October 14, 2025 • 20 mins
A cascade of pain, four falls, and a fractured rib turned a quiet week into a high-stakes navigation of hospital systems, protocols, and hard choices. We walk you through the unvarnished reality of being a caregiver when the lights of the ambulance meet the glow of Halloween decorations, the dog won’t stop barking, and the chart misses the most important details. From the ER intake to a five-day stay that demanded constant vigilance, we dig into medication mix-ups, the pharmacist “went home” moment, and why hydration and wound care can’t be afterthoughts for patients with fragile kidneys and complex histories.
The diagnosis—two bulging discs—forced a pivotal decision between surgery and conservative care. We share how a trusted endocrinologist stepped in to coordinate with a young spine surgeon, why steroids made sense but required tight glucose management, and how we pushed to secure prescriptions before discharge to avoid a weekend without relief. If you’ve ever had to repeat the same facts to every new face who enters the room, this story will feel familiar: advocacy isn’t optional; it’s the backbone of safe care.
Back home, we reset the house for recovery—clearing paths for a walker, coordinating a visiting nurse and PT, and trying to rest while fighting off a cold, wrangling taxes, and protecting inflatable Halloween classics from the rain. Along the way, we offer practical, field-tested tips: keep a one-page medical summary, build a go-bag, script your must-say lines, and create a backchannel with at least one clinician who will actually pick up. Press play for honesty, small wins, and a roadmap for anyone caring for someone they love in a system that doesn’t hand out how-to brochures.
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Tracy (00:00):
Welcome to the Only Child Diaries Podcast.
I'm your host, Tracy Wallace.
Have you ever felt like youdidn't receive the how-to
brochure life?
That you didn't get enoughguidance about major life
issues?
So did I.
You don't have to be an onlychild to feel this way.
(00:21):
In my podcast, we'll exploresome of the best ways to better
navigate adulting.
Doing simple.
Welcome everyone to the OnlyChild Diaries Podcast.
Today I'm gonna give you anupdate on where we are.
(00:46):
Last week I took a breakbecause my husband was having
some pretty significant healthissues, and he ended up going
into the hospital where he wasall week.
So it was just too much for meto uh do an episode, and I
wasn't running ahead of scheduleas normal.
(01:08):
Hope everybody had a good weekor a good two weeks since my
last episode.
So what happened was that myhusband had uh quite suddenly
some severe back issues, someback pain, and it was traveling
down his leg.
We thought maybe it was anirritated nerve or something
(01:33):
like a pinched nerve, maybe,because of, you know, it going
down his leg.
He would spend most of the timein bed, and when he did get up,
it uh well, he needed help.
Um, it was a slow process, andhe needed assistance, as much as
(01:55):
I could give him.
But in the space of the 10 daysbefore he went into the
hospital, he ended up fallingfour times, yes, four times, in
the house.
Uh very short walk from thebedroom to the bathroom or the
bedroom to the den where wewatch TV.
(02:16):
Um, because he felt like he hadweakness in his leg or he had a
lot of pain.
He just he used a walker, buthe just couldn't um sustain his
upright position.
And if you hear some nasalcongestion, I seem to have
(02:40):
picked something up probably atthe hospital.
Um, so the third time he fell.
Now you have to remember thatmy husband is a little bit
stubborn, and understandably,because the whole hospital um
experience was stressful andcomplicated for both of us, not
(03:02):
just for him.
I mean, definitely for him, butit's also complicated and
frustrating for me as well.
And I'll tell you why.
So the third time he fell, heuh, and and rem and remember,
he's falling and he already hassignificant back pain, right?
So the third time he fell, hefelt like he had maybe fractured
(03:26):
his hip.
Um, and I just told him, youknow, I can't adequately care
for you here.
And as much as I didn't wanthim to go to the in the
hospital, I felt like he shouldgo.
But he still wasn't convinced.
And so the next day, and andand going back to um bed later
(03:48):
on that night, he was fine.
So I, you know, very again,very complex.
But the next day he tried toget out of bed and he did, but
he made it about, I don't know,uh six or seven steps and he
fell again.
(04:09):
And this time he said he reallyhurt himself.
He felt like he had broken arib.
And um it ended up that he did.
So he uh being in more pain,um, he felt like he really
(04:31):
didn't have anything left.
And I talked to him aboutcalling the ambulance, and he
agreed.
And he's had negativeinteractions with uh paramedics
and firemen, and as much as weare very grateful to them for
(04:52):
all that they do and all thatthey've done to save our
neighborhoods, especially withthe Eaton fire, I I can't
discount the interactions thathe's had, right?
So totally understand.
And sometimes, um, you know,when you're not feeling good and
you have a negativeinteraction, it it just makes it
(05:15):
worse.
So I did call the ambulance.
I asked them not to run thesirens because that just makes
it more of a more of a uh of ashow.
Um, but they did run thelights, and we live on a
relatively narrow street, andthey came up.
Now this time they were verynice and they were very
(05:38):
respectful with him, and hewasn't feeling well, but it went
it went well enough.
Um and the neighbors startedtexting me because they saw the
lights, and we have remember nowwe have all of our Halloween
lights out.
So it was it was quite uh quitea production of lighting out
(06:00):
there, um, with the flashing,the the engine and the ambulance
going.
So anyway, there were sevenguys in our house between the
firemen and the paramedics, andour dog, I put our dog out in
the backyard, and she wasbarking constantly.
Our cat was in the bedroommeowing.
(06:21):
Uh, everybody was everybody hadsomething to say.
And they did end up getting himup.
Uh, they put him in a transportchair instead of flat out on a
gurney.
And um I I asked that we go toa hospital that's just a little
(06:42):
bit further because it's part ofKECUSE, where we've been
before.
Um, they said that no, we hadto go to the nearest hospital,
which is Glendale Adventist,which is a hospital that he's
never been at.
Um, and and in the end, that'swhere we went.
And so uh I'll just say thatour experience at Glendale
(07:07):
Adventist overall was not themost positive.
It's difficult because Bill hasso many medical issues, and we
have assembled a team of reallyexcellent doctors for him.
(07:27):
His endocrinologist isexcellent, and she is one of the
premier endocrinologists, I'msure, in the country.
She's very well known in themedical community.
And we have a nephrologist, akidney doctor who is um also an
(07:50):
excellent doctor who operates ashis primary care physician, but
neither one of them isaffiliated with Glendale
Adventist.
Um, and you know, granted, mymy dad was at the hospital, my
mom was at the hospital, mygrandparents were at this
(08:10):
hospital, but this is myhusband.
And again, multiple medicalissues, but also things have
changed, I think, since COVID.
Things have changed within themedical insurance and Medicare
uh platforms.
(08:31):
And for instance, when we werein the ER and it was nighttime,
and he usually gets hismedications around dinner time.
He had not gotten them.
And I was talking to the nurseabout that, and she said, Yes,
we'll we'll get that all sortedout.
And then she had to get them inthe computer, and and then they
(08:54):
had to dispense them becauseit's the hospital, and they
don't like to have you bringthem or give them or whatever.
Um, so then about midnight, shesaid, Look, um our pharmacist
went home.
Can you go home and get themedications?
And I was shocked because thisis a big hospital.
(09:18):
This is not a little ruralhospital, this is a big
hospital.
They have apparently a premierstroke center, they have a big
ER, it's it's a big hospital,okay?
And they were telling me thatthe pharmacist had gone home.
That was the beginning.
(09:39):
Um, so I I did.
I went home, I got his pills, Icame back.
But through the experience ofour stay, and and he was there
for five days, we literally hadto fight for and with
everything.
He's been on certainmedications that have not worked
(10:01):
for him, and so his doctorshave prescribed alternate
medications, and the medicalteam put him on the medications
that did not work for him.
And I had to fight to say,look, we've already been down
that road, we have used thatmedication, he's had that
(10:22):
medication, and um you need toput him on this.
This is what he's on at home.
So I just got really tired offighting.
I got tired of standing up foreverything that that we had,
(10:44):
everything that he needed.
In addition, because he has uhfragile kidneys, he needs to
stay hydrated.
And they were not giving himIvy fluids, and so I had to
fight for that.
It it just oh, and he also hada wound on his side because he
(11:05):
had used the heating pad for hisback too much, and he had
gotten a blister and it turnedinto a wound.
And we were again, we were toldin this big hospital system
there was one wound carespecialist.
One, not a department, not ateam, but one wound care
(11:32):
specialist.
So being admitted on Monday andstaying till Friday, we finally
saw the wound care specialiston Thursday.
I I don't really blame thepeople that work there.
Most of them, most of thenursing staff and the nursing
assistants were great.
Some of them were better thanothers.
(11:54):
Some of them really went aboveand beyond.
Most of them were were verygood, but some of them went
really above and beyond.
Um, but some of these thingsjust drive me crazy, right?
Like the one wound carespecialist and the pharmacist
going home.
I I don't know what to do withthat.
(12:15):
I mean, what if you were youcame into the ER at three
o'clock in the morning and youcouldn't get any medication
because the pharmacist was athome?
I don't understand that.
So uh I I don't know.
So what happened is that myhusband, through all these
tests, uh, we discovered that hehas two bulging discs.
(12:40):
I don't know if that's the sameas herniated discs because I
never got to see the spinalsurgeon.
I had to stay home in themorning, and that's when he came
to see my husband.
But uh it was surgery or it wasconservative care.
One thing that we can do is puthim on steroids.
(13:02):
Now, because oral steroids,because he's a type 1 diabetic,
he's insulin-dependent, uh, youknow, steroids, oral steroids,
or any steroids, are going toraise his glucose significantly.
So not having access to ourdoctors, and I would meet the
(13:24):
doctors and I would look them upand try to find out if they
were good doctors, if they wereso-so doctors, right?
But our endocrinologist, again,being the being the fantastic
woman that she is, um, allowedme to, you know, text her, email
her.
Um, she ended up because shereally cares.
(13:44):
I mean, she's every doctorshould be like, I mean, she's
she's exemplary.
She uh ended up talking to thespinal guy who, you know, was
great, but I found out that hehad just started practicing a
year ago.
He had finished his residencythrough USC.
(14:06):
Um, but again, new, young.
My husband is, you know, aspecial case.
Everyone's a special case, butmy husband is really a special
case, right?
So she ended up having aconversation with him.
And she told us that we shouldgo the conservative route.
That would be better for Bill,steroids, we could do a steroid
(14:26):
injection.
And so we told the nurse that,and he told the main doctor, and
once you tell them that you'renot going to do surgery, you're
out.
Um, so our options that day,that was Friday, was uh go to
rehab or go home.
(14:49):
So that was like the mainthing.
Okay, and we wanted to go home.
So I asked if we could get theoral steroids from the nurse,
and he said we would have to gothrough the doctor's office.
I didn't even have the doctor'soffice information or the phone
number or anything, and itnever showed up on the
(15:10):
discharge, right?
Either.
I mean, in retrospect.
And I I I felt I came in hot,okay?
I told him, I said, look, ifyou can't get me the oral
steroid prescription, I'm nottaking him home.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
(15:31):
It it's a Friday night, it'sgonna be a weekend, I'm not
gonna be able to get the doctor,I'm not gonna be able to get
the steroids.
I mean, that's it's it'sridiculous, right?
And I don't know if that nursehad an issue with it or not.
It ended up that it was theshift change coming up soon.
And the next nurse, we wereonly with her for an hour.
(15:53):
She did get the oral steroids.
I mean, our endocrinologistended up uh calling in the
order, which I'm so grateful toher.
So we got we got two, but um, Imean, come on, you know, come
on, help me out a little bit.
Um so frustrating, so tired ofarguing and so tired of
(16:18):
advocating.
And, you know, when you're inthe hospital, my husband also
had a UTI, you get a littleconfused.
He didn't sleep any of the timethat he was there.
He catnapped, but he had aroommate, he was in a
semi-private room, and they comein at 4:30, 5:30 to take your
blood in the morning.
(16:39):
Um, there's constant beeping ofthe IVs and the machines and
the noise in the hall.
He didn't sleep, and he wasgetting delirious.
So anyway, so he's home and youknow, on to the next chapter of
(17:01):
healing, but I'm glad to havehim home.
I I I did get sick somehow.
I'm not happy about that, somuch to do, but that's where
we're at.
Um, I did talk to the tax guytoday, finally.
He returned my call.
Um, we set up a meeting fortoday, and the taxes are done.
(17:22):
I have to look at them.
Um, they're due in a few days,but that's worked out and
Halloween.
My Halloween decorations areup.
I'm gonna post that on socialmedia for you to look at.
Um, but it's gonna raintonight, uh, which is rain and
my my inflatables and all myanimatronics.
(17:44):
Oh, dear lord.
So um it's getting chilliertoo.
So I'm gonna go out there andtry to cover up what I can.
I cover I covered up thehorseman last night.
I went out there and um coveredhim with a big plastic tarp so
that he doesn't get wet.
I didn't know if it was gonnarain early, so I didn't want to
(18:06):
take a chance.
And I have to get some uh stuffin the garage still, but I'm
getting there, and then thenurse is gonna, the visiting
nurse is gonna come today forthe first time.
Uh, and things are rollingalong.
I'm tired, I'm exhaustedmentally and physically, but uh
(18:28):
things are starting to recover,things are starting to go back
to status quo.
So that's uh that's what I haveto share with you, and I I hope
next week things are gonna be alittle bit better.
I hope I'm gonna feel betterbecause I don't feel I don't
(18:50):
feel that good right now.
Um but I'm just trying to restas much as I can and sleep.
I took a couple cat napsyesterday and uh taking my
decongestion and uh and but I'mcleaning because I have to clean
(19:11):
because the visiting nurse iscoming and the PT are gonna come
and there's gonna be a lot ofpeople in and out, and you know,
I'm I'm not the best atcleaning and keeping up with
things.
And so a lot of stuff hadreally kind of uh stacked up in
the house, and I got rid of alot of you know extra boxes that
(19:32):
I didn't need.
I gotta make space for him tobe able to walk around and do
his PT uh eventually.
So, and also if I change toomuch, the cat gets really upset.
He doesn't like change, so uh,but he does like space.
So that's that's where that is.
So anyway, next week I hopethat I'll have good news for
(19:55):
you.
No more falls, uh, and nextweek we'll we'll we'll tackle
another topic together.
I hope you'll join me.
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Welcome to the Only Child Diaries Podcast.
I'm your host, Tracy Wallace.
Have you ever felt like youdidn't receive the how-to
brochure life?
That you didn't get enoughguidance about major life
issues?
So did I.
You don't have to be an onlychild to feel this way.
(00:21):
In my podcast, we'll exploresome of the best ways to better
navigate adulting.
Doing simple.
Welcome everyone to the OnlyChild Diaries Podcast.
Today I'm gonna give you anupdate on where we are.
(00:46):
Last week I took a breakbecause my husband was having
some pretty significant healthissues, and he ended up going
into the hospital where he wasall week.
So it was just too much for meto uh do an episode, and I
wasn't running ahead of scheduleas normal.
(01:08):
Hope everybody had a good weekor a good two weeks since my
last episode.
So what happened was that myhusband had uh quite suddenly
some severe back issues, someback pain, and it was traveling
down his leg.
We thought maybe it was anirritated nerve or something
(01:33):
like a pinched nerve, maybe,because of, you know, it going
down his leg.
He would spend most of the timein bed, and when he did get up,
it uh well, he needed help.
Um, it was a slow process, andhe needed assistance, as much as
(01:55):
I could give him.
But in the space of the 10 daysbefore he went into the
hospital, he ended up fallingfour times, yes, four times, in
the house.
Uh very short walk from thebedroom to the bathroom or the
bedroom to the den where wewatch TV.
(02:16):
Um, because he felt like he hadweakness in his leg or he had a
lot of pain.
He just he used a walker, buthe just couldn't um sustain his
upright position.
And if you hear some nasalcongestion, I seem to have
(02:40):
picked something up probably atthe hospital.
Um, so the third time he fell.
Now you have to remember thatmy husband is a little bit
stubborn, and understandably,because the whole hospital um
experience was stressful andcomplicated for both of us, not
(03:02):
just for him.
I mean, definitely for him, butit's also complicated and
frustrating for me as well.
And I'll tell you why.
So the third time he fell, heuh, and and rem and remember,
he's falling and he already hassignificant back pain, right?
So the third time he fell, hefelt like he had maybe fractured
(03:26):
his hip.
Um, and I just told him, youknow, I can't adequately care
for you here.
And as much as I didn't wanthim to go to the in the
hospital, I felt like he shouldgo.
But he still wasn't convinced.
And so the next day, and andand going back to um bed later
(03:48):
on that night, he was fine.
So I, you know, very again,very complex.
But the next day he tried toget out of bed and he did, but
he made it about, I don't know,uh six or seven steps and he
fell again.
(04:09):
And this time he said he reallyhurt himself.
He felt like he had broken arib.
And um it ended up that he did.
So he uh being in more pain,um, he felt like he really
(04:31):
didn't have anything left.
And I talked to him aboutcalling the ambulance, and he
agreed.
And he's had negativeinteractions with uh paramedics
and firemen, and as much as weare very grateful to them for
(04:52):
all that they do and all thatthey've done to save our
neighborhoods, especially withthe Eaton fire, I I can't
discount the interactions thathe's had, right?
So totally understand.
And sometimes, um, you know,when you're not feeling good and
you have a negativeinteraction, it it just makes it
(05:15):
worse.
So I did call the ambulance.
I asked them not to run thesirens because that just makes
it more of a more of a uh of ashow.
Um, but they did run thelights, and we live on a
relatively narrow street, andthey came up.
Now this time they were verynice and they were very
(05:38):
respectful with him, and hewasn't feeling well, but it went
it went well enough.
Um and the neighbors startedtexting me because they saw the
lights, and we have remember nowwe have all of our Halloween
lights out.
So it was it was quite uh quitea production of lighting out
(06:00):
there, um, with the flashing,the the engine and the ambulance
going.
So anyway, there were sevenguys in our house between the
firemen and the paramedics, andour dog, I put our dog out in
the backyard, and she wasbarking constantly.
Our cat was in the bedroommeowing.
(06:21):
Uh, everybody was everybody hadsomething to say.
And they did end up getting himup.
Uh, they put him in a transportchair instead of flat out on a
gurney.
And um I I asked that we go toa hospital that's just a little
(06:42):
bit further because it's part ofKECUSE, where we've been
before.
Um, they said that no, we hadto go to the nearest hospital,
which is Glendale Adventist,which is a hospital that he's
never been at.
Um, and and in the end, that'swhere we went.
And so uh I'll just say thatour experience at Glendale
(07:07):
Adventist overall was not themost positive.
It's difficult because Bill hasso many medical issues, and we
have assembled a team of reallyexcellent doctors for him.
(07:27):
His endocrinologist isexcellent, and she is one of the
premier endocrinologists, I'msure, in the country.
She's very well known in themedical community.
And we have a nephrologist, akidney doctor who is um also an
(07:50):
excellent doctor who operates ashis primary care physician, but
neither one of them isaffiliated with Glendale
Adventist.
Um, and you know, granted, mymy dad was at the hospital, my
mom was at the hospital, mygrandparents were at this
(08:10):
hospital, but this is myhusband.
And again, multiple medicalissues, but also things have
changed, I think, since COVID.
Things have changed within themedical insurance and Medicare
uh platforms.
(08:31):
And for instance, when we werein the ER and it was nighttime,
and he usually gets hismedications around dinner time.
He had not gotten them.
And I was talking to the nurseabout that, and she said, Yes,
we'll we'll get that all sortedout.
And then she had to get them inthe computer, and and then they
(08:54):
had to dispense them becauseit's the hospital, and they
don't like to have you bringthem or give them or whatever.
Um, so then about midnight, shesaid, Look, um our pharmacist
went home.
Can you go home and get themedications?
And I was shocked because thisis a big hospital.
(09:18):
This is not a little ruralhospital, this is a big
hospital.
They have apparently a premierstroke center, they have a big
ER, it's it's a big hospital,okay?
And they were telling me thatthe pharmacist had gone home.
That was the beginning.
(09:39):
Um, so I I did.
I went home, I got his pills, Icame back.
But through the experience ofour stay, and and he was there
for five days, we literally hadto fight for and with
everything.
He's been on certainmedications that have not worked
(10:01):
for him, and so his doctorshave prescribed alternate
medications, and the medicalteam put him on the medications
that did not work for him.
And I had to fight to say,look, we've already been down
that road, we have used thatmedication, he's had that
(10:22):
medication, and um you need toput him on this.
This is what he's on at home.
So I just got really tired offighting.
I got tired of standing up foreverything that that we had,
(10:44):
everything that he needed.
In addition, because he has uhfragile kidneys, he needs to
stay hydrated.
And they were not giving himIvy fluids, and so I had to
fight for that.
It it just oh, and he also hada wound on his side because he
(11:05):
had used the heating pad for hisback too much, and he had
gotten a blister and it turnedinto a wound.
And we were again, we were toldin this big hospital system
there was one wound carespecialist.
One, not a department, not ateam, but one wound care
(11:32):
specialist.
So being admitted on Monday andstaying till Friday, we finally
saw the wound care specialiston Thursday.
I I don't really blame thepeople that work there.
Most of them, most of thenursing staff and the nursing
assistants were great.
Some of them were better thanothers.
(11:54):
Some of them really went aboveand beyond.
Most of them were were verygood, but some of them went
really above and beyond.
Um, but some of these thingsjust drive me crazy, right?
Like the one wound carespecialist and the pharmacist
going home.
I I don't know what to do withthat.
(12:15):
I mean, what if you were youcame into the ER at three
o'clock in the morning and youcouldn't get any medication
because the pharmacist was athome?
I don't understand that.
So uh I I don't know.
So what happened is that myhusband, through all these
tests, uh, we discovered that hehas two bulging discs.
(12:40):
I don't know if that's the sameas herniated discs because I
never got to see the spinalsurgeon.
I had to stay home in themorning, and that's when he came
to see my husband.
But uh it was surgery or it wasconservative care.
One thing that we can do is puthim on steroids.
(13:02):
Now, because oral steroids,because he's a type 1 diabetic,
he's insulin-dependent, uh, youknow, steroids, oral steroids,
or any steroids, are going toraise his glucose significantly.
So not having access to ourdoctors, and I would meet the
(13:24):
doctors and I would look them upand try to find out if they
were good doctors, if they wereso-so doctors, right?
But our endocrinologist, again,being the being the fantastic
woman that she is, um, allowedme to, you know, text her, email
her.
Um, she ended up because shereally cares.
(13:44):
I mean, she's every doctorshould be like, I mean, she's
she's exemplary.
She uh ended up talking to thespinal guy who, you know, was
great, but I found out that hehad just started practicing a
year ago.
He had finished his residencythrough USC.
(14:06):
Um, but again, new, young.
My husband is, you know, aspecial case.
Everyone's a special case, butmy husband is really a special
case, right?
So she ended up having aconversation with him.
And she told us that we shouldgo the conservative route.
That would be better for Bill,steroids, we could do a steroid
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injection.
And so we told the nurse that,and he told the main doctor, and
once you tell them that you'renot going to do surgery, you're
out.
Um, so our options that day,that was Friday, was uh go to
rehab or go home.
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So that was like the mainthing.
Okay, and we wanted to go home.
So I asked if we could get theoral steroids from the nurse,
and he said we would have to gothrough the doctor's office.
I didn't even have the doctor'soffice information or the phone
number or anything, and itnever showed up on the
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discharge, right?
Either.
I mean, in retrospect.
And I I I felt I came in hot,okay?
I told him, I said, look, ifyou can't get me the oral
steroid prescription, I'm nottaking him home.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
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It it's a Friday night, it'sgonna be a weekend, I'm not
gonna be able to get the doctor,I'm not gonna be able to get
the steroids.
I mean, that's it's it'sridiculous, right?
And I don't know if that nursehad an issue with it or not.
It ended up that it was theshift change coming up soon.
And the next nurse, we wereonly with her for an hour.
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She did get the oral steroids.
I mean, our endocrinologistended up uh calling in the
order, which I'm so grateful toher.
So we got we got two, but um, Imean, come on, you know, come
on, help me out a little bit.
Um so frustrating, so tired ofarguing and so tired of
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advocating.
And, you know, when you're inthe hospital, my husband also
had a UTI, you get a littleconfused.
He didn't sleep any of the timethat he was there.
He catnapped, but he had aroommate, he was in a
semi-private room, and they comein at 4:30, 5:30 to take your
blood in the morning.
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Um, there's constant beeping ofthe IVs and the machines and
the noise in the hall.
He didn't sleep, and he wasgetting delirious.
So anyway, so he's home and youknow, on to the next chapter of
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healing, but I'm glad to havehim home.
I I I did get sick somehow.
I'm not happy about that, somuch to do, but that's where
we're at.
Um, I did talk to the tax guytoday, finally.
He returned my call.
Um, we set up a meeting fortoday, and the taxes are done.
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I have to look at them.
Um, they're due in a few days,but that's worked out and
Halloween.
My Halloween decorations areup.
I'm gonna post that on socialmedia for you to look at.
Um, but it's gonna raintonight, uh, which is rain and
my my inflatables and all myanimatronics.
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Oh, dear lord.
So um it's getting chilliertoo.
So I'm gonna go out there andtry to cover up what I can.
I cover I covered up thehorseman last night.
I went out there and um coveredhim with a big plastic tarp so
that he doesn't get wet.
I didn't know if it was gonnarain early, so I didn't want to
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take a chance.
And I have to get some uh stuffin the garage still, but I'm
getting there, and then thenurse is gonna, the visiting
nurse is gonna come today forthe first time.
Uh, and things are rollingalong.
I'm tired, I'm exhaustedmentally and physically, but uh
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things are starting to recover,things are starting to go back
to status quo.
So that's uh that's what I haveto share with you, and I I hope
next week things are gonna be alittle bit better.
I hope I'm gonna feel betterbecause I don't feel I don't
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feel that good right now.
Um but I'm just trying to restas much as I can and sleep.
I took a couple cat napsyesterday and uh taking my
decongestion and uh and but I'mcleaning because I have to clean
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because the visiting nurse iscoming and the PT are gonna come
and there's gonna be a lot ofpeople in and out, and you know,
I'm I'm not the best atcleaning and keeping up with
things.
And so a lot of stuff hadreally kind of uh stacked up in
the house, and I got rid of alot of you know extra boxes that
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I didn't need.
I gotta make space for him tobe able to walk around and do
his PT uh eventually.
So, and also if I change toomuch, the cat gets really upset.
He doesn't like change, so uh,but he does like space.
So that's that's where that is.
So anyway, next week I hopethat I'll have good news for
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you.
No more falls, uh, and nextweek we'll we'll we'll tackle
another topic together.
I hope you'll join me.
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