Another Bob Update

 

Bob after the transport company brought him home wearing his walking boot whichever he received July 28th. Transport used their wheelchair, and we beat the rental hospital bed by 3 hours, and transport placed him on the sofa, and he was happy to lay down and take an instant nap after 3 hours sitting on his bedsore wound. We used Medical Purpose transport to go to Coastal Orhto Pecano, for boot and they also brought us home. Worth every penny of the 80 dollars, it cost to transport a wheelchair, and come back for us. We will use them again on August 25th for XRAY of cracked ankle bone, and to hopefully remove that boot. It is hard to walk with and he can't because he has no strong leg.

After 4 days in hospital, and 3 weeks in Rehab Home, Bob came home at 10:30, August 5, which was 22nd day in the torture chamber of the Rehabilitation Home, and before that he was 4 days in hospital with broken ankle.

He is home and cannot walk even with a walker. He can sit up, swing feet to floor and do excercises with PT and OT. No Walking yet.

We have Home Health that comes, Wound nurse, for bed sores and his poor scalded bottom from being in the nightmare of the skilled nursing facility that caused the sore and left him each night for hours in urine and feces. 

We have a Nurse as needed or 3 times a week, for medical things, our  would nurse just left and this is Sunday. Impressive. She was shocked at the difference of the wound now and on the 5th when they took a photo of it. She said I am doing fantastic, I said its killing me, and she laughed and said, but look at the improvement. She said because it looked so bad, they sent me to check on it on Sunday. WOW

We will have a phlebotomist come and check his blood thinner levels every Tuesday, PT and OT therapist and 3 nurses... for as long as we need them. Yet they don't pay for the bed rental or the other devices, or transportation to doctor visits.

Bob's primary doctor, ONLY DOES VIDEO Calls with patinets who OWN iPhones and can do FaceTime. We do not, so either he doesn't go, or i cough up 80 dollars..

This is much like taking care of a baby, 24/7 He is bed bound here, and much better off than the treatment of leaving him in feces and urine and not answering the call button at night. He is no longer Ambulatory, and we are in the process of starting the infusions for CDIP infusions and they stopped while not in home.

this is our call button the first 2 nights, trust me I could hear him beat on the bottom of the pot.

and this is the Ingenious MS call button that works like a charm. I put the spoon in a tin that contained tea bags.

The sofa was moved to the window to leave room for the electric bed.

Wheelchair dining cart, easy to move. 

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above bed replaced the love seat below, which was Beaus Place to Sleep. They moved it in front of the window and put the chair that I watched out the window in the bedroom. Beau has not touched the loveseat since. I paid 50 dollars to get the furniture moved around the night before we came home. I called Bills Discount Furniture and asked if they had anyone that would come move the furniture, the delivery guy came after he got off work and moved it for 50 dollars.

Life goes on, the dog begs for food, the man eats off the bedside table also known as the people mover wheelchair. the mama works and works and cry's while she does it, but she gets it done.

Amazon loves me because I have spent hundreds of dollars turning the living room into a hospital room.

I even have an Adult Changing Table full of wipes and diapers and salves and lotions and sprays and waste basket to go in the potty that use to belong to my beloved, Jackie who dies on Valentines Day. Thank you, Richard, for donating it and its perfect.  

No idea at all when i will be back, except for updates of changes, for my records and for those of you who have been so kind to me while this tornado turns our world upside down.

love you all and miss you all.

Bob Date

 

You are blessed  by My being on The iPad, which is awkward for me to post on. I am sitting on the sofa outside of the rehab room while Bob is doing rehab with my feet up on the sofa 

The newest update. He has a boot instead of a cast and yesterday walked twice across the room 10 feet and back 12 feet and back on the boot and a shoe with the aid of a therapist a walker and belt that she hold held onto this morning, he could use the boot and his foot to move the chair which is part of the exercise. He had to get himself to the therapy room with no aid and he did. To report the fact that he is slowly getting better we have no idea when they will be able to go home. We both just want out of here.

We are all three ready to be in our home together. I and on the run from Dawn to dusk. Beau is now a base hugger to mama. For days that don’t allow me to go home every four hours for an hour. I have had a sitter that stayed with him. When I go home, he goes out and lays in the grass in the sun to warm up from hours in the AC. I hope one day to be back, but it won’t be anytime soon. I don’t think.

Bob Update

 

The look of pain on Bobs face is not from physical pain, but the fact he wants to be home. Yesterday he spent a total of 5 hours in the wheel chair, not all at one time.

He is in bed and just in last two days able to stay in chair. He is unable to walk, but physical therapy is teaching him to stand on one leg.

He can't come home until he is able to transfer himself from wheel chair to bed/bathroom. I am unable to take care of him as he is now.

Yesterday was day 11, and the swelling in the foot went down almost to normal. He will have x-ray of ankle next Thursday.

 I miss you all and am unable to do anything but care for Beau and Bob in two different places plus all the things that run a home must be done. I can't use laptop in his room because it upsets him, as it has since his memory problems the past year.

Will try to update at least once a day. I miss you all and thank you for your prayers and know that I am praying for those of you that have spouses with health issues. My praying is keeping me at peace for sleeping at night and I am getting the sleep I need

4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus..