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Pixies and hugs Darlene. Being a caregiver is a tough job and you sound as if you cold use a break. My mom was in a similar situation as you and would occasionally "run away" for an hour. Years later, we learned that she would park behind the local church for a short snooze in the car. She said it was better than strangling my father and yelling at us kids.
Take care of yourself.
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Darlene, just wanted you to know I think of you guys often. I hope Lenny has continued to improve, and that you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Thank you so much.
I haven't been back because there's not too much to say about Lenny and his progress and I've had other stressful things I've been dealing with. He's getting there very slowly and won't be going back to work next week like I thought he would be able to. We had a follow up with the doctor this morning and just got home a little while ago and the doctor's comment was this:
"If you're watching tv, do leg lifts until you're ready to puke, then keep doing them. You need to push through the pain and not stop and if you don't have a love-hate relationship with your therapist, you need to get a new one."
We both laughed at that but it's true. Hopefully Lenny will start to push himself more (I know he has been some) and can go back at the end of next month.
I really don't want to explain everything here on the boards but needless to say, no it wasn't a good Thanksgiving. My mother may be my mother but she did some things that are just unforgivable truthfully. Thankfully Abby was not home at the time - she was off at school since some of it happened Wednesday - but mom took it to a point where it shouldn't have gone. The people that she pulled into this whole drama basically told her to her face she was in the wrong and we all know that didn't go over well. Thursday I made dinner - and attempted to eat - and that didn't work so well and my stomach still isn't 100%. Lenny and my mother are not talking at all which is actually fine by me but it's stupid and my aunt has said she won't ever come back for Thanksgiving.
So yeah, that sums up my week in a nutshell. It's a week that won't be forgotten anytime soon even though I wish I could. But yeah, Lenny is getting there and will be out at least a couple more weeks
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Sounds like Lenny has a wise doctor. Let's hope your Christmas present is Lenny going back to work. Being home for a long time isn't fun.
Families can be difficult and yours sounds like it has extra stress built in. Please don't forget to take care of yourself. Find time to do something special to relax and have fun. It sounds like you are the one who has to hold things together. So take care that you do not ending up breaking, too.
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Sorry to hear about your lousy Thanksgiving events, Darlene.
Tell Lenny that we all agree with the doctor! I know it must be tough, but he really needs to do the PT to get back to his 100%.
The parent thing is excruciating, I’m sure. My mom said something to Joel recently, and it didn’t even register with me at first, but it was just plain rude. Later, I told him as much, and I mentioned to her a few days later that he was a little hurt by it. She apologized, but sometimes she just says things and thinks we won’t call her on it, but I will. The world doesn’t need more meanness, and I’m not going to let anyone be mean to us, nor will we be mean to anyone.
Sorry about all the stress on Thanksgiving. You have a lot more patience than I do.
I'm glad Lennie is recovering. Hopefully he'll be able to go back to work soon.
Liz
So the "good" news is Lenny has been "granted" another month of leave from Home Depot. I didn't know if it would happen or not as when we went to see his doctor on the 29th, he said his office assistant would get the letter written that Lenny needed and it would be done that day or the next (the 30th). It needed to be in basically by Thursday the 7th. Well the letter didn't get written when we were told it would be so every day from the 29th to the 6th, I was either on the phone to her or emailing her because she didn't do it. When she did finally do it - on the 6th - she wrote Lenny could return on 1/8/217 and his next appointment would be 11/29.
As soon as I saw it, I called her yet again and told her it was wrong but her response was "they'll understand what I meant in the letter. IF they don't accept it, give me a call and I'll fix it." Seriously? You really think this letter is going to get accepted? So as soon as I got off the phone, I had Lenny call Home Depot HR and explain the situation where they confirmed what I already knew - no valid dates, not acceptable. I called back the doctor's office and fibbed saying Home Depot called as soon as I was off the phone with her saying they could not accept the letter with invalid dates and she said "I'll rewrite it then but it won't be until tomorrow. This was Wednesday the 6th as I said and I was fuming. There wasn't much I could do with what little time I had - I still had to go to work at the station until closing - so I sent Home Depot an email. I attached the letter to it stating that the information was wrong, I had been in contact with the doctors office and unfortunately the office assistance was uncaring and unwilling to help.
That was very evident to me that it took a week to get a simple letter and since it was only two sentences long, it wouldn't have been that difficult to proofread but wasn't done. I would be mortified to send something like that out to anyone. After I went to work, Lenny called the office after I went to work and was able to speak to someone else. I'm thinking it was an office manager because within something like 20 minutes we had a corrected letter sent back to us and they supposedly even faxed it too.
I don't believe it was faxed - I never got a confirmation email from Home Depot about faxed information which I've gotten in the past - so I sent them a PDF file on Thursday morning with the new letter. Friday afternoon, we got the "official" email stating his leave has been extended. Being the worrier I am because of everything we've gone through, I'm wondering why the email wasn't sent to the store HR person - it was sent to two other people, one of whom we think might be the store manager. I'm trying not to think about that though until next month when Lenny is suppose to go back - which I'm doing what I can to make it happen.
The doctor told Lenny he needs to have a love-hate relationship with his therapist. Being his wife, we already have that so I told Lenny point blank "the only way you're going to walk without those crutches is to walk without the crutches." His therapist hasn't once had him even try and Lenny has admitted himself he's hesitant to give up the crutches. Even the doctor seemed surprised he was still using them so I'll be the one to make him try - and I did starting yesterday. He held onto the counter and he did a better job once he had his cane but it was a start. Putting myself in his shoes, he just needs to get over his fear of falling again (which he could do even with crutches) and I think if he can do that, he'll be more confident in putting them away again (he originally got them 10 years ago when he had his hips done and wanted to hold onto them "just in case). Every day I'm just going to make him do some walking without the crutches and even if he just takes a couple steps more each day, it's more and that much closer to not using them.
Another part of Lenny's problem is he's under the assumption that he's going to lose the crutches and have a normal walking gait. I told him point blank the other day "you haven't had one of those in years. You're not going to get one in a couple months of therapy." So right now, Lenny's (more attainable) goal is getting back to at least where he was before - needing the canes and scooter. Once he gets there, we can work on maybe going beyond but he can use the canes and scooter at work, not the crutches.
So yeah, still stress. Not quite so much now that we finally got that letter and his medical leave extended but there's still stress. No time of year is good for it but the holiday season is the worst to have other stress to deal with too.
ETA - I think somewhere I had mentioned I needed to get a Durable Power of Attorney for Home Depot to even speak with me? We got it back in September and it was just "approved" December 1st. I just have to shake my head though as unless I've been mistaken about how a POA works, Home Depot says it's valid unless Lenny revokes it or becomes disabled, incapacitated, incompetent or dies. What is the point of having it if I can't do a thing for Lenny if any of that happens? I can't worry about that too much right now though as Lenny is home so it's much easier for him to call, say who he is and "I want you to talk to my wife since she is sitting right here." It doesn't mean either of us want to call for anything but it's easier than when he was in the hospital or the rehab facility -which is more what we got the POA for. They just decided to sit on it and do nothing until it was asked about last week.
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I know it must be tough, but he really needs to do the PT to get back to his 100%.
Seriously? You really think this letter is going to get accepted? So as soon as I got off the phone, I had Lenny call Home Depot HR and explain the situation where they confirmed what I already knew - no valid dates, not acceptable. I called back the doctor's office and fibbed saying Home Depot called as soon as I was off the phone with her saying they could not accept the letter with invalid dates and she said "I'll rewrite it then but it won't be until tomorrow. 
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