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Saturday we drove to Bridgeport, IL and back to visit Mrs. Shizzle's aunt who is stage 4 and probably doesn't have long to live. Saturday night we got a call from my 92 year old dad. He had fallen and was having trouble getting up and hadn't been feeling good all day. He thought maybe he needed to go to the hospital. Luckily, he has a neighborhood of people who look out for him and we're friends with someone two doors down. They came down to look after him while we called 911. Since I'm in doctor appointment hell at the moment my wonderful wife drove over Sunday morning to make sure he was being taken care of. We had just come home from seeing him last Wednesday because I had appointments on Thursday and Friday. She's honestly better with the medical stuff than I am anyway. He came home today and has an appointment with home health care tomorrow but somebody is going to have to be with him for a while. That's probably mostly going to be my wife since I've got two or three appointments a week in the near future. It's not an issue since my dad kind of considers her like the daughter he never had. He even signed a POA for her at the bank today so she can handle financial affairs if he's not able to. His idea. The trip to the hospital netted a new cardiologist (he hasn't liked the last two) and the discovery that he has a UTI, which explains a few things. I have a PT appointment tomorrow and a dental appointment on Thursday to set a couple of permanent crowns. One of the temporaries started to disintegrate Sunday morning while I was brushing my teeth so it can't wait. After that I'll make the St. Louis run again to spend the weekend and take my wife her medications. It's been a long week or so.
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UTIs explain a lot of unpleasantries in the elderly, unfortunately.
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