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Blog Thread 5: A New Beginning
hedgie:
Oh, c'mon, everybody knows that everything in the continental US that isn't the West Coast, or East Coast north of DC is flyover country.
</arrogantcalifornian>
Welu:
The only true Middle Of Nowhere:
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Welu on 12 Nov 2015, 09:19 ---The only true Middle Of Nowhere:
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Looks like my backyard! Only I have more gravemarkers for dead pets. :-D
OK, update. I go in tomorrow morning for an "assessment", which is basically a typing test and some basic math :roll:
The 6 week training starts Nov 30th. Basically, short of a major implosion, I have a job. I've given notice at the Beer Barn, and received the owner's blessings with a hug and a "your the best employee I've ever had". Keeping the online teaching, and probably the church job wit hreduced hours. Waiting until black Friday to give notice at Macy's (I'm already scheduled through then).
Parallel to this has beeen the following; Thursday night my daughter's feeding tube pulled out in her sleep. by the time she woke up Friday and noticed it, her stoma had closed. We went to the emergency room and they admitted her in the hope that the endoscopy suite would be used for an emergency, and they could slip her in.
It wasn't, and she waited until Monday morning.
Unfortunately, with the scar tissue, he couldn't put in the same type feeding tube, which was the only one on hand. So he used whatever they had handy, which was 20 gauge instead of 14, and goes into the wrong part of the digestive tract. For you medical types, she had a J tube (the Jejunum, the first compartment past the stomach) but they put in a gastric (stomach) tube. So she can't take any formula.
They want to correct it, but there's fluid building up around her kidneys, and they won't do anything until they know what's going on. Just in case, they've kept her NPO (no food or drink) so she can go straight into surgery. This means she's had no nutrition since Thursday, and is in constant, excruciating pain.
At least they're keeping her fairly well drugged up. And yes, that's the only good thing so far. Her mother's ready to strangle the next doctor who looks at her cockeyed with a "suggestion". There are only two people in that entire fucking hospital who know her history, and we've been having to ride rough-shod over the rest of them. It's been an exhausting week, with no end in sight yet.
Never a dull moment!
PS - for those of you not familiar with my daughter's issues, well - I was going to link to a summary I've written before, but I need to find it first... back in a minute.
Found it! https://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28618.msg1143700.html#msg1143700
There have been some changes - she's 22 now, and some of the problems with the last exacerbation I mentioned in that post actually resolved themselves - the drop foot and the little eating she was able to do came back. She lost several of her teeth, though, since she doesn't retain any calcium (parathyroid glands were damaged when the thyroid came out, they absorb calcium). She has really nice partial dentures, though...
:grin:
Is it cold in here?:
If I had an administrative password for the real world I'd fix it.
Remember the hug jar.
Carl-E:
She's finally out of the hospital, as of yesterday, and I passed the assessment (which was actually a call center sim) with flying colors. I am now one piss-test away from employment. My mother's delighted.
Oh, and we got a letter from her insurer (the state medicaid supplier) saying that since she was just there for "observation" after the surgery, they won't cover it. I guess all the complications, specialist's orders and pain management don't count...
My wife's reaction was, "Oh, hell no!". She'll be on the phone Monday. They have no idea who they just tried messing with! :laugh:
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