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MedExpress-Grumpy-&TheWVStateFair Last week, I woke up with severe pain in the upper shin. I've have been awaken with leg cramps before. I usually walk it off and go back to sleep. The pain stayed and the leg was swollen. My thought was cellulitis. It's not something to fool around with. It took me back to memories of Grumpy when he was having leg pains. A femerol bypass gave him another year before the pain came back again. Another femerol bypass was done, he went to rehab, caught pneumonia, came back home to hospice and died. We had conversations. He knew that he was in his last days. He said. "he didn't want to die a piece at a time." Unfortunately the last few years were torment. It was REALLY hard to watch. After his death, I was talking to his doctor. His doctor told me that he knew that death was close because once that stuff starts happening with his legs, it's inevitable. What the FiretrUCK!!!! Why didn't he tell Grumpy this. It would have made a difference in the medical decisions that he made. My thought while driving to Med-Express. IF that doctor suggests a femoral bypass, we are talking palliative care. Fortunately he prescribed an antibiotic and lasix. He advised taking the lasix in the daytime or I would be up all night. I am usually up all night anyway - so I am taking it at night. We may be talking palliative care some day but not today. So afterwards, I drove to the fairgrounds for an orientation. I've worked at the WV State Fair for years and it's always the same group of women along with a few new ones. It is like a reunion. This will finance my trip to Biloxi. Hopefully, I will be frolicking in the Gulf of Mexico and communing with some awesome folks. I might do some Geocaching. Afterwards, I will head to Atlanta, see the adorable grandson, and go zip-lining with my .  Abracadabra  |
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The diagnosis was edema and cellulitis - I called it right. Abracadabra
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Before I made the doctor send Joe to a cardiologist, where he found out just how bad his CHF was, his legs were swollen and one of them had the beginning of cellulitis. I recognized it, and started warm, moist compresses along with raising his feet and legs, and thankfully it never progressed. He now takes a hefty dose of the Lasix every morning.... do you know they named it Lasix, because it's effects last six hours? Joe also has to take potassium pills because Lasix will deplete potassium. If I swipe a half of one of his pills, I also take the potassium, or I'll get muscle cramps. I'm glad you had it checked out quickly and got on the antibiotic. Hoping it heals quickly. Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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Before I made the doctor send Joe to a cardiologist, where he found out just how bad his CHF was, his legs were swollen and one of them had the beginning of cellulitis. I recognized it, and started warm, moist compresses along with raising his feet and legs, and thankfully it never progressed. He now takes a hefty dose of the Lasix every morning.... do you know they named it Lasix, because it's effects last six hours? Joe also has to take potassium pills because Lasix will deplete potassium. If I swipe a half of one of his pills, I also take the potassium, or I'll get muscle cramps. I'm glad you had it checked out quickly and got on the antibiotic. Hoping it heals quickly. Abracadabra
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