Zephyr,
I try to be civil with everyone but I will say what I believe in regard to my life.
I was discharged today with a wound vacuum attached to my abdomen after the second infected catheter was removed. I had a unit of rbc via blood transfusion yesterday. I warned they would have to give me blood before it was over. 42 vials of blood drawn per week from someone with anemia is insane.
The record of my insulin dosage taken in ER wasn’t transferred to inpatient record because they have different software. The correct dosage is a sliding scale of 10 units above blood glucose of 100. I would have to have blood glucose near 200 to get 10 units of insulin. These bamas were giving me 10 units of insulin for blood glucose of 101.
I crashed from 101 to 50 before one nurse realized her error. 40 is coma terrtory. She quickly got me a half cup of orange juice with 4 packs of sugar and some saltine crackers. Blood sugar rose to 70 about 15 minutes later
The sliding scale with blood sugar number and correct increments of insulin would have prevented the error. More experienced nurses ignored the flat 10 units and gave none or 1 to 4 units if required, some asked me what did I take for the number at home.
I am lucky to not had another stroke. I told them I would survive and live long enough to choke the offending nurse to death. Fuck lawsuits. Go Somali on that ass "If I suffer, you suffer "
Strangely enough every one started to ask permission to do glucose stick and let me choose how much if any insulin to take. I learned something from the Issa klan, treat your enemy like the last chicken in Mogadishu
My veins are tiny and will roll from the needle; most of the veins blow after needle penetration which creates scar tissue that resembles veins to technicians using ultrasound.
I never knew this until a pic line nurse let me watch her place an IV in upper arm. My doctor was furious when he saw the IV because that is the sweet spot for av fistula.
On a happier note, finally had a blend of Hawaiian and African strains and my legs shrank to normal size. Been swollen for days due to delayed and partial dialysis. Feet still swollen but I can see ankle bones and flex foot. I have dialysis today. Keep trying your amazing blends and stay positive. Gotta get ready for today’s round of life
Appreciate any beans from you and will be starting some of your Lebanese soon. I’m so grateful to be out of the hospital and work on my own medicine.
Started soaking some of Zephyr 's 2017 green and pink RSC Lebanese seeds; also soaking some RSC Sinai. Using a blend of 1/8 teaspoon mung beans sprouted seed tea in a shot cup of spring water.
The Maui Wowie, 2 Shiskaberry, the Congolese and Zamal hybrid dried to death in their pots in flower tent. The 2 Maui Mango Haze survived and I will be germinating more of these after the landrace strains are transferred to soil.
I am learning about the wonders of the wound vacuum for a deep wound in belly after peritoneal catheter removal. The bandage changes will test your pain thresholds. Dialysis 3x week is bearable. Can’t complain too much about being under house arrest for wound care. The nurses have been on.time and knowledgeable.
I prefer being in my house for 4 weeks versus another 4 weeks in hospital. I am rescuing my vegetable garden and look forward to cannabis seedlings. Life is getting better
Glad to hear you’re doing better and staying positive this week @DanzaKuduro. I’ve got some @zephyr greens and pinks floating around in my pile of Lebs as well.
RSC Lebanese has been my best strain for pain. I was fortunate to make oil with it before triple bypass in 2017. It was an excellent replacement for the low dose hydrocodone prescribed after your chest is sawed open and nut and bolted like a birdcage
I grew a monster male from Zephyr 's Lebanese Sinatra. I just pray that I don’t have any medical hiccups that return me to the hospital. Tired of losing plants but grateful to have seeds for when I can grow
My wound vacuum had a error message stating blockage. Checked clamps tubing and shook this bama like a snow globe. Its now saying “continuous therapy at 125mmHg”
The Alamo will hold until nurse arrives tomorrow. Not going to Emergency Room at “One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest” hospital.
Looking forward to reading your grow reports. I got a lot of reading to catch up. I appreciate your kind words.
I’ve been hooked up to something similar when I had a collapsed lung, except the tube was stuck in the upper side of my chest, keeping the lung tissue in place. Hurt like a mother. All I got was paracetamol. And the food was pathetic. Old guy next to me kept wanting to talk, didn’t understand that every word I said hurt. Hospitals are really the last place you wanna be at. May everyone stay in good health for the rest of their lives!
Thanks for your kind words to everyone. I am supposed to eat lots of protein to build tissue and fill the abcess. Hospital food sucks. I had a ribeye steak yesterday and codfish with cheese soup tonight. The abcess diminished by haf in the ten days that I have been home. It reduced 1/5 during 3 weeks of hospital.
Hoping you had full recovery. Yes the painkiller is a joke. Using 500 mg Tylenol and breathing techniques to handle 3 wound vacuum bandage changes per week. Love being at home so just dealing with the flow.
Transferred the soaked RSC pink and green Lebanese and Sinai to small flat trays of earthworm castings. Half of the approximate 10 Sinai are showing tails. A few Lebanese had cracked shells. Very eager to grow some of your seeds again.
Germination under dome in a tray below single T5HO light on 18/6 ,cycle in a closet. Poured mung beans sprouted seed tea and spring water remaining in shot cups over each tray of earthworm castings. The castings were moistened with well water and calmag while the seeds soaked a few days on shelf in medicine cabinet.
Sprouts will earn a solo cup. Still weak from multiple surgeries and hemodialysis: taking low energy output approach and doing what I can handle. 25 individual cups for germination is not feasible. Easy to monitor 3 small trays of earthworm castings
Say goodbye to Baxter. He is packed in a box with return label on the front porch awaiting UPS pickup. Moving a 35 lbs item is a task for me.
Lift Baxter from medical cart and place on rollator. Roll Baxter into living room and place in box; add packing foam. Drag box across carpet to front door. Slide box onto floor rug; open front door and pull rug with box onto front porch.
The end of the home artificial kidney machine experience. My wound vacuum machine just gurgled
Okra plant dried in the pot during the winter but is growing new branches from lower stalk. The nasturtium seeds sharing the okra pot are blooming. A gardening buddy told me that the nasturtium would prohibit aphids. The small okra pods are aphids free at the moment.
I am trying a mix of herbs and flowers for pest control in the backyard container garden. Basil, marigolds, lavender, nasturtium, oregano and mint are in this year’s lineup.
Switching from home peritoneal dialysis to hemodialysis clinic. Feeding unused dialysate fluid mixed with comfrey or alfalfa to my garden. The bell peppers like it.
3 of the RSC Pink Lebanese have sprouted and 1 RSC Sinai using trays of earthworm castings watered with sprouted seed tea. The Pink Lebanese had outrageously long roots that tunneled under the ewc before emerging. Transferred them to half cup of soil. I wet the 3 trays with fresh mung beans sprouted seed tea and placed underneath dome below T5HO light. Hoping for more sprouts from each tray before I start another round of seeds
I have 2 unknown sprouts in the Flower Tent. I am soaking Everyday Haze seeds courtesy of Lefthandseeds and Ancestral Skunk courtesy of Reiko. Seeds will soak in shot cups of distilled water with fresh aloe vera gel. I don’t have a lot of energy so growing 11/13 from sprouts under 600w LED in tent.
Hemodialysis requires less time but my permacath failed after 2 months. Quick replacement at a vascular center next day solved the problem. The last peritoneal catheter wound is still healing after removal of wound vacuum machine; approximately 1 month time required.
Backyard container garden taking a beating from long heat spell. Current daily rain is reviving comfrey, bell peppers, poblano peppers are a few kale plants. Will plant more herbs and flowers soon. Hanging in there .
Added mixture of herb and flower seeds to comfrey, kale, bell peppers/oregano and poblano peppers. Mixture contains basil, lavender, marigolds, nasturtium seeds. Topped seeds with organic soil moistened with coffee grounds.
Planted one outdoor 2 gallon nursery pot with spearmint. Planted indoors 3 gallon nursery pot with rainbow swiss chard.
Noticed basil sprouts in a corner of 5 gallon bucket of comfrey. Noticed marigolds emerging in 5 gallon bucket of poblano peppers. Hope that the marigolds will deter the hornworm caterpillars that prey on peppers.
Pulled weeds and dumped into closed container of water. The weeds will decompose into liquid plant food.
Transferred soaked Everyday Haze and Ancestral Skunk seeds to seedling containers. 8 seeds of each strain were planted in organic soil amended with coffee grounds and mung bean sprouted seed tea. The containers were watered with mung bean sprouted seed tea; seedling containers are mostly doubled solo cups with lighter cup for root checking inside usual red solos. A few seedling nursery pots were used.
All containers placed in Dollar Tree store oil pan to catch drainage. Most of the seeds had shells cracked with white root. Seeds were placed in tent under 600w LED on 11/13. The tent is warmer than veg closet and doesn’t require heat mat for warmth. The distilled water and fresh aloe gel popped most seeds by the second day.
Met the vascular surgeon for AV fistula this morning. Left arm has precedence because right collarbone has permacath. My cardiologist has to clear me for surgery. A vein and artery will be sewn together to mature after 6 to 8 weeks to form fistula for hemodialysis access. The nephrologist said 3 to 4 months. I think he is more accurate because he services catheters and hemodialysis access sites.
2 of the Everyday Haze have raised their heads from dirt nap. One sprout has first ser of single blade leaves. The other still has shell on its head. I added TomK [Hindu Kush with unknown strain] to empty cups and cup with helmeted sprout. TomK is tough strain with short flowering time.
Backyard container garden was topped with mixture of basil and flower seeds at end of June. Comfrey and kale containers showing basil and flower sprouts.
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