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So I don't have much to write. I got a call from the insurance nurse, today, and she went over everything that happened re the hospital and etc with me. I don't know if I should have not spoken, or not said as much as I did - I do tend to be trusting, I guess. I'm not good at prevarication. Eor was concerned it was a scammer, at first. And it is! It's the insurance company - they're the biggest scammers ever. I kind of didn't trust her because she was so complimentary about how smart I was, what a go-getter, my sense of humor, and thanking me for being so nice. Yeah, pretty sure I am now fucked, thinking it over.
At any rate, I did straight up ask her, since she's a nurse, "Hey, I did bend over to snip a few weeds and my belly hurt around my bladder, after. Do you think that's a bad thing?"
She was like, "Didn't they tell you not to bend, twist or lift?"
I said, "Not that I recall. They told me not to lift, but I don't think they said anything about not bending or twisting."
She said maybe I should call my doctor or call the hospital, and I said I already have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow, and I figured I'd just watch to see I don't spike a fever, and she agreed that probably sounded okay. So... hopefully if the insurance company wants to give me a hard time they'll at least give me points for honesty? Nah, they don't do that.
I WAS specifically told, at the hospital, to keep moving, not sit still too much. I took this as permission to drive around and do light errands. (Whenever there's any lifting of anything I get someone else to do it.) So, things I did today include:
-Walked around the edge of our property. I did snip some things that were growing into the trail, but I did NOT pick them up.
-Went back to the hospital briefly to ask them to check their lost and found for my driving glasses. (What a rabbit warren that hospital is.)
-When they did not have them, went to my optometrist's office to pick out some frames for new driving glasses.
-Made an appointment with my optometrist for Wednesday to see if he can tweak my prescription a little and fix the blurryness in my right eye, or if I should go back to the opthamologist. (Two years ago the opthamologist assured me that I'm not going blind, but my eye was going through some natural changes - something was detaching in the back. I just wonder when it's going to settle down.)
-Delivered 3 heads of lettuce we grew in our garden to my work. Checked my mailbox there to see if anyone had volunteered to take Monday the 21st for me so I can hang with my brother while he's in Maine. Nobody had, but someone suggested another person I could ask, directly, and I posted on the board that I would also give $50 to anyone who takes it. Why not. Life is short.
-Picked up a few cardboard boxes at U-Haul so Eor can pack away dishes we're not using.
I also got a text from a co-worker (KT) which... well, I have to go back in time, now. Last Monday, as I was leaving for the hospital, he texted me to let me know that an ex-co-worker, Rick P., who retired about two years ago, recently died. Today he had found out the cause of death - pancreatitis. Apparently he got misdiagnosed at first, sent home with antibiotics, got worse, his wife took him back... and he died there. Quite possibly in the same ER I was in on Monday, though I'm not sure. And yeah, he did have other things going on - diabetes.
Did I mention that last Monday when I was going through my ordeal at the Urgent Care I asked if they could eliminate pancreatitis? And they said that the CAT scan they gave me did eliminate that.
I liked Rick, aka The Penguin. He was an odd guy. Super Christian, but also a feminist and a big Lord Of The Rings fan. We had lots of interesting conversations. The last time I saw him, not long after he retired, I recognized it was his car ahead of me and followed him when he pulled into a parking lot so I could give him a hug. I'm glad now that I did. I hope it wasn't too hard on him, that they'd given him good pain killers at least.
At any rate, I did straight up ask her, since she's a nurse, "Hey, I did bend over to snip a few weeds and my belly hurt around my bladder, after. Do you think that's a bad thing?"
She was like, "Didn't they tell you not to bend, twist or lift?"
I said, "Not that I recall. They told me not to lift, but I don't think they said anything about not bending or twisting."
She said maybe I should call my doctor or call the hospital, and I said I already have an appointment with my doctor tomorrow, and I figured I'd just watch to see I don't spike a fever, and she agreed that probably sounded okay. So... hopefully if the insurance company wants to give me a hard time they'll at least give me points for honesty? Nah, they don't do that.
I WAS specifically told, at the hospital, to keep moving, not sit still too much. I took this as permission to drive around and do light errands. (Whenever there's any lifting of anything I get someone else to do it.) So, things I did today include:
-Walked around the edge of our property. I did snip some things that were growing into the trail, but I did NOT pick them up.
-Went back to the hospital briefly to ask them to check their lost and found for my driving glasses. (What a rabbit warren that hospital is.)
-When they did not have them, went to my optometrist's office to pick out some frames for new driving glasses.
-Made an appointment with my optometrist for Wednesday to see if he can tweak my prescription a little and fix the blurryness in my right eye, or if I should go back to the opthamologist. (Two years ago the opthamologist assured me that I'm not going blind, but my eye was going through some natural changes - something was detaching in the back. I just wonder when it's going to settle down.)
-Delivered 3 heads of lettuce we grew in our garden to my work. Checked my mailbox there to see if anyone had volunteered to take Monday the 21st for me so I can hang with my brother while he's in Maine. Nobody had, but someone suggested another person I could ask, directly, and I posted on the board that I would also give $50 to anyone who takes it. Why not. Life is short.
-Picked up a few cardboard boxes at U-Haul so Eor can pack away dishes we're not using.
I also got a text from a co-worker (KT) which... well, I have to go back in time, now. Last Monday, as I was leaving for the hospital, he texted me to let me know that an ex-co-worker, Rick P., who retired about two years ago, recently died. Today he had found out the cause of death - pancreatitis. Apparently he got misdiagnosed at first, sent home with antibiotics, got worse, his wife took him back... and he died there. Quite possibly in the same ER I was in on Monday, though I'm not sure. And yeah, he did have other things going on - diabetes.
Did I mention that last Monday when I was going through my ordeal at the Urgent Care I asked if they could eliminate pancreatitis? And they said that the CAT scan they gave me did eliminate that.
I liked Rick, aka The Penguin. He was an odd guy. Super Christian, but also a feminist and a big Lord Of The Rings fan. We had lots of interesting conversations. The last time I saw him, not long after he retired, I recognized it was his car ahead of me and followed him when he pulled into a parking lot so I could give him a hug. I'm glad now that I did. I hope it wasn't too hard on him, that they'd given him good pain killers at least.
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perhaps it's because you can breath ...away from the roommate gas...
hope someone takes your shift so you can spend time with your brother....
which one??
LTA
hope things keep improving for you
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I'm blaming it on a crappy connection...
LTA
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Breathing is really nice, indeed!
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Yes, insurance carriers are EVIL. And your hospital sounds...less than competent, shall we say.