Health updates
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fitzwMy father continues to improve. He had a good checkup today, and the ends of that suture that was worrying my mother were snipped (it's a dissolving suture). My parents got new chairs for the living room delivered yesterday; they had talked about an electric lift chair for my father, to help him stand up, but ended up deciding that one would be too big for the space. And, even though the new chair was higher and had better support than his old chair (similar make and model), the first thing he asked for was to have the boost pillows from the old chair put on the new one. Who am I to argue with him wanting to be able to get out of his chair unassisted?
My mother already tires easily, but even more so now with having to answer my father's calls for medications in the middle of the night (typically a sleep aid or another Benadryl). The incident with him falling has been tentatively blamed on the sleep aid that he was taking at the time, so she is monitoring his medications even more now than she was doing before. She has become confident enough of my father's ability to take care of himself that she has started going back to work once or twice a week (she works as an accountant for my brother R's excavation and building company).
My mother is quite happy to let me deal with changing his medical appliances (the details of which I will not go into here; unless you're in the medical profession, you really don't want to know). I'm happy that, so far, I've only had to do that at 0100 the one time. I did comment to the two of them that I had never really imagined the task as one of the life skills that I would need to learn.
Went to the doctor's today to have the site of the tick bite examined. It is infected, but doesn't have the characteristics of a Lyme disease infection, thank the PTB. I'm on the same antibiotics that he would have put me on for Lyme disease anyway, and I need to apply hot, moist compresses on the site when I can. The burn on my arm is also progressing nicely, and the blister no longer sticks out ¼ inch. I'm going to keep the gauze pad and wrapping on it to make sure that I don't break it, just the same.
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helwen seems to be the healthiest of all of us, and she has her own complaints. ;-)
Thanks again to all who have sent support notes.
My mother already tires easily, but even more so now with having to answer my father's calls for medications in the middle of the night (typically a sleep aid or another Benadryl). The incident with him falling has been tentatively blamed on the sleep aid that he was taking at the time, so she is monitoring his medications even more now than she was doing before. She has become confident enough of my father's ability to take care of himself that she has started going back to work once or twice a week (she works as an accountant for my brother R's excavation and building company).
My mother is quite happy to let me deal with changing his medical appliances (the details of which I will not go into here; unless you're in the medical profession, you really don't want to know). I'm happy that, so far, I've only had to do that at 0100 the one time. I did comment to the two of them that I had never really imagined the task as one of the life skills that I would need to learn.
Went to the doctor's today to have the site of the tick bite examined. It is infected, but doesn't have the characteristics of a Lyme disease infection, thank the PTB. I'm on the same antibiotics that he would have put me on for Lyme disease anyway, and I need to apply hot, moist compresses on the site when I can. The burn on my arm is also progressing nicely, and the blister no longer sticks out ¼ inch. I'm going to keep the gauze pad and wrapping on it to make sure that I don't break it, just the same.
helwen seems to be the healthiest of all of us, and she has her own complaints. ;-)Thanks again to all who have sent support notes.
