But no worries. At least according to emergency room docs. If I have shamefully neglected the kitty diaries for awhile, this is why. Ever since Mom passed, I want to spend time with Dad, take care of Dad, do things with Dad. Hence my diary of last week Rose goes four-wheeling in Wisconsin.
After all that activity, his hip hurt him VERY badly. I was a bit sore myself haha. He was afraid of deteriorating cartilage in his hip (he’s very afraid of surgery, if he has to be off his warfarin for even a few days, his blood clots — that was responsible for his second heart attack, when he had spinal stenosis surgery).
As it turns out, his hip cartilage is fine. The problem is a little bone spur cutting into a vein there and causing bleeding into the surrounding tissue. He got quite alarmed yesterday evening, there was still a lot of pain, and a continued trickle of bleeding, so I took him in. Well. You know what the emergency room is like. We were there for four hours (making good time, it’s usually six or more), and they found nothing that particularly alarmed them, so they let him go home. I worry about this continued trickle of bleeding though. His whole backside is blue from it, and when you are on warfarin, it’s VERY difficult to stop bleeding once it starts.
Dad is Dad, though. Joked with all the doctors and nurses, (they love him) and wanted to discuss politics on the way home. Dad likes to argue with me on basis of being one of those old-fashioned Republicans haha. He reluctantly realizes there is no such thing anymore, although he keeps wishing there was. He is definitely no Trump supporter, and didn’t vote for him. He voted third-party and then APOLOGIZED to me for helping to screw things up for Hillary. I told him no worries Dad, Hilly took Minnesota anyway, so relax. But it was definitely an eye-opener for him about that sort of voting.
He gets depressed sometimes. He says “the government would like me to just die already, so they can quit paying my SS, Medicare, and Tricare”. I said yeah Dad, and f them — that’s exactly why you must stay alive to vote in 2018. He has gotten very much more emotional than he used to be, easily moved to tears, and if I don’t call him for a couple days, he will call and go is everything all right? I have pledged to myself to check in at least every other day (don’t want to overdo it, he would suspect I was worried about him if I called every single day).
On the plus side, his stress test turned out excellently, and his doctors are very pleased with his overall health, for his age (he will be 87 in June).
Here’s a couple of new Marvin and Teddie pics, which I wasn’t in time to post in the Caturdai diary. Hello to all you lovely peeps.
Love, Rose