I hope your father is doing better. It must be so hard on the family.
Standby, Brother, I'm about to post an update and your timing is about right. I'll drop by as soon as I get this update posted.Hiya Krip. How are the girls doing? We should be down to a couple of weeks before flip now, depending on what several means. I took it as three.
I hope you and the family are doing better these days. Swing by my journal if you have the time. I'd love to have you drop in.
Yeah, Dad is doing much better but still in rehab. Hopefully, he'll be good enough to come home in a week or two.Hey Kripster.
Back on topic - how's that snazzy looking light performing? As good as it looks?
Sending all my best vibes your way!
Thanks, Amy!Bloody hell Krip - that’s a lot for a person to be carrying on with
Nice update on the plants. They all have really nice posture going on - and I’m sure you’ll sleuth the solution to whatever ails them. Take it easy whenever you can... that Chem ‘91 still rocking your world?
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Still awesome! I hope you find more expressions that you love.
... then, I’m not so bothered by not keeping clones.
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Thanks, Tra, and I'll gladly take the PowerPoint. Any new info is always welcome, though, I've become quite an expert on the disease myself.
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Good morning KThanks, Tra, and I'll gladly take the PowerPoint. Any new info is always welcome, though, I've become quite an expert on the disease myself.
In my personal opinion, it's caused by a toxic build-up of heavy metals in the system. I've asked my Dad for years to try some homeopathic/natural chelation therapy but he's more of a believer in modern medicine which, again in my opinion, only adds to the toxic build-up of the heavy metals.
As for his kidneys, for a couple weeks he was having problems urinating and said it was painful when he did. Doctors first gave him a broad spectrum antibiotic thinking it was a UTI. When that didn't help and tests came back showing no UTI, they put him on FloMax thinking maybe some prostate issue.
He went from getting up himself one morning, getting dressed himself, walking to the den and going to the bathroom himself, to not even being able to hold a telephone the same afternoon. He was taken to the emergency room and then admitted to hospital.
On Day #1, the nurse told me "We're calling it chronic kidney failure". I asked if he would need dialysis and they said it wasn't that bad. I asked if it was reversible and was told, "Not really, sometimes maybe, it can get better".
On Day #2 a different nurse told me that it's not chronic kidney failure, it's just a kidney injury. I asked what would have caused his kidney injury and she said it could be a number of things, including kidney stones, and continued to say that they didn't find any obstructions. I said to her that, if the kidney stones weren't obstructive, I didn't see how that could have been causing the issue. She agreed, but offered no other plausible explanation.
As a side note, the first night in the hospital he was catheterized and they took out 2 L's of fluid! As a second side note, my research shows that both COVID (which he had) and Remdesivir (which they gave him for COVID) can cause Acute Kidney Injury. One doctor even wrote a paper warning to expect a high number of AKI's due to the COVID pandemic.
OK, so, by Day #3 in the hospital they said he didn't have a kidney injury, at all, and that they think his bowels stopped working which caused his kidneys to back up. I honestly don't understand this and no one has given me a good explanation or possible cause, but they say his problem now is just the general weakness and expect him to recover.
No offense, but the more I deal with the medical community, the more I realize how clueless most of them are (present company excluded, of course!
To make the situation worse, he called my Mom on Day #1 or #2 and told her to prepare for the worst and that he basically had given up. Of course, this made my Mom a wreck, only adding to her worries. On some level, I can understand the frustration of getting sick, having to spend a month in rehab working to fight his way back, only to have another setback soon after and be back to square zero.
I had a very tough talk with him about what's important in life and his head is now "back in the game" and things are looking better. He still can't stand up himself, but said when they got him up today, he was able to stand for three minutes - so that's where he's at physically.
He has a female aid that comes during the day (when he's home) but even with my Mom helping, the two of them just aren't strong enough to support his weight or even get him out of a chair and into a wheelchair when he can't help and is basically "dead weight". I figure it's only a matter a time before someone, or all three of them, get hurt, so I went out last week and purchased a hoyer lift, which will hopefully help the situation.
Anyway, that's where we're at and I appreciate your good wishes!
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