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(The)First Aid in the First Apartment

In December of 2015, I was finally discharged from Hell-Crest Commons, the nursing home that I’d been living in for the last six months, and I had moved into the Independent Living Section of Side By Side Assisted Living where I would be getting something called PCA care which basically meant people that I chose myself, and that I was the boss of and would train would be coming into my apartment at Side By Side to help take care of me. because it would be 2 to 4 weeks before the PCA care kicked into effect my parents had agreed to pay out-of-pocket for a private duty aide until then.

Lesley, the CNA who was going to be my private duty aide, was right on time to meet Christy, my mom, and me, over at my apartment on the evening of the Tuesday I moved in.  She drove a … Find Out What Happens Next

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Another Three Months In Hospital Jail and Into the Unknown

Feeding through a J port is supposed to help people with gastroparesis get much-needed nutrition that they can’t get by eating orally or by getting fed through a G tube. A person with gastroparesis has a paralyzed stomach so a J tube which goes straight into the Jejunum skips over that paralyzed stomach and goes right into the middle of the small intestine is a way to give the person.

Now that I had the tube feeds and the IV fluids, I was feeling a lot better physically most of the time as I wasn’t actively starving to death, but I would still have breakthrough periods where the pain would get intense, or I’d get nauseous and start vomiting huge volumes of bile and/or tube feed.  The tube feed was going into my intestines through my J tube, which was supposed to prevent me from vomiting it up. Still, it … Find Out What Happens Next

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