Sunday 2/4/2018 EDLM Journal
I think I’m actually going to stop fighting staying in bed. It’s 7:34 a.m. & I’ve been woken up a ton all night! I have LOTS to get done today so I might as well get to it. I need to get groceries @ Wal-Mart so I try to get there & done before 10:00 otherwise I’m there with “thousands” of others. I also have to make a run to Meijer. More later on why I had such a long & interrupted night…
I’m waiting in the main lobby @ IU/BMH for my husband so we can see my Dad who is here due to heart failure. My step-mom wasn’t in the room when the Doctors were there so hard telling what they said. My Dad isn’t the best @ hearing and/or remembering what medical staff tell him. His legs & feet still look pretty swollen. He did remember them telling him he won’t be going home today. I hope they can get the fluid drained soon… My Dad is 82 & isn’t the most optimistic person which doesn’t help in getting better & following Dr orders. I get that sinking feeling when I see my step-mom is calling me. Is this “the” call? It’s so hard watching your parents declining & dying. I was by my mom’s side when she passed away in the hospital from congestive heart failure…one of, if not the most heart wrenching things I’ve ever experienced. I miss her every day. She’s been gone 4 years ago this last December. Time to change the subject.
So, my night was so disrupted because my husband was already snoring when I went to bed. He had to be at work by 5:00 am so he went to bed a little after 8:00. I didn’t want to disrupt his sleep by trying to make him move to stop snoring so I went down the hall to sleep in our spare room. The three pairs of eyes that “greeted” me weren’t so happy because their sleep was being disrupted. All 3 of our cats were sleeping together in a pile on the bed. Two of the three are no good for sleeping with their humans as they continually walk all over you or meow at you. I escorted those two out & shut the door & snuggled under the covers with the remaining cat who insists on getting under the covers with me. Several times through out the rest of the night one of the cats outside the bedroom was pulling & pushing on the door making it rattle (he puts his paw under the door, curls it & pulls at the door). Hopefully I will be able to sleep in my own bed tonight. My husband doesn’t have to work tomorrow so he’ll be nudged if he snores tonight. We’ll likely go to bed around the same time because we are going to a Super Bowl party with a bunch of people he works with. I took tomorrow off so I don’t have to get up early to go to work.
My oldest brother called and left me a message earlier in reply to the txt I sent him and our brother on the status of our Dad. Both my older brothers live in different States so I try to keep them informed on what is going on here. Trying to keep everyone in the loop can be a bit of a challenge sometimes when trying to maintain day-to-day operations on top of hospital visits.
As I said earlier, I had a bunch of things on my “to do” list today as I usually do on the weekend. My back has decided I’m probably not going to get to it all as I’ve been in a lot of pain today and I don’t want to push it too much. I am still recovering from a herniated disk and sciatic pain and was able to avoid surgery this time thanks to Dr. L and his marvelous steroid injections into my back. He has been a blessing to me on numerous occasions and I really like him, he really cares about his patients and has a wonderful bedside manner. It’s been a difficult lesson to learn (which is probably one reason why I’ve herniated disks on several occasions). It’s a rough lesson to back off when your spirit is willing but your body says, “I don’t think so”. Writing in this journal entry gives me an excuse to lie on the couch in the sunroom. Too bad there isn’t any sun or snow to watch, it’s just dreary yuck weather today. There was some snow earlier this morning that made the roads and parking lots a bit slick. I really don’t like the dreary days of January and February in Indiana. Once we get to March there is light at the end of the tunnel.
I had to put our poor puppy in her crate after she got done running around outside because she was all muddy & wet. I dried her off as best I could but she was still wet. I’ll let her back out after a while. She’s a little over 10 months old now and has gotten pretty big I bet she weighs close to 70 pounds now. She’s so tall she puts her head on the kitchen counters and if left unattended she could eat anything on a TV tray.
Had a call from my brother and we discussed how our dad is doing. We are both frustrated because a Cardiologist hasn’t even been in to assess him. There has to be a reason our dad has had significantly more fluid build up. We will stay in touch.
My husband got off work at 5:00, changes his clothes so we can go to the Super Bowl party. We pack up the crock-pot with the meatballs I put together and head out. There ends up being a large turn out, it’s a full family event. Everyone has brought a dish or something to eat. It’s so loud in the room you can’t hear the TV so all we can do is watch the game and commercials. I saw and voted on several of the commercials earlier in the day. Even though we can’t hear the TV, it’s a good get together and everyone is having a great time. It’s nice to be a part of a large “family”!
We leave after the game is over and make a detour through the McDonald’s drive through for double cheeseburgers and head home. We let the puppy out, devour the burgers and go to bed. The end to another Super Bowl day-glad the Eagles won!