Aug 21 Bob Update Plus BeauSpeak

 Hi, this morning Mama and I saw this on our walk around the neighborhood. Mama said, Beau lets tell everyone only The Good Stuff Today...  Since this is My Day to Speak, 

Yes, Mama moved my sofa and I refused to get on it for 10 days, and suddenly I decided its the same sofa, the view is of my Daddy in his hospital bed, so why not

Oops! mama forgot daddy, or maybe he prefers not to be seen at this time. Later in the post we can use this photo to tell another good thing. (new sheets in mamas favorite colors, new  pads for floor and bed, new urinal, the one that came home leaked)

I am sitting with a drool rag on the floor and the good news is

Daddy now eats breakfast and lunch at the kitchen table, sitting in his Daddy Mover Chair. Its called that because he can only stand and turn to sit from bed to chair and Mama Moves Him where se wants him. Or where he wants to be. but not outside.

Mama through this in just because she picked up the ipad 2 days ago for the first time in three weeks and played with me on the sofa

Next good thing is, Daddy got a hair cut at the Horror House Rehab Home, and they cut off ALL HIS CURLS. Mama and Daddy were furious, but this is about good stuff and this photo shows the short hair grew this much longer in 10 days. woo hoo

Mama took the photo to show daddy the back of his head.

The last good thing to share, but certainly the best!!

Daddy has a niece and a nephew and his wife, in Pennsylvania. 

They sent a HUGE Gift Card through Amazon Email and Mama has been ordering Supplies to help with daddy and his hospital bed that is IN MY living space. several bloggers added to it.

so far our front porch has received

a cushion for the Daddy's mover chair to make his bottom feel better

Diapers and wipes and lotions and ointments and creams and wipes for the potty chair and bags for the potty chair and Mama is thankful a patient in the rehab home told her about the bags for potties.

We got a wheel chair ramp from Amazon, and a really soft topper for his bed to make his bones feel better, I like my bones how they are. Ha ha, Woof Woof

Mama is thankful for gifts and cards and emails and so much love from all of you.

She is thankful for the PT that told her about Wise Men's Balm, Frankincense n Myrrh and bought 2 more jars of it. I have a lot of fun trying to guess what mama is dragging in from the porch.

We are all thankful Dan and Michelle are coming Saturday to complete the

Long List called Dan's To Do List and Mama may have added a Michele to do on that list.

I am most thankful for my new bamboo bowl stand and shiny new bowls,  I have had to eat MY food out of Big Boys' Bowls for all the five years I have been here. Mama says bamboo is easily wiped clean unlike the 7 year old plastic one and it now resides in the trash. 

Mama is thankful Daddy put it together this morning while his breakfast grew cold on the table..

Mama closes with Diaper Duty (he he he) is expensive and she doesn't even get paid.

😁😁😁

Mama says all of this is certainly enough to be thankful for and we can join all the kitties at Brian's Home for

Brian's Thankful Thursday! 

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.