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beansideThe hits keep on coming! Dad was less noisy yesterday. In fact, all he was doing was sleeping. I was a little concerned, but also so fucking grateful that he wasn't constantly moaning that I thought "we'll take it." His primary care doctor was running late and pushed his appointment back a half an hour. Almost exactly when his original appointment would have started, I got an email from Quest laboratory. New test result for Joseph. That's strange, I thought, but went to take a look.
Turns out, the rehab did a urine culture on him--never bothered to let us know, even when we picked him up. And sure enough, he has a raging UTI. Which is why he has been so confused and sleeping and fussy. I had just enough time to send the culture results to his doctor before his appointment. Hopefully, he responds quickly to the Augmentin and perks up. It's making changing his diaper very challenging, because he's not able to help much. I'm honestly not sure whether keeping him home is the right thing, and I'm anxious about it. He's eating and drinking, and was able to take his pills, so I guess it's okay. Just stressful. And there's thing thing called Reactive Arthritis, where when you get an infection elsewhere, you can have pain from your arthritis, which causes severe pain.
I'm so pissed at the rehab. I understand that he had to be discharged. Medicare wouldn't pay anymore, so out he went. But goddamn they should have told us. Just a "Hey, we suspect that he has a UTI, but we haven't gotten results back yet," would have been enough. Also, they got the results Monday, but have not called us. If I didn't have a Quest portal for him, we'd never know, and he'd be back at the ER and probably septic again. I'm torn between calling and ripping someone a new asshole and just waiting to see how long it takes for them to call. I don't know that a lawyer would take a case for something like this, but it's tempting.
I think Dad's smartwatch sucks. I put it on yesterday and it's still telling me that I have "moderate" stress.
Aside from "all dad, all the time," the rest of the day was pretty boring. I did my markets, piddled in the pending queue. Aside from that, my day was standard. Today will be more of the same.
Okay, gonna go figure out pants and get myself together. Everyone have a perfect Wednesday!
Turns out, the rehab did a urine culture on him--never bothered to let us know, even when we picked him up. And sure enough, he has a raging UTI. Which is why he has been so confused and sleeping and fussy. I had just enough time to send the culture results to his doctor before his appointment. Hopefully, he responds quickly to the Augmentin and perks up. It's making changing his diaper very challenging, because he's not able to help much. I'm honestly not sure whether keeping him home is the right thing, and I'm anxious about it. He's eating and drinking, and was able to take his pills, so I guess it's okay. Just stressful. And there's thing thing called Reactive Arthritis, where when you get an infection elsewhere, you can have pain from your arthritis, which causes severe pain.
I'm so pissed at the rehab. I understand that he had to be discharged. Medicare wouldn't pay anymore, so out he went. But goddamn they should have told us. Just a "Hey, we suspect that he has a UTI, but we haven't gotten results back yet," would have been enough. Also, they got the results Monday, but have not called us. If I didn't have a Quest portal for him, we'd never know, and he'd be back at the ER and probably septic again. I'm torn between calling and ripping someone a new asshole and just waiting to see how long it takes for them to call. I don't know that a lawyer would take a case for something like this, but it's tempting.
I think Dad's smartwatch sucks. I put it on yesterday and it's still telling me that I have "moderate" stress.
Aside from "all dad, all the time," the rest of the day was pretty boring. I did my markets, piddled in the pending queue. Aside from that, my day was standard. Today will be more of the same.
Okay, gonna go figure out pants and get myself together. Everyone have a perfect Wednesday!
