Still in trouble

So after a wonderfully sad weekend, we start off this week with a visit to my doctor. The edema is still there and getting worse. So change of meds, push IHC Home Care to get me something Medicaid will pay for and then try to rest my foot since I kicked something I wasn't supposed too last Thursday and hurt my foot and it finally begins to hurt on Tuesday, really bad. I had to take a Lortab 5 to get to sleep last night since it hurt so bad. My ankles look like a couple of puffer fish attached to my legs, which look more like fat turkey legs. Yeah its that bad. Home Care said MC will pay for TED stockings which are like compression stockings only you wear them at night and it helps the swelling at night. They are so funny to put on and I see now why women have so much trouble with nylons that go to their thighs. Yeah these go up to my thighs. They are tight to get on and a pain but they did help the one leg. I had to take it off the right leg due to the foot incident. Today it hasn't hurt as much and we did have a good amount of things to get done today and it hurts right now but not like yesterday. We will see what happens when I go to bed.

Also this week we began the task of cleaning the shed out of my parents stuff in the totes. I had to stop many times because of things my mom had, pictures I hadn't seen in years, things that i knew my parents had that my dad may want to keep to remind him of the love he has for mom. My mom had a cow collection of figurines. We picked out a few that we will give to our boys, my daughter Emma and my dad. There are also a few things we are saving like a few of dads beer steins. Yes you read that right. Beer steins. My dad collected them. He had many from all over the world. Many were from Germany. So we are keeping some and the rest are going to the DI. We also are going through their VHS movies they had. That's a chore in and of itself. They have been collecting those since we had our first VCR, back in the 80's. Our first movie we rented and watched on the old battle axe top loading VCR, was Raiders of the Lost Ark. We didn't know what tracking was at the time and thought there was a problem with the tape. We returned it and when we told the guy at the counter what was going on with it, he put it in a VCR there and then showed us the tracking feature. He let us have the tape again for the night and we found the tracking and had a great movie night. Then I learned you could hook up two VCR's and record on one while the other plays. Spent many nights at friends homes duping tapes. Did an all nighter at one place copying Sho-Gun and Tai-Pan. We were still up at 7am when the movies finished. Longest night ever. But fun.

Well I am done for now. I am on Lasix and potassium pills along with my other BP meds. So we will see and hope this helps my legs. I need to get back to work and my councilor so I can get my life back in order. I am hoping in a month or two Greyhound will be hiring for drivers here in SLC. If I can get my CDL and passenger endorsements, I can drive bus for the school district during the year and GH in the summer. Both would help out a lot. So that's it for now. Thanks for listening.