Going home today
Days Walking - 132
Dad's doing much better, and it looks like they'll be letting him go home from the hospital today. It seems that the whole low blood pressure thing was the result of an unforeseen drug interaction between a few prescription drugs he's taking.
Which is good to hear since low blood pressure is apparently one of the symptoms of advanced diabetes, and I was hoping we weren't to that stage yet.
It's a scary stage, where wounds don't heal, your eyes crust over, and lots of other unpleasantness. At least prescriptions can be modified, swapped out for other drugs without said interaction, and so on.
My brother's looking for someone to blame, since the docs should have been more careful in their prescribing, but the docs only know what you tell them. It's very possible Dad forgot to mention everything he's taking. And even if he did, how to prove that? I'm just glad he's doing better, and that it's something readily remedied.
It was really great to see Dad again, and be able to give him a hug after months of only hearing his voice. He looks like he's aged five years since I've been gone. I've only been away like five months, so that's kinda scary. He's lost some weight because his diet has improved since the whole diabetes thing, and he's got some gray hair at his temples, which he never did before.
It's really weird to be back in Los Angeles. I had to go home to feed Maleficent (my cat) and going back into the house with no one else there was very odd. It felt almost as if Dad had passed away, and I had come back from some distant life - with job, family, etc - to hear The Will read and see him buried. It was really a creepy feeling.
Thanks so much, all of you thoughtful, caring folks who sent positive energies our way.
It's much appreciated and reciprocated! Big hugs for all!
Litany Webb, signing off
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Dad's doing much better, and it looks like they'll be letting him go home from the hospital today. It seems that the whole low blood pressure thing was the result of an unforeseen drug interaction between a few prescription drugs he's taking.
Which is good to hear since low blood pressure is apparently one of the symptoms of advanced diabetes, and I was hoping we weren't to that stage yet.
It's a scary stage, where wounds don't heal, your eyes crust over, and lots of other unpleasantness. At least prescriptions can be modified, swapped out for other drugs without said interaction, and so on.
My brother's looking for someone to blame, since the docs should have been more careful in their prescribing, but the docs only know what you tell them. It's very possible Dad forgot to mention everything he's taking. And even if he did, how to prove that? I'm just glad he's doing better, and that it's something readily remedied.
It was really great to see Dad again, and be able to give him a hug after months of only hearing his voice. He looks like he's aged five years since I've been gone. I've only been away like five months, so that's kinda scary. He's lost some weight because his diet has improved since the whole diabetes thing, and he's got some gray hair at his temples, which he never did before.
It's really weird to be back in Los Angeles. I had to go home to feed Maleficent (my cat) and going back into the house with no one else there was very odd. It felt almost as if Dad had passed away, and I had come back from some distant life - with job, family, etc - to hear The Will read and see him buried. It was really a creepy feeling.
Thanks so much, all of you thoughtful, caring folks who sent positive energies our way.
It's much appreciated and reciprocated! Big hugs for all!
Litany Webb, signing off
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posted by Litany @ 10:10 AM
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Glad to hear your dad is doing okay. Drug interactions are tricky. It is possible that one of the docs screwed up, but sometimes these things just happen. Regardless, at least that was the problem and not something more serious.
I bet being back home was pretty strange. Do you feel the call of the civilized world? Is it tempting you?
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