June 29
June 29th, 2006
Helloooooooo! So it’s Thursday. My roommate is going home today, but they are keeping her bed reserved for 48 hours in case she needs to come back. So, you know what that means, I HAVE A PRIVATE ROOM FOR TWO DAYS!! Yeehaw!
Yesterday i went for more X-rays and was told all looks good. The Doc said “come back and see me in 4 weeks”. I gasped. I want an extra special miracle speedy recovery for my wrist so i can go home. He said “you’re going to be in that cast for 4 more weeks!” I explained my situation and how I really want the okay to use my arm more and get home. He said if I put weight on it, the bones will shift, i will need surgery, and will be here longer, so just BE PATIENT. I did manage to talk him down from 4 weeks to 3 weeks to finally 2 weeks for my next X-rays though! So we’ll see.
When I got back here, I asked about getting day passes for the weekend or something, as long as people are there to assist me, can I go home for a few hours to work and visit my kitties?? So, yes, I will be going home Saturday afternoon and then again on Monday with my parents. I called a couple clients and made arrangements for them to gather up work for me and bring it by. Now the test will be… will I actually work, or just cuddle and play with my kitties??
Yesterday Michelle came up for awhile and brought me some bottled water. That is easier to keep drinking from than the little plastic cups they give you here. We visited for awhile and she met Blanche too. Hooting owl lady was quiet that afternoon, so she missed out on that.
Dorothy came by to visit her mom before she gets discharged today. Dorothy likes to make comments about their home life to make sure I hear it all. She said “I won’t see much of you mom, after you get home”. And Sophia said “oh, i know dear, it’s hard for you”. Dorothy - “it’s not hard for me mom. Your boyfriend is a DICK and treats me like shit and I don’t need that. What is his problem with me, anyway?” and then they banter back and forth and every time Dorothy makes a point about the awfulness of Sophia and her boyfriend she glances my way to make sure I heard and am listening. You know what I mean? They both want to keep in touch with me because they like me so much, but I don’t want to be in the middle of their problems. I don’t need the stress of other people’s problems sucking me dry. Been there, done that, way too many times!
After Dorothy left I received a text message from Jason. I have no $$ left on my phone so I couldn’t text him back, so i went out to call him. While i was calling him, he was calling me via the front desk, so i got his voice mail and he left a message for me here saying it’s “her most favourite person in the world”. lol The Unit Clerk made me guess who it was. (Didn’t take me long!) Eventually we connected and talked for awhile. They’re going off on tour for awhile now, but should be visiting me when they get back… I sure hope so.
So far today I’ve had breakfast with Blanche; Rose has been replaced at our table by a man named Clive, who has Parkinson’s Disease and scoliosis. VERY nice man, but so hunched over and barely speaks above a whisper so very difficult to understand. Then I did my morning wheelchair exercise class. The rest of the day, who knows?
I better go say goodbye to Sophia, she’s leaving in less than an hour!
Okay, I must have summer brain already, because I just last night figured out that the aliases you use are all from the Golden Girls! LOL.
So what’s on the menu tonight? You should post it in your entries each day and then when people see something they like, they will know that’s the day to visit.
Woot-party at Donna’s-bring the Chinese food and the loud music, Donna has a room allll to herself! heehee
So glad you get to have day pass to visit your kitties-they are SO lonely. TRUST ME, you will not want to work a second when you get back and see the little ones…the second I walk in the door or even when Russ is there, they just want to cuddle-especially Pita-she is a cuddle machine…so you can bet they will be ALLL over you when you go home!!
BTW-they absolutely LOVE the Whiskas catfood your mom got them…they eat the entire dish each day and I have to refill their dry food every day now..they never used to do that with the other medical food you had for them-so good choice on the Whiskas!!
I wanna be around when they have cabbage rolls-keep a list PLEASE PLEASE! I want some hospital food!!
Yeah, I started them out on that Whiskas and they loved it. Then the Vet talked me into a bag of their stuff (of course) but I did mix it with other stuff. Then I told my mom to go back to the Whiskas for Kittens, because when I saw that commercial with the man behaving like a kitten and hanging from the curtains and acting like my kitties, I laughed so hard I knew they deserved my money!