08-28-2019, 12:46 PM
Here's a long overdue update, partially due to 'no news is good news' and partially my own denial. I should really be writing right now, finishing my cover story which was flowing up until yesterday when it fizzled out. So now I'm looking at my eternal nemesis, writer's block, and hoping to scale it by getting this out.
Today was another eval from the surgeon. It went okay, except a she now has a dequbitus ulcer and I must get her some mepilex (trans - she's got a bedsore and needs some otc cushy bandaids).
She's doing better, improving step by step. She's still in some pain, but it seems more like it's from arthritis complications. She's no longer in a brace, walking with her walker and free walking with help (gait belt & PT). We're slowly reducing her meds - her thinking is still addled partially due to age and partially due to being on opiods for like 8 months now. She's determined however and is cutting her own meds, sometimes in defiance of her prescription. We're down to one caretaker per day which is fantastic.
I'm still here for two nights mid-week, spending one day telecommuting and doing her errands - groceries, cleaning, house maintenance - it makes for a very busy day on top of my telecommute. I so miss telecommuting from the Cruz, writing in the local wifi cafe over cappuccinos & chai, avocado toast or lox bagels. Now it's from my mom's living room with her barking out random orders and listening to TV at max volume - news, Ellen, Murder She Wrote, true crime shows.
But she is improving. And we've hit a strange sort of rhythm with it all. At least for now.
Today was another eval from the surgeon. It went okay, except a she now has a dequbitus ulcer and I must get her some mepilex (trans - she's got a bedsore and needs some otc cushy bandaids).
She's doing better, improving step by step. She's still in some pain, but it seems more like it's from arthritis complications. She's no longer in a brace, walking with her walker and free walking with help (gait belt & PT). We're slowly reducing her meds - her thinking is still addled partially due to age and partially due to being on opiods for like 8 months now. She's determined however and is cutting her own meds, sometimes in defiance of her prescription. We're down to one caretaker per day which is fantastic.
I'm still here for two nights mid-week, spending one day telecommuting and doing her errands - groceries, cleaning, house maintenance - it makes for a very busy day on top of my telecommute. I so miss telecommuting from the Cruz, writing in the local wifi cafe over cappuccinos & chai, avocado toast or lox bagels. Now it's from my mom's living room with her barking out random orders and listening to TV at max volume - news, Ellen, Murder She Wrote, true crime shows.
But she is improving. And we've hit a strange sort of rhythm with it all. At least for now.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse