Wednesday 6/1/22
8:36am. I was up and in my wheelchair by 5:30am. My legs were hurting like hell from arthritis but I had a nice aide who helped me. COVID was kicking my butt today. I had all the symptoms of a very bad cold. I did a light of coughing and spitting up mucus. Fortunately I slepted until breakfast. I had scrambled eggs, hot oatmeal cereal and two slices of toast. The coffee was hot and oj cold. Breakfast was good and I ate it all.
Today is the first of June. Chocolatechip gets her check today. She got up early and got ready to go to the bank. Chocolatechip took the bus down to Cove and Main. She walked to the bus stop which is across the street bank. She say in the shelter and waited for the bank to open.
She texted me about her friend Tim Roberts. He was at her apartment yesterday wanting to use her computer. Timm was acting strangely. For one thing he wanted to know why he didn’t know get any cookies. Then he was hinting the at he didn’t have bread for hamburgs. I said he was trying to mooch. She agreed.
We both used to look forward to the first. When we were able to walk we would walk to the bank to get our checks. Then we would walk all the way to the Diner for breakfast. After breakfast we would take the bus to Walmart and do our shopping then take the cab home. It was fun but those days are long gone for both of us.
Well here I am faced with another day and a new month. Always used to feel good at the start of a new month. Probably because I got a check and was able to eat out and get out of the “building.” But now I can’t walk and am confined to a nursing home. First of the month is just another dismal day.
I got to bed around ,9.30 last night. That was a decent hour. I had Meru little trouble with pain. I had a few incontinence episodes . But I got good care. Aide came right in to change. Me after I rang my call light But I had some weird dreams. In this one dream I was going grocery shopping. I was in a store painted bright white. Then clerk’s in the store we’re making funny of me because I was dressed as a woman Then I was looking for items but couldn’t find anything even though the shelves were well stocked. My experience in thisi dream we’re getting worse. My mother was in it and she was very critical of how I was dressed.
Such was my morning and night. I feel a bit better now. I think I’m going to have a good day.
6:34pm I haven’t read the paper. Everytime I start to read an article I fall asleep. I get so frigging tired. I want to read this one article about a surge in Senior deaths due to the coronavirus. It seems interesting but it all I want to do is sleep. I slept in my wheelchair most of the afternoon. Funny. I can sleep in my wheelchair better than my bed.
I had a video conference with a nurse practitioner this afternoon. It went ok. She asked how I was doing. I said I had a bad cough all day. The Alex if I was in any pain. I said I have a lot of pain from arthritis. Then she asked how I sleep at night. I said I have a lot of arthritis pain and and incontinence issues that keep me up. Told her about the nightmares and sometimes I cannot get back to sleep. We had a nice but brief talk.
I also talked a lot with Chocolatechip on the phone. Then I would get tired and in had to doze off for a awhile. I was sleepy until suppertime. I had macaroni and cheese with stewed tomatoes. I ate the m and c. Then I had orange sherbert for desert. I was craving ice cream and pi got sherbert! This made my day!
I had very good day today despite the cough. I do not know if I mention this before but I’m out of isolation. I think the nurse practitioner told me this. Anyway I’m glad bec ause they leave the door open and I can watch people walk up and down the hall.
Well, I’m going to try and read the paper before going to bed. Life is good