I just realized that I never made a single journal entry in September. My bad. I've been here, just not too visible. But I thought I'd check in now
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Oh, I plan a full post-Halloween report, maybe even with pictures if I can get my sister to take some with her digital camera. Pictures of my annual pumpkin, that is. I don't settle for the traditional type of carved pumpkin. I have people in the neighborhood who make sure to drop by every year to see what I've done this year. The last year that I did it, it was Nemo with three sharks and a ring of dolphins around the lid that cast cool shadows on the ceiling above our front porch. The year before that was Lilo and Stitch. The local kids talked about my Darth Vader pumpkin for YEARS afterward.
Of course last year I was in the hospital, but we still did some decorating. Sis found some mylar-type garland with pumpkins and bats, which she strung up around my bed on the overhead bars that held my trapeze. She also put up a torn-up witch's hat and a broken broom, with the idea that I was in the hospital after a serious broom-riding accident. See, even in the hospital I had to have a "costume"....
We also had a little cauldron with candy for the nursing staff. Several of them took advantage of it, too. I do love Halloween.
My trache is an inner/outer canula type. I'm lucky that I can cough things up, actually, so my sister doesn't really have to deep-suction me. We both hate that. I've had it done by some of the respiratory therapists who can do it so well that it's almost comfortable, but most of the time it's a lot of discomfort, and a little scary.
Of course last year I was in the hospital, but we still did some decorating. Sis found some mylar-type garland with pumpkins and bats, which she strung up around my bed on the overhead bars that held my trapeze. She also put up a torn-up witch's hat and a broken broom, with the idea that I was in the hospital after a serious broom-riding accident. See, even in the hospital I had to have a "costume"....
We also had a little cauldron with candy for the nursing staff. Several of them took advantage of it, too. I do love Halloween.
My trache is an inner/outer canula type. I'm lucky that I can cough things up, actually, so my sister doesn't really have to deep-suction me. We both hate that. I've had it done by some of the respiratory therapists who can do it so well that it's almost comfortable, but most of the time it's a lot of discomfort, and a little scary.
Ah, well, could be worse.
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