Signs Of The Times

 

Kind of a setback , Sunday night I had trouble breathing , ended up going to the E.R. in town about ten in the evening. Well they decided to send me back to St. Mary's That is where the heart surgery was done . The CAT scan was showing fluid build up by where the valve and aneurism was repaired .The Dr in the ER said I might have to get it re done. Talk about a bad feeling! they said no ground transport was available , I asked if they were going to call an uber. That was when they sedated me and intubated me .(Note to self don't make wise cracks to the E.R. staff , they have ways to shut one up ! ) I got to take a helicopter ride , too bad I was out cold for it. I woke up the next morning not knowing WTF was going on. I spent most of the week in the hospital had a colonoscopy and an endoscopy done (Hope they had two different cameras for that.) and some repairs done while they were under the hood. got out yesterday . so it has been a one step foreword ,two steps back kind of week. but I'm back to making progress once again . 

 

  I survived the surgery . What a rough couple weeks. I was having atrial fibulation after the surgery and spent ten days in the hospital. They had to zap my heart to make it go back into rhythm . I was god awful sore where they opened me up.  kinda weak too .looking forward to moving around a bit more and getting back to normal

   The surgery has been scheduled . It will be the 14th I have to be at the hospital at 5Am ! probably a week in the hospital before I can come home and then a 12 week recovery period .

 

   Spent a day in the hospital last week getting my heart looked over in anticipation of repairs . The nurses were wonderful! I am frightened of doctors and hospitals so it was a rough day. after the sedatives , they said no driving for 24 hours. All the next day I Could NOT find my glasses. They were sitting on my dresser the whole time. I must have walked past them 10 tomes and missed them. Guess they weren't kidding!  I was kind of loopy all day.I will have to talk with the surgeon March First and we will proceed from there. Wish me luck!

                                                                  It's Monday Baby

 

      I gotta get organized !  My shop downstairs is a disaster. The workbench is cluttered with all the tools I recently got , and , I have to figure out some kind of way to store all the batteries and chargers and tools. I tried peg board but the hooks like to fall off and dont work all that well. I guess I will build something myself .In order to get something done I have to clear the decks somehow and make space to work so it means shuffling things around making space and moving things three times or more. This could turn into a longer process than Ii was hoping.

 Working in the maintenance department for Milwaukee tools is interesting I've learned a lot, and taught some too. one cool thing is we get a decent discount on tools . The employee tool sale allows us to get stuff for half of retail price. Now , being in the maintenance department means I get to use a lot of different tools and see what is most useful , kind of like a try before you buy situation . Its nice to use tools in a real life real time before laying down hard earned cash and being disappointed . We have been swamped so lots of overtime ,and I have been spending most of the O.T. on shiny new tools to replace my old ones that have dead batteries. I had DeWalt cordless tools for a long time  ,but the batteries were all getting weak, and replacing them would cost almost as much as replacing the whole tool. So I hooked one of my friends with my old cordless tools and set about refitting my kit .The cordless tools make life so much easier , no more spending an inordinate  amount of time wrestling extension cords ,and the battery powered impact wrenches and die grinders make air tools obsolete . No more compressor rattling away half the time making conversation impossible , no dragging an air hose all through everything . time savers for sure! 

   It has been a while ! I have been working 12 hour days and that does not leave a lot of extra time for other things. Got the north bedroom done and am all moved in. It is looking like I will have to get heart surgery done that is scary , but it is better to know about it rather than have a possibly fatal surprise.

                                                                                      

 

 Working around the ranch lately , I have been converting my old fluorescent light fixtures to LED the conversion tubes cost ten dollars each , and don't need a ballast just hook the power up and go ! so I can pull down a fixture , convert it ,and rehang it no need to have to rehang some new fixture that doesn't quite line up like the old one.