I could use it.
So could my Dad. Again.
We hospitalized my Dad yesterday and it doesn't look good..
congestive heart failure, block main artery, pneumonia, pleuresy... Alzheimer's..
I spent the day there babysitting him so my Mom could go home and take a shower and get some sleep..
Mom and my wife are spending the night up there tonight, I have the day and evening shifts both again tomorrow..
That old man..
he's so weak and in so much pain he can't stand up on his own..
the pain and the meds are making him loopy..
he's on the verge of being combative..
Doctor told me a lot of chit I didn't know..
Mom put in a Do Not Resusciate order (thanks for letting me know, Mom)
the main artery on the back of his heart is normally about the diameter of your little finger.. Dad's is about the size of an ink tube in a pen..
they could do a heart catheter and try to baloon it open..
the contrast dye would probably shut down his kidneys and kill him..
they could open his chest and do a bypass..
the surgery would more than likely kill him...
heck, they can't even take off a spot of skin cancer on his arm; they're afraid the sedatives and anesthesia would react with his meds
and kill him..
all day long it was:
stand me up
sit me down in that chair
sit me in that other chair
I can't get comfortable
damm I have this pain in my side (yeah, you're being a pain in my *****, Dad)
get me back in the bed
let me sit up in bed
I gotta go pee (he has a catheter in)
I can't get comfortable
damm this hurts
I gotta put my feet down
I gotta pee
stand me up
sit me in that chair
I wanna lay in the bed
finally I had the nurse ask the Dr for pain and anti-anxiety meds..
turns out they had already been prescribed
I'm whipped.
I got up there at 9:00 this morning, sat with him until 4:30
went into work to relieve Fredd, who has a sick kid at home and a Mom flying in from out of state...
got home at 9:00pm
have to open the shop tomorrow..
Fredd's gonna let me have tomorrow afternoon and a couple days off..
I'm not sure I can make it that far..
So could my Dad. Again.
We hospitalized my Dad yesterday and it doesn't look good..
congestive heart failure, block main artery, pneumonia, pleuresy... Alzheimer's..
I spent the day there babysitting him so my Mom could go home and take a shower and get some sleep..
Mom and my wife are spending the night up there tonight, I have the day and evening shifts both again tomorrow..
That old man..
he's so weak and in so much pain he can't stand up on his own..
the pain and the meds are making him loopy..
he's on the verge of being combative..
Doctor told me a lot of chit I didn't know..
Mom put in a Do Not Resusciate order (thanks for letting me know, Mom)
the main artery on the back of his heart is normally about the diameter of your little finger.. Dad's is about the size of an ink tube in a pen..
they could do a heart catheter and try to baloon it open..
the contrast dye would probably shut down his kidneys and kill him..
they could open his chest and do a bypass..
the surgery would more than likely kill him...
heck, they can't even take off a spot of skin cancer on his arm; they're afraid the sedatives and anesthesia would react with his meds
and kill him..
all day long it was:
stand me up
sit me down in that chair
sit me in that other chair
I can't get comfortable
damm I have this pain in my side (yeah, you're being a pain in my *****, Dad)
get me back in the bed
let me sit up in bed
I gotta go pee (he has a catheter in)
I can't get comfortable
damm this hurts
I gotta put my feet down
I gotta pee
stand me up
sit me in that chair
I wanna lay in the bed
finally I had the nurse ask the Dr for pain and anti-anxiety meds..
turns out they had already been prescribed
I'm whipped.
I got up there at 9:00 this morning, sat with him until 4:30
went into work to relieve Fredd, who has a sick kid at home and a Mom flying in from out of state...
got home at 9:00pm
have to open the shop tomorrow..
Fredd's gonna let me have tomorrow afternoon and a couple days off..
I'm not sure I can make it that far..
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