OT, Hello
Hi to everybody--it's been such a long time since I"ve posted anything, that tonight I thought I would pop in and say "Hi". My life has been so crazy for the last year or so that I haven't had time or energy to do more than just the basics to keep thing half way running here. DH's Alzheimers/ Dementia is getting worse rapidly, although he still refuses to admit that anything is wrong. He had heart sugery about a year ago, had an aeortic valvue replaced, Then the week before Christmas, he burned his arm putting wood in the stove (WE THINK). He doesn't remember how it hapened, and the Drs and I am still not 100% sure.He woke up one morning and his fore arm was black,it looked like the spots elderly people get when they have to have IV injections and have bleeding under the skin. I ask him how he bruised his arm and he didn't know. Then the next morning it was blistered like a burn. I call our FP and had him see him, he gave him some ontiment and some antibotics, but the next morning his hand and arm was swelled. I call the dr back and he said take him to the ER;he might need intravenous antibotics. He was treated at our local hospital for a couple of days and then transfered to Charolotte so an infectious disease Dr could check it out. All we could ever figure out was he ahad burned it and it had gotten infected. Then while he was in the hospital I came down with a UTI and strep throat, and had to go to urgent care. After a couple of rounds of antibotics I still had the UTI. More antibotics and then I came down with broncitus; 2 more rounds of antibaotics and then I developed double pneumonia. I was in the hospital from Mon until Sat night and then had to stay with my son and DIL for a week before I was able to come home.. The Plumonary dr told me it would be 6 months before I really felt like my old self and I am beginning to believe him. I just stay so tired all the time. I have to make myself do everything by pure will power. I do look and read all the posts and enjoy what all of you are doing, and if I happen to go out and find something I still buy it in hopes that someday soon I will feel like decorating or tablescaping. Sat. I took DH for a ride and out to lunch; seems like that is the one thing that calms him when he is agitated (He lost his DL when he had to go through PT after his heart sugery because he could follow directions and was too impulsive). We stopped at a YS and just hit it at the right time. When I got out of the car the woman was getting tired and wanting to finish up, I think because she said you can have anything you want for 50 cents. I found a halloween witch like new in the box, (Porcelin and fabric--about2 ft tall) a easter wreath with white feathers, eggs, pink ribbons and spring flowers. still in the box, 2 boxes of lighted easter egg garland, a terriam dish, and I started looking through a green rubbermaid 18 gal. tub to see if there was anything I liked in it and she said if you want the whole tub, you can have tub and all for .50. I thought I couldn't buy the tub alone for that, so I grabbed it without looking anymore. It was filled with 2 long strands of the "new" cool lights. 3 strands of red tinsel garland, 4 snowflake placemats, 14 large glittered snowflakes, a "Jingle Bell" made of jingle bells(large), 13 large shatterprouf ornaments (aprox 8 Inches) and about 10 sets of the little sets of paper mache gift boxes tied together in sets of 2 or 3. Would you believe I spent a whole $3.oo. I was like a kid in a candy store going through that tub when I got home. That ought to do me for my YS fix for quite a while! We got a new GW in our town this past fall, and it is right next to Walmart where we have our perscriptions filled, so I do sneak in ther every chance I get and have found some neat things, just not had time or energy to post about them. I do so enjoy all the neat ideas you all come up with and don't ever think I have forgotten you all. Prayers for all the ones going through their own health struggles and losses. Hugs to ALL, Janet
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