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[Land_Owner]

I don't get it.  I type in individual links (13) to appropriate photos that are online, with "["img"]" and "["/img"]" (BBC Code) trying to get each photo to show.  I then, enmass, SAVE all of those BBC links in this "Test" thread.  When I reopen this thread to review and MODIFY those BBC links, the lindividual photo links were ERASED and WERE NOT SAVED by this software in my original post...weird!

Yes, I am home, but I cannot walk.  Perhaps there is scar tissue from the L-10 and L-11 back surgery I had in April '24 that is blocking the nerve bundle from communicating with muscles in my mid-section, legs, and feet.  IDK.  I have strength in most muscle groups (just not quadracepts yet). I crumble when stood up while trying to hold up my own body weight.

What I do know is that I have to do Physical Therapy (exercise) every day or I will lose ground that I have fought hard to gain.  If I have to go under the knife (to remove scar tissue or for something slse), I will lose more ground.  Including today, I have laid in a hospital bed CONTINUOUSLY since February 18, 2025 (99 days today), unable to stand or walk.

There is a LOT of indignity being non-ambulatory. A big one is this old house IS NOT ADA compliant.  The wheelchair is too wide to fit through both bathroom doors (2 right turns; 30" door openings; 32" standard wheelchair width)!  I have several other wheeled devices, which are also too wide. 

Therefore, for that sole restriction, I cannot advance to a Transfer Board (a steppintg stone on the path to recovery) to slide from a hospital bed, to a wheelchair, to a secure structure around the toilet.  You try not using your legs.  It is an eye opener as you grasp the plight of everyone bound to a wheelchair!

There is a stand alone toilet, which I investigating. 

Learning how to walk again is VERY HIGH on my list of near term accomplishments - if it is within my realm of daily activity (i.e., non-surgical).  Arm strength, leg strength, mid-body strength, and muscle mass all go downhill very fast from as little as 3 to 4 days recovering in a hospital bed.  Most major surgeries (and I have had 3) are followed by 5 to 7 days in the hospital ICU and 3-5 days of in hospital recovery before they act to release you to a Therapy Center.

The hospital doctor where the ambulance crew took me (not my choice hospital) argued with my Insurance for 30-DAYS over the "pneumonia and cannot walk" diagnosis before releasing me to a Therapy Facility.  That alone, plus a steady trend of loss of strength in my legs and lower mid-section, were sufficient to put me in therapy.  Insurance argued "recovery from pneumonia" was not a condition needing physical therapy and the hospital doctor gave no explanation of why patient cannot walk. 

The hospital Physical Therapists DID NOTHING to help me regain my strength.  They would walk in and commend me to stand up and walk. When "that plan" did not work for either me or them, they would quit, write their reports, say I refused, and leave me until the next therapy session, when we would repeat this "dance of nothing".

In the overarching meantime, the ambulance has delivered me to the one hospital in the District owned by an out-of-County landlord.  On  my 2nd day of ICU recovery the Landlord FIRED EVERYBODY, including every doctor, nurse, nurse's aid, tech, food prep, and housekeeping staff person by a general announcement over the public address system.  My hospital doctors, nurses, and caregivers had 30-days to get their stuff out and to find their own new jobs.  To me, that was a rather rude way, on February 22, 2025, to let the staff know the New Boss's intention was to take a wrecking ball to their facility on April 22, 2025.


Now dissalusioned, my hospital caregivers had little to be excited about at work.  So to say the quality of patient care went down would be an overstatement.  Hell yes it went down...right when I needed it the most!


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[GTS225]

I see a red. Milwaukee M18 tool bag sitting on a hunter green plastic something-or-other.

Not sure why there's all that other prefix on the link in your original post, though.

HEY!  Does this mean you're out of the hospital and back home?  Those things aren't part of normal hospital gear.

Roger