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mimi_sardiniaWell... since my last post (if you commented, I haven't even looked in my mail) the wound started seriously bleeding and I went back to the RBH (way up the other side of the city) and ended up admitted for an infection.
There were some problems with my Centrelink money - I had to fax it off, with a medical certificate, from the hospital, but the money wasn't in my account the next day (I gave Mum my ATM card) so Mum had to go pester Centrelink about it yesterday.
Anyway, yesterday, I was told I could come home on Monday, but I didn't recall about the carpet until this morning so I asked the doctors when they made their rounds and the head of the team said I could come home today.
The problem with this was that, due to my money being late, Mum was out shopping today, so I couldn't get through to her. Add to that Noddy being on my computer (he came up early because my return to hospital was making Mum panic and she just wanted someone around) and Mum forgetting the mobile phone... Yeah, well, this morning I had another panic attack because I had no money (well $3.65 - not enough for a bus fare all the way home) and no outdoor clothing (I'd gone into emergency without anything and that night I threw up, and Mum took that home and left me with some nightdresses and hadn't got back to me with more street clothes), but the people at the hospital helped and promised a taxi voucher, since I expected Mum would come in by bus (it's cheaper - seriously, Mum thinks a return ticket for a senior is equal to just the petrol, and that doesn't include the cost of parking). The taxi voucher ended up covering a taxi fare that would have cost $60. I didn't see the final cost but I think Mum did (she did welcome being able to take a taxi home instead of the buses).
Anyway, I have with me a machine from the hospital that keeps the under suction. It not only sucks out any discharge, but also sucks the wound inwards so as it heals, it heals closed.
This machine however is worth $25000. I have to treat it like gold. Noddy is not allowed to touch it.
It's the smaller portable version of this sort of machine, I had the bigger one for a few days.
But, I am home, and better than I was when I came home before. I still have to catch up with a pile of fanfic, even more now, but I think I'm better up to do so... if I can get time while Noddy is here.
Oh, and on Noddy, he's quite bald. Not that that's a surprise, he and Grey could never escape eventual baldness.
There were some problems with my Centrelink money - I had to fax it off, with a medical certificate, from the hospital, but the money wasn't in my account the next day (I gave Mum my ATM card) so Mum had to go pester Centrelink about it yesterday.
Anyway, yesterday, I was told I could come home on Monday, but I didn't recall about the carpet until this morning so I asked the doctors when they made their rounds and the head of the team said I could come home today.
The problem with this was that, due to my money being late, Mum was out shopping today, so I couldn't get through to her. Add to that Noddy being on my computer (he came up early because my return to hospital was making Mum panic and she just wanted someone around) and Mum forgetting the mobile phone... Yeah, well, this morning I had another panic attack because I had no money (well $3.65 - not enough for a bus fare all the way home) and no outdoor clothing (I'd gone into emergency without anything and that night I threw up, and Mum took that home and left me with some nightdresses and hadn't got back to me with more street clothes), but the people at the hospital helped and promised a taxi voucher, since I expected Mum would come in by bus (it's cheaper - seriously, Mum thinks a return ticket for a senior is equal to just the petrol, and that doesn't include the cost of parking). The taxi voucher ended up covering a taxi fare that would have cost $60. I didn't see the final cost but I think Mum did (she did welcome being able to take a taxi home instead of the buses).
Anyway, I have with me a machine from the hospital that keeps the under suction. It not only sucks out any discharge, but also sucks the wound inwards so as it heals, it heals closed.
This machine however is worth $25000. I have to treat it like gold. Noddy is not allowed to touch it.
It's the smaller portable version of this sort of machine, I had the bigger one for a few days.
But, I am home, and better than I was when I came home before. I still have to catch up with a pile of fanfic, even more now, but I think I'm better up to do so... if I can get time while Noddy is here.
Oh, and on Noddy, he's quite bald. Not that that's a surprise, he and Grey could never escape eventual baldness.
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2008-12-19 13:51 (UTC)Taxis are good, but they can cost you an arm and a leg at times. My dads a cabbie though, so if i call him, sometomes I can get free rides. XD But it is nice of the RBH staff to give you the voucher. :D
O.0 no one would even let me touch a machine worth that much. At all, with my track record of looking after things that arent mine. -___-;;;
Also, 0.0 on the centerlink payment. Then again, given the number of times they cropped up in complaints in my class...
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2008-12-19 13:58 (UTC)Yeah, taxis are a rare luxury for me... or a last resort if I'm sick at work and can't get Mum on the phone. Even so, going home from work costs $13 which is why I don't like to do so.
Ahh, well it may have been because it was faxed in - Mum's heard some anecdotal info that faxed forms take days to process, which is why she went around to pester them. We still haven't done the grocery shopping (Mum's talking Sunday for that) but that's okay with me.