Sheltering in Place

[Drunk Monk]

It’s just the coughing now. The other symptoms seem to have subsided but I get these brutal coughing fits - feels like I’m trying to bring something up and out of my left lung. It’s always my damn left side. Death will come at me from my left.

[Drunk Monk]

Woke up coughing. Not good.

753: Rest & work. Heal…

Everything feels unstable now. So many things to consider…

[Drunk Monk]

754: Light recovery Kung Fu, clean up, then make it for Chinatown for the CHSA opening. Probably won’t spend too long there. Gotta pace myself because I’m still getting over that cold.

[Drunk Monk]

755: Lam Sifu’s Ching Ming where I imagine I’ll see the cfs. Then home to work & laundry.

[Drunk Monk]

756: Find a place for my mom. Work. Laundry. Recover.

[Greg]

Recover. Work on my anger issues with my family. The Queen's family. Report coming.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

“Find a place for your mom”?

[Drunk Monk]

“Find a place for your mom”?

It's looking like she'll need to be housed in a long term care facility. It's highly unlikely she'll be able to live on her own anymore.

[Greg]

Yikes. That is too bad. Has your mother ventured an opinion how she feels about that?

[King Bob]

That's a hard one, at least it was for us. We got lucky that my mom briefly realized she needed to move and we got it done then.

We got some recommendations from "A Place for Mom." My mom got excellent care at Sunrise of Sunnyvale, but they don't have skilled nursing (most of the places we toured didn't). They did offer help with getting out of bed, dressing, bathing, going to the bathroom (and incontinence), meds, etc. but of course it's all extra $ and it only goes up.

Good luck when you tour facilities. It's depressing. And I recommend skipping the Memory Care area unless you want extra heartbreak.

[Drunk Monk]

Thanks for that. 

I worked for Laboratory Services for a bit - with LB no less (he helped get me that job). My job was to drive through Palo & Mtn View to pick up specimens from a few Doctors offices, but mostly facilities like these so I'm way too familiar with them. Of course, that was like 40 years ago but I can't imagine they've changed that much.

[Drunk Monk]

757: Work, visit mom.

[Drunk Monk]

758: same as yesterday plus touring a potential facility.

[Drunk Monk]

Make that two facility tours. 

Stacy just let me know she now has a cold. 

We have tix for the symphony on Saturday, and for Planet Drum/Bobby on Sunday. Dammit, dammit, dammit.

[Drunk Monk]

760: telemeeting triptych, book more facility tours, Kung Fu.