Ankle update — I hope people aren’t getting too grossed out by my foot photos appearing in their feed; I do kind of wish I’d gotten a pedicure recently, so you’d see pretty toenails at least! Maybe I’ll ask Kavi to paint my toes this weekend. But in the interests of documenting, and for those […]
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Lynn dropped off a knee scooter and a walker to me to borrow. I haven’t tried the walker yet, but the knee scooter is great — it let me easily bring in the box of plants that had arrived on the porch (some jasmine from Jed) and unpack them. Baskets good! Hands free to do
Ankle update — rough night. I have RLS (restless leg syndrome); it came on during pregnancy when I was 35, and has gotten increasingly worse as I get older. The nerves in my legs start acting up, and it feels like there’s something crawling under the skin, and they jerk when I’m trying to fall
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At urgent care, waiting for x-ray, four hours since the fall, still pretty darn swollen. But doc confirms foot and leg seem to be fine, just the ankle in play, so that’s something. Wheelchairs are great; kudos to whomever came up with them. I’m already very tired of hopping. Doc complimented me on my compression
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Or maybe it’s a big win, for me at least. I swam all the way from one end of the YMCA pool to the other in a front crawl. Go, me! This is big for me because while I learned the basics of swimming as a kid, and managed to pass my college’s swim test
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Arrived at my parents’ house to a lovely lunch of pittu, fish curry, fried fish, and vadai. My dad doesn’t really cook, and my mother is still in the rehab facility, but he’s lucky that there are some young Sri Lankan families nearby that he has good relationships with, and they’ve been dropping off meals
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At O’Hare again, hoorah hooray. Doing another CT trip to help my parents with eldercare; this trip is mostly about helping my dad with consolidating some of my mother’s bank accounts, and touring some nicer long-term care facilities. We’re not sure right now whether it’ll be better for her to be at home with my
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. They’ll send the report to the doc, but they didn’t freak out and start ringing alarm bells, so I expect it’ll be fine. Fasting blood work now, then I can EAT.
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I have to do some routine fasting bloodwork and an ultrasound tomorrow, and they couldn’t schedule me early in the morning, so it’s not going to be until 10:15 a.m., and I’m not supposed to eat for 12 hours beforehand, so I think the correct thing to do is stay up until 10 p.m. and
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Quick eldercare update: my mother was able to sign a POA (power of attorney) yesterday, which is a huge relief; it’ll mean that the family will be able to access her saved funds to pay for her care as needed, and that we should be able to avoid the complex and time-consuming conservatorship process. If
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