SHE'S HOME!
The medical bed arrived yesterday at 10:15 AM after I left the nursing facility and got it all set up. It's a single bed with a regular mattress and a gel mattress on top of it. The only thing that's not motorized is to raise the bed higher, it has an old fashioned crank on it.
After he left, I went straight to the renal center to wait for her to get off and be picked up by the ambulance crew to take her home. Come to find out that they forgot to hand over the meds that belonged to her. So I called them and they admitted they screwed up. I had those bags in my hands and they wouldn't let me take it, stating "What if there was an emergency??" so I am thinking, "What could happen in two hours before my wife finally leaves the facility?" Didn't make sense to me.
So they sent someone to hand deliver the meds later that evening.
When we got home, we had a party waiting for her. Big ol' sign that said, Welcome home!". I picked up a bucket of some of that new chicken from KFC (grilled chicken, much healthier in fact) along with the meal deal. We ate until we were about ready to explode!
Then she got to see her new medical bed, at first she was disappointed that it wasn't a twin bed. But I told her if it was a twin bed, how will she reach both rails to pull herself around if they were so far apart? She got my point. It's not easy to clean and change her with that bed being that small, but it works nonetheless.
Since we're working on getting her a lift that will help raise her from the bed to the chair, it'll take alot of muscles on my part and her efforts to get on the bed. Man, I was in sweat by the time I got all that done and she was out of breath. Poor baby.
She saw my roses I got for her. She sure smiled.
I showed what I got for her to help keep constant communication, the strobe lights. She really liked that idea. So I'm her nurse on call 24/7
Then this morning I made her first hot breakfast, something she hasn't had in a while because the food there gets cold by the time it reaches her lips. Then I did all the usual stuff, sugar check, meds, changed her over, etc.
Then I picked up that $50 gift card from the drug store, the supervisor of the drug store called me like 2 months ago wondering why her scripts hasn't been updated since last year and I told her why. Then she asked me if she had BP problems and I said she does. So that gift card went towards a free BP machine. Cool beans! This'll help alot to check her BP when she comes home from the renal center. Her BP can at times suddenly drop several hours after dialysis and if this also happens, cause her heart to start defibbing. So it's important to keep an eye on it.
Then a In-Home Visiting Nurse came by today to access her situation and said she will start Tuesday next week, 2 times a week. Tues and Thurs on her off days from Dialysis.
We're looking to another nursing care that can come in the mornings on M, W, F to help clean her up and get her ready for the renal center and prep her a snack sack for her to take with.
She just had her first Meals on Wheels today and it was pretty good. 2 meals for 6 bux. Not bad at all. I just have to worry on Sat and Sun for her meals since they don't deliver on those days. So I'll make up a shopping list for weekend meals. Breakfast isn't that hard to do and not that expensive.
Come to find out her old doctor dropped her because one, they're full enough of patients, two, she hasn't been in his office for a year even tho they know what's going on with her. So we got an appointment for next week Tues to see a new doctor. We'll need his help to get the scripts filled so we don't worry about running out.
We got more people coming, just don't have the list in front of me, but we got quite a while before the dust finally settles.
She's resting comfortably now and asleep.
Got more stuff to do today, so I gotta take off.
Post ya laters!
Yiz
