OT The Home Isolation Thread- What are you doing?

Just think, if you bought a house there and bought one for me, too, then we could spend our days together deep sea fishing. That is if you liked fishing half as much as I do.

 

We've been to the grocery store a number of times. Lowe's, Home Depot, etc. I'm so over this.

 

I haven't been outside the house except to go to my dialysis for so long that I can't remember the last time. My wife makes me wear a mask and some cheap plastic gloves whenever I go to dialysis like this morning.

 

Man, if I lived in Portland, I'd come take you out for a long country drive.

 

Lanny, just curious, how long does your dialysis take?

 

Writing a new feature screenplay to direct and produce after the lift. Also, in post production for my second feature-film which is a romantic-comedy and I just took a job in solar.

 

Bro you NEED me in your movie! You need that street cred son!

 

If you're willing to help with funding, I will find you a place. ;-)

 

From the time I leave the house until I get home it takes about 7 hours. The actual process takes 4 hours. But there's about an hour of setup and another 3/4 hour of wrap up. I tend to bleed and have had about a dozen blowouts so I spend 20 minutes after needle withdrawal to make sure I'm not going to break out in heavy bleeding. It's kind of hell because I once had a viral infection that parallelized the left side of my diaphragm. This means I need an aid to help me breathe when laying on my back. I must lay on my back because they've got two large gauge needles in my left arm and a blood pressure cuff on my right arm. This means I need my CPAP to breathe. Now, because of Covid-19, they are prohibiting CPAPs in the hospital. Now I have to sit upright rather than recline and use oxygen in my nostrils. It's really shitty. I use to try and sleep during the procedure but now I can't because I'm sitting upright. Sometimes my little room gets taken because they have some dialysis patient with some sort of communicable infection and I have to go out on the floor with all the other patients who jabber loud and run their TVs loud which means no sleep for me. I can't see good and although they have TVs for each reclining chair the TVs are small and I can't see them so I'm left with nothing but to tough out the time I'm there which runs close to 6 hours. Also, with no CPAP and even with the oxygen is hard for me to breathe, so there's that to contend with. It's not really a pleasant experience. But oh, when I get home my wife is there to greet the VA minibus or the ambulance, whichever the VA sends, and she's outside in the driveway with a smile on her face and helps me to change clothes and recline on the couch while she fixes me a really nice cup of hot tea with clover honey in it. She makes life worth while.

 

Damn Lanny, that sounds like a pain in the ass, but hell, it certainly beats the alternative...keep fighting and don't let the bastid win !

And your bride sounds like good people to me, I know because I have one just like her...we're VERY lucky.

 

Love me wife above all else. We've been true to each other ever since we got engaged over 40 years ago. Married in one of the two churches I attended as a child, the Lutheran Church, now a practicing Episcopalian.
My brother was a schizophrenic as was his wife. My mother got their marriage annulled but before it was annulled my sister-in-law played the most beautiful violin music I've ever heard, Beethove's Romance for the Violin number 2.

 

I can get S2 to throw you some cash! Standby......

 

Standing by...

 

I need a haircut so bad.

 

I finally knuckled under (anyone would if they had my hair) and bought a set of clippers at Costco. Then I stood in the shower and sheared it down to about 1/2” all the ways around (took forever to unclog the shower drain). Looks like shit but feels so good. It might even be the way I go permanently. Whatever, it was just so nice to have it done.

 

I didn't know that was illegal?

 

Why do you think I own so many shoes FAMS!?!?!