Prepare for some major drama:
I have hit a crossroads. My caregiver found me on the bathroom floor with no clothes on about 10 days ago completely delirious. After a long discussion with me she called 911. I thought she was being overprotective.
But they took me to ER and admitted me to the hospital. I had a severe UTI and dehydration that was causing the strange sense of reality. I thought the ER tech was the son of my Israeli architecture professor’s son. Although possible, the more I regained my sense of reality, the more ridiculous it seemed. I did architectural research in Israel in 1979.
But there is more. When I got up to my hospital room I had a seizure and the Hospitalist told me if I didn’t go to rehab I would get pneumonia and die. I told her I wasn’t going to “rehab”.
By a stroke of luck the Occupational Therapist recommended that I get a spinal X-ray because it was so painful to move me. The results of the X-ray came back and showed that broke 3 vertebrae in my thoracic spine,T4,T5 & T6. So I arranged to have care at my home.
I rented a hospital bed, my caregiver is sleeping in the living room and I am getting a special walker that works well for the kind of fracture I have.
This would all be plenty but my MS is the scariest part of this. This year I have noticed a feeling of paralysis in my legs and much worse tremors and wild jerks in my hands and arms. The hot weather, of course, makes it all worse.
I am going to be laid up for about 3 months or more while these bones fuse and I want to do everything possible to preserve my tiny ability to walk.
Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, ways to conquer the impossible with single handed combat? Before this happened I was still walking, caring for myself and doing exercises every night.
I have hit a crossroads. My caregiver found me on the bathroom floor with no clothes on about 10 days ago completely delirious. After a long discussion with me she called 911. I thought she was being overprotective.
But they took me to ER and admitted me to the hospital. I had a severe UTI and dehydration that was causing the strange sense of reality. I thought the ER tech was the son of my Israeli architecture professor’s son. Although possible, the more I regained my sense of reality, the more ridiculous it seemed. I did architectural research in Israel in 1979.
But there is more. When I got up to my hospital room I had a seizure and the Hospitalist told me if I didn’t go to rehab I would get pneumonia and die. I told her I wasn’t going to “rehab”.
By a stroke of luck the Occupational Therapist recommended that I get a spinal X-ray because it was so painful to move me. The results of the X-ray came back and showed that broke 3 vertebrae in my thoracic spine,T4,T5 & T6. So I arranged to have care at my home.
I rented a hospital bed, my caregiver is sleeping in the living room and I am getting a special walker that works well for the kind of fracture I have.
This would all be plenty but my MS is the scariest part of this. This year I have noticed a feeling of paralysis in my legs and much worse tremors and wild jerks in my hands and arms. The hot weather, of course, makes it all worse.
I am going to be laid up for about 3 months or more while these bones fuse and I want to do everything possible to preserve my tiny ability to walk.
Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, ways to conquer the impossible with single handed combat? Before this happened I was still walking, caring for myself and doing exercises every night.
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