Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2020……
An off day
today. I walked and then fed Rylee, and then made Lydia and I some breakfast.
We have nothing on the radar today so I did some laundry and changed the
bedding. While we were folding clothes, we watched Survivor, which we taped
yesterday. Lydia has been doing ok. She has been given a series of exercises to
do and really seems to stick to them. They hopefully will make her stronger
but, right now, she is still not able to stand on her own. I help her to stand
up from the chairs and the bed and the toilet but once she gets weight under
her, she can get going with the walker. The therapy guy has told us he is going
to see if he can help get her a better walker. What she has now is really
sturdy but doesn’t have rollers like some other models do. She can use that one
once she gains more stability.
I was told
I forgot to take a picture of the flowers that Lou brought over, so here they
are. He said they come from friends who used to have a flower shop in town and
retired and just do a few from their home now. Anyway, they are really pretty!
I heated
us up some chicken pot pies for dinner and we settled in and watched tv until
bedtime.
Friday, Apr 3rd, 2020……
Today is another dialysis day. But before that, Lydia had another
therapy session. After Meghan got here and made friends with Rylee, I took off
to go back to Lois’s apartment to help pack the van they were driving back east.
Mary, her friend, has flown out and rented it and is here now. We got
everything loaded up and said our goodbyes. We wish Lois well as our friend now
will be living in Springfield MO. I stopped and got breakfast and when I got
home, Meghan was just leaving. After we
ate, I went in and I ordered the wheelchair ramp I had been looking at for the
front porch.
These are
11’ long and are sold in pairs. As I said, I will use these on the front porch
as I have a nice 21” rise from the steps and a good runoff space for the chair.
I can also use them for loading the tractor on my trailer when the need arises.
I am paying $199. for the pair, which, when added up, is not much more than the
lumber I would buy to build a ramp.
Later, sis
and I took Lydia to Albany to dialysis. When I went to pick her up, we passed
by two of our favorite food trucks - Stick a Pork in It and Chau’s – sitting in
their usual spots in the Rife’s furniture parking lot. I took Lydia home and
went back to Chau’s and got us a couple Yakisoba Noodle Stir Fry meals for
dinner. I had beef and Lydia had chicken. Yummy! I also had to stop by the lab in the Lebanon
hospital and pick up a container for a urine catch that the dialysis center has
ordered. Lydia had complained about pain when urinating. After collecting the
sample later, we are sure the cloudy urine will confirm she has another
uti.
Saturday, Apr 4th, 2020……
I walked and fed Rylee and then headed off to drop off the urine samples
we collected last night. It took ten minutes for me just to go through the
screening procedures at the hospital door just to get someone to come out to
get the bag I had. Wow! Now we will have
to wait until - 1) they run the lab tests and - 2) call the doctor on call
today in order to - 3) call in a prescription for pickup. Let’s see how long that takes on a Saturday…..
No word
yet. Lydia told me it usually takes three days for labs. I forgot. We will
probably not hear anything until Monday.
This
evening we got a call from Maryanne. She told me that Randy had a spill while
out mountain biking. They were in the foothills in Fullerton and they came back
in to Long Beach to go to Memorial Hospital. She said it was a nightmare just trying
to get him in. They do not allow drop-offs at the er so they had to park and he
had to walk in. They screened him and finally took him in. Maryanne wasn’t
allowed inside. He knew he broke his collarbone but also hit his head (which
broke his brand new helmet) and needed to be evaluated. After x-rays and being
seen by the doctors, they released him with some pain meds and a sling. Maryanne went back and picked him up and they
are back home now and called us to say he was ok. He is resting and relaxing
with their fur babies.
Maybe now they will just stay home like the rest of us!
Sunday, Apr 5th, 2020……
A nice day today. The rains have let up for a few days, but it is still
way too soggy to do anything. I did go out this afternoon to dig the holes for
the new posts I need to install in order to repair the blueberry cage. Easy
digging since the ground is still really wet! I hope to get those in the ground
tomorrow or the next day. I also want to mow again later in the week.
Lydia is
doing well. The uti isn’t bothering her too much, other than painful urination.
But she now has pain back in her right foot. There are two more nodules popping
up on her heel next to the one she got back in January. This is where the
cancer was first detected. I think that the last chemo has worn off and that
area is getting hit again. We have a virtual appointment with her oncologist
next week so we will be sure to let him know. I got some meat out to defrost and made steak
burritos for dinner and after we watched tv until bedtime.
This was taken earlier
this afternoon - Lydia, relaxing in her office and talking to Janie.
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