I have still got the
cough. However, I'm pleased to report that I feel that it getting
better. It seemed like I was awake all night long but I don't think
that I was since I have felt pretty good today. My radical cough has
radically subsided. So I think to survive. Kirk Douglas died today he was 103 and had a pretty decent insurance plan. The reason I bring
this up is that I'm kind of getting worried being by myself I've had
no problems transferred the past couple of months or years so I know
I can do that the transfer. Getting to bed is usually not a problem
that's all gravity. Make sure that I spin at the right time falling
out of my chair . Getting up is essentially the same procedure. I'm
fortunate enough to have a all electric bed which will rise quite a
bit above my chair. Then I just have to roll myself to the side of
the bed and then just slide myself into a chair. I have to be
careful providing remember to raise the foot box in the evening.
There been times when I made the transfer but my feet did not have
anything to hold themselves in the foot box. Usually, as soon as I
get off the bed the chair until my chair back almost to a horizontal
position allowing me to reposition my feet in the foot box and press
myself in the back of the chair.
I've been coughing so much
the past couple of days that I really begin to think I have weakened
myself to some degree. I lay and think about this during my when I
wake and cannot necessarily fall asleep. I worry that at some point
in time (really, it's only natural) I am not going to be able make
these transfers remember to be falling on the floor are wedging
myself between the chair of the bed. This is when I have to call the
fire department or my brother. This of course is that I have access
to a cell phone or tablet or something which will allow me to
communicate. I was feeling weak this morning but at lunch I had so
the roast beef that I made on my birthday and I think that really did
me a world good. So I think my main challenge is not to become so
histrionic that I shoot myself in the foot. I'm going to get better
and I'm going to get stronger going to be okay with a little help
from my friends. Then the question is how much help can friends
provide. Why we have a lady here is just a great person but she
speaks that point that she has to make the next step. Right now the
ladies of pretty much banded into a brigade which is keeping this
woman going. Transferring it out of bed, cleaning her up, bring her
meals etc. I wonder if I asked them if they would help me out just a
little. I'm not nearly as involved as this lady.
I think I first woke up
this morning 3 AM pretty much just laid there worried so I got up
about 6 a.m. I knew that my home health personwould be there by 6:45
AM. I should've just waited but I made the jump anyway and was pretty
much ready by the time that Annette showed up. I've taken it pretty
easy today as I plan to do tomorrow with more snow coming in. I don't
even think of going to coffee…
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