Life Rolls on

Hey Y'all
I know it has been awhile since I posted. I have been gone long enough for the spammers to hit my archives. I apoligize and will correct that when I get time.

Dad was in the hospital for awhile because he could not even get out of his chair on his on. His congestive heart failure had him swollen up again. After he was released from the hospital he had to go into the nursing home for 20 days with physical therpy. He is planning on getting out on the 10th. The first few nights he was there he litterly lost his mind. I won't get into all the details but the doctor ajusted some of his medication and that seemed to take care of it. C came down and helped me take care of alot of stuff that needed doing.

I am at C's house right now. I am leaving in the morning to go to the V.A. for some of my own doctors appointments and then continue on to work afterwards. It sounds simple but its not. The V.A. is three hours from C's house and work is another three hours in another direction from the V.A. I will be very tired when I return home after work on friday.

I am at Cs house right now because I needed to get away. Dad is settled into the nursing home for now and is in their care. My aunt is doing my dads laundry so I know he will be O.K. Dad is very determined to get out of there though and when I get back I will have to work on that. The past few days C and I have been enjoying each others company. It has been really nice. We needed that. Just to spend time with each other without work or being busy or on some mission. We have been able to just drink in each others company. Sometimes ya just have to do that.

Well Y'all take care and I hope your lives are going well.
Cornbread

There's been alot hapening

Hey Y'all!!

There has been alot happening since I posted last. Dad is in the hospital and when he comes out he will require someone to sit with him 24/7. His options are going into a nursing home for 20 days, going into a nursing home permantly or having a sitter come to the house around the clock. We are finding out or at least trying to find out how much his insurance will pay, how much medicare will pay and how much he would have to pay. Dad is determined not to go into a nursing home even for 20 days which medicare would pay for. He want's to come home (understandably). We have figured out that a sitter at home will cost about 10 bucks per hour. thats 240 bucks a day, 7000 bucks a month. You do the math and you'll see that dad will probably be going broke quick if his insurance isn't good enough.

Dad has got to the point with his congestive heart falure and swelling that he can't get around very well anymore. He can't do simple everyday things. I am not available all the time to help neither is his girlfriend or the rest of our family. We help him as much as we can, but short of me quitting my job and staying home round the clock, we will have to have a sitter or nurse with him. Sometimes he falls and the last time he got stuck between the sink and the door in the bathroom. He can't even roll over anymore. His girlfriend happend to be here spending the night and was able to call my aunt and uncle to help her get him out of the bathroom. If she hadn't of been here dad would have layed on the bathroom floor all night until I got home at about 0230. He has got to where he can't walk very much. The day he went to the hospital he couldn't even get out of his lift chair. Dad is unable to get into the shower here at the house and has been having to take "ho" baths. Dad is proud and somewhat in denile about his health. He thinks that once he gets out of the hospital that everything will be fine, but his track record is proving him wrong. The doctors know it, we know it and dad is avoiding the truth in some ways.

I got back from the V.A. thursday and was told what I already know. "quit smoking and lose weight" I am now on insulin as well as my pills for my diabetes. I gave myself my first shot today. I gave it in my stomach and it was painless.

With all this going on with dad I don't know if I will get to go up to see C as planned for my days off. Next weekend she can't come down cause her daughter has some stuff going on. I don't know how long it will be till I get to see her and it's killing me. I guess I am a little spoiled and expect to see her every week or so or as much as possible. Just being around her makes my world a better place. Some people have drugs, I have C and I am hopelessly addicted.

Well Thats what is going on with me right now. I hope everyone who reads here is doing well!!!

God Bless,

Cornbread

Rough start of the new year-but it's all good

Hey Y'all!!

The last time I posted I was at C's house. A lot has happened since then. C has had some dificulty in her work situation. I am not shure how much she wants me to say so I will let her comment about it in the comments section if she wants to.

I have been sick since the early part of december that started out as a cold that has never left my chest. My legs have been swelling so last friday I made it to the urgent care at the V.A. hospital about two hours from where I live. The doctor said I have the congestive heart failure thing going on. I don't have it real bad like my dad. I just have a touch of it. It sounds scarry but it mostly means I am retaining alot of water and my normal circulation can't pump it out. I am on lasix and potasium. I worked this weekend against doctors orders cause I had to. I have bills piling up and I can't afford to miss work. No work = No pay. I have had a terrible cough for over a month now but friday when I was in they did a chest x-ray and it came back negative.

I was working sunday night and started feeling real bad and must have been running a tempreture cause one of the girls I work with felt my head and she said I was burrning up just sitting there. I had that dizzy achey feeling. I always call C while I am working and she was real worried about me. When I got home from work I called the V.A. and they said to come to urgent care as soon as possible. I laid down and got a few hours of sleep and drove up there. My blood sugar has been running abnormaly high and I still have this damed cough. They x-rayed my chest again but just like before, nothing. The doctor could hear whezing in my lungs and sent me in for a CT scan. He wanted to make shure I wa not forming blood clots in my lungs cause some of the stuff I was coughing up was a little red. They didn't find any blood clots but the CT scan showed my air passages were severly inflamed. My lmyph nodes around one of my lungs were really enlarged. He told me that was signs of some really wicked bronchitus or the possibility of the onset of pneumonia. He's got me started on antibiotics and two differnt inhalers. I of course being the wise guy I am,am still smoking as much as I can stand to. I know stupid, right?

Ya know I was thinking tonight, I have a whole lot of health issues. I now take over tweleve differn't pills a day for all kinds of stuff wrong with me. I could be bitter and think about these curses I have. But ya know in my heart of hearts I don't feel cursed. I am not bitter. I actually feel blessed cause of all the good things in life God has done for me. My family, My friends, My job. I have a girl in my life that loves me and that I can trust. I drive nice vehicles. I got clothes on my back, food in my belly and a place to lay my head. It hasn't always been that way. I have had rough times in life early on. I apreciate my life and where it has me right now, even if I am a little sick.

Thats what has been going on with me. Sorry I haven't posted in awhile. I am not going to lie, I just have not felt like it. I have been doing alot of sleeping in this computer chair. I don't know if it's because I have been sick or what, but every time I get the oportunity to update my blog I either fall asleep or just haven't felt motivated to do it.

Thank you windfall for asking about me!!

Y'all take care!

Cornbread