If I Told You , You Wouldn’t Believe Me

Mom’s first night home was fairly uneventful except for the fact that the nurse came kinda late and we were all spacey from all the WAITING!!!!

Of course the quiet couldn’t last. They hadn’t brought a commode (comode? oh heck I forgot to look that up) so by the time we got up at 6 AM she had let loose in her pants and it took me a half hour to get her and her bed cleaned up. And of course I didn’t have an extra set of sheets (poor planning again) so I had to do laundry before Jack and I left to get groceries.

Thank God Bert is here!!!! She took over for me while we shopped and cleaned the next poopy pants up. I bought more sheets at the Goodwill and mattress pads to put under everything.

When I went to Walgreens to get expensive medicine a very strange thing happened. Here everyone was all worried about the cost of this stuff, Vancomycin, and the pharmasist more-or-less let me walk aout with a day and a half worth for free…what’s up with that? They have to order more, I’ll pick it up Monday.

The CNA finally brought the commode and some more diapers, gloves and of course mattress pads since I bought some. She gave mom a bath and put baby lotion on her so she smells purdy like a baby’s butt

Now for the funny stuff…mom was on the porch (smoking prolly, I don’t know I was in the house) and she had a coughing attack. I went out to check on her and Bert said,  ”She had a wad of phlem that looked just like an earthworm come out her nose!” I was like “Wow I wish I coulda caught that on video!” and mom about choked again but this time from laughing. Then later while we were giving her her nebulizer she coughed again and her top teeth came out. I said it again…”Dang I wish I had my camera for that!” and she just grinned. Bert told me to get a chain to wear it around my neck so I wouldn’t miss any more photo ops. Another kinda sorta funny thing was me wrestling mom to try to get the diapers the nurse that gave her a bath today left…I never did figure it out so I went back to the pull ups….good grief! I have decided I’ll have to hire help when everyone leaves coz I don’t know how I’m gonna manage. I’ve already thought about hiring one of my music friends to come play guitar for us all day long…he said he’d charge room and board plus beer money.