One caregiver forced to care for self a few days
When Kitty's 21 year old nephew has a bad day, I seem to become his favorite target to take it out on. I am not much of a fighter and he knows it. His favorite way of getting me is through assualt. Well a little over a week ago, he came at me again. Called the law on him and their attitude was to take pictures of the visable wounds and come to the station to file a report. Well there were no visable wounds so I was out of luck. Don't get me wrong, I got hurt, but my stupid macho male ego just went to the corner to lick my wounds.
Evidently I got hurt internally worse than I thought at first. Thursday evening, I was in the process of cooking dinner and got up to go check on it. When I stood up I had the worst stomach cramp and got extremely dizzy. I sat back down in the chair just to clear my head. According to Kitty I must have passed out for about 3 minutes and real shallow breathing. Needless to say she paniked and called 911. To make a long story short I ended up in the hospital for 3 long days. My blood pressure nearly bottomed out and had to receive 4 units of blood. The way the doctor describe it was evidently my spleen ruptured during the assult and some how healed itself. But I had lost a lot of blood internally.
Night before last I was finally able to come home. I am on lite duty for a week or so, nothing strenious. These limits make my caregiving a little challenging, but my daughter is a big help and kitty is able to transfere herself fairly well from the bed to the bed side toilet or wc. It was a pain in the neck trying to tell my daughter how to do kitty's meds over the phone in bed. Lesson learned, work on swallowing this stupid male ego and learn to ask for help more than I do. Also need to teach my daughter a little more on the meds. Only the good Lord above knows if and when I might go down again.
Hopefully I will have enough stama left to make it to chat tonight.
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