PAM'S PAIN PRECEPTS
1. Never touch my leg. It burns next to the eternal yule log.
I have been branded by the touch of others. But with permission all is well.
2. I feel stabbed in my leg, calf or foot. I walk slow because it seems like butcher knife follows me stabbing me in mý calf.
3. Wake me for pain pills or prepare for me to wail for for hours until the next dose.
4. Sometimes I just need to color all night. My symptoms hurt.
5.
So I want to make friends here again. I find people to play cards with to there are many personalities, many stages of dementia, mental illness. On the day a psychologist arrives, they wheel them in. I think to myself, this puts all ill folks together but a cna told me that different areas get the crazy ones because it would be too hard to care for 12 of them,so they spread it out. ok so that is why.
But I went out of my room, shared my coloring stuff, cards,chinese food.And these folks wer
I spent 5 days in hospital for cellulitis in my good left leg brought on by lymphedema and other swelling stuff. They do not have oxymorphone in hospital so I took oxycontin. It did not work as well plus they did not wake me up around the clock for my meds even though the doc told the nurses. I suffered. But I got treatment. Then released to thehome. Only to find they discontinued all meds after 3 day absence. So think this would be easy to get its all back again? They did not order my meds and
My son gets me cards regularly to share with another lady who plays solitaire 27/7. She is 93 And hard of hearing. No words needed. When we get together to play we go for 2 full hours until the next meal. She is a serious player. I get distracted chatting with others sometimes. And others come begging to be dealt in a hand of Rumy. That is what they play with her when I am not around....and I have not been in a while....And my son had my tote bag with cards for safe keeping the last couple of we
I get it done thank heavens. I pray all goes well with sedation and spinal. I trust. I trust it will go like before. I hope there is not some student there that freaks out when I yell stop. It just comes out....I yelled get this done and it seems it took that guy forever but he was told by doc to continue numerous times.
It is painful procedure. I take sedation in IV, they put airhose with tiny things in nostrils. All is well. I climb on table which is scary for me. I feel like I will fall
ok, so the pain hits at 5pm on time like a train. spasms too. so they give me the world's tiniest pill with the world's largest pill. That is my oxycodone paired with my glucophage. simply because it is before dinner and the nurse already must visit me twice in an hour. twice a day even because an hour after oxycode comes the oxymorphone. Can this be spaced out a bit. Well in between comes lyrica at 2 and 10pm. but the 10pm actually comes at 8 with my bedtime insulin because I am freakkin wirh
I am swelling so badly, my edema is not pitting but walking is painful,like on rocks on the bottom of my foot. I cried. I wear a circaid juxta support stocking thing,but it still swells. The cardiologist changed my diuretics from lasix to bumex and spironolactone. And so then she said nothing can help me because too much diuretics can hurt kidneys. Yes I elevate,but sometimes I sit with legs down because I get up and down. Then I lie down elevating, which puts my leg to sleep,foot tingling. Onl
I went to my cardiologist today because I called last week telling them since she cut my diuretic, I am swelling,so then when doc got message,she had her nurse tell me on Wed to get lab work Thurs and come to clinic on Friday at 8:40 for evaluation. So I luckily could have my blood drawn at the home, but unfortunately they never sent the results to the doctor so during the exam they did...
But the story starts with this:
BUT when I arrived to the office I was so tired and had le
I went to my cardiologist today because I called last week telling them since she cut my diuretic, I am swelling,so then when doc got message,she had her nurse tell me on Wed to get lab work Thurs and come to clinic on Friday at 8:40 for evaluation. So I luckily could have my blood drawn at the home, but unfortunately they never sent the results to the doctor so during the exam they did...
But the story starts with this:
BUT when I arrived to the office I was so tired and had le
Sometimes it is hard to accept compliments,but they feel good, but do you believe them or consider them deserved.
There is a nurse who always always admires my coloring. One time she asked if I colored people,so I put a lady with a peacock up on my wall.
So she looks at my books, tells me that choosing just the right colors is my passion. She says I am an artist.....always saying she is a fan, saying she boasts about me to her family.
she is my age, very nice med nurse who works ov
A couple was in snf here and the husband died. They both could not have found the parking lot between them, they were both in chairs,but he walked wandered. I saw her having melt downs,I even tried to help her do bingo once but as they said she did not stay to play. But she hung out in a chair with her pillow, which for sanitary reasons are not allowed in common areas. So one day I went to play bingo, and she had her head on bingo table with pillow. I sat next to my friend and asked if they wer
Well, I did it!!!
I got my new highlights...I am blondie!!!
I feel like myself. I feel pretty!
My hair has thinned so I wondered what this would end in...
But I am getting so many compliments.
I get short of breath, I walked too far outside on the way to luncheon at a coastal restaurant. I pigged out. So, I came back and slept through dinner. I took selfies by the coast to send friend who sent me money to get my new tank tops. I have a blue striped scarf t
I am ill.
recovering.
I will get the antibiotics tomorrow.
I saw my own doc at urgent care, I was not taken seriously by this home, not ill according to them....but news flash...my pain meds fight fever just like acetaminophen. And my sinuses are clogged, sometimes nose is clear
Hot cocoa,hot tea, apple juice. Hot helps, and sleep.
Will I feel good for memorial day? Please.
Today I went for a shoe fitting, and I needed the insole adjustments made too because they were not done properly. I walked in telling the guy that I felt like I walking on a pebble in my shoe but it was only the insert and maybe I was like the princess and the pea. So he took out in insole and he found a tiny thing in the seam. I said Seriously?? And he said well you called it! Oh we laughed, but then he took the insert back to make it thinner so my shoe will be more comfortable. I love m
Recently I had to speak up about how my diabetes is treated, I told the nurse I had dr. permission to administer my insulin and I knew how to take care of myself and then she said AND YET YOU ARE HERE IN A NURSING HOME....and I suggested since she is new does not know me can she go get the supervisor who could advise her, she insisted we do it her way which was with holding insulin and that was wrong. And in the end The next day, my endocrinologist called them with specific instuctions which I
I spotted an orange thing on a little bush out here in the secret garden that my room has a patio on. I thought oh wow, and asked the housekeeper to go out there and pick it for me, recalling how I would go fruit picking in the past. It was a tangerine. It was delicious, forbidden fruit..Small unusual amazing things happen to me once in a while.
I am so happy with new pretty shoes, athletic,supportive custom made orthotic,all paid for from diabetic medicare program
but I need to break them in,and my feet swell off and on
I wanted some pretty ones, I looked through catalogs, got what I liked, bought matching socks and tank tops
So I asked for help putting them on and the cna says why do you keep buying these shoes? ok,these were fitted,measured, but i swell, but i cannot wear slippers always
Today the activities director gave me a set from costco and she ordered 2 book from an author I adore. This is special since there are other pencils there to share. This is all mine. I feel grateful, happy, and loved. It is a miracle gift. I cannot wait for t*he books, especially since onc
e it was promised before, but budget excuse ruined it. Getting new pencils is a miracle to me, with a sharpener and canvas pouch.
Kindness rocks. I have to pay it forward too. I regift books I
So maybe I will or maybe I won't, but the flippin insurance world is deciding my medical treatment.
The denial letter said we were told you have tummy pain. Ok so after my eyes bugged out of my spinning head, I was laughing like a leprechaun with a new pot o gold. Guuuuuulllllllllllleeeee Sarge, but why caneyt aye ave a spinal stimulator for my tummy?
After a quick call, I had insurance insisting tummy was listed in the diagnosis, and then the girl answering the phones a
Dear Blog,
Yesterday was Ice cream social day, so they brought waffle cones and your choice of 3 kinds of ice cream. The rocky road order never came so we were short. I picked butter pecan and coffee. I was so appreciative because I was coming off a fast that ended at lunchtime when I got back from a stress test at the hospital.
And I wished outloud to the activity director who served the waffle cone that whipped topping would make it perfect. The director was inspired and said she wou
I took pictures,made albums, used cam corder for events, but I wonder what life would be like if I posted life to the public. And who watches strangers, or even friends when they record stuff. I watched a you tube with adorable kid. ok sweet fummy, but then there were other videos, going on for years, about the kid,the family, and suddenly half an hour later, I had watched,birth, vacations, and this child growing over the years,and I felt like it was some movie,and hey I cant wait for the next o
My dearest blogger,
I thank the stars that I may use words to reach out to others for support because otherwise I would be suffering in silence without the companionship of peers, brothers and sisters who have survived stroke, learned much,and can comfort me only by understanding. How blessed I am that someone out there cares enough to send a beacon out in the universe and then put a guide to read my innermost thoughts,my progress through my years of survival. And no matter what I write, ve
