Mom at the Hospital

Mom is at the ER right now so she while know what is going on with the hives that she had whole up to yesterday morning. They looked like bites when I first looked at them but it a little while they had changed from littlebites to diaper rash looking on her back and butt. Then her face had started swelling, she looked like she had dental work done on one side of her face and then she went to the doctor with Dad and when she got home she looked like a chimpmunk with nuts in her cheeks. It would go down the swell right back up again, this morning there is very little swelling left in her face, but the rest of her looks like she has shingles but it not shingles ( we hope it is not) and she sai that it hurts and itches really bad. Last night she was so uncomfortable that I took a washcloths with cold water and alcohol and wipe her back, legs arms and butt down and then sprayed her down with Benadryl spray. That helped a little and then she took Benadryl tablets to help with the itching. Her left hand had welts on it and they were red and swollen and hot to the touch so I put her hand and arm in a icepack to hep with the swelling and warmth and it seemed to help for a while but when I take it off it would go right ack to what it was before the icepack. Hopefully she will find out what is going on and the ER can give her something for the itching and swelling. She tried to call the doctor and they said he couldn 't see her because he was all booked up and she could see the Nurse Practioner if she wanted to and Mom told her no that she didn't know her and the ARNP didn't work for the doctor Mom sees so Dad took her to the ER. Before they left, Dad came in my room and asked me to call his uroligist and see when his appointment was because the hospital told him that his appointment was another day so I called and the hospital was wrong and it really bothers Dad if he doesn't know excatly when he has an appointment and half the tiem he forgets and we have to remind him a dozen times before anyway, he is losing his mind and driving us crazy in the process. So I am patient;y wiating for them to get home so know what is going on and what is wrong with Mom. I am hoping that she doesn't have to stay in the hospital for any length of time because I willbe going crazy with Dad by myself and he will be a basket case becuase he can't do anything on his own and I don't know if he will be able to go to doctor's without someone to be there with him and he doesn't want me there for some of them because he gets embrassed when they do test and he has to be undressed and it doesn't bother me because I don't look and I think of other things to keep my mind off his test.
Will update later when I know something about Mom!!!!!!!!!!!!

Crazy Things are happening around here

Things around here are not exactly normal. Yesterday was shopping day because he has a test at the hosiptal this morning. Mom got up with welts on her back and butt and then they showed up on her arms and legs and after a while her face looked like she just had a tooth pulled. It was only on one side but after about 20 minutes her mouth was gettin pufy and now her lower jaw is swollen and looks like she had all her teeth pulled. It is really weird, the only thing that is new is the Mucinex that she has been taking for her sinuses, but she has been taking it for about 3 weeks but she had bought a bigger bottle yesterday, she had been taking it and maybe the lot is different or she has delevolped an allergy to it but I told her to stop taking it and see if it helps and she is taking Benadryl for the itching and the swelling of the welts. She is also putting alchol on the spots to help with the itching. She looks like a chimpmuck with nuts in their cheeks, it really looks funny but it really isn't bcause she looks miserable. If it was Dad it would be typical but Mom is not usually allergic to medicines. Dad is allergic to alot of medicines either prescriptions ot OTC and there is not alot of things that he can take for the hives, he is usually going to the hospital for shots, we used to have the stuff here but it is out of date so we can't use it for Mom's stuff today. They are going to the hospital for Dad to have a test done and if the symptoms get any worse she cna go to the ER and see what is going on with her and I am hoping that is going to get worse and they start clearing up soon.
Well, Dad and I are not getting along these days. he made the comment that he wanted to go to the county fair on Tuesday so we started to make plans to go that evening so he could eat his way around the fair. So I had gone in the kitchen for something and when I went into Mom's room tohelp with the laundry she had told me that he had changed his mind and didn't want to go. I asked why and she said that he said that he would spend too much time in the bathroom line, I said what he goes hours at a time without going to the bathroom and he doesn't want to go because of that. So I let it go and then asked Wednesday morning if we could go last night and he gave the same excuse but, he was going to go get his hair cut and then go shopping at Wal-Mart and then the grocery store and lo and behold he didn't go to the bathroom for over an hour and he finally went just before we left the beauty shop and he had to go when we were in Wal-Mart but you know what Ihad to go when we were in Wal-Mart too so that is no big deal about going to bathroom and that is normal and it happens to everyone and it is not a problem but he doesn't want to do anything but sit in his chair and watch TV and eat all day and that is exactly what he does. We used to go out t0 eat on the weekends but that has almost stopped compeletly now. We might go out on Friday but we have to be home by 7 pm so he can watch Sci-fi channel and most of the time they are reruns and he has already seen them. We don't go out on Saturday's anymore either we order in or cook and that used to be our routine cook Mon-Fri and eat out on the weekends but that is not what happens anymore except for occassionally if Mom just refuses to cook. When we go out we have to eat fast so we can get back home to his chair and TV. The last tiem we went out to eat MOm timed it and it was a total of 35 minutes from the time that we left the driveway until we pulled back in the driveway. When we eat out Dad eats so fast and rushes us that is not enjoyable to even go out to eat any more,but it better than stting in the house all the time. I get so bored sitting in the house all the time but there is not alot that I can do about it, I wish that I would of kept the truck that I had when I got hurt I could of had the hands controls put on and they could of transferred the transmission over to an automatic and then I could of learned to drive all over again but Mom talked me into selling it so I could get the wheelchair carrier to put on the back of their car to carry my chair, but sometiems I really miss being able to go whenever I wanted to go I could and now I have to depend on Mom to take me places. Even when I ask for her to take me somewhere she acts like it is such a problem to go so I don't ask to go anywhere unless it is to Wal-Mart and the grocery store every week. Anything else that I can buy online that is what I do so that I don't get my feelings hurt by asking and getting some excuse that I know is bogus and then getting mad I just don't ask at all anymore.

Found out what is wrong with Dad

We figured out what was wrong with Dad. He is allegeric to a new medicine that the Urologist put him on. He started taking it on Thursday evening at dinner and by Friday morning, he was having trouble breathing. So we told him to stop taking it, was to stop taking it today anyway for a test on Thursday, and he is feeling a lot better this morning and he is not complaining. So that is another medicine that he is allergic to, he is so sensitive to so many medications. He can't take any of the cholesterol medicines, so that makes his high and can't do anything for it. He carries a 3X5 card in his wallet, on it is all the medicine that he takes daily and on the back is the surgeries and all of his Allegeries and there is a lot of them and now there is at least 1 more, he is not normal about getting reactions to things, once he broke out in hives from antibiotics another time he was having trouble with his sight from a cholesterol drug, and a pain pill he was having trouble breathing and as soon as the pill was out of his system he cleared up and was fine but he can take the same thing now and it doesn't bother him. Like I have said before I think that he is from another planet because normal people aren't like him. Hopefully we can find a medicine that will help him and not cause any problems for him taking it......
Awhile back while I was getting my hair done, the woman there had asked me if I would like to do her wedding album and I told her yes if and when she ever got married I would do it for her. Not thinking that she was even involved with anyone because she had not said anything about even dating someone, so Wednesday she annoucned that she was engaged. Her name is Liz and she used to work at another shop and that is where I had met her. The other shop was owned by a lady that had a son and daughter that used to baby sit for me when I was little. Liz dated the son for a long time and after they broke up I didn't know that she was serious with anyone but I guess she was and I am so happy for her. She deserves to be happy and she acts like she is happy as a clam. So I am going to start looking for wedding stuff to do her album for her and I am also going to do a engagement album if I can get the pictures from her and I am going to take a couple of pictures when we go the shop on Wednesday for aou regular hair appointment.. I am excited about doing this for her since I have never done anything like this. But I have alot of ideas for this album abd can't wait to get to do the actual pictures. I am going to do a mini album also for her when I get the pictures that she has now and then give her the engagment album when I get it done, she doesn't know that I am doing anymore than the wedding album.
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