\u201cMore\u201d is the word of the week.\u00a0 More exercise.\u00a0 More pills.\u00a0 More paperwork. \u00a0More attention to details.<\/p>\n
Nancy has been evaluated at the other physical therapy facility and we have scheduled two (45 min.) days a week.\u00a0 There was paperwork to fill out and as she switches to Medicare as prime provider next Thursday this will continue \u2013 the paperwork, I mean.\u00a0 We were encouraged to do lots more at home \u2013 exercise, not paperwork.\u00a0 Once each hour \u2013 out of the chair and chase the chickens around the yard.\u00a0 (I\u2019ll have to round up some chickens \u2013 we haven\u2019t had any for about 17 years.)<\/p>\n
The diagnosis of gastroparesis, although based on Nancy\u2019s history and occasional emptying of stomach contents, and not on the high tech test has resulted in an additional med, namely \u201cmetohkloepramide\u201d (sounds as: met<\/em>–oh<\/em>–KLOE<\/em>–pra<\/em>–mide<\/em>).\u00a0 What\u2019s one more, at this point!<\/p>\n We learned carbonated drinks encourage water retention.\u00a0 Bad.\u00a0 As does just about anything one eats or drinks \u2013 salt or sodium is hard to escape.\u00a0 That will be the \u201cattention to detail\u201d part.\u00a0 And all the labels just get more complicated and seemingly smaller print size every year.<\/p>\n Yesterday a letter came inviting me (John) to serve the community by appearing for jury duty in May.\u00a0 Fill out the form and return in 5 days or less, they say.\u00a0 What are they going to do?\u00a0 Come and knock me around for 5 minutes or so?\u00a0 I\u2019ll have to see if they will postpone the request for a few months.\u00a0 More paperwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cMore\u201d is the word of the week.\u00a0 More exercise.\u00a0 More pills.\u00a0 More paperwork. \u00a0More attention to details. Nancy has been evaluated at the other physical therapy facility and we have scheduled two (45 min.) days a week.\u00a0 There was paperwork to fill out and as she switches to Medicare as prime provider next Thursday this … Continue reading “FRIDAY — more”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-7s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}