Yes, little pause in the medical stories.

This last week I made it a point to do my hourly walking ten times a day all week and 10 flights of stairs each day.

I completed that task including Saturday and Monday I started cardio therapy. This will last for 36 sessions and will help with my heart strength and losing weight!

Three weeks in a row! Getting back into the flow with other things as well and it feels very good.

After a few hours after my lab work came back, the head doctor in the emergency room sat down and told me everything that was wrong. That was a lot of stuff to handle. I had sepsis, liver disease, pneumonia and was in congestive heart failure. They gave me a bunch of meds right there in the emergency room. After a few hours they were able to get me to a room upstairs in the Medical Intensive Care Unit or MICU the first nurse I had there was Zane. He was a pretty cool dude!

When I woke up the next day Zane came in to introduce the next nurse, I don’t recall her name, but they had nurse changes at eight o’clock in the morning and seven or eight o’clock at night. However, after that first day I started receiving diuretic or pee medicine for a better word, which would make me urinate a lot and at the same time I had a catheter put in which was not easy because my scrotum was so swollen with water. Once that was put in, there was a lot of spasms and stuff with my urinary tract, which was very panful but eased up after about 8 hours. They had to fix some things that the first person had done incorrectly when placing the catheter. After that, the urine started flowing and everything was going fairly well. They started coming at me with medicine for pneumonia, blood pressure, heartrate and sepsis. They had very close monitoring of these items but there are other things that they didn’t do the hospital in Thomasville did which I’ll get to a little bit later.

Next: Eating, Physical Therapy and their communication with my family.

After I got laid off on June 22nd, I took a couple of weeks off to relax and think about what was going on and that might have been a mistake. After that, I spent quite some time every day, looking for work as a contractor. After a few months, I started getting really depressed because I thought I would be able to find a job very quickly. That did not happen.

That is when I started drinking a lot and started to get very sick. I did not understand how sick I was getting until I found a job in Wichita, Kansas and Carrie and I headed out there for a flight. I was very weak and could hardly walk through the airport in Dallas. We had to take a ride on a motorized cart for handicap people and I’ve never had to do that before.

After we got into Wichita, we found our hotel. it was a pretty run-down mess of a hotel. We stayed there a few days until Carrie in her driving around while I was at work found a Hampton Inn in Dery, Kansas, which was very nice. they gave us a discount for me working at Spirit Aerosystems.

At this time, I was still drinking a lot. I was still getting weaker, weaker and weaker. I went to work and was able to get my Id. My badge and everything taking care of for starting work. And ended up starting work in one building. But then a couple days later, I had to transfer to another building, which is actually much better than where I was, and it took me a long time to walk over there because I had to keep stopping because I was so weak.

After a few days at the new building, I had to start a class for SAP which I know like the back of my hand but had been two years since I used it at Spirit. I had to go through a two-week class, which was very nice. It was very fun, and I enjoyed it, but getting to work and coming home was an ordeal every day, I ended up missing the last day of class because I was so sick.

I’m going to fast forward a couple of days because I was in the hotel, just sitting around ordering food, not eating the food. It started rotting in the refrigerator. It was a horrible mess. at one point in time, I had ordered something from a restaurant. it was a milkshake; I believe spilled all over the floor. I just left it lying there because I could not get the energy up to clean it up. Carrie kept calling and kept getting very, very worried about me. I kept ignoring her. Ignored my sisters until a point in time came that I was watching TV in the morning. I stood up to lay down in bed.

  I fell down. I was too weak, to even get up at this point in time is when I thought I was going to die. There were a couple times where I made appointments to urgent care. I didn’t go because I was too weak to walk downstairs to get a lift to go to the urgent care. But on that day, when I fell down and I could not get up like I said, I thought that I was going to die right there. I started screaming for help and nobody could hear me. That is when I got very scared. I was not able to get the phone to work.   when I finally did get it to work, i called the front desk. they did not answer the phone and when I hit the button for reservations, then they answered the phone. I was able to tell her what was going on that I was on the floor. I was naked. A very big man. They need to get some big people up to help me. She got on the phone right away and called 911. They came in and picked me up within probably fifteen or twenty minutes. Then I headed off to the hospital.

After I arrived at the hospital, I will have to add this that the ambulance EMT’s were absolutely wonderful. They were great. Asked me where I wanted to go. Said I wanted to go to the best hospital around and they took me directly there. After I got to the hospital, that’s a different story because I hear different things. I was told by Carrie that I was I was delirious. When I got to the hospital, I was not delirious. Everything very, very clearly. I do not think I was delirious, I told them my name, told them my birth date. All of them where I had told them what day it was. I don’t know why they said I was delirious.

 But then the nurse came in and told me that Carrie was flying down from the Seattle. I was not supposed to know that. I didn’t know I was not supposed to know until the next day. When Carrie got there, I was not to know that and I really appreciated that very much.

It is now time to give an explanation as to why I have been gone for over a year.

A short version starts with me being laid off from Pursuit Aerospace. on June 22, 2023. How that went down I have already talked about.

I took a couple of weeks off after being laid off to just relax and take a look at my life and where I wanted to go or do for the next year until I retired. What I did not know is my health already started going downhill. I became depressed. I drank more than I should have and ended up in the hospital in Wichita, Kansas and spent a few weeks there. Carrie and I drove back to Thomasville, GA and I then spent time alone at the apartment. I drank a little bit more. I did not have my medications because I did not have insurance. My health started to spiral down again. I ended up in the hospital for another three weeks beginning May 25. I am out now and I’m doing well. Today is August 19^th, , 2024.

That concludes the short version. For the next couple of weeks, I will be detailing out what happened during the last year.

Some of the others in the class were dumb as a box of rocks making this first week unfinished and will be finished on Monday, today.

Very frustrating.

I could probably teach these classes but it will be a nice break and a good way to get my live and routine back together.

I was correct. I could teach this class and it is a nice break before the real work starts here.

Yes, the various dates I have updated things have changed my calendar. Which screws up my reminders.

Yes, being with out work took a lot out of me. Out of shape making me out of breath. completely screwed this years post.

Yes this month has been screwed up but we are getting a lot of things done for my move to Wichita, KS.

Now we may have to cancel the car trip and fly instead.

We are just calling this month a Fucked up month.