Oh yea I am offically not under the vascular surgons care anymore!! My wound is to the point it no longer needs a doctors supervision. The visiting nurse will visit once more next week and that will be done also!! :) I am happy about this.
Surgeon said he has a lady who had almost the exact same thing happen to her a few days after me and she isnt doing well at all. Hes had to operate on her 2 more times fixing abcesses and such. so I am tickled mine healed so well so fast!
Its amazing how much some things have changed over the years, I can remember as a kid on halloween, kids were everywhere trick or treating, and people with portch lights off were rare. Now its the exact oposite. I think we saw 20 kids totall. Most had haphazard makeup over everyday clothes. My daughter stayed home!! Shes 16 and didn't even go trick or treating with us. I wasted like 20$ on makeup for her to zombfie herself and she stayed home!!
Its bad enough they started trick or treat at 5 pm and that 98% Of the buisnesses churches etc had their stuff earlier in the week despite the fact halloween was on a friday night. And trick or treat was over at 8pm. =/ we have gotten so paranoid with our kids halloween is becoming dull and boring. Unless you can afford to haunted house hop the week before hand. BUt only getting 1 day off work a week that isnt possible. Nor can many people afford it right now.
Good thing is gas was 2.15 a gallon today.
Has anyone noticed the disturbing trend of so called ghost shows on tv anymore?? I am watching the travel channel and sci fi and the ghost hunting shows have gotten so pathetic. The cameras are always on the so called "ghost hunters" Not on the surrounding areas. And everytime they hear a noise, bang etc they jump and scream and run like sissys. Which i think is why people watch the show anyhow. Not to see if they really do catch anything. I had a ghost push a piano into me years ago trying to pin me to the wall I would love to see a so called *ghost hunter* get that!! That would actually be a worthwhile scream and wet your pants moment!! Ghost hunters seems to be the only one who has even tried to retain a credible shred of actual seeking of the truth. At least.
I also want to apoligize to those who do read this. I know I havent posted alot recently. The whole upcomming election really hasd me in a snit. I HATE POLITICS, And having them shoved in my face now 75% of the day has put me into conversation shutdown. Each night asw we get into bed marv hitting me with the latest bullshit in politics of the day and I honestly could care less. I mean yea I would love to do whats best for my country but I am a firm believer of NOONE RUNNING is a good choice. I haven't seen anything yet to convince me either party can do a good job and I really hate to "Vote for who does the least ammount of damage" Thats bullshit. We the people of the united states of america need to do something to majorly restructure our political system. But the bitter pill to swallow is it isnt likely to happen, at least not in my lifetime I doubt.
Because I can't see major change happening without another civil war.
I never professed to know squat about politics. And I will be glad when its over. And 3 years from now everyone will be bitching about how
I also havent been hanging around LBT much either. Sorry to everyon there. I Just have no reason to be there. I havent gotten a band. At this point I doubt I am going to get lucky enough to get it. Besides I am considering the sleeve moreso anyhow now. But its still gonna depend on my doctors. MY cardi should pass me now for it. I gotta make an appointment with my PCP for many reasons, my insurance has refused to refill my strips for my blood monitor and refused my insulin!!!
I am off 5 blood pressure meds and now only on the 2 types of insulin and NOW they decide to give me fits about the cost of my meds. When they have gone down like 1000$ per month! I don't quite understand it.
Guess we will have to see what happens.
Been playing fallout 3. Wish my computer would stop crashing. Getting annoying.
Well my feet hurt my back hurts and I think its time for bed.
Yea the nurse packed up the infernal wound vac today!! Its going back to the company.
My wound has gone in 1 months time from 10 centimeters long and 2 inches deep to 6 centimeters long and not even deep enough to put a q-tip in.
So now just daily bandage changes is all I need. A wet to dry is what they call it.
And now instead of comming out every day the nurse will check on me again thursday and 1-2 times a week till the doctor signs off on me. which should be on the 28th. I had to change my appointment from the 21st to the 28th due to gas $$. Friday is payday so.
I don't go back to my cardio till Nov 17th, So I need to get into my family doc before that and see if he will consider surgery for me to lose weight or if I will have to bypass him. I hope I don't have to. But will if needed. I am disturbed that my insurance has refused to pay for alot of recent happenings, like the would vac they said try conventional wound treatments first. If they woulda done that I would still have a gaping wound on my side. So I am glad they didn't.
But I feel for the VAC company who probably isn't gonna be payed. And people wonder why its getting harder and harder to find docs who take medicare/medicaid..
Things have been pretty quiet other then my healing. Boring honestly. But boring is good. Well I take that back last week Jay got in trouble in school again. He slamed a book into another kids face. I really don't know how much longer this can go on before they take him and put him somplace for violent kids. I don't think he realizes how serious this is. Cause he seems to be going off on other kids for NO reasons!! I fully expect to hear from the juvinal(sp?) probation department again soon if he can't stop this. Guess we will have to wait and see.
I'm feeling good enough about the wound thing that I think I'm gonna test the *As tollerated* Physical activity thing tonight which should ease dear Marv a bit. Poor guy has been so patient with me. *Wink* Have to see how that goes. lol
So last week, monday evening to be exact. I start having chest pains. First time since the heart cath too. I take a nitro like I was told to. When I nneeded to take the third I am supposed to call 911, so I called Marv to take me to the ER.. Ugh! After 3 hours of them feeding me blood thinners and nitro through 2 IV"s. one in each arm they ship me off to the heart institute in Indy. OMG Talk about the worst hospital stay EVER!!!
They might get good reviews for being the best as handling heart problems. But they sure sucked on daily treatment of patients.
First the guy who accepted me on the floor when I arrived and entered me into the computer messed up my diabetes meds, totally skipping my fast acting insulin and entering in my long term insulin in at 20 instead of 80. They set me up in bed and then left the room. Much to my dismay I was hooked to a ton of monitors, blood pressure cuff left on and set for every 15 min, 2 IV's and they didn't even make sure the call button was in reach. And they closed my door totally.
So I waited for a hour + at like 1 hour 20 min I carefully got up to get the call button. And the same male nurse came in and yelled at me, for about 15 minutes he keept going on and on. I told him NOONE left me the button, he said then you should yelled. Fat lotta good that would do with the door closed!! He had me in tears.
I was there for 2 days, enzymes came back normal so it wasn't my heart. They did ultrasounds and CT Scan looking for blood clots and found no reason for the chest pain, so they sent me home. But man. I was admitted at 12 midnight, so I ended up 22 hours wi thout food cause kitchen closes at midnight and the nurses have NO Access to anykind of snacks etc. Then I think out of the 5 meals I did get only 1 was correct. all the rest were missing things I had ordered.
It took 6-8 hours for them to do up my discharge papers once the doc ordered it.
I went 5 hours the day I went home, thirsty, repeadedly asking nurses to bring me more ice water, none ever did.
Well enough of ranting about the hospital. Yesterday the nurse put back on the wound vac. After a week of wet to dry bandages I think its trying to get infected. Was starting to have greenish dischage on the bandages when changing them. But nurse said not to worry there was no odor and no fever so put the wound vac on and hopefully friday it can come off for good. Have to see. There is NO dischage at all in the canister.
Ugh Got up yesterday to a wet hallway in front of the kitchen which is right where the furnace/hot water heater is in the hallway. Maintence showed up but weren't able to fix it. So there suposed to come back this morning.
And our lovely apartment manager has decided that we have to pay for the cleaning up of the flooding of the apartment last month. Because suposedly we turned off the fans before the carpet was dry. So the Carpet cleaning guy says. I know hes full of shit cause the carpets dryed out spectaculary well and didn't even have any discoloration at all from being wet in the first place and this was without shampooing them at all. I walk around in socks ALL the time so I know when the floor is wet and when its not. But we are being stuck with a 900$ Bill for this.. Talk about bullshit.
Time to get on the move and get the HUD paperwork turned in. Maybe if we are lucky we can have a house by xmas. That would be nice.
Well its 15 after 8 and maintence isnt here yet so time to call them.
OK I dunno if I can make it till monday. It was the nurse on friday that just don't seem to do up my wound well. And I hurt. Even taking 2 pain pills at a time it hurts. Took a full shower today instead of the daily sink bath. Which made me feel better to a point. But does nothing for the pain.
Woke up this morning in pain cause the pills are only good for 6 hours and I had slept almost 12. Well was more to that. that just happend to wake me. One of my daughters friends was over and she doesn't seem to have the concept of keeping the noise down. I like her and all she seems to be the most responsible and level headed of my daughters friends. But shes loud.
I grouched at her a bit for it but I was honestly suprised I slept that much to start. But when you doing 3-4 hour snatches of sleep durring the week. The body catches up when it can. But I dont know if I will be able to sleep tonight. And heaven knows if I can manage the pain till mondays dressing change. I am so tempted to pull the whole mess off and do a dry dressing to give my skin a break.
Marv and the nurses say the wound itself is closing already and looks good. But the skin around it looks like hell. They are using skin prep on the skin which is suposed to be putting a layer between me and the adhesive but I'm tempted to test the skin prep someplace else and see if it might be making it worse or not. I think I will do that before bed. Try some on my inner arm or something and see if it breaks out overnight.
Well our recent addiction is Spore. It's an ok game. Marv and my son seem to really like it a bit more then me. I tend to get bored with it as soon as my races hit space which is when the game gets WAY more complex.
Heres my latest Critter. It's an omnivore and is in creature stage. So it will evolve allot more by the time the race hits space.
But the guys like playing it. I need to seriously find me something besides the Sims2 to play anymore. The message boards I frequent don't eat up enough of my day anymore. They all seem to have gotten majorly slow. Or at least I am getting bored with the topics. lol
