cornerofmadness

Today it's a month exactly since my injury. I still have nightmares about it. In fact I have almost no dreams since the fall, just about the fall.

Everyone remembers me here. Oh goodie. The care is still mediocre. I want to wash up and brush my teeth and sort thru my bags to help settle in. I ask this at 1115 in the morning. Gives me a spit cup and my toothbrush and then says I'll be back after helping another patient. She comes back at quarter to 2 in the afternoon (with the spit cup on my tray all this time) with my late ass lunch.

they're doing my insulin wrong so my sugar is out of control (Will speak to the doc tomorrow) They didn't receive my GErD medication at all. I bitched. They got that ordered immediately good because heart burn is killing me.

I met with PT and have new strengthening exercises for my good leg. I need it because I nearly fell today stepping TWICE on the bad leg because the aide was across the room instead of helping me and I had been on the bedside commode so long my legs had gone numb. After that scare, I told them if I have to pee you STAY. This won't take more than 60 seconds all told. Don't leave me there for 15 minutes in pain.

My new goal personally is to get strong enough to hope to the actual toilet, even with help that's fine but I'm not sure it's high enough that I can stand.

PT put me in a chair today that worked out okay. I bitched loudly about the bed. I woke up at 5 AM in absolute agony from this bed. TOnight I'm asking for a muscle relaxer and a pain pill at bed time. I'm doing better with waiting between pain pills no matter if I want to or not since it took 2 hours to get one after I asked for it today. I don't want to bitch while I have to be here for a month but once I leave....

And we lost power last night. That was impressive, not. Turned out the construction going on required the power be turned off. Wish we would have had warning.

Again if you want to send a card let mw know I have an address now