Did the Wound Care thing this AM.
Went fine. Uneventful. My nurse was quite pleasant.
But now I am in a fair bit of pain. Moreso than the previous time I went to the CCC.
So now I have to face the problem that led to my needing home care : I don’t recover from the previous Wound Care appointment before the next rolls around.
Ergo, some time soonish I will reach the point where I am in too much pain to make the appointments and therefore need home care again, and will have to ask for it from them, knowing they might not be inclined to grant it.
I’m not looking forward to THAT.
But it’s not like I have a choice. Like before, I am not going to cripple myself in order to better fit into their busy schedules. I will have to tell them that it’s home care or no care once again and that’s the bottom line.
If they still say no, then I will have to make do with whatever primitive ministrations I can perform on myself.
I am sure Shopper’s sells Band-Aids big enough to suffice. Might not be all that neat and tidy a job, especially compared to a nurse’s deft touch, but it will get the job done.
I took my Gabapentin and naproxenand it helped, but I am still in pain.
This will not do.
Hopefully, the pain will subside once I am not sitting in this hard FUCKING chair any more and can lie down and rest my bits.
More after the break.
It did get better
The pain has settled down to a persistent dull stiff ache now, thank goodness. I was able to get some sleep, and that helped.
Still gonna try the Zopiclone thing once I get Julian to do some pill chopping for me. I am not capable of snapping the Z’s 8n half myself due to the damage diabetic neuropathy has done to the nerves in my hands.
Just what I needed, something to make me even clumsier.
The quest for the keys
I’ve been trying to buy a wireless keyboard off Amazon today.
Wireless, because that is a probable solution to my keyboard issues. Hopefully whatever has been fucking with my computer keyboards can’t reach out over a wireless connection to work its evil magic.
Trying, because the first time I ordered it, my credit card got declined. So I am ordering it again in hopes that it was just some transitory fluke.
This is the card I can’t check the balance on, though. So it could be insufficient funds.
If it bounces again, I am just going to have to bite the bullet and temporarily abandon whatever is left on the current card by registering the new one.
I still have a card qith $500 on it that we bought after I went to the bank last Friday that is just waiting for me to use up the balance on the new one before I register it.
If I register it now, odds are that all traces of the old one will disappear and whatever was left on it will be gone, gone, gone.
That would be a loss of something like $60~ bucks, I think. Suboptimal.
But & may have no choice.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.