Memnison Journal

We spent all of Saturday being very quiet around the house; everyone was very very tired from the bustle of the holidays, and Susan’s knee was swollen and painful. (She’s been fighting off this arthritis stuff a lot, and things like walking a lot or shoveling snow have just been killing her.)
 
So we declared the [...]

Went out and got prescription reading glasses today; my prescription is +1.75, and they work very nicely.  Worst part was slipping and falling HARD on the slick tile floor just inside the Vision Works store; as I’ve said before, with my cruddy balance, I learned long ago to fall down the best way I can [...]

*snifl* Went to bed around 8:45, and woke up at 10:30 when Susan came to bed - partly because I was stuffed up and couldn’t breathe well through the CPAP, and partly because of the fuss of Susan getting into place and the dog trying to get next to MOMMY for the night.  Looked around [...]

HBO production and presently running on that network.  My take on it is that it’s a once-funny;  I have a hard time watching gangster movies because I really don’t get off on people beating and killing each other, especially if the people involved doing the beating are serious scum.   This is SOPRANOS GO BAGHDAD; [...]

Susan made a trip to the ER today, and got nowhere - the problem is that the pain from her knee is just eating her up, and she’s pretty much flat on her back, and she needs some serious relief.  The ER sent her home with a cane and some pain pills.
Since I’m worthless at [...]

The pancreatitis has died down enough to bring Dot home from the vet’s office / animal hospital, and while she’s still shaky, she’s obviously a whole heck of a lot better.  And there’s a ferocious vet bill, over a grand, and I really DON’T want or need that with Christmas coming up.
Susan’s knee is better, [...]

Went to the doc for another visit re my foot; he says that it’s doing well.  Another three weeks, he’s guessing.  Agh!  That is right on top of Thanksgiving….
The roll-a-bout is doing well, but I have to watch my balance on it.  It’s also very clunky to get in and out of the bathroom.  Very [...]

Frustration rant inside.  You are warned.  No politics, some job, some computer, some medical.
Also, happy birthday to LJ:quietdarkness!

Thanks a lot to everyone for their well-wishes about the surgery.
The surgery itself went pretty well, so far as I can tell, but they had a horrible time getting an IV in; I get dehydrated easily, and they had a heck of a time trying to find a vein.  Multiple attempts, very painful, very rough.
Since [...]

About to go to bed - have to wake up and be at the hospital at 6 am for a 8 am surgery on my foot.  They say that the surgery will take around an hour and then I’ll spend an hour in recovery.  I expect to end up back home again noonish, rather groggy.  [...]

Been having a lot of difficulty with my injured foot over the last few days, and the podiatrist looked at it today and threw in the towel on the course of therapy I’ve been getting since February.  He said it’s opened up deeper, and he’s bascially decided to operate on the thing and fix it [...]

I’ve been somewhat out of it for the last few days with a bad boil on my head - more or less where the other one was earlier this year.  It broke over the weekend, which the other one never really did, and I went in to the doctor and got the thing looked at [...]

For the last several weeks, I’ve been undergoing a special treatment for my foot wound that had been seemingly working to heal the thing up; it’s been problematic for six months, and required two operations and a lot of IV and otherwise antibiotics.  But last week, my podiatrist said that he didn’t like what he [...]

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This morning, the pain’s a lot better.   The major problem now is that (a) it’s still bleeding, (b) I have to do some pretty elaborate stuff to ward off my nemesis, infection, and (c) I have to learn how to use sanitary napkin things on my underwear.   Oh, stop giggling, I know women use them [...]