Monday, August 18, 2025

Life!

 I got my medical discharge today from the wound care Program- - I guess it's a program I don't really know except that I go to the doctor with a problem like skin breakdown and he then assigns me to phone management and all the sudden these folks start showing up and taking care of my wounds. It's quite a nice program at least I've been impressed with it. This medical discharge is kind of a formal ordeal. The supervisor of the program has to come out and look at the wound or the hopefully healed surface of the skin to where the wound used to be. the wound, takes images, compares these 1  to other images taken of the wound progress. This is kind of a significant operation and I'm fascinated to see it put in the place. There's also a discussion that goes on afterwards where the supervisor asks me all kinds of questions regarding my personal self-care and any other issues I might be having. I wish I could her check me out regular. She is totally thorough, totally business but I'm sure I would be in safe hands as far as wound care goes. She ended the session with a mini set of questions about how I was feeling, do I  get enough sleep, what kind of pain levels do I have just a bunch of questions and then she said I was basically cured- which I don't think so at all and a little weird. She also gave me suggestions as to putting this special goop on my butt as much as I could but should help keep my butt smooth and good to look at. I've got some stress about losing this kind of medical support but I guess if wounds come back I'll get another prescription from  my doc and get some more home health.


I pooped my bed last night. This is difficult to write about but not as difficult as it used to be. I was in bed I just gotten down thought I was passing gas but I was wrong. Luckily I had a bunch of bed pads next to my bed and so I kind of wrapped myself up in that as much as I could and then got through the night. I was really pleased with Melissa showed up early today and she went right to work. She's such a great Trooper. Nothing really seems to affect her. She had my bed stripped and severe areas of poop soak ready for the washing machine and got me squared away showered and dressed. I'm a little spooked still hopefully tonight will not be a problem. I had a significant amount and so a colon should be pretty empty for the time being. I'm banking on the idea that it was the amount of time between my last poop and last evening but just pretty significant from Friday morning to Monday morning is almost too long. I haven't had many problems the last couple years I don't know if I'm changing or something's happening different or as my home person says it just happens sometimes. I hope she's right I'm feeling a little spooky tonight so I'm going to wrap myself up with another bunch of pads and hope for the best. I'm thinking maybe some point down the line doing another poop during the week maybe Saturday night. I think each visit costs me about 20 bucks so this would be another 80 bucks through the month. I think I could do this at this point in time. I'm just thankful I've got everything pretty much under control right now- - I better keep my nose clean it …


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