Mad Geek
Sunday, February 20, 2005
And I'm back!
Hello everyone! Not much has happened lately, so I figured there wasn't much of a reason to update this blog . . . HA!
About 2 weeks ago (February 7th)I was admitted into St Mark's Hospital for a small stroke in my left vertebral artery which ended up blocking blood to a small area in my spine around the C4-C5 junction and knocking my legs to jelly! I was in the hospital for about 3 days and was released home on a walker. True to form, I denied the walker and found myself a very respectable cane instead. Actually, the cane doesn't look much better, but I couldn't justify spending alot of money on something I hoped not to use for more than a month.
So, I'm now on blood thinners for about 3 months. They'r still tweaking the amount I'm going to be taking as they were hoping to get to me about a 2.5 INR (blood thickness level, the lower the number, the thicker it is). After the first week of medication, I was a 4.4. So they had me alter my schedule with it. Next week; 5.3. Loads of fun! It's especially funny to be told to avoid being cut or anything because I could potentially bleed to death AS THEY ARE DRAWING MY BLOOD!
Fast forward to yesterday. Tine and I have moved into her parents basement in West Valley. The hopes are that we will be able to save up for a house of our own. The good thing about this is that her parents currently live in Tucson where her dad is working. Not that her parents are bad by any means, but it's so much easier to share a house when the other people aren't there!
I was actually pretty worried about us moving since I can't lift anything, but our ward showed up in the form of a small army. Add to the mix our friends and family with a convoy of trucks and we were out of our old place in 30 minutes. It was like watching a small contingent of the Borg come in and clean us out!
Now I'm sitting here in the office enjoying my new 4Mb/s connection to the internet. (BTW, Andrew, to get your connection to upgrade to the new 4Mb standard, simply power cycle the modem and it will download its new configuration when it reconnects to the server). Between the xBox (Jeff, I beat Crimson Skies), cable, and internet . . . now is a good time to be 'crippled'. Well, except that the bathroom is upstairs!
About 2 weeks ago (February 7th)I was admitted into St Mark's Hospital for a small stroke in my left vertebral artery which ended up blocking blood to a small area in my spine around the C4-C5 junction and knocking my legs to jelly! I was in the hospital for about 3 days and was released home on a walker. True to form, I denied the walker and found myself a very respectable cane instead. Actually, the cane doesn't look much better, but I couldn't justify spending alot of money on something I hoped not to use for more than a month.
So, I'm now on blood thinners for about 3 months. They'r still tweaking the amount I'm going to be taking as they were hoping to get to me about a 2.5 INR (blood thickness level, the lower the number, the thicker it is). After the first week of medication, I was a 4.4. So they had me alter my schedule with it. Next week; 5.3. Loads of fun! It's especially funny to be told to avoid being cut or anything because I could potentially bleed to death AS THEY ARE DRAWING MY BLOOD!
Fast forward to yesterday. Tine and I have moved into her parents basement in West Valley. The hopes are that we will be able to save up for a house of our own. The good thing about this is that her parents currently live in Tucson where her dad is working. Not that her parents are bad by any means, but it's so much easier to share a house when the other people aren't there!
I was actually pretty worried about us moving since I can't lift anything, but our ward showed up in the form of a small army. Add to the mix our friends and family with a convoy of trucks and we were out of our old place in 30 minutes. It was like watching a small contingent of the Borg come in and clean us out!
Now I'm sitting here in the office enjoying my new 4Mb/s connection to the internet. (BTW, Andrew, to get your connection to upgrade to the new 4Mb standard, simply power cycle the modem and it will download its new configuration when it reconnects to the server). Between the xBox (Jeff, I beat Crimson Skies), cable, and internet . . . now is a good time to be 'crippled'. Well, except that the bathroom is upstairs!
:: posted by Zuke, 6:50 PM
2 Comments:
Ah! I will do so tonight. I can always use a larger MB stream. I mean, can't everyone?
Jeff beat Crimson Skies too...want to join the boys for a "play-date" Saturday morning? :)
