Chapter 514 - Brief Notes
While she had her B12 injection a few weeks ago the clinic nurse queried whether she had had pneumonia injections. She has but I'm unable to remember when, imagining the booster had been given at our current surgery's clinic, yet there is no record of it. Years ago when we transferred from the previous to the current surgery I had asked several times for our records be transferred. I now doubt that ever happened. So I asked at the old surgery but without proof that I have Power of Attorney (I do, of course that is not the type of document I keep in my wallet) I was denied the records. So last Friday I returned with the person herself, presented all the plastic including photo ID and was given her immunisation list and a health summary sheet. Of course I forgot to ask for my own, idiot! By the way, her first pneumonia injection (I detest the slang word "shot" introduced from that idiot country where any idiot is permitted to use fire arms) was on 30/03/2005 and the follow-up in 20/07/2010, slightly further away than yesterday.
The area around her coccyx has been sore, somewhat alleviated by lowering the pressure in her wheel chair cushion. I made a doughnut from the thick foam found in a car swivel cushion (the type that don't work) about 100mm thick and she no longer complains about the matter.
On the morning of Thursday 28th as I went to set up her pump for the day she held the top of her head complaining of a severe headache. Her right arm was tingling and painful. She was able to raise both arms, touch her nose with index fingers, tongue out straight and smile in a parky sort of way. Irrespective of all that I pushed the emergency button, a pair of ambos were her in about 10 minutes, their checking and an ECG revealed nothing untoward, she opted to go to our GP rather than hospital. An hour later the GP found her BP OK.
An OT visited at long last to give me tips on using the sling lifter. The OT contradicted some minor points I read in the user pamphlet and on YouTube clips yet the operations went smoothly. A cautionary note about using the lifter at motels was to ensure that the skirt around a motel bed has sufficient clearance for the front legs of the lifter. A person with the OT showed me a video clip of the Sara Plus stand-lift from Arjo Huntleigh. Awfully expensive yet ideal for our progression towards absolute immobility. I have sent for a quote from a supplier in Hot Air City. I'm waiting for a response from a Hot Air City motel about bed clearances. I had been thinking of buying a case for the sling lifter (it folds to fit into the car) until I came across a small, low slung trolley at the local Reject shop, marked down from $35 to $30 and the to $15 at the check-out. With some "bungy" cables to hold the sling lifter in place, the trolley makes transportation much easier. The "bungy" cables were bought to provide resistance in leg exercises for her.
On getting up early on Friday morning I discovered she had disconnected the fitting from her pump which had pumped copious quantities of white fluid onto the sheet of her bed. Almost looked like "body fluids". It is possible to write much more about her condition but not without distress.
Just now at 0920 she called me, strong dyskinetic legs, pain in legs, I gave her two soluble Panadol and stopped the pump then she wished to lay down. Slider from wheel chair onto her bed and the pump was restarted, so it was off about 15 minutes. Now at 1000 she sleeps. So much for "brief notes".
The area around her coccyx has been sore, somewhat alleviated by lowering the pressure in her wheel chair cushion. I made a doughnut from the thick foam found in a car swivel cushion (the type that don't work) about 100mm thick and she no longer complains about the matter.
On the morning of Thursday 28th as I went to set up her pump for the day she held the top of her head complaining of a severe headache. Her right arm was tingling and painful. She was able to raise both arms, touch her nose with index fingers, tongue out straight and smile in a parky sort of way. Irrespective of all that I pushed the emergency button, a pair of ambos were her in about 10 minutes, their checking and an ECG revealed nothing untoward, she opted to go to our GP rather than hospital. An hour later the GP found her BP OK.
An OT visited at long last to give me tips on using the sling lifter. The OT contradicted some minor points I read in the user pamphlet and on YouTube clips yet the operations went smoothly. A cautionary note about using the lifter at motels was to ensure that the skirt around a motel bed has sufficient clearance for the front legs of the lifter. A person with the OT showed me a video clip of the Sara Plus stand-lift from Arjo Huntleigh. Awfully expensive yet ideal for our progression towards absolute immobility. I have sent for a quote from a supplier in Hot Air City. I'm waiting for a response from a Hot Air City motel about bed clearances. I had been thinking of buying a case for the sling lifter (it folds to fit into the car) until I came across a small, low slung trolley at the local Reject shop, marked down from $35 to $30 and the to $15 at the check-out. With some "bungy" cables to hold the sling lifter in place, the trolley makes transportation much easier. The "bungy" cables were bought to provide resistance in leg exercises for her.
On getting up early on Friday morning I discovered she had disconnected the fitting from her pump which had pumped copious quantities of white fluid onto the sheet of her bed. Almost looked like "body fluids". It is possible to write much more about her condition but not without distress.
Just now at 0920 she called me, strong dyskinetic legs, pain in legs, I gave her two soluble Panadol and stopped the pump then she wished to lay down. Slider from wheel chair onto her bed and the pump was restarted, so it was off about 15 minutes. Now at 1000 she sleeps. So much for "brief notes".
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