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Tied Down
Her folks came to Denver for vacation. Her mom does all the driving these days. Up from AZ where they retired.
If y'all recall, after my dad passed away in Feb, we made a trip down to AZ on the human speed tubing jet machine to see her folks. They're a lot older than my parents and his health has been poor for years. He's a diabetic and stubborn about taking care of himself, or just confused about how much work it really is.
Anyway, we got there the day he'd been taken to the ER and admitted after having an attack of inability to make much of a coherent sentence (not fun for a retired lawyer I assume), and not able to move himself. Blood sugar was high but not into the rediculous range and they found he had a blood infection of a nasty strain of strep, of all things. They looked at his heart valves and found nothing. Decided the infection was introduced through a diabetic wound on his foot, treated it and out after we had to come home.
Today, same thing. Incoherent. Couldn't work motor skills. Off to the hospital.
They're running a bejillion more tests and suspected a stroke today but nothing conclusive yet. MRI ordered at 12:45, wasn't taken to do it until 17:15. I hope that means they decided it wasn't stroke, because that's too damn long to wait for an MRI in that scenario.
Karen is at the hospital awaiting any news on prognosis. He was more lucid after the usual treatments and ticked off again that family was sitting in a hospital with him instead of "out doing something". Similar sentiments last time until the infection was under control. His tempermeht seemed "agitated" for a few days last time also.
It has been a really strange year. I won't even go into the personal work or other stuff that's been a crazier roller coaster ride than any amusement park could dream up.
Examples are job going nuts, but surprise job offers for Karen and other good things for me, and trying to sell the old house only to find the sewer line (and therefore the front yard) needs to be torn out and replaced. Thankfully the young couple still wants the house, and we're still under contract, and my realtor absolutely positively 100% kicks ass. He's been handling the entire process of finding reasonable contractors which is a Godsend for me. I always find the shady ones who rip people off and change company names like underwear.
So... I know others have bigger crosses to bear and it's all just life, but there's our news from our corner of the planet. Thanks for reading.
(If anyone thinks the aviation podcast is coming back anytime soon, it'll never happen with all this stuff going on. Sigh. I just pay the hosting bill and think... maybe... someday...)
If y'all recall, after my dad passed away in Feb, we made a trip down to AZ on the human speed tubing jet machine to see her folks. They're a lot older than my parents and his health has been poor for years. He's a diabetic and stubborn about taking care of himself, or just confused about how much work it really is.
Anyway, we got there the day he'd been taken to the ER and admitted after having an attack of inability to make much of a coherent sentence (not fun for a retired lawyer I assume), and not able to move himself. Blood sugar was high but not into the rediculous range and they found he had a blood infection of a nasty strain of strep, of all things. They looked at his heart valves and found nothing. Decided the infection was introduced through a diabetic wound on his foot, treated it and out after we had to come home.
Today, same thing. Incoherent. Couldn't work motor skills. Off to the hospital.
They're running a bejillion more tests and suspected a stroke today but nothing conclusive yet. MRI ordered at 12:45, wasn't taken to do it until 17:15. I hope that means they decided it wasn't stroke, because that's too damn long to wait for an MRI in that scenario.
Karen is at the hospital awaiting any news on prognosis. He was more lucid after the usual treatments and ticked off again that family was sitting in a hospital with him instead of "out doing something". Similar sentiments last time until the infection was under control. His tempermeht seemed "agitated" for a few days last time also.
It has been a really strange year. I won't even go into the personal work or other stuff that's been a crazier roller coaster ride than any amusement park could dream up.
Examples are job going nuts, but surprise job offers for Karen and other good things for me, and trying to sell the old house only to find the sewer line (and therefore the front yard) needs to be torn out and replaced. Thankfully the young couple still wants the house, and we're still under contract, and my realtor absolutely positively 100% kicks ass. He's been handling the entire process of finding reasonable contractors which is a Godsend for me. I always find the shady ones who rip people off and change company names like underwear.
So... I know others have bigger crosses to bear and it's all just life, but there's our news from our corner of the planet. Thanks for reading.
(If anyone thinks the aviation podcast is coming back anytime soon, it'll never happen with all this stuff going on. Sigh. I just pay the hosting bill and think... maybe... someday...)
