AND, THEY'RE OFF...

MARCH 21, WEDNESDAY, 2012

Well, ummmmmm, I had to pee. HEY IT WAS A LOOOOOOONG WAIT. I shuffled to the bathroom, with my Mother holding my arm. Then back to the gernie. To wait some more. I had to go, yes again. This time a young intern came in. [No, I don’t remember if was cute, sheeze.] He looked in the computer and saw that I was there about a week ago. He took some info., my vitals, you know the whole gamete. Gave me an IV. [I still had to go] He said it will be awhile before the doctor came in. [I thought he was the doctor]My Mother, told the intern I had to go. He said ‘wait, I’ll be right back’. Well, he came back, with a male urinal.

THE JOY RIDE

MARCH 19 & 20, MONDAY & TUESDAY, 2012

I was upstairs, on the bed getting ready, when the ambulance came on the front lawn. [how much can one get ready for an ambulance??] The EMT’s had to bring me down the stairs with a chair-stretcher. I must have felt really bad to have an ambulance called. [I was 40, 5’5”, 104lbs , being ill I was 90lbs.] WOW, the cancer kicked my …… tooshie. The chair-stretcher became a flat stretcher-COOL. [I was impressed] Into the ambulance and to the hospital I went. On the way there the EMT’s asked me many questions, of coarse. Also asked me if I wanted oxygen. I thought I was  breathing okay but I said “Sure“. [I didn’t know what was happening to me.] As soon as it was on and I began breathing oxygen, I didn’t like it. I pushed it off and said “No, I don’t like it and don’t need it“.
My Mom driving right behind, I don’t remember if my Dad was with her and met us later. [I would venture to say he met us later]. My Mother and I waited in the ER. It was the weekend, loooooong wait on a gernie, in a room.

1,2,3.....ON THREE

March 06-10, Tuesday-Saturday, 2012

Boy, did I look like a truck hit me. [NO LIE]

My sister came over and I looked HOT, well maybe that’s not the right word, hot with fever? [Yeah, better choice of words.] She was sweet and offered to at least to wash my hair. I asked how because I couldn’t stand or kneel. She calmly said I can put a chair in the tub. [My first shower chair]. Let me take a moment to describe the bathroom, a little.  The room itself was hmmmm 6 X 8, maybe. 1 window above the commode at opposite side of the doorway. When you walk in to the right is the sink and cabinet and medicine cabinet. To the left is a tub/shower enclosure. In between the two is tile. In the hallway is the closet. [And if you look……I feel like a tour guide] My sister helped me from the bed to the bathroom. Once we were in the bathroom, BAM-BOOM-BANG!!!! I fell. [ fall #3-you’re saying ‘wait, what happened to #2??] Yes, there was fall #2. I just don’t remember it, it involved the bathroom however.

I hit my head on the tub, on the way to the floor. I had to lean against the tub, sitting, for my sister to wash my hair. At least that part of me was clean. 3 falls in 1 day. The flu, even a really bad one, would not cause me to fall three times in one day.

I yelled down the stairs, to my mother, to call for the ambulance to take me back to the hospital, again….

DAYLIIGHT SAVNIGS, TIME CHANGE

Sorry to tell you this, but you're going to lose an hour of sleep on Sunday. On a bright note—well, exactly that: it'll be brighter for longer each evening.

Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 11 with clocks "springing forward" by one hour at 2 a.m. local time. So roll your clocks forward one hour before you hit the sack on Saturday.

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WALLS TUMBLING DOWN...

March 1, Thursday, 2012

I started putting my hands on walls to balance. Just to use the bath room. Early in the morning I’d call for my father’s help to the bathroom. He would stand in front of me, I would put my arms on his shoulders and hands clasped in front of him. And he’d bring me to the bathroom. My Mother was right behind to pull my pants and underwear down. Going back was the same in reverse.

One night I had…to go really really bad. I did not want to wake my parents. I thought I can do this myself.[little Miss independent] I scooted to the end of the bed, I wasn’t too far from the doorway, or hallway or the bathroom. I was standing, I had to make it to the doorway…just a few steps…MADE IT. My hands gripping the doorway, now to the hallway. I used my hands on the walls to balance, my Mother had this shelf thing in the corner [5 or 6 shelves] CRASH!!! It came tumbling down as well as me. [fall # 1]