Electric funk

 I knew it was going to be a challenging day when I looked over at the clock when I first woke this morning and did not see the usual red illuminated number indicated to me what time it was. It took a minute before the severity of this information sunk in. Everything I do has to do with electricity and power it seems especially getting in and out of bed. I knew this day would happen at some point and surprised that hadn't until now. I kind of hoped that somehow the clock plug had come undone and that was the problem but then I tried the buttons on the bed control and nothing happened. The handheld device was dead as a stone nothing was happening to my bed there was no way I'd be able to lift myself from the mattress onto my chair. Fortunately, I still had my cell phone next to my bed- - as I always do and I immediately searched my contacts list for people who might be able to advise me on what's going on. It was almost 7:00 a.m. when I was able to contact upstairs Janet, who by the way I woke when I called her. I sold them actually call anybody anymore usually I text just seems less painful that way. Anyway, groggy as she was she was able to ascertain that she didn't have any power either. Long story short was that a major portion of Taylorsville was in some sort of power problem. I spent a good part of the morning in bed trying to call around to find out how bad the problem was and finally I found a website the power source or the power company indicating that they're expecting the power to come back on by 10:00 a.m.

There wasn't anything pressing I had to do this morning and I wasn't going to let this thing upset me so I just decided to lay back and try to pass the time as best that I could. I called to let my brother know that I'd gotten hold of the power company who said when the power came back on and for him not to worry. I called my wound care professional who is supposed to come by today to let her know I may have a problem but you can still dress my butt if I was laying down. In the back of my mind I had made up a scenario that I'd be able to escape this problem if I had to. I would get a hold of my caregiver Melissa and beg her to come over and use the hydraulic lift to lift me from my bed to the power chair and let me be on my way. Hopefully that didn't have to come about. Almost 10:00 a.m. the clock came back on and I set the lamp next to my bed to on so it would flash me the second to the power surge through and it did. I was okay. I made it through another personal crisis. Luckily I had water next to my bed and I woke up totally thirsty. I usually keep two bottles of water by my bed and only had one whole bottle and 1/4 of another. My goal is to keep two full bottles there at my bedside at all times.

Actually that was the worst of my day. All things went better from there although I really didn't do much of anything. The day could have been much worse