Restarting Home Life
Feb. 20th, 2025 02:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeI took today off for recovery and slept until around 7:30 AM, which is very much sleeping in for me, not just by my usual work standards, but because during the hospital stay, they typically would show up between 3 and 4 AM to do tests, injections, and sometimes medicines by mouth. Once they would do that, I would not try going back to sleep (it never worked), but would start my day, usually asking for a coffee and a cup of broth if the food prep station had it.
After gingerly starting my day and restarting my oral medications (most of which were on hold during the hospital stay), I got dressed and slowly walked down to the Wigwam where I had breakfast. The folks there, who have been so great to me (and Kayla), had wondered where I'd been, so I filled them in and told them that Kayla isn't likely to be around for a couple of weeks.
After breakfast, I walked home, took a shower, and applied alawn mower razor to my face to remove a week of beard growth.
This is how I looked yesterday morning after I took my first shower in a week and was changing back into my street clothes in preparation for discharge.
Shaving took a long time, but I was happy that my electric razor managed to clear the forest of hair. I have never liked my facial hair, and I hope the ongoing laser treatment will remove more of it. Unfortunately, you can see how much gray there is, and that is less likely to kill with light; electrolysis may well me in my future.
Lisa and I went out for errands. We went to the post office, and then to Walgreens, where on instructions from the discharge people, I bought some Motrin (acetaminophen/ibuprofen) for pain relief. From there is was to the optician. They had texted me while I was hospitalized that my glasses were ready. I had texted them back to tell them there would be a delay.
Once I got home, I contacted a local garage about getting the Astro in to the shop to have the problem with it addressed: it turns over but will not start. Lisa has ideas, but does not feel up to working on it; however, she did remove the console so that the shop will be able to get the "doghouse" cover off. The shop that is within walking distance says they can take it on Tuesday, so I will have it towed to them on Monday.
Finally, I made an appointment for 2 PM a week from Friday to go back to the post-surgical center at Renown to have the surgical staples removed from my belly.
I took a number of photos while I was in the hospital. Most of them were of food served to me, or of the hospital room, and a few are of TMI, so go poking around in my Flickr account at your peril. This afternoon, I got some of the labeled, and they may show up in the backdated entries I hope to write about the whole experience. Remember that I do my journaling here for myself, with y'all allowed to watch, and sometimes that means you get TMI. (The very TMI stuff is in private-to-me-only entries.)
After gingerly starting my day and restarting my oral medications (most of which were on hold during the hospital stay), I got dressed and slowly walked down to the Wigwam where I had breakfast. The folks there, who have been so great to me (and Kayla), had wondered where I'd been, so I filled them in and told them that Kayla isn't likely to be around for a couple of weeks.
After breakfast, I walked home, took a shower, and applied a
This is how I looked yesterday morning after I took my first shower in a week and was changing back into my street clothes in preparation for discharge.
Shaving took a long time, but I was happy that my electric razor managed to clear the forest of hair. I have never liked my facial hair, and I hope the ongoing laser treatment will remove more of it. Unfortunately, you can see how much gray there is, and that is less likely to kill with light; electrolysis may well me in my future.
Lisa and I went out for errands. We went to the post office, and then to Walgreens, where on instructions from the discharge people, I bought some Motrin (acetaminophen/ibuprofen) for pain relief. From there is was to the optician. They had texted me while I was hospitalized that my glasses were ready. I had texted them back to tell them there would be a delay.
Once I got home, I contacted a local garage about getting the Astro in to the shop to have the problem with it addressed: it turns over but will not start. Lisa has ideas, but does not feel up to working on it; however, she did remove the console so that the shop will be able to get the "doghouse" cover off. The shop that is within walking distance says they can take it on Tuesday, so I will have it towed to them on Monday.
Finally, I made an appointment for 2 PM a week from Friday to go back to the post-surgical center at Renown to have the surgical staples removed from my belly.
I took a number of photos while I was in the hospital. Most of them were of food served to me, or of the hospital room, and a few are of TMI, so go poking around in my Flickr account at your peril. This afternoon, I got some of the labeled, and they may show up in the backdated entries I hope to write about the whole experience. Remember that I do my journaling here for myself, with y'all allowed to watch, and sometimes that means you get TMI. (The very TMI stuff is in private-to-me-only entries.)
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