There was a knock on my door around noon. By the time I got to the door, no one was in sight….but there was a padded envelope on the hallway floor. Before I got back to my chair, a FEDEX truck zoomed out of the parking lot. It wasn’t a nut….it was two nuts! 🙂

After awhile, I got dressed and went out to see if anyone had a wrench. Nope, nope and nope. As I was talking to the manager, a new guy showed up in the lobby. He drives a 1979 Cadillac and looked the sort who understood fixing things. He got out his tool kits, but no luck with a metric wrench.

So….he decided to go BUY a wrench! Whoa….good guy to have for a friend. He came back and fixed my wheelchair! 🙂 It took him at least 3 hours, but that’s mostly because we both talk a lot. It was maybe a half hour of solid work. He refused money for the wrench or his work.

About 6:30 PM, I decided to try out the chair. I did the small block around this building and 7-11. The chair worked great 🙂 Now that it works….it seems like the not-working never happened. Huge sigh of relief here.

 

Looks like we are in for a nice stretch of weather. I need to get out and reconnect with the outside world. I also really need to see a doc about my left arm. It hurt like heck most of the day. The guy who fixed my wheelchair is named Brian. He wears a strappy velcro thingy for carpal tunnel. It’s time I got a new one similar to that. Brian noticed all my wincing and my jerking arms and legs. He said I reminded him of his mother with MS. Sigh….

And speaking of diseases…someone posted the cost of their 60 mg Mestinon pills that they just picked up.  They are $15.87/pill. It takes 3 of them to equal one of my Mestinon Timespan 180’s. So 3 regular Mestinons cost a total of $47.61 and one Timespan costs $28.73. Turns out I am taking the bargain version 🙂 In the old days, it was the other way around.

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OK, so this is backwards. That’s my left hand to the right. My belly button is that protuberance to the left in this picture. This is where 3 seams meet. the one going up is nice and sturdy. It has healed well. To the left , that took forever to heal. To the right in the pic is where my hernia caused it to rip a couple of months ago. The short white stripes are interesting….it’s my body stitching itself together. But darn! The 2 raggedy looking holes at the middle of the seams is new. It has been bleeding. Kind of looks like I got gnawed on by rats in the middle of the night. Hmmmm….that’s what I get for watching the leprosy documentary.

I want my darn belly wound to heal once and for all! It has been 1009 days since I was sliced open. That’s a long time. I can smell whatever that sickly sweet smell is that means I either need antibiotics and/or diflucan to get the wound to heal some more. I need to remember to make a doc appointment. Oh! I wrote that and realized I could do it online. I see the doc on the 15th. When they call to confirm, I will ask if I can get in sooner if someone cancels.

Earlier tonight I went through chills and creepy skin. Now I am burning up and sweating like crazy. The whole fever/chills and ripped belly was a big DUH! That’s why the night sweats have been getting worse. Well, now that my wheelchair is fixed, I can actually get to a doctor. I am excited to be mobile again 🙂