Latest Goings On

 

Photo: Miss Cleo, lounging comfortably underneath her human's new premium high quality walker/wheelchair.

View more photos of the walker/wheelchair, here.

Quite a lot has gone on since my last blog post (here), including having been discharged from the UVM Medical Center nearly two and a half weeks ago (more or less), with time seeming to pass by rather slowly or so it seems.

In addition, even though I was using a cane, having taken a fall and skinning my knee a bit sometime in between then and now.

Due to this, because of recently posting on my Facebook page about needing as well as wanting to obtain a new walker with a seat, I was generously and kindly gifted with a premium high quality walker/wheelchair earlier yesterday (Thursday).


It is such a blessing, indeed, particularly since my balance has been rather poor of late (read: vertigo) and I have also been somewhat weak at times. With it having a seat with which to sit and rest upon, it should help in these regards.

By the way, after being discharged from the hospital, Miss Cleo was very pleased to have me back home and the feeling was mutual of course, very much so. She was extremely vocal for a while and would not let me out of her sight whether I was resting in the recliner or laying in bed, she was right there with me.

In fact, she is currently laying close by in the living room chair, after having been laying atop of the dining table, where I am using my laptop computer.

The relationship between her and I has always been growing closer as well as evolving since our mutual adoption in early December of 2014, but it has deepened even more these last two and a half weeks or so.

Speaking of Miss Cleo, she will have her twelfth (12th) birthday next month. Not knowing the exact date of when she was born, other than it being sometime in June of 2013, it is celebrated on June 15th.

On a different subject, within the last post of mine I happened to mention how long I might have left to live. It turns out that what I mentioned was if I had not undergone the palliative radiation treatments, not if I had it. 

Have since been informed that because I had the treatments, I have at least a year or more to live. It is my intention to try my best to make that another ten (10) years or more.

Once again, as I had written in closing last month, ...

As had been the case up to now, I have an extensive, deeply caring as well as empathic and kind support network and team of folks who have been helping me in a wide variety of ways, including visiting me whether at home or while in the hospital.

For this, I have been and shall always remain highly grateful to everyone involved.

Thank you for all of your prayers, thoughts, support and well wishes everyone.

It has made a great difference and continues to mean a lot and always shall.

Oh, before I forget to mention it, I have also been receiving home health visits at my apartment as well as various supplies the home health agency orders on my behalf.

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