I am trying to stay out of the hospital, but my smile for today is that I officially picked out my room at the assisted living facility. Not sure when I am moving though since it is a new facility and awaiting state approvals and licensing. I also get a private room and bath.
Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Thanks to Natalie the Explorer for hosting this prompt.
Grab yourself a beverage and pull up a chair. If we were having coffee I would tell you that I quit physical therapy on my foot although they have me down for physical therapy for the rest of my body.
I would tell you that I spend more time at the hospital than I do in my own apartment. In the last 4 weeks I spent 3 different times in the hospital for an average of 3-4 days each time. I have hardly touched my blog this last month and now it is time to prep for NANOWRIMO and I have no idea what I want to write although I am thinking about changing my genre to romance.
Still impatiently waiting for word from the assisted living facility. I am not the most patient person in the world for sure and my nerves are raw between waiting for an answer. It has been months now and still no word. I tried calling twice and it got me nowhere.
At least I have an aide who comes steadily even if it is way too early for me. She arrives at 7 AM and I am a night person.
Have a great week everyone.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Well my friends I was in the hospital again and this time was in stage 2 kidney failure. They were able to bring my kidneys back to almost normal, but if this keeps happening I will end up on dialysis. So……
The doctor’s request:
No Opioids (need them for pain, as I can barely walk now)
Restrict fluid intake to 50 oz no more or no less (this includes all liquid in my food, ice cream which is a liquid and you can probably take it from there, also includes ice cubes)
Low salt/sodium (wipes out a lot of food)
Low sugar/ (wipes out more foods)
Low fat (more food)
And has to be heart healthy (not even gonna say it)
This isn’t a choice. This is what I must do to prevent complete kidney shut down.
Dinner was 2 small oranges. I am about done with my liquid for the day and it is just 6 PM. I never drank much, but now that I can’t, I want it of course.
Obviously not much writing got done this month with 2 hospital stays.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “where.” Use it any way you’d like!
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Where am I going? This should be very simple as I am going to work and I go there 5 times a week, but for some odd reason (probably the fibromyalgia) I simply forget where and how to get there.
I went into the hospital on Wednesday morning because my feet and legs were swollen, My feet was the size of a baseball and no way I could put my shoes on, I called the dr who had been treating me all week. He said to go into the ER so in I went and I was kept 3 days while they tried to get rid of all that fluid. It sure held on to me. They were pumping me full of liquid lasix (water pill at home and IV at the hospital) and it wasn’t doing anything. My diet was controlled from practically no salt and only 12 ounces of fluid to drink or eat and if I ate it for example, soup, I couldn’t drink it. It finally went down and I came home and I have to be very careful with my salt/sodium intake which allows me practically nothing. He increased my fluid intake to no more than 50 ounces. Most of my normal foods have too much sodium. I think I might actually be below the daily amount, but that is the amount for a normal person without problems so wonder what my sodium level is. I don’t think he told me.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
I will post four or five different questions each week for you to answer. Additionally, I offer a ‘Gratitude’ Section for those who like a little affirmation with their questions! It’s optional to participate in that of course.
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Some questions might be recycled from time to time. Sorry if they come too close together! The number of interesting questions (to me) is finite. I try to mix them up judiciously but bungle that sometimes. Mea culpa!
QUESTIONS
Do you believe in soul-mates? (my definition of ‘soul mate’ is the IDEAL partner romantically). No can’t say that I do. Or at least I have not met him in my 65 years of life. Even my marriage was a disaster.
What are three scents you like? Cinnamon, lilac, and pumpkin pie spice
What are some things that you might be considered too old to do, but that you enjoy? Streaming live on YouTube. I enjoy it, but some people don’t like it considering the recent hate raids on Twitch.
What is one food you absolutely refuse to share? Seafood of any kind and ice cream. I know that is two, but no sharesies.
Tessa–
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses
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