Rehab Update 3
-I got the stitches taken out of my stomach tube (that still hurts like a bitch, but better tban before).
-I got up into my wheelchair for an hour yesterday.
-They took me off the ventilator's pressure support for four hours yesterday. I did better than they expected me to.
That's about it. But I'd also like to use this post to talk about my roommate, Matt/Mack (not sure which). He's a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor. He is the most stubborn, impatient, selfish, rude, humorless, pain in the ass of a man I've ever met. I can't stand him. Here are some examples as to why:
-He uses his suction tube (like the ones dentists use), which he shouldn't be using himself to begin with, to bang on his table to get the nurses. No matter what time it is. He even does it when they're there. Last night he even did it on an aid's head.
-He can never make up his mind. He turns his fan on one speed, he puts it on another speed, shuts it off. Over and over. He turns the TV on, five minutes later it's on again.
-He wants to get better and go home, but he doesn't want to do any work to do so. He just wants to magically get better. He thinks the therapy is just to torture him. He thinks everyone is against him.
-Yesterday he asked a nurse "Is this a concentration camp?" Yes, rehab is exactly like a Nazi death camp, you ass. Way to insult the struggles your people went through.
-He tries to pull out his vent tubes. He tried to put himself back to bed yesterday.
-He tries to drink water and he doesn't have the kind of trachea tube that allows air to pass down his throat. So he almost drowns himself, then suctions himself.
-He only does something if he wants to. He rarely follows doctors'/nurses' orders. He doesn't get up and walk when he should, but tells his family he did.
-Oh, and his daughter talks to him like a baby or dog, in a cutesy baby talk voice. I want to punch this woman in the mouth for being so stupid as to think a grown man likes being spoken to in that way. So annoying.
I actually miss my old roommate that whined a lot. At least he had a sense of humor.
-I got up into my wheelchair for an hour yesterday.
-They took me off the ventilator's pressure support for four hours yesterday. I did better than they expected me to.
That's about it. But I'd also like to use this post to talk about my roommate, Matt/Mack (not sure which). He's a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor. He is the most stubborn, impatient, selfish, rude, humorless, pain in the ass of a man I've ever met. I can't stand him. Here are some examples as to why:
-He uses his suction tube (like the ones dentists use), which he shouldn't be using himself to begin with, to bang on his table to get the nurses. No matter what time it is. He even does it when they're there. Last night he even did it on an aid's head.
-He can never make up his mind. He turns his fan on one speed, he puts it on another speed, shuts it off. Over and over. He turns the TV on, five minutes later it's on again.
-He wants to get better and go home, but he doesn't want to do any work to do so. He just wants to magically get better. He thinks the therapy is just to torture him. He thinks everyone is against him.
-Yesterday he asked a nurse "Is this a concentration camp?" Yes, rehab is exactly like a Nazi death camp, you ass. Way to insult the struggles your people went through.
-He tries to pull out his vent tubes. He tried to put himself back to bed yesterday.
-He tries to drink water and he doesn't have the kind of trachea tube that allows air to pass down his throat. So he almost drowns himself, then suctions himself.
-He only does something if he wants to. He rarely follows doctors'/nurses' orders. He doesn't get up and walk when he should, but tells his family he did.
-Oh, and his daughter talks to him like a baby or dog, in a cutesy baby talk voice. I want to punch this woman in the mouth for being so stupid as to think a grown man likes being spoken to in that way. So annoying.
I actually miss my old roommate that whined a lot. At least he had a sense of humor.