It's 7:30 and I just wanna go to bed!! It's been a productive day (my fav) but now I have a headache, a sore throat and I'm sleepy. Guess that's because today is the first I haven't had my afternoon nap in the last 5 days. Not good. Good grief, I need to toughen up.
I've had lots of help with Colby since my slice-n-dice, just not from the extra hours I requested while recovering from surgery. FYI, sneezing while you have stitches in your throat is not a lovely experience. It think the extra nursing hours are just now getting approved, as they are sending out a new nurse tomorrow. Yesterday's "shifts" included the ex, our super fine shopaholic babysitter and 1 of Colby's nurses (don't forget the other nurse is MIA lately.) Had to use respite hours for the nurse last night, which is total bullshit. Today mama came over to help. We got brave and decided to get Colby outside so he could practice driving his power chair. Neither of us can pick Colby up, hence, the beginning of our problems. Oh sure, we'll just drag out the Hoyer lift that's been sitting in the corner collecting dust for months. All I can say is I'm thankful Colby is a sweet, patient boy and I'm really thankful no one was around with a video camera. We managed to unfold the lift, get the sling situated and get Colby up in his wheelchair. Only took 57 minutes or so! Seriously, it took about an hour. It was worth it to see Colby drive around the parking lot. He did great today. I would say it was 80/20, 80% of him really driving with purpose, stopping on purpose and even avoiding parked cars, the other 20% not really giving a crap if he ran into cars or off in the grass or not. That's real progress! Getting him out of the wheelchair with the lift was another story. Not sure what went awry, but it wasn't pretty. His butt started to slide out of the bottom of the sling. I was scared to death he was going to fall out out. I about crapped, but Colby seemed unfazed, and we finally got him on the couch. More practice tomorrow!
Made several phone calls today, imagine that. My main focus now is getting Colby another nurse to go to school with him. Also need a nurse to help me with Colby for the next few days. So in reality I guess I'm looking for 2 nurses, a short term one and a long term one. The nursing agency is sending out someone tomorrow. Great. It's been literally 2 years since I've had to meet and train a new nurse for Colby. My goal is to have him back in school next Wednesday. This is a big responsibility and I suppose until we find someone, maybe I'll be able to go to school with him. So if you know any dependable, non-crazy nurses licensed in Kentucky looking for Monday through Friday daytime work, send them my way.
I'd type more, but I really am tired. Going to take some ibuprofen, give Colby his evening cough treatment, and hit the sack early. I'll keep you posted on the new nurse. I don't have my hopes up, but maybe she'll surprise me and be a keeper. Bye y'all.
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