Home Sweet Home

March 21st

I am home! I can’t thank Beth enough for keeping the blog posts up to date while I was in the hospital eradicating Lucifer! You did an awesome job sissy.

I arrived home Monday night after five nights in the hospital, two days before they would have thought I would be released – but I had my fierce pants on going in on Wednesday and they did not fail me! My stay at CMC Main was nothing I wish to do ever again, but if I had to I would want this group of nurses taking care of me around the clock!

They were terrific and watched over me while I was under their care! They made me laugh and kept my spirits high for six days! We chatted in the middle of the night about how to be good to ourselves cause no one else was going to be that good to us – deep for 3:00 AM!

We laughed at the tiny house style toilet in my room. I got lucky and was in an oversized room during my stay, but unlucky when it came to needing a shower, since somehow that detail was over looked when designing that room. But trust me I used my powers of persuasion and my negotiating skills to get a long hot shower by the weekend! Oh my was that a treat – that along with my Luigi’s Lemon Italian Ice which one nurse was hoarding for me from other patients trays – I was living large. My advice to anyone booking a hospital stay, use all your super powers to get what you need to make your visit more comfortable.

One thing I experienced during my stay was having my blood sugars checked every six hours. So I was able to live a small moment of a T1D’s life and feel a tiny bit of what they feel – wow was my experience a lucky one as my blood sugars remained in the 98-140 range the whole time, I know how lucky I am! The funny thing about this was that I noticed that I was having trouble opening up my iPhone using my touch control and finally realized that the finger pricks were altering my fingerprint – ugh just another annoyance of living with Type one diabetes.

So with all my bags in hand and my wonderful memories of Unit 9B at CMC Main, I was so happy to arrive home to my own shower and 9 hours of sleep. My home care team of Steve and my sister Suzy picked up where the nurses on 9B left off. Then on Tuesday the surprise arrival from my “Stand By Me Friend” of over 50 years Tish, I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to be home and being watched over by those who so love me! Mom arrives today and Beth gets home on Friday, I expect my new normal to begin to take shape this weekend. There will not be any cycling for a bit but some walking shall commence once the rain stops. Love to my mob of warriors for your prayer power to get me to this point. We have eradicated Lucifer now let’s keep him away.

PS During my first shower at home on Monday night – I used my brilliant idea from my days of chemo and put the garden stool in the shower. Well this time not so brilliant as the soap made it very slippery and I found myself slipping off and onto the shower floor – I didn’t break anything but was sure I popped a staple but fortunately not…ugh the klutz in me shines bright for all to see!