She's an Alert Lady.......
Well here I am, back online after a few boring days in the hospital. Had a surgery last Friday morning and spent the week going from intensive care, to upgraded care then down a floor to plain care then down to the "getting ready to go home" care. My daughter said the last floor looked like the geriatric ward. The food and beds definitely have not gotten any better since the last time I was there. You know I have been walking around feeling like I have a body of a 40 year old and the mind of a 20 year old, then I am shocked into reality by a nurse who told another nurse that I "am an ALERT lady who understands anything they say to me"...........an Alert lady, gads what an eye opener. (My son, who I do computer work for will be glad to hear that.) Guess I better check my birth certificate, find out my real age and realize that I retired some 6 years ago. I had a neat doctor who got into my belly and got rid of a lot of scar tissue from a previous operation and fixed a couple of hernias, one of which was crimping an intestine. Had been walking around like that for awhile, not knowing anything was wrong with me until it started sending cramps across my stomach. I had wondered why I gained so much weight in my middle all of a sudden. They did tell me I got well a lot faster than they thought I would. (It was because i had to get out of that hospital bed and back home in a hurry. I almost elevated myself into a sandwich a couple of times with the bed buttons.) My back hurt before I went in and certainly didn't get any better while there. As a result I am trying a pain medicine patch on my back if I can figure out the best place to put it. The first one they gave me was great and since I seem to be off by a few inches. From Friday till Saturday morning, my daughter let me stay there with a hair do that was a cross between a chicken look and a spike. Laying around is a horror to natural curly hair. Even trying to comb it made it look worse. Oh well maybe the other patients I passed in the hallway thought I was "non alert" and didn't realize what I looked like! Now if I can just get my strength back and my knees working I should be back to normal in a month or so. Keep checking in and find out just how well I am doing and if I am still alert!
posted by Ann at
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