Update on my mom here. to put it mildly her right side is broken. She's busted her femur in three places and her shoulder in three or four. She's going to need two surgeries it sounds like because the doctor, whom we love to death, doesn't want to do it all in one. With her situation she's likely to have issues with bleeding and her heart and that's something the doctor is fully aware of. She won't be able to do much for six months at least and that means she and my dad, and possibly me as well, will miss my niece's graduation in Boston this year.
I don't know when I'm going to be able to go back north now as well because we don't know when she'll get the go ahead to go home. She won't be able to drive home that's for sure and I don't know about a plane home for her either. She can't use her right side for weeks as far as we know and I don't know about therapy right now. I don't think she'll be coming home to this house because my dad and I can't do it and we can't ask anyone in my family to come down here and play nursemaid like last year with the hip. I'll be on when I can be on during the day but aside from that my year just got screwed up majorly because my parents need me badly. We'll see how it goes and take this day to day.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 9:48 am
Chibi Halo
Oh my... I hope everything goes well with your mom, Cheebs. And I understand that you'll be here when you can. No worries there.
Oh my... I hope everything goes well with your mom, Cheebs. And I understand that you'll be here when you can. No worries there.
You should know me by now. Even when she has her hips done I still made time for this place. It helps keep me together in times like this because I can get it all out when she says "don't tell the others yet they have enough going on." That's why last night's burp in the system right as I got home was a huge downer for me.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 11:55 am
Chibi Halo
MasturChef
Chibi Halo
Oh my... I hope everything goes well with your mom, Cheebs. And I understand that you'll be here when you can. No worries there.
You should know me by now. Even when she has her hips done I still made time for this place. It helps keep me together in times like this because I can get it all out when she says "don't tell the others yet they have enough going on." That's why last night's burp in the system right as I got home was a huge downer for me.
Yes, of course. Just as you know we're here if you need us. Now that the chaotic holidays are over I'll be more active.
Oh my... I hope everything goes well with your mom, Cheebs. And I understand that you'll be here when you can. No worries there.
You should know me by now. Even when she has her hips done I still made time for this place. It helps keep me together in times like this because I can get it all out when she says "don't tell the others yet they have enough going on." That's why last night's burp in the system right as I got home was a huge downer for me.
Yes, of course. Just as you know we're here if you need us. Now that the chaotic holidays are over I'll be more active.
That"s definitely good to know. And I appreciate just you guys being around to chat with. Oh, and in completely unrelated stuff, because you know me, Screen Junkies News has two good pieces on YouTube about The Last Jedi. One examine who the last Jedi could be and the other is two guys debating whether or not the title of the movie is exciting or not. One guy takes up the green saber of "Heck yeah this a good title for Episode VIII" while the other takes up the red saber of "It doesn't do much for the franchise the more I have time to really think about it". It's a good debate.
Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 10:27 pm
Since we're on an irl update roll here...
I've had extra work hours added to my schedule (not by my own choosing) permanently (we'll see how long that lasts). So my already limited time for anything outside of work and the daily necessities of life has been chopped down yet again. Unlike the temporary time cut of the holidays, this looks to be a regular thing (and I hesitate to even use the term regular since things change on a whim in that place). So, I don't hold out any hope for holiday event participation anymore, let alone guild events. I'll just see what comes and consider myself lucky if I have a few random spare minutes for more than avi building and dropping a random bit of whiny bs in my chat thread. Towns meets are (and have been) out of the question since I took the job. I suppose I should be grateful for the extra hours because it'll make for a better paycheck, but still. This is not the kind of job where you work your obligatory 8 hours and then go home promptly on the hour so you can have a life. No. You spend extra hours after your scheduled work hours just on paperwork, and you don't get paid for those extra hours of your own time you have take up.
They can't operate on my mom today after all. Something went wonky in the Preop part of the process and she had a bad reaction to the anesthesia they gave her and right now it looks like it might have mimicked a stroke with the symptoms she had been presenting. So they're going to wait for her to recover from that medication and then take her in for some CTA scans to better determine if it was a bad reaction to the type of medicine they gave her or if she actually did have a small stroke. So far her initial CTs are negative, which I a good sign but we'll see where things go from here. The hospital sshe's in is very proactive about strokes and takes anything that might appear to be one very seriously. If her ortho doesn't feel right operating when she's presenting these symptoms then they're doing the right course of treatment. So now she has a neurosurgeon looking out for her over the weekend and he'll get her back on the liquid blood thinners as soon as they know what's going on to keep her from having another incident. Let's hope for the best.
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2017 8:50 pm
Chibi Halo
I'm glad they're being careful and not jumping to conclusions and just running pell-mell ahead with things. I know if it was me, I'd want to be sure other issues weren't going to hamper any surgery before they started. It's good that you've got your mom in a hospital that seems to care and won't dismiss any possible problem. It seems like so few hospitals are like that anymore. Anyhow, I wish you and your mom god speed and successful healing. And Happy Chinese New Year.
So yeah wouldn't you know it that dern A Fib shows up again and the cardiologist doesn't think today would be a good day to operate. She needs this operation but they can't do it with the A Fib showing up gain. My sister says my dad is frustrated as all get out about it, which is understandable but with the mood she's been in he really needs to calm his frustrations down so she doesn't get mad at people again. He really needs to care for himself better because he's not sleeping well or anything and while that's understandable as well it doesn't do my mom or him any good, especially when she goes through periods where the pain meds they're giving her are causing her to hallucinate and lose it for sure.
Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:32 pm
Well, it looks like Lanzer tried to tidy up the quote tree mess a bit for all forums. I like it with the differentiated quote color on the posts. I wonder what else will be updated and fixed? The image resize options is deff. helpful.
False alarm. They only removed it from the guilds.
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:46 pm
I know I haven't been very active in here or going into Towns much lately and for that I'm sorry. Here's an update on where things stand with my mom. She finally got out of the hospital on Monday (Feb 6) and was transferred to a rehab facility. Here's the thing, she's scared as hell to do anything out of the bed. As you know her right side is broken badly. But to add insult to injury her left side is weak as hell. She has issues with a very shaky hand and that makes eating very hard. The PT staff at the rehab facility isn't what she needs in terms of size and strength to get her to a point where she can feel confident enough to do what she needs to do quicker. She gets scared trying to stand on her good side because her balance is crap right now but she needs to try and do these things or else she'll never get better.
Right now it's looking like she won't get out of the Rehab facility until her brace comes off. She really needs to try and learn how to get out of bed so she can actually do simple things like pee without a bedpan. It's going to be a long uphill battle right now and her emotional state is going to be what drives her. Once she can get past that fear she has then things will get easier for her from there. We'll see next week how she's healing physically when she goes back to the surgeon for her first followup. The incision is doing okay but we'll see how the shoulder and leg are healing.
I will never understand a friend of mine. It seems with every mood swing, major avatar change, and bad period on Gaia she has she pulls me off her friends list and then puts me back on there. I'm starting to wonder how many other people she does this to.
In other news I ended up in fourth place in yesterday's OC voting on the Runway. Stupid time you entered rules done did me in. And Ailsa's tanking gloriously in Wedding Bells again.
