I've always been
interested are rather fascinated by the languages of specific
professions. Every occupation/profession has its own vocabulary,
symbols and abbreviations. Medicine in particular is an art
form/quasi- science is replete with such taxonomies and symbols. I
guess it's best to have such a structure to discuss people in their
anomalies, diseases and disabilities. It's quick to the point in many
cases allows the professional not to be emotionally connected to the
individual.
In the past 14 to 24
months I have degraded from a totally independent individual to one
that is classified as minimal assistance or min-assist. I've been
thinking a great deal about this label the last couple weeks. As you
know, I have worked very hard to get to this point of minimal
assistance needed to live independently i.e. in my home as opposed to
a long-term care facility of some sort. This was real work. I worked
out daily in the gym tried to build up muscle and figure out
approaches to do things like get in and out of bed by myself, get
dressed and undressed by myself in such. The only real problem armor
I did not measure up to the need was toileting and showering. These
two exercises require more muscle than I currently have – – I use
the word currently in the belief that I will increase muscle and
decrease weight which may allow me to get back some of this ability –
– but hope to regain. But even at that there are just some things
that I don't have the fine motor or even gross motor abilities to
perform. Like even if I were able to transfer from my chair to the
toilet, which I can, I cannot transfer back from the toilet to my
chair. That's part of the problem the main problem is that I've
become somewhat suppository dependent which means inserting something
up my anus every three days the poop. I just don't have the ability
to reach behind hold something between my thumb and forefinger and
squeeze to pull this off. Therefore I need an assistant of some sort
to do this process. Therefore, I don't have an assistant home have to
go outside to get that which is some form of home health. Currently,
I have contracted with home health program here in Murray for someone
to come in every three days to help me do bowel maintenance and a
quick shower hopefully. I hope I can bring this off within the 60
minutes that I will be charged for. The charge is 25 bucks an hour
and I really don't want to go beyond one hour.
My first home health
assistant should be here tonight around 7 o'clock. I don't know who
it is I have contracted every three days till the end of the month to
see how this works. Luckily, about half of that time my assistance
will be provided by Gail who has served me before. Gail is older,
somewhat frail but strong enough to do the job. I hve found her
dependable little spooky sometimes but she's always got the job done
as far as I'm concerned. I wish I could've gotten her for everyone
the needed times but that was not possible but I'm thankful to have
gotten what I got. I just hope this is going to work.
I hate paying
money for this assistance but looks like the best/only option when you're min-assist.
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