Saturday, July 26, 2025

      I have been in the hospital the last 3 or 4 days.  Was feeling sick and feverish, the Er doctor looks at blood and urine test and says it is sepsis and on to a hospital room. Initially a lot of pain and then they start morphine, antibiotics and lots of saline to flood my body. Probably the infection comes from surgery last week. Saturday I am at home.  Hard to believe how tired I am.

     I always worry that I am not really sick enough for the emergency room. I apologize. Of course I go by ambulance, I couldn’t sit up. My daughter stays with me for hours.

    I live in the NEW. multi functioning hospital bed which feel alive to me. I have a special outside my body catheter.  The bed has many functions including keeping me from side sleeping by nudging me.  Even the staff are wary of the bed. No one wants to set off the alarm. I became an eight year old tethered to a sentient bed. The bed is fair but strict with me. 

     The staff are kind and careful and I get better and became the 85 years old patient again. Now I am at home recovering in my old fashioned bed. I am so tired.

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