When they started him on the drip, they said that he wasn’t allowed to walk while on it. I had to wrestle with him yesterday evening because he was determined to get up and go to the bathroom. I had to explain that he was wrapped up in IV’s and they didn’t want him walking. When I got a nurse in there, she brought him a walker and made him stand up and use the bottle. LOL
He loves the hospital and the staff but he sure is stubborn.
I asked today if he was being good, and they said he was a real sweetheart, but he is still really unsteady on his feet even with the walker. They have been hinting that a walker (not a cane) might be a part of his future after this, especially if they keep him on the blood thinner.
Sorry, TC, that you and a few others here are going through such a hard time with medical problems of family and your own.
I know all about the problems caused by stubbornness and stupidity. Been dealing with that myself all day.
Aunt falls, again, last night. Again, she didn’t wear the shoes I got her and told her she had to wear when in this house full of wood floors. I can’t for the life of me understand barefoot culture. I’ve never been without a hard sole grippy slipper in a house since I was 8 and stepped on some idiot plastic pointy thing in my parent’s messy house.
She was trying to balance a too full thing of barbecue sauce on a paper plate instead of pouring a little onto the plate and putting the thing back in the fridge. The inevitable happened.
I have no patience for this kind of shit. It’s a good thing I never had kids. I would have been up on child abuse charges or sure. At least dealing with my father’s house gives me ample opportunity to take out my anger on all the overgrown stuff outside.
On the plus side, got a new teammate at work. She’s really neat. She gets me. She’s very eager to get out there and do things. I’m the only one training her. She’s assertive too. I may end up having to relinquish my title as “The Difficult One.” I’m not sure how I feel about that. I think I’m ready to be the Difficult One’s sidekick after all this time of having no sidekick of my own. It’s been exhausting.