I was in a bad rehab center, which actually has good food and physical therapy, but my female aide decided to be abusive, and I wasn’t having that non-sense, so everyday was a battle! I should have reported her, but I thought I would win her over, but for whatever reason, you can’t change prejudices, and bad behavior overnight!

Anyway, I was in the rehab canter when my leg wound from the hip surgery opened and was bleeding. I was taken to the hospital ER, and 6 hours later, I saw the othopedic surgeon who gave an all clear, so about 8 hours later o returned to the nursing home. It was a mixture of blood and wound drainage.

The following day, when they transferred me to a wheelchair, and was waiting for physical therapy to pick me up, which wasn’t going to happen for another hour lol, I vomited, and out comes a big blood clot, which never happened before, and I was immediately brought back to ny bed where the doctor decided to call 911!

They kept me in the hospital, and needed 4 blood transfusions. Someone decided to put me in the
exclusive heart unit (yay) where it’s one on one care with a registered nurse. I couldn’t eat for a few day until an endoscopy was done a few days later to give me time to come off the blood thinners. The endoscopy came back all clear, so they were perplexed where the bleeding came from?

At the same time, my leg wound decided not to heal properly, so on Monday, I’m scheduled for a wound cleansing procedure in the OR. It’s been over a month, and the leg wound hasn’t healed!

My hematologist/oncologist team visit me daily! To overseen my care, but right now I can’t go to an outside radiology center to have a PET scan done!

I’m also being followed by infectious disease doctors who are a wonder father and daughter team. I saw the father 10 years ago when I first became sick, but now with his daughter who only sees in patients, the care is excellent, especially the daughter who doesn’t miss a trick!

So that’s about it, and as far as anyone knows I’m still cancer free as of January, 2019! I hope to post as often as I can!

What a rough time you have had lately!!! Im so sorry to hear all the details of what you have been thru. Hopefully your new place will work out and the staff will be better.

Best wishes with everything!!!

Thank you, Christine!

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Jeesh, Paul - what you've been through and are STILL after all these years! It would certainly break a lesser man and I've always admired your guts. I hope you get some relief soon. Glad the father-daughter team is so great. All good thoughts your way.

Thank you Connie and David!

I’m still here in the nursing home. I expect to be here until mid December when my insurance runs out, so I want to get up walking by then otherwise they charge you hundreds of dollars a day and it forces you to apply for Medicare, and permanent residency. I did that before about 10 years ago, so they didn’t get my SS. I owed them around $10,000, but I never paid it. I’ve been back to the same place five more times with no trouble, so they must get their moneys worth or use it as a write off.

Take care

So sorry to hear about all you have gone through but you are truly a walking miracle. Take care and good luck on your current health issues. Michele

what a journey