...And I am back to the Blogiverse from my mostly medical absence. Few if any may have noticed but they don't care, I don't care either I just blog for the fun of it now days, if others see it they see it. Long story short I had some health issues, a toe/foot operation that was diabetes related with back issues that had me in the hospital for 2 weeks then 2 months in rehab with PT (Physical Therapy) and OT (Occupational Therapy) until my insurance quit and I had to relocate for 4 more months of rehab at an assisted living complex out-of-pocket. The back pain was what kept me down for so long. 6 months away from your home is a very long time. Being single, living alone and not in a relationship sucks in this situation, that is why I was in rehab for so damn long. No live-in caregiver. Your life gets disoriented and super off track. It is difficult to keep track of finances and lots of other everyday life things that you don't notice until you don't have access to them anymore. There was a period of almost a week when I was in the first rehab center (a regular retirement home) where my old cell phone gave out (it was very old and I kept dropping the damn thing) and even though I had my work computer, another story but I won't tell that one too long and complicated, with recent updates to the network and my lack of being on the network resulted in me being off the grid for 4 or 5 days? No internet and no phone, another long story I don't want to tell the details of (I sort of blogged about it here). Fortunately my sister (who is normally in CA but had come east to help me out some and see if I was getting good care) was able to get my Chromebook from my apartment so I could get back online and was able to get me a new Android cellphone that upgraded me in that department. So I was able to manage most of my finances OK. Work was another story and I did get back eventually.
Without going into detail there are a few permanent life changes. I'd rather not discuss the medical stuff.
I slowly got caught up with some of the TV that I had missed. I had access to TV but in the 2nd rehab the TVs were in common areas so I didn't always have control of what was being shown. A few of my shows I had watched and missed some episodes of I will have to get the DVDs of their last season(s) to checkout what my Xfinity Cable is now charging for On-Demand. Yeah I was away from some of those shows for that long.
I also now have access to my CDs so I can listen to stuff the way I prefer to listen to them and on my own schedule and not just watch some obscure fan made video on YouTube for the song.
2 comments:
I noticed your absence, but since you had said that you were pretty much done blogging, I figured that you were just off living your new blog-free life. I'm sorry to hear of all the troubles that you've been having. Even what you did share sounds beyond rough, which means that it was probably 100x worse than that.
Being a confirmed bachelor myself, and what's more, one whose already got some health issues, I sometimes worry what might happen further down the line, as I could easily find myself with no one around to help should find myself needing any. It really makes me wish that people were still community oriented like we were for so many centuries, as it really did make things easier in situations like the one that you described.
I know it sounds kind of lame, and might be too late, but I'll be sending positive thoughts your way :)
Sorry to hear about about your rough patch... and for not noticing your absence. I follow a lot of blogs and comment whenever I can... but my memory is terrible. It's almost like Dory from Finding Nemo... I just keep swimming until I read a post like this that gets me to stop in the water. Hope things get better soon and happy to hear that you are getting back into the swing of things.
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