Things just keep getting shittier ...
Hi there LJ and my LJ friends.
Long time, no entry. I haven't read any of my friends' entries in a long while either. I'll do my best to catch up but right now have more important things on my plate that are taking my attention, depressing me, worrying me, weakening me, etc.
Got some kind of flu bug at ConClave I think. Patricia said a few other folks were feeling under the weather. Prolly someone attended the con with a cold of some type and it just got passed on ... dammit! I have a nasty cough, you know, the wretching kind? Throat and chest feel icky and I'm wheezing. Prolly will be difficult to sleep laying down so I may have to try to re-perfect sleeping sitting up. Did it years ago and managed to get little snatches of light sleep. We'll see.
Shitty time to get sick too. I was to help Stu, my dj buddy, with 2 gigs this weekend and one of them was to be on a cool cruise boat, The Michigan Princess. Now with this goddamned bug, I can't and will have to miss out on the $150 he would have paid me to roadie for him. Fuck I hate being sick, especially at times like this. i really hate to let Stu down but called him today and told him the news. I really hope he can get someone else to do these gigs as I don't want him to be left short-handed. He has a few other guys who roadie for him so maybe ... hopefully one of them can help him out. I know I'd be pretty useless to him as I am now. My strength is decresing as a result of this bug so I'm not really able to hump dj equipment around. I'm contagious at this point too so I don't wanna give Stu or the bride and groom (he mostly does weddings) the flu bug on their wedding day. I told him I'd show up and give it my best if he gets in a spot but I really hope he finds someone else. Doing 2 gigs in my current condition is gonna kill me.
On top of all of this, my mother had a stroke on Tuesday. I had slept in a lot of the day on Tuesday feeling like crap from this bug and when I got up, she was fairly distraught and asked me to have Chris (my buddy and our new boarder) cut her a piece of wood to use as a cane. I asked what was wrong and she told me she thought she had a stroke earlier that morning. She apparently woke up at 3:45 am and could not get out of bed. She eventually did but fell twice going to the bathroom. All of this unknown to me until I got up. She could hardly stand up when I got to her. Chris and I got her to the car and drove her to Beaumont Emergency. There we had the usual wait ... HOURS! Finally at about midnight, she got her room and Chris and I went home knowing she was in safe hands.
I've been to see her every day so far despite my sick condition. I just ask for a mask when I go to see her so I don't spread germs. Mother and I have had many differences over the years and in a lot of ways I can't stand her but I guess when something like this happens, I realize I still somehow love her and care about what happens to her. Sad to see her like this. Looks like the stroke affected her right side which means it happened in the left brain. Her right leg is much better and she can at least stand a bit now. She has a hard time getting words out but seems to at least be in a decent state of mind, no apparent brain damage that is. She can move her right arm sometimes off and on. We're trying to get her to use positive thought and will the arm to move. She'll be in for some therapy for sure and my aunt who is an RN recommended that she should prolly go to a rehab center and live there for a bit after being released from the hospital. I think this is the best plan. Hopefully Medicare will pay for this as we are both practically broke and only have Social Security as income. I am told that Medicaid should pick up where Medicare leaves off in cases like this. I'll have to find out. I may have to take over her financial stuff too, more stuff to remember and be organized about and i can't even keep myself organized now. I'm trying to be strong for her and I just hope i don't have a breakdown over all of this, then where would we be?
More later.
Brick
Long time, no entry. I haven't read any of my friends' entries in a long while either. I'll do my best to catch up but right now have more important things on my plate that are taking my attention, depressing me, worrying me, weakening me, etc.
Got some kind of flu bug at ConClave I think. Patricia said a few other folks were feeling under the weather. Prolly someone attended the con with a cold of some type and it just got passed on ... dammit! I have a nasty cough, you know, the wretching kind? Throat and chest feel icky and I'm wheezing. Prolly will be difficult to sleep laying down so I may have to try to re-perfect sleeping sitting up. Did it years ago and managed to get little snatches of light sleep. We'll see.
Shitty time to get sick too. I was to help Stu, my dj buddy, with 2 gigs this weekend and one of them was to be on a cool cruise boat, The Michigan Princess. Now with this goddamned bug, I can't and will have to miss out on the $150 he would have paid me to roadie for him. Fuck I hate being sick, especially at times like this. i really hate to let Stu down but called him today and told him the news. I really hope he can get someone else to do these gigs as I don't want him to be left short-handed. He has a few other guys who roadie for him so maybe ... hopefully one of them can help him out. I know I'd be pretty useless to him as I am now. My strength is decresing as a result of this bug so I'm not really able to hump dj equipment around. I'm contagious at this point too so I don't wanna give Stu or the bride and groom (he mostly does weddings) the flu bug on their wedding day. I told him I'd show up and give it my best if he gets in a spot but I really hope he finds someone else. Doing 2 gigs in my current condition is gonna kill me.
On top of all of this, my mother had a stroke on Tuesday. I had slept in a lot of the day on Tuesday feeling like crap from this bug and when I got up, she was fairly distraught and asked me to have Chris (my buddy and our new boarder) cut her a piece of wood to use as a cane. I asked what was wrong and she told me she thought she had a stroke earlier that morning. She apparently woke up at 3:45 am and could not get out of bed. She eventually did but fell twice going to the bathroom. All of this unknown to me until I got up. She could hardly stand up when I got to her. Chris and I got her to the car and drove her to Beaumont Emergency. There we had the usual wait ... HOURS! Finally at about midnight, she got her room and Chris and I went home knowing she was in safe hands.
I've been to see her every day so far despite my sick condition. I just ask for a mask when I go to see her so I don't spread germs. Mother and I have had many differences over the years and in a lot of ways I can't stand her but I guess when something like this happens, I realize I still somehow love her and care about what happens to her. Sad to see her like this. Looks like the stroke affected her right side which means it happened in the left brain. Her right leg is much better and she can at least stand a bit now. She has a hard time getting words out but seems to at least be in a decent state of mind, no apparent brain damage that is. She can move her right arm sometimes off and on. We're trying to get her to use positive thought and will the arm to move. She'll be in for some therapy for sure and my aunt who is an RN recommended that she should prolly go to a rehab center and live there for a bit after being released from the hospital. I think this is the best plan. Hopefully Medicare will pay for this as we are both practically broke and only have Social Security as income. I am told that Medicaid should pick up where Medicare leaves off in cases like this. I'll have to find out. I may have to take over her financial stuff too, more stuff to remember and be organized about and i can't even keep myself organized now. I'm trying to be strong for her and I just hope i don't have a breakdown over all of this, then where would we be?
More later.
Brick