A very long day yesterday. Margaret rang to as me to bring in her crutches and moon boots as they had scheduled physio for her, and a laundry list of other things including cheese and cracker snacks from Aldi etc
For some reason, Goole decided there was a different way to get to the Flinders Hospital car park, and got me completely lost in the maze of Flinders reconstruction ...... the place is huge, a major university that covers all the subjects and depts, not just medical ....then throw in a private hospital and medical clinics as well as the public one and all the things that go with that ..... and it's a work zone .....
Lost an hr in getting unlost, that made me late for the physio ..... but amazingly, she worked around it and still got the appointment in ..... then dropped the bombshell, Margaret was right to go home
Organising all the different depts that were handling her case to get their sign off and instructions, the pharmacy for all scheduled drugs an the signing off for all of those, then 2 trips to get all the stuff back to the car before getting Margaret, in her moon boot and one her chariot ..... then the trip to the car ..... Margaret hasn't walked on that foot or had anything on it besides dressings, for about 8mths, so attempting to walk out through the maze of corridors was quite an event ..... within spitting distance of the front door, phone call, she has to go back, missed a special drug and the signing event, back to the ward on the 6th floor clear over the other side of this massive hospital complex, then head back to the car ...... needless to say, the second trip was lot more stressful, painful and exhausting than the first.
By the time I'd settled her outside the doors and got the car from the carpark to the new hospital entrance, it was late and she wasn't handling it well.
A few more pain killers and a few short sleeps on the way home and she was a lot better .... and I was exhausted, two pieces of rasin toast and not even a coffee for the whole day .... I thought my head would explode by the time I had Margaret settled in the Winnie .... I needed a nap
In the middle of all this, before I knew Margaret was coming home, I received a phone call regarding bringing my eye exam forward to 10 am today ..... a second early morning get up and drive in peak hr traffic to get to the Royal in the middle of the city ....... just too much for an old bloke, so I won't be making it to the appointment, just have to wait for the telephones to have people to answer them at the Royal to tell them I'll be a no show, then back to bed to nurse this headache ......
T1 Terry
yesterday... just a few scuds.
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