I was awakened
about 3:00 a.m. by tooth pain. The Hydrocodone—Acetaminophen (NORCO) had
evidently worn off. Since it had been about six hours since I took the last
dose (dosage: take on tablet every 4 hours), I took another.
Alex, who had been
sleeping on top of the comforter which was on top of me, was forced to get up,
too. Later I found him again sleeping on/in the comforter that I had discarded
onto the floor.
Getting my mail
from the apartment mailboxes has been a problem ever since I have lived here. The
pain and weakness in my left leg make the walk around the building containing
the mailboxes difficult. Now the heat and pollution also make going outside
seriously dangerous. Because of those considerations, I have gone as long as 3
weeks without getting my mail.
When the VA
provided me with caregivers, the caregiver would pick up my mail. Now, if
someone visits, I often ask them to pick the mail up for me.
This week I contacted both the apartment complex management and the U.S. Post Office and ask if my mail could be brought to my apartment. The office manager responded that her staff cannot touch my mail because they "are not bonded." The post person would not bring it to my apartment because I do not have "an approved receptacle."
This week I contacted both the apartment complex management and the U.S. Post Office and ask if my mail could be brought to my apartment. The office manager responded that her staff cannot touch my mail because they "are not bonded." The post person would not bring it to my apartment because I do not have "an approved receptacle."
Today the mail carrier did take all of my built up mail from my mailbox and left it at the apartment
complex office where most of my packages are delivered. That’s much
better! At the apartment complex's office, I walk less than half the
distance that I do at the mailboxes. Sometimes, if the right staff person is there,
she will bring my mail out to me in my car. So today I did get about three weeks of mail today, including my VA prescribed medications for diabetes and congestive heart failure.
Again I have spent
much of today making telephone calls to find a dentist to extract tooth #12.
What Dr. Lavely requires—$250 - $350 at time of treatment—is more than I can
afford. Besides which, it seems exorbitant for pulling one tooth that is already
loose! As has been the story of my search these last couple of weeks, I found
no dentist to pull the tooth. Tomorrow I shall again try the University School
of Dentistry. I have read that they have one day a week set aside for dental
emergencies, if one can call this an emergency since it has been going on for
two weeks as of tomorrow!
A friend looked up Hydrocodone—Acetaminophen (NORCO), the pain medication the dentist prescribed yesterday, and sent me an
email regarding its potential hazards. The warnings indicate that, with my health conditions, I ought not to
use it. That may explain my sleep/breathing difficulties over the past 24 hours. I
wonder why the dentist prescribed it: I listed all of my medical conditions on that
humongous intake form he had me fill out.
So, this afternoon I flushed all of
the Hydrocodone—Acetaminophen (NORCO) down the toilet. I have returned to
ibuprofen (800 mg), the pain medication I have been prescribed by my VA physician
and that has been helpful through the years for the constant pain in my right
leg.
Speaking of
“toilet,” between the antibiotics giving
me diarrhea and the diuretics making me piss, I may just move permanently into
the bathroom and onto the toilet.
All 3 kittens were
out of the closet today. I was much too slow to catch one or even to snap good photographs:
Meanwhile, Alex was
casually walking across my desk pushing anything he could move onto the floor. So,
I picked my buddy up off the desk and gave him a good talking to and lots of
cuddles!
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