{"id":46824,"date":"2021-05-18T07:12:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/chronicles\/?p=46824"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:12:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T07:12:50","slug":"10-13-12-rehab-goodwill-and-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/chronicles\/10-13-12-rehab-goodwill-and-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"10.13.12: Rehab, Goodwill, and Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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13 October 2012:<\/b> Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, USA<\/i><\/p>\n

I had set the alarm for 6:30 this morning, must have awoken and hit the sleep on it as I didn’t wind up waking up until 9 am. My love wasn’t feeling well with the morning sickness so stayed in bed while I hopped out of bed, into the shower, and out into the car to speed over to go see mom. She’s been checked into a “Rehab Center” that is attached to a Nursing home so its been quite frightful for her as she’s afraid we’re going to leave here there. Once they can analyze the kind of leukemia she has and the treatments available, her diabetes under order, and get her to be back on her feet walking again so we can get her back home. Her doctor’s appointment is on monday so will get results and doctor’s orders then. It has been quite scary. Walking through the nursing home area to the rehab center was a bit scary, as along the halls they had catatonic elderly in wheelchairs just laying there like zombies. Not comforting and not something mom should be seeing while recovering. Scary times.
\nIt was odd that there was no one to greet me coming into the center to check in with as I headed back to the room. She was getting her bed bath and was enjoying it so it was good to see her in good spirits. Apparently i had just missed Jackie when she spent time with mom and helped her with breakfast early this morning. After bathing, it was a bit painful for her when the nurse and aides helped adjust her on the bed, poor woman’s neck is really sore as is her hand from cellulitis (sp?). Both her hand and neck was x-rayed a week ago, but no broken bones so they’re not sure what’s going on. Her hand was real swollen and red when she started all this a week ago, but had went down to normal (still couldn’t move) until day before yesterday, and now its swollen again. She keeps rambling on about some fall she had, but no record of it as she’s been under watchful eyes for a month now, and prior to that, there were no calls in to her “help me I’ve fallen and can’t get up” button she wears around her neck at home. So not sure what’s happening. Doctor doesn’t seem to have very high hopes, but is waiting on the results this monday to let us know what’s going on. She has a roommate now, Gladys .. who is 83 like her, with memory impairment, so hopefully the two of them will become friends. The lack of friends my mom has had here since she moved to South Carolina is a major issue and problem with her mental health. She now has family all around so hopefully that will help – Bill and Jackie living next door, Me and Eadaoin staying with her until we figure all this out. When she was ready for her nap, she shoo’ed me out, and headed home. Grabbed some gas for her car enroute, and popped in with Jackie to discuss family plan with everything. Jackie was cooking up mom a good healthy meal to bring over, so hopefully that will get mom going as she hasn’t been handling the food that the hospital and rehab has been giving her as of late this week – all pretty crappy sub-standard meals. She kept complaining about them being too spicy, too much salt, and not good enough to eat – she said she eat’s health food, salads, veggies, and the like – though having lived with her we know that’s not true. So hopefully that’s her body telling her what she needs to deal with the diabetes and leukemia.
\nBack home, Eadaoin is feeling much better and showering as we’re out to get her some maternity clothes and go back to visit mom and do some chores. Now that we have a vehicle again, need to change over our AAA insurance from Nevada to South Carolina here. Its a used older vehicle with high mileage, so have to keep that in perspective. A 1998 Toyota Sienna LE – we’re loving it. As the 1986 Toyota Van Wagon “Isis Adventures through Time<\/a>” is now dead, being salvaged (we think) at the auto repair shop where she died in New Orleans enroute here.
\nVery impressed with the AAA here in South Carolina (Mt. Pleasant area) as they converted us over to the local region easily and no extra charge to add Eadaoin to the policy. They also have a mechanic shop attached to it. Visit with mom went well, she’s exhausted. We took her for a wheel about in her new wheelchair around the neighborhood, took her to a nice lake to view the turtles and the fountain. Fresh air was good for her. Wasn’t sure how ok it was to leave the facility and go a-wall but i think she needed it. Didn’t have much time at the Goodwill, in the northern end of Mount Pleasant, as the maternity section sucked, but all clothes were $3 and under – pants, shirts, etc. so we found some stuff that helped. With only an hour to spare for time to get ready for work, we went home and had about a 1\/2 hour to sit down before showering and getting my makeup done. Tonight I’m supposed to be a Field Zombie at the Boone Farm’s Fright Nights in the Zombie Apocalypse maze. Got to dress hall by 6:00 pm all ready to go. Everyone liked my makeup and gave me great compliments. Alot of the team members are quite young so its a bit weird doing this work, but can’t be picky at the moment. Doesn’t pay very well though. Hopefully it’ll lead to more gigs with the producer who throws the event. Docteur Mangor called while the army zombies were firing up the chainsaws, so couldn’t really get in a right conversation. I was supposed to be Field Zombie #8 – but for some reason they popped me up to be the first zombie. I was placed in a room where I had to attract attention to a screen in a window with a zombie eating the intestines of a fallen victim. I would pretend I was eating it too. As the siren rang in the toxic hall, and victims entered through the plastic sheets, I would push a button next to the screen covertly, and the zombie on the screen would see those coming in the room, get up, and start running for them, and just as he fills the window, a zombie hunter behind him splatters his brains with a shotgun, and a mechanism under the window sprays water all over the victims in the room, then I turn to them, growl, and chase after them, routing them into the next room, slapping a plywood furnace while they left the room. Most teen white males would just say i love you man, or be humorous, but younger girls, teen girls, and African Americans would get extremely scared, screaming, running backwards, etc. It was soo funny there was two or three crowds of African American college student aged groups of friends (age 22-30) about 8-10 in the group, some decked out like they were hipsters and tough looking … but once I zombie stanced and went at them they’d say “What the F*ck!” and back up into the other room scared shitless and literally almost tearing the walls down to get out of the room. I’d have to figure out how to loop back around them to herd them to the other room. Very skittish. Not much room for breaks, as they were over-crowded this saturday night and swamped so sent in groups quicker than usual. Barely had enough time to get at my water bottle to drink some water to hydrate, on my feet from 6 pm until past midnight. They put the maze on hold to give us all a 15 minute break to use the rest room – only one for all of to share, almost didn’t have a chance to go. By midnight, I was exhausted, throat sore from moaning\/groaning\/screaming, and body extremely sore. Got home by 1 am … and was able to finally rest for the night.<\/p>\n

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