Going to make this quick as its my birthday today, and I have cake to eat and places to go!
Yesterday was a big old wash of a day. When the VA neurology appointment was made and I was notified by phone, I mistakenly thought that the appointment was for september when in actuality it was made for October 24th.
This is waaaaaay too long. Hes lost a lot of weight and needs those meds reviewed, and the whole swallowing thing has become a HUGE issue.
Ambushed yesterday by multiple phone calls from Tunnell wanting to have a 'meeting' with me regarding me giving him liquid to drink. His dietician...whos seen him three times in a month, his speech therapist who just started regularly working with him, his social worker Igor started the whole thing in the morning.
I said Im not too sure Im interested in a 'meeting'. They need to understand that he was becoming severely dehydrated and no one in that facility was doing anything about it, so I was. I think the bottom line is they are worried about legal liability should he have an issue without anyone there....but more importantly why has it been nearly a month and they are bringing this up now?
Dietician Im explaining the value of real whole food nutrients and not chemical laden crap. She says all the food is FDA approved....the same FDA that is approving multiple medications that are killing people, deforming babies, and permanently damaging organs, right?
Anyway...Richard and I talked on the phone several times during the day about what was going on. I encouraged him to not wait for his therapists to show up any longer and to do his own vocal exercises everytime he was awake. And to do arm lift and things of that sort to take better control of his own desinty which he agreed was good advice.
I intentionally took the morning for myself to take Buck out for a nature walk, but he was being an asshole, then on the way back I got the first call from Tunnell. I was emotionally charged so put off my visit for a bit to try to tackle the VA situation.
I was home bound for the most part waiting to hear back from my VA contact to try to get him in faster. I finally got him moved up to October 3rd about 15 minutes ago.
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