After being up most of the night with storms (appears a tornado stuck about 1/2 mile from us) I was/am very tired and decided that I have had it with both the home health company that is taking care of mom and with her leaking bags. The first thing I did was called the stoma nurse and talked to her about my concerns. I wasn't upset with her - just the situation. I told her that mom had called me again at work to say that she was leaking again. This is frustrating me to no end so I decided to call the nurse. She said that she wanted to see mom to find out what was wrong and what the best way to fix it. So, I had to take a half day of vacation to take her to the University of Missouri Hospital to see the stoma nurse. She was great with mom. She used a "collar" to add some protection against leakage. We will see if this works.
The 2nd thing I did today was call Sinclair home health to chew them out. I have taken about all from them that I could stand. I called the supervisor and told her all of my concerns. She said that she was going to address them, but again, we will have to see. You shouldn't cross me when I have only have a few hours of sleep.
About the storm last night. We finally went to bed about 10:30 last night and wasn't in bed very long before the hail started. It was about quarter sized and the wind was terrible. We lost power about 11 pm and it was finally restored about noon today. I had decided (before I started chewing out people) that if the power was not restored by 2, I was going to come home and get mom and we were going to a motel. The heat index was suppose to be near 105-110 and with her condition I didn't want her here without air conditioning and no way to prepare food. Of course with darkness you can't see what damage you have gotten, but when the sun came up we were very surprised. I was suppose to be at work at 6:30 - but knew I was going to be late with the garage holding my van hostage due to no electricity. But, when I went outside I was shocked to see all the damage. A HUGE limb had fallen over our driveway, several others were down in the yard and the driveway looked like a green mess with all the leaves.
But, my shock was only just beginning. Once Tom and I moved the limb - was all we could do to move it - I tried to get to work. Trees down all over the road, roads flooded, and no way into work. I returned home and waited for the road crews to clear the roads and the water to recede. One tree in particular was completely uprooted - and the tree base (the root system) was bigger then my van.
Mom had a wonderful visit yesterday with several family members...Larry, Gail, Beth, Brayden, Steve, Candice, Scott, Bre, and Debbie. This made mom's day to have all of the visitors to talk to and visit with. Steve and Candice were here from San Diego and Debbie, of course, was here from Arizona. Mom has talked about the visit several times today and smiled about how wonderful it was to hear all the "joyful noise" of everyone talking.
It was so nice to have Debbie here to visit mom. She pitched in and help with being asked which really helped me a lot. On Sunday, mom developed a leak and Debbie put gloves on and got her hand right in there and help me change mom's bag. That was such a big help. It was also nice to know that Debbie was here with mom so I didn't have to worry about making sure mom had everything she needed before I left or running home to make sure she has a good lunch. By the way Debbie, - the antenna's are now gone out of the stoma, but I said OOPS before I pulled them out!!!! :)
More later - I am going to get mom ready for bed and then I am going to bed. I think she can make it to bed on her own (I hope) if not then she can yell and I will come down and take care of her.
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