Thankful Thursday

[mdlbear]

Today I am grateful for...

• k, g" and s", who (with N's excellent management) are doing most of the heavy lifting (both figuratively and in many cases literally) involved in packing up and cleaning out the house on Whidbey Island. NO thanks to my procrastination and other varieties of self-sabotage.
• Having sorted through some things that had been passed over, and finding things I had feared were lost, and others that I didn't even know were missing.
• Tests proving to my health care team what I already knew and had been telling them for weeks -- that my urethra was no longer blocked even a little bit. For which I am also exceedingly grateful.
• More genetic testing results, also negative, showing that I am not at risk or a carrier for genes associated with not only cancer but any other health conditions. (There must be a simpler way of saying that.)
• Junk-hauling services.
• Git, GNU Make, and the other scripts that save working drafts for as long as it takes for me to realize that I hadn't posted them. See below. NO thanks for whatever distracted me from posting last week.

... and LAST thursday, I forgot to post for some reason, but was grateful for...

• Not being a customer service rep for LiberatorMedical, or indeed any DME/medical supply company stupid or unlucky enough to pick brightree.com as their patient-portal-as-a-service provider. (0126 -- by the time you read this I will already have posted the implied rant)
• A cuddly cat to go to go to sleep and wake up with -- thanks, Ticia.
• A diagnosis (entropion of right eyelid and trichiasis of eyelid of both eyes -- don't look those up if you're squeamish) and treatment suggestions (tea tree shampoo and hypochlorous acid spray -- aka eye bleach?!) for my eyelid problems.

Comments

[kengr]

More genetic testing results, also negative, showing that I am not at risk or a carrier for genes associated with not only cancer but any other health conditions. (There must be a simpler way of saying that.)

"clean gene scan"?

[mdlbear]

Welcome to the clean gene scene? The actual wording they used was

Clinical summary: There were no known, clinically significant genetic changes identified that confer a genetic predisposition to, or carrier status for, certain types of cancer, heart-related conditions, or other types of actionable medical genetic conditions tested with this panel (see complete list of genes and conditions evaluated below). However, other types of risk based on factors including personal and family history, genetic causes not evaluated with this test, lifestyle, or other environmental influences may still be of clinical significance.

... so my wording wasn't that verbose.

[freyjaw]

I guess I don't find many medical things gross. The eye issues sound inconvenient and painful. I hope you get this sorted soonest.

[mdlbear]

Neither do I, actually -- especially after living with Colleen and her Crohn's Disease for so long.

Emptying Rainbow's End

[dialecticdreamer]

That sounds like a very melancholy event; procrastinating is perfectly understandable. Many hugs, and congrats on the medical good news!

Re: Emptying Rainbow's End

[mdlbear]

hugs Thanks

[freyjaw]

Oh. Hubby found a DMA supplier in Lake Elsinore that was affordable and had quality items. It's where Chris found my O₂ concentrator, bedside commode, and my walker. I needed them all for when I came home from the nursing home almost two years ago (wow, already that long?).

I'm still proud and pleased with my walking ability after PT. It stinks to be so limited, but I am actually better than I was before my first nursing home stay.

[wyld_dandelyon]

The eye treatment doesn't sound fun, so I figure the problem is worse! Good luck with that! Working eyes are a good thing!!!

[mdlbear]

The eye treatment isn't too bad, as such things go. I'm fine with anything that I can do with my eyes closed, and mostly okay with eyedrops. Ointment is another matter.