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On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:37:02 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

Thursday, 24 April 2025

I'll find time to 'splain all this Real Soon Now, but I'm
five minutes overdue to go to bed now.

Now I'm sleeping at the hospital. (The bench unfolds into a
bed, and they gave me a sheet, two pillows, and a blanket.)

On the way home this morning, while driving down Ninth
Street, I remembered that Franklin reccommends dragging the
brakes on a hill. When I lived at the foot of the eastern
cliffs of the Helderbergs, the rule was "Coast until going a
little too fast. Brake firmly until going a little too
slow. Stop every mile or two and feel the rims."

The staircase Ninth Street used to be still exists, but the
top flight and ramp were recently torn out by a cable
company, and replaced by more steps and a level walk.
--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/

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On 2025-07-06, Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 24 Apr 2025 22:37:02 -0400, Joy Beeson
<jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

Thursday, 24 April 2025

I'll find time to 'splain all this Real Soon Now, but I'm
five minutes overdue to go to bed now.

Now I'm sleeping at the hospital. (The bench unfolds into a
bed, and they gave me a sheet, two pillows, and a blanket.)

Wait...what....hospital?? Did you take a fall?

pH

On the way home this morning, while driving down Ninth
Street, I remembered that Franklin reccommends dragging the
brakes on a hill. When I lived at the foot of the eastern
cliffs of the Helderbergs, the rule was "Coast until going a
little too fast. Brake firmly until going a little too
slow. Stop every mile or two and feel the rims."

The staircase Ninth Street used to be still exists, but the
top flight and ramp were recently torn out by a cable
company, and replaced by more steps and a level walk.

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From Newsgroup: rec.bicycles.misc

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 06:40:12 -0000 (UTC), pH
<wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> wrote:

Wait...what....hospital?? Did you take a fall?

Spouse did, but that was incidental to passing out; still
has Tegaderm on his head, but two spots of shallow road rash
were the only injury.

He's been in and out of hospitals ever since the twentieth
of May, at least twice getting there by ambulance. The
latest 911, after the fall, was spectacular: first the
nearest policeman, then the ambulance, then a team of
firemen. I never did find out what the firemen were about.

We're hoping that this time we'll get to keep the follow-up
appointment. It's a new doctor in our family doctor's
practice. Dr. Darr is really, really good -- but everybody
knows it, and he's booked way out.

The latest trip, yesterday, I drove him to the ER. We left
about three and he was home in time for supper. They didn't
find out why he felt lousy, but he got over it and they sent
us home. With orders to see Dr. Darr as soon as possible.
He's quite chipper now, and pleased to exercise the
transport chair that his nephew brought over today. When we
told him that we were going to get a wheelchair prescribed
at the follow-up, he told us that he had a wheeled chair
that belonged to his late parents. (time out to nag him
about his eight-o'clock pills)

He's asleep in his lift chair. I set a timer for ten
minutes. [he was awake, and took the pills]

The root cause is a foley catheter. If you have a catheter,
you have a urinary tract infection. If it gets out of hand,
you have septic shock and pneumonia. Too much time in bed
and you spend a couple of weeks in rehab.

Parkview has window seats in patient rooms that unfold into
cots, and the nurse supplies pillows, a sheet, and blankets.
The first time, she made the bed up for me.

So I've had plenty of spare time, but no access to the Web,
Usenet, or DosBox. If the resident engineer stays home for
a few days, I must have him arrange a keyboard for my phone
so I can take notes that don't have to be transcribed. I
keep a four-page chapbook* in the front of the book I'm
reading, but haven't transcribed many of the notes.

*half a sheet of pink typing paper, folded in half

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--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at centurylink dot net
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/





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