I was released from the hospital yesterday morning. I did not realize how tired I am. I was told that I can not work and I think that right now I am going to listen to people because I do not think I could even if I wanted to. I can not wear my glasses all of the time as it pushes on my head and I have the hole in my head still. There is still a bit of discomfort there. I end up sleeping a large portion of the day as I get fatigued relatively easy right now. I received an e-card from work again this year. I seem to get them every quarter because I get a new adventure pretty frequently. I appreciate the gesture though and it is a great indicator that people care. There is a small local store that I like to frequent to purchase food and the owner is super nice and special orders a lot of things for me. In the past I would normally go once a month but in the last year I have not gone in at all. They had noticed I was not around when Mel showed up and asked about me. They ended up giving me a Christmas gift of an item that they bring in specifically for me. For those that are wondering that that is, they are anchovy fillets. There is a huge difference between higher end ones and cheap ones. Higher end ones are delicious. My kids love eating anchovy pasta.
I appreciate the kindness that I received from friends, colleagues and local businesses recently. Melanie and I try to always support local businesses and will buy from them even if they are a bit more expensive. The service and relationship you build makes it worth it. We have built up a great relationship with the location for Xavier’s hockey training and it helps out. They knew that I was not going to be available for awhile and the coach took a quick video of Xavier practicing his shooting and sent it to me. I am hoping he gets better at shooting so he can try and score a goal. The likelihood of that happening is low as the other team should never be pulling their goalie right now. The team has yet to get double digit shots on net.
While in the hospital I had quite a few nurses. The one from the ED remembered me from my previous visits and we had a nice chat. No one wants to do a bad job, but some seem to have no common sense. One of my nurses had wanted me to urinate into the urinal, but she just handed it to me and told me to urinate in the container. I replied ok and did not do it. Hours later she came back and was surprised I did not do it yet and told me that if I did not do it soon they would need to insert a catheter. This annoyed me because I did not know that this was a timed event. She then proceeded to close the curtain and wait for me to pee. I told her that she was making it difficult for me and I am going to go to the washroom. It was then re-iterated that I had to use the urinal so it could be measured. You would think I would just go into the washroom and do that. Obviously I know to use the urinal to measure as opposed to using the toilet and trying to gauge amount. Little did I know that she would wait outside the door and ask if I had finished. I told her to stop talking as it kept on interrupting me. I failed in my urine collection and left the room, only to notice that she was no longer there. I went back into the washroom and urinated almost immediately and left it on the table for her. It was interesting how oblivious she was to things, she told me that she is a nurse that goes above and beyond. Throughout the couple of days she did things that annoyed me and my room mate, but she did not realize that some of the things she was doing was not helpful. I told her when she was not being helpful and she seemed genuinely surprised. She may go above and beyond for nursing data collection, but at the annoyance of the patient. This was my first ever bad experience with a nurse, but it was not too bad. She was trying at least.
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