Long silence

 Sorry for the long silence. I haven’t had much to say beyond whether I had nausea or not each day. Today’s a good day so far no nausea we will PT up hoping I would tolerate it better and I did.

Blood sugars been pretty constant even though I’m having difficulty eating. I try to eat something each meal or stretch a meal into two meals but it’s a struggle.

Great to see Sheryl Barker today especially bearing gifts of watermelon and Diet Coke and grapes. I hate to say there’s a good thing there’s a hurricane for entertainment but it beats the daytime television. More soon I hope.

Mission Rehab initial thoughts

 Mission Rehab wins hands down on food s far. Seeing a calendar with two weeks of meals and being able to choose among options is great. It’s also good to not receive food that will be wasted. Today was cold cereal breakfast because they had almond milk(!), jambalaya for lunch, and pulled chicken BBQ for dinner  

The true test of any facility is how they handle issues. There’s always going to be issues but how do they respond. Five stars to Mission rehab on this. 

Both facilities have every other day shower assistance. 

The window faces brush instead of parking lot but we will see how the bird list goes. 

Staff at both places in nursing CNA housekeeping and PT are great!!! 

Arbor View to Mission Rehab

 Ok I’m at Mission Rehab now much closer to home.  Cost for room and board is half that of Arbor Ville. Of course I asked for A single room for the cost of half a double. And they bit which is fantastic. I’m hoping for better food which certainly was the case tonight I had a nice salad and some non-cream tomato soup and fresh fruit which wonderful mix of watermelon and melons and pineapple and stuff room is huge since it’s really half a double the TV has shrunk to maybe the size of a computer monitor and the number of channels is 10 or so.I don’t care I’m not here for the TV. I have to meet the rest of the staff tomorrow since they got me in here after seven tonight. I was supposed to come yesterday but that’s a whole other saga 

Saturday Sept 10

 So Monday is the last day covered by insurance. I made the decision to go to Mission nursing facility which is closer to home.  Of course my records were not passed over on Friday so now I have to deal with that on Monday

In the meanwhile let’s see, Dr. S has taken me off the tablets for insulin to see if that’s why I was getting nauseous at PT, taken me off and put me back on and taking me off a renVela (which I blame for nausea)  done an extra blood test for which I have a massive bruise thank you very much.   phlebotomist could get blood -  and found a UTI that only took a week after the urine test to get labs back.   

So back on antibiotics I go 

Arbor View Redux

 So let’s see. They’re kicking my ass and PT and OT. I do an hour and a half or more a day and sometimes get homework. Everything aches lol. The food is monotonous. I have actually been served the same exact meal two days in a row twice now. Once it was chicken salad and coleslaw and the other time it was tuna salad and coleslaw and believe me I’m just sick of it lol.  We are trying to get the swelling out of my right leg they did Venogram to be sure it wasn’t a blood clot and then now we’re wrapping it. Can’t use a diuretic with the kidneys.  

Up to ten species of window birds (naked eye without glasses).  

Windsor Arbor view

 It’s a lot harder to post to the blog on my phone then on the tablet and there’s no signal for the tablet.  Windsor Arbor View has been wonderful. came in Thursday night I had an evaluation for PT on Friday and have done PT yesterday and today (Monday and Tuesday).  Five species out the window so far and not including squirrel just birds. I’ll try to write more later

Adventures in healthcare 956

So today’s peer to peer meeting between my doctors and the insurance company evidently went well. I was approved for transfer to a skilled nursing facility. Yay!  

After initial serious problems with the food at the hospital which generally consisted of a slab of proteins that was stone cold, something that I would be suspicious about having dairy in it, and a frozen vegetable I went on a vegan diet at the recommendation of my kidney doctors. This has become a salad diet it seems lol. They bring so much food I get a huge salad with avocado and veggies I get a soupAnd a fruit cocktail. In theory I can get fresh fruit but that’s only happened once. Right now the food is generally excellent and of course being Edinburg there is pico de gallo and salsa Verde. yes the sores in my mouth Have healed

i usually take whatever soup they bring whether it’s meat or vegan And drink some broth and maybe some veg. Today’s soup was onion and cabbage. I so wanted to do a Dickensian request for more but i couldn’t finish the first helping.  

Transfer today or tomorrow.  Or whenever the paperwork is done.