Nathan, Kathy and family gave me a gift card to Dairy Queen for my birthday. I decided that I would use it when we came back into town after Woody's appointment to our Personal Care Physician. Needed something to look forward to! Mine was very St. Patricky a mint brownie Blizzard. Pretty good! Woody had a pecan turtle Blizzard. He seemed to enjoy his treat! This has been quite a medical day. The homehealth nurse came a out an hour prior to us leaving to head off to Woody's applintment with Dr. Harlow in McMinnville...it takes 45 minites to an hour on a good-weather day. Today was not a good-weather day...rained on us most of the way there and some of the way back. We left at 11:30am and got home at 3:30pm. This was a longer appointment, as she was trying to catch up on what has happened to him over the years since she has seen him. She did accept him as her patient, again, and is willing to play the part of coordinating amongst all his specialists and home health and what all else! Her concern about being his PCP is the distance to her office. But my thoughts are that if we lived in a big city, it would take 45 minutes or more to get from one place to another amidst traffic. We have a very pleasant 45 minute drive through beautiful countryside. See lots of barns...go through many school zones...had to slow down for six different schools at least on the way back! But still a nice drive! Woody expressed to her that if it were a major emergency that we would be going to the ER rather than her office anyway, and she agreed. It's nice to stay with her since she already is familiar with with our various and sundry ailments! She took a piece of paper while we talked and she divided up what doctors that he sees for each ailment...wrote down what they are currently doing for him, etc. and she will go sort throuh all that and bring her records up to date. I am supposed to give her an up-to-date list of surgeries. I found the list that I currently have and realize that I am about a year and a half behind. I will peruse the blog and get the list current...what a barrage of things to add over these last few months! Today, Woody's bad leg is bothering him. His home health nurse recognized that it was bothering him more than usual and saw a red, warm place on his leg below the wound. The nurse was glad that we were seeing Dr. Harlow today. Dr. Harlow did look at it. She said that it is all on the surface at the moment and wonders if the tape from the bandages we are using on his wound might be irritating it when we pull it off...plus he is allergic to many adhesives, She suggested a different way to dress sans adhesive bandages and also prescribed a topical antibiotic ointment to use on the red, warm place below the wound. I picked up the ointment and applied it to the red area and rebandaged his wound the way she suggested. We'll see if that works. His leg hurting just started today...it was not red last night when I dressed it. So everyone (specialist doctors) should be happy that he once again has a PCP not just in name only! We were very glad to get back home. Now tomorrow..."just" dialysis. Sunday...church. Monday...Oncoloy and Keytruda. Tuesday...dialysis. Wednesday...home healh nurse...Thursday...dialysis...Friday...that new entity that has hitched itself to Dr. O is sending a nurse practitioner to our house...and back to Saturday...dialysis and Melany and Wade may be coming to help us with our yard (my bday present from them). Quite a list of medical stuff next week...and I just had to reschedule an appointment with his Vanderbilt infectious disease doctor as they scheduled it right in the middle of his dialysis here...can't be at Vanderbilt in Nashville and be hitched up for dialysis in Tullahoma at the same time! So lost one appointment in the upcoming week. At least all are in town or at our house! He really needs to see his infectious disease doctor so hated to have to put it off, but was able to get one in the next week. Nathan stopped by a little while ago with the contents of Woody's old, old, old PC...Windows 2000, I think! But he was able to pull document files off the old one and out them on a tiny thumb drive and reload them on Woody's laptop and amazingly enough they can all be read! Woody once again has his book-read list back...but unfortunately, he doesn't have the books that he has read in the last few years. But all was not lost! To be continued! Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!
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