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We finally heard to day that there might be a hint to what has been bothering him for a while. I guess that time will show if we are treating it the right way.

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Life most frustrating.

Monday, my husband went and saw the doctor to get his blood sugar under control.

Tuesday, today, he went to see another doctor about the pain that he has been having in his stomach, and nausea. We heard of a couple of possibilities, but won’t know until after a CAT scan.

That is for tomorrow. I know that doctors are there to help people. I just wish that we didn’t have the need right now. I do not like it when my husband is hurting all of the time.

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Well, the time came for my husband to go in for his after surgery check up.

He got good news and will not be expected to return until 3 months. He is feeling a lot better than he was before the surgery. His pain is almost totally gone. He seems to have more energy than he did before.

The thing that we are working on now is his blood sugar.

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I mentioned acne, zits, pimples, and other things. Now I am mentioning eczema.

Can you imagine eczema pictures put up on a billboard instead of smiling happy pictures? They would make quite a statement, but I wouldn’t want to be the one who has them. People who have this stuff go through a lot of trials and troubles trying to get rid of it.

I never was afflicted with it, so I have no idea what can happen to those who do have it. I have seen ads on the TV about other types of skin problems. Some of them are serious, some easily taken care of. Either way, I missed going through those things in my childhood and in my teenage years.

Lately, I have been having trouble with dandruff. Of course I also have touble with dry skin. However, that is another topic isn’t it?

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Acne can be a total pain on the skin. I used to know people at high school that had lots of trouble with their acne.

That was so long ago that I will not mention when it happened. It happened in St.Louis, Mo. The air there was very humid at times and my friends were in misery at the time. Sweating, and acne do not go together very well. We did not have tretinoin, acne doctors, or any of the famous things for acne that are available today. In fact one thing I read about being used as a treatment back before 1900 was whiskey. Imagine walking around in society smelling like a distillery. EW At least now the ointments that are available for use today have good scents and aromas.

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Yes, out there are jobs. How do people find them? I don’t know right now.

I know that jobs in healthcare are really important. My husband spent some time in the hospital not too long ago. There were nurses on duty, there were others who also did some of the duties, but there were not enough.

I was there to help get my husband what he needed that did not require a registered nurse, or a technician. Not everyone has someone who can spend the time in each room for help them.

When I had worked as a nurses aide about 20 years ago, there were never enough people available to do the job. That fact has not changed much in the years that have gone past. Aides do the things that nurses are too busy to do. Nurses, aides, technicians, lab workers - all of those positions need to be filled, but there is a lack of personnel to fill those positions.

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I know that this is a subject that is rarely talked about. My husband has trouble with these things, so does his mom.

I have been blessed to avoid them. Some people will want to get surgery, other will try natural hemorrhoid treatments, other will go for medical treatment that does not include the surgery option.

I have no idea what it is like to experience them. I hope that I never do. I have known others who were severely bothered and those people went through some serious bother. Whatever each person experiences, it is up to them to determine what they will do, and how they will do it.

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I have figured out why some of the tests were run on my husband.

He has heart trouble. He had a stent put in back in 2001. He has had heart attacks, and wears a nitroglycerin patch every day. If I had the money, I would purchase a device that could save his life, or someone’s else’s life.

It is called AED, or ARTIFICIAL EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR. They come in different sizes and with different costs. The link that I put in my article showed some that cost 1245$, and some that cost more. Those things are disigned that they can be used by someone who does not have any training at all, and they could be used to save a life.

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While I am waiting, I wonder how people will be notified about someone who is done with their surgery.

I do not know if they will use call center outsourcing, paging, personal contact, PA announcements, or your guess is as good as mine. We have been to the Day Surgery Unit before, for both of us. I went to have an umbilical hernia repaired, he went to have an inguinal hernia repaired. Both times the repair worked and there was no more trouble with the operation site.

This time, they will use lasers to do what is needed. They call it tissue vaporization. EWW At least i know that he will be under full anesthesia while this is going on. He isn’t the only one who is getting nervous.

I have noticed that if it was something for myself, I do not feel as concerned as I do for someone else in the same situation. I hope that does not mean that I am weird, though.

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Finally, we have a date for my husband’s surgery.

JANUARY the 5th.

He has gotten through all of the tests and been approved by the different doctors. It is amazing what is necessary for each surgery. We spent a lot of time at the hospital running around from one area to another. We had started by fasting for the blood tests that we both needed. The test was at 11:30 since he’d had a low blood sugar at 3:30 am and needed to eat something.

We figured that we would be able to get something to eat and then go for the rest that was needed. It didn’t work out. So, between the running from one area to another and not eating, we definitely got our exercise on. Whew, talk about sleeping really good.

Anyway, the surgery is on. Now we call the day surgery on Thursday to get the exact time.

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