Spending Time Journaling
Today with dialysis going well, I am being quiet and journaling a bit while I on the machine for under an hour. They got me on early today. Catheter is working well today. I enjoy writing in a diary on a regular basis again. When I was in the hospital and nursing homes last year twice, I could not write much. I was dealing with my medical needs the best I could emotionally because I was dealing with Covid the first time and a hematoma and blood infection, and potassium poisoning due to it being high in breakfast potatoes at the hospital. I was being dialyzed for twelve hours one evening while in my room. The dialysis nurse was in my room until 1 AM the following morning, and it was a surprise to me. I remember the machine coming in with the nurse and then he told me what was going on. I hope it does not happen again. That was scary with my blood infection, hematoma that Medicare was not going to be pay for because they did not believe I had one. That did not make me very happy, and JM wrote to them it was true and they made sure with a CT scan. I thought it, my right hip, was broken and was very painful to sit and stand. Also, my right brace became unwearable and Mercy Orthopedic said that I can not get another brace until October 2023. We ended up going a different route by seeing a CP specialist at UW-Hospital and Clinics in Middleton, Wisconsin beginning February 2023 in the sixth. Nice gal who knows her profession.I saw a specialist foe a brace fitting, but I have to wait right now. I regular brace will not do ori will have a problem with the ankle, and of course, I freaked out and got upset and scared. Since February 28, 2023, I have one treatment of Botox—four vials. I believe that it is the ankle. We will find out soon enough. My next appointment is March 20th with the CP specialist and the brace people on the same day. I am not looking forward to a long day, but it has to be done. I hope my insurances do not have a problem with that. With medicare and Medicaid, I am not sure. We will find out.
