31 07:26 am (UTC)We have that same problem about rooms being backed up like that. General Care patients having to stay in in the ICU setting because there are no beds available on the regular floors. Ugh.........
Hugs, Jon
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Date: 2022-10-31 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-10-31 02:01 pm (UTC)My current unit is more walls with windows to the hallways.