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I don't think I updated you guys on my dad's situation, have I?
Back in May,bit was his birthday (May 18th). He turned 73. About 6 months ago or so, his neuro doctor took him off his MS medication because "at his age, MS would remain dormant". So everything looked fine.
It wasn't. Not really. Dad saw himself change a lot. MS wasn't affecting him directly but he was becoming more tired, slower and some other issues most likely unrelated.
Then, one night about a week or so after his birthday, he wanted to go to the bathroom and he struggled to sit on the bed to get up from it. And he slid down to the floor. Unable to get back up. His legs were not responding at all. Mom wasn't able to lift him up either. She called the ambulance and the went to the hospital.
7 hours in the waiting room. Finally got admitted in a room in the neurology center. MS came, saw and conquered. Big flare-up that stopped his legs from working. He was lucky, however, and got the use of his legs the next day or so with either morphine or something else.
A week later, he wasn't out.
He's still not out.
I mean, they allowed him 2 days for father's day but he's had so many things happen and it took ages to know what was going on. I even had to tell mom not to wait for the nurses and doctors to came and talk because they won't if they have nothing to check on dad for.
Long story short: kidney stones that took a week, crying and getting really mad to finally know what this burning feeling was. Same with hiccups or gastric reflux he's had non stop for a few days that prevented him from sleeping.
They need to run more tests to make sure there is nothing else but he's been peeing every 15-20 minutes or so... maybe the stones, maybe not.
When he's officially out of the hospital, he's got more tests to run that they can't do at the hospital (what??). He's also apparently not going back home but at a readapation center to really get back to walking better. Yeah, because that's an issue. He'll probably need to use a walker instead of crutches. We'll have to wait and see. They say it's to "relearn" how to walk without supervision, which he wasn't able to do before but he improved so much, I guess this weekend is a sort of test run.
Apparently, mom said they were going to go at the camping place over the weekend and dad's back in the hospital on Sunday night. I am not going to drive all the way there but since it's father's day, I'm going to call him.
I think I covered most everything about dad. I'm probably missing out on some details but, overall, that's that.
Wanna know about work next? I got things to say about that.
Back in May,bit was his birthday (May 18th). He turned 73. About 6 months ago or so, his neuro doctor took him off his MS medication because "at his age, MS would remain dormant". So everything looked fine.
It wasn't. Not really. Dad saw himself change a lot. MS wasn't affecting him directly but he was becoming more tired, slower and some other issues most likely unrelated.
Then, one night about a week or so after his birthday, he wanted to go to the bathroom and he struggled to sit on the bed to get up from it. And he slid down to the floor. Unable to get back up. His legs were not responding at all. Mom wasn't able to lift him up either. She called the ambulance and the went to the hospital.
7 hours in the waiting room. Finally got admitted in a room in the neurology center. MS came, saw and conquered. Big flare-up that stopped his legs from working. He was lucky, however, and got the use of his legs the next day or so with either morphine or something else.
A week later, he wasn't out.
He's still not out.
I mean, they allowed him 2 days for father's day but he's had so many things happen and it took ages to know what was going on. I even had to tell mom not to wait for the nurses and doctors to came and talk because they won't if they have nothing to check on dad for.
Long story short: kidney stones that took a week, crying and getting really mad to finally know what this burning feeling was. Same with hiccups or gastric reflux he's had non stop for a few days that prevented him from sleeping.
They need to run more tests to make sure there is nothing else but he's been peeing every 15-20 minutes or so... maybe the stones, maybe not.
When he's officially out of the hospital, he's got more tests to run that they can't do at the hospital (what??). He's also apparently not going back home but at a readapation center to really get back to walking better. Yeah, because that's an issue. He'll probably need to use a walker instead of crutches. We'll have to wait and see. They say it's to "relearn" how to walk without supervision, which he wasn't able to do before but he improved so much, I guess this weekend is a sort of test run.
Apparently, mom said they were going to go at the camping place over the weekend and dad's back in the hospital on Sunday night. I am not going to drive all the way there but since it's father's day, I'm going to call him.
I think I covered most everything about dad. I'm probably missing out on some details but, overall, that's that.
Wanna know about work next? I got things to say about that.
