My neighbor just stopped by here with Fall schedule for the junior college I'd been attending up to last March. There's my photo on the front page with a few other students, but I'm right in the middle, as if I'm lecturing them!
What's so ironic about this is that I was injured at the school last February while walking through the handicapped doors. An able bodied student was coming from the opposite way, and I politely told her she had to use the other doors. She kept coming at me, so I put my cane up to the side where the door had opened to create a barrier. She grabbed it, and spun me around into the bar separating the handicapped door from the others.
My shoulder and right hip were injured, and I went through 10 weeks of PT. I can't even attend school this semester because driving sets off the pain, as well as a lot of walking. Also, I'm still waiting for the school to reimburse me for all my co-pays I had to dish out. The woman I've been dealing with there isn't even returning my calls or emails!
Anyhow, what's so ironic is that this photo displays someone (ME) who is old, handicapped, and overweight. They make it look like it's a welcoming and safe atmosphere for someone like that! I sure as h*ll didn't feel safe there after that happened. Especially after we had a meeting with her dean, my boss in the work-study program, and the head of security. Her dean and security felt so sorry for her, and believed she was really remorseful because of her crying. I told them that I saw the disdain on her face as she did it, and felt she wasn't sorry for what she did - ONLY for getting caught.
The kicker was when the head of security said that maybe she felt threatened by my cane!
Now I'm their poster child!
Sorry for venting.
Cordelia,
You've given me the best laugh I've had in ages!!!
My husband put the photo on here, because I am still computer illiterate!
What I say is "What comes around goes around" This girl will get hers when she herself is in a position that you have been!
We just got back from the doc in the box, and Bill's got acute pneumonia. He started with a fever of 100.5 on Monday, and Thursday night it went up to 103.7. It's been escalating after each time the fever breaks, so finally he let me call the DR. Now I have the DR.'s permission to make sure he follows her orders!
He's not very good at that, and it's probably the only thing we ever argue about.
Jasmine, In regard to handicapped doors - I don't think they're totally off limits to others. When this incident occurred I had pressed the panel to open the door, cane in one hand, pulling bookbag in the other, and was about a third of the way through the entrance. That's when she decided to also use that door, and then pushed me around.
I guess I should've explained it more clearly before.
Jasmine, In regard to handicapped doors - I don't think they're totally off limits to others. When this incident occurred I had pressed the panel to open the door, cane in one hand, pulling bookbag in the other, and was about a third of the way through the entrance. That's when she decided to also use that door, and then pushed me around.
I guess I should've explained it more clearly before.
[/QUOTE] Gotcha.
My poor grandmother, God love her, would say people are so much nicer to her when she uses her walker instead of her cane!
I'm open for suggestions. Thanks. I phoned the DR's office this afternoon, as we were told to get him in for a follow-up on Saturday. They were telling me next Tuesday, so I had to again let them know what was going on. (Our PCP is on vacation for another 10 days.) I'd never heard that about a fever killing off offending pathogens, but it makes great sense!
The DR prescribed 600mg of ibuprofen, but we already had 400mg at home, so he's taking 2 at a time. Just heard from my physician friend, and he said that in cases of heart pts., as is Bill, that if we are able to get the fever down with the Nyquil that it's a good thing. We're going to keep trying that, and he said the leviquin should start kicking in 18-20 hours after the first dose. Oh, well. Wish us luck. Thanks again for your input.
Cordy, you beat me to it. I too was wondering if Bill's temp. had come down. I'm amazed the hospital dont have heart patients in when they've got pneumonia... my late FIL was kept in a few times with that type of infection... having had a bypass, they considered it important to get him sorted as quickly as possible. Hi Sarah and Cordelia, Thanks so much for your concern. It's greatly appreciated, as is the advice given by others. Bill's fever broke, I think and hope for good, about 4:30 this morning.
I'd been sleeping on the couch, setting the timer for every three hours to give him his tylenol or ibuprofen. We went to see the Dr. covering for our PCP this morning, and she said he has to remain on bed-rest for another week. I'm so tired right now, that I hope he gets a lot of sleep during that time!
Sarah, your FIL must have had better health insurance than we have! There was never any mention of going into the hospital at all. Here's a good example about our HMO health care for you: 9 years ago, after Bill had already lost his sternum and some ribs from the bone infection after heart surgery the year before, he developed another infection in his collar-bone. They admitted him to the hospital for one night only, and the next morning they were showing me the open wound, and where the DR. had to "tunnel" in to remove most of it. They said I had to learn how to dress this wound, using a long cotton swab to push the saline soaked dressing all the way down.
The nurse scolded me and said I had to be there for him!
I guess I didn't do the best job at it, because they had to keep him on a vancomycin I.V. drip for the next 4 months, longer than for the surgery on the sternum and ribs.
They would have saved money in the long run by keeping him a couple extra days!
Again, thank you so much for caring. It means so much.
Another thing to consider is that you might not want to bring down that fever, unless he's really uncomfortable from it. Fever can help the body kill off the offending pathogens.
And of course, keep him hydrated!!! Especially on levaquin.
Tell him to get well soon!!!!
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