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Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 2:23 pmThat's wrong. All wrong. 100% wrong.
Today he was told that he doesn't (and didn't) have Covid. It was a routine test they gave him when he was admitted, and it was a false positive. He has tested negative twice since arriving. He does have the aspiration pneumonia or whatever, but he says he was eating too quickly during his Wednesday night dinner, so he didn't have any episode in the ambulance.
But he does not have Covid, which is good because they will ask me before my surgery if I've been exposed, and they will probably take me to Gitmo and waterboard me if'n I tell 'em a fib.
And he will probably go back to rehab Monday, he needs three nights in the hospital to get a reset on the rehab.
Still, he doesn't have Covid, so I'm calling that a win-win, even if I don't know what the other one is.
I could never use a walker/roller. I would tip over, usually sideways. Rehab people yelled at me and finally sent me home anyway. Then I found a lightweight wheelchair. I swung-away the footrests and used my feet & legs to move around. It was great! Safe and good exercise. No more rollers! And I could fold it in a snap and toss it in the car with one arm.Foggy wrote: ↑Fri Jun 09, 2023 8:04 pm
If he can't walk around his apartment using the rolleter or whatever it is, he can't live in his apartment, and he'll have to move into assisted living, which is another term of art that means you are a zombie, or so he thinks. Literally, he went to two different functions with the assisted living people and he said they were all a bunch of zombies. He hated it. He's very outgoing ( ) and he tried to make friends, and they wouldn't talk, or maybe they just had nothing interesting to say, I dunno. He just knows he would hate assisted living.
But if he can't walk, he can't manage to live in his apartment.
So he has a goal in life, which is to walk again, and we will give him pep talks and coaching, but ... we can't walk for him. He has to do it. We will be back in 6 weeks and we'll have to see what he can do.
So that's where we are with him right now