harshgrimcon

I'm ambivalent about blogs, but this I have to type somewhere.

There are certain things I don't like to say. At the absolute top of that list is the phrse, "Your ass is bleeding."

I'm my mothers primary caretaker. She's got MS, and while I've never taken the time to learn the details and medicinal terms for the disease, she's had it for years and only has the use on her left hand and head, pretty much. A few years she had some kindney stones and went into the hospital, where she developed Bed Sores on her butt. Of all the fucking places for that to happen, it was in the hospital. I should point out that an infected sore is what finally killed Christopher Reeves. This evening as I was transferring my mother from her wheelchair to her bed, something happened which opened up one of the lesions on her backside, and there was a trail of blood left on the floor and her bed. This is not uncommon. I was required to say to her, "Your ass is bleeding."

I'm not a nurse, I'm just a young man who does the best that he can to take care of an invalid. It's not a job for which I was ever prepared. Even if I were a trained nurse, I would never have wanted this job in a million years.