Category: hospital

Appointment

Darren Long1 Comment

On the last day of the year, I headed over to the hospital again (for the billionth time) to see my Psychologist. Not a Psychiatrist, but a Psychologist. Got it?

Just talked back and forth….  la la la….

And what does the Psychologist tell me? “You should need a Psychiatrist.” Oh, great…. Psych here.. Psych there..

Psych-ee the Brain. Okay.

So, I guess I’ll be doing that stuff down the road… someday soon. I just have to “find” one and “pick” one? Just as long as this person that I am talking to can understand… whatever… my stuff… brain… mmmmm…?

So, what’s been going on?

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What is up with this “WHAT? I haven’t written for a month?” stuff? That’s just not right (write?).

Just trust me, I am still alive and still able to safely & correctly write into this media. The problems I seem to be showing that I have are no more than a change in everything I have been doing in the past. Discuss this? No. Not today.

Back to living… I got the new doctors over at the KU Med and have been very successful with them. Just had another appointment on Wednesday of this week and have chosen to start seeing a Psych in the town that I live in, rather than commuting the many miles all the way to the KU hospital where my surgeons are located at. This is going to be helpful.

Not too much else. I have had some very helpful communication with a long-time friend. This has helped in many ways.

I’ll stay more communicable (more often) once more exciting things happen that are worthy of communicating about. Right now, things are still going good and quiet. 🙂

Yeah, yeah, yeah…

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I’m alive! Alive!

This is “just” what the hospital says to me that I can honestly remember in my head: show up and wait in the waiting room, and leave the day when I do. When I was checking into the hospital, this place had quite a few people coming in… Next, it just comes to my mind that I just awaken after a couple weeks right before I was walking out the door. I have absolutely no idea what has been happening between “after showing up” and “ready to leave and walk out the door”. Uh, okay…. This was several weeks: January 23rd – February 11th.

Ok… After stepping out of the hospital on February 11th (and eating IHOP), I went to Meadowbrook Rehabilitation Hospital there in Gardner, KS. Mmmmm…. This was different type of new location to me and I had NO real idea what was going to be going on until I got there and was dropped off to a room. Well, that’s somewhat okay… I had to stay 2 weeks. Now, I had to do therapy everyday while I’m there. Whatever. Nothing too hard. They also were checking if I was half-way smart enough to cook biscuits, cakes, and cookies just to see if I can. Everyday, I would tell them to let me have the foods I would make and sometimes we’d remember and sometimes we wouldn’t. Whatever. I always did the cooking right there basically in the same small kitchen as the workout room. This meant that I only had one lady watching me as I did this all this “stuff”. Now, there was only once near the end of my being at that building, I had four ladies ask me come to another large kitchen type room located in an opposite location of the building. When I went there, I had four younger ladies than me come with me and they just talked with each other while I cooked a bit. Sometimes given the chance to eat. ha ha… 

There were other things I did at Meadowbrook Rehabilitation Hospital: Using weights and pedaling and walking. Oh, one more thing, one lady that worked up front automatically thought that I could fix her Apple Notepad. I know nothing about those, but I said I probably could just so I could give it a try and maybe play with it. No success. Oh well. I brought my computer though.

I came all the way back home from after staying 2 weeks at the Rehab Hospital location. My opinion, the place was crazy but I enjoyed some of the other people staying there.  It wasn’t very good thinking: I hadn’t been in the “best mood” and working in the “best thinking head” for the best excuse to write for myself. Things are working better today.  Today, being Thursday March 6th… hard to say what I’m doing.

I’m still waiting to hear back from the state for the returns on disability. This was a very, very quick court time. My lawyer told me that I had over a 99% of winning that court. When this happens, this should help out. I’ll see exactly if I won within a few weeks. This is sounding good. We’ll wait on that.