The 2014 Cha Cha Autumn Hospital Tour rolls-on

It is 0813 and I am back at hospital. I left out the word "the" because I wanted to sound more British and they don't use the word "the" all the time like me do. Look how many time I already used it without even trying - it is even snuck in the word "they." Jill is a big fan, as am I, of the Brits as most of us should be since we even call our language here "English."

Cha Cha is sleeping pretty much the same way she was when I left last night. I know she is okay because I see her chest rising and falling regularly and there is a very faint snore. I see on the board in her room that she had morphine at 0520 and she can have it every three hours as needed for pain so we are about seven minutes away from that three hours. It must he be working and I am guessing that she will make it past the three hour mark with no problem. Before I left last night I found a station on the television that just plays soft instrumental music and turned it on before I crept out into the night. It is still on now and I will not change it until she is up for the day and wants it changed. Maybe she thinks she is in heaven. Weird, as I wrote that she sat up slightly, looked at the television, turned on her side facing me and gave me a little smile and a wave and went back to sleep. While she is sleeping I am going to see how I can run a splitter off or her IV tube and hook the other half up to me for some of that morphine the next time they come in here. The one thing that I noticed was that someone had stolen her ice chips and filled the mug with water. I poured out the water and went down to the nurse's station and refilled it with ice. Now I will watch over the ice and make sure nobody turns it into water again.

Speaking of jobs (sort of) I am very happy that my Sergeant is so patient and understanding with all of this. I am also happy that I have the hours in my "bank" so that I can be paid to be a nurse practitioner or watch dog or Cha Cha Guard or whatever it is that I am. I am like Cha Cha's Mr. French though he was a "gentleman's gentleman." I, then, am a gentlewoman's gentleman.  Since I am being paid I suppose I could add this to my resume. This whole event has put things into perspective for me again. I have got to find a job working days, preferably with weekends off, so I can spend more time with my family. I don't even care what it is anymore. I am not even that picky as to what the pay is anymore; I am a little picky there because if I was not picky at all I could just quit and be a househusband (like Mr. French). What in the heck did he do when Buffy, Jody and Sissy were at school? I guess he sort of worked nights didn't he? Damn! There's always laundry (I even did some of that last NIGHT while I was home).

Maybe I will keep the beard after all?

I am starting to have some of those weird feeling in my chest (the Quantum Leap feelings) as I type this. I now recognize them and am able to control them a little. I am going to learn to harness this thing and use it for my hobby/past time. Maybe I will really be able to "leap" and travel in time and space. Don't worry I am not losing my mind that I know of; would we really know if we were losing our minds do you suppose?

I wrote lots of notes on the way here and, since I have nothing to report in Cha Cha's condition, I may as well look at the notes. I think people may have thought I was testing but I was old-schooling it...

"I think the next time I get home (maybe again tonight) I am going to shave my hairy face." I am not sure why but I wrote it and now blogged it so it will probably be so.

This next one I am apprehensive to share because it sounds morbid and/or needy and if I delve into it I may start to cry and then a nurse will walk in and think I am some psycho and then a straight jacket carried by two bald dudes will be brought in and who  knows where that will lead. I will write what I wrote and I will thing about whether or not I will write more about it later today --- "mortality and what will I do if she dies?" I then scratched into the paper "pen just ran out of ink creepy." I will The way my head works I will probably share it so I don't forget what my head thought - it is pretty full right now.

There are some other notes but most of them are stupid. I will probably use some of those later.

I have been thinking about the film Rocky a lot while we have been on the 2014 Cha Cha Autumn Hospital Tour, I will pass one of those little chapel rooms and feel like I should go in there and meditate for Adrian Jill and then Mick will come in and just sit in the back and pray too. I don't want to be down there and then the ever elusive Dr. Zepeda comes in and I miss him.I am not much or a prayer anyway.

It all works out

It is now 0923 and the nurse just came in - Damn it - Ms Swan is still on duty. She woke Jill up to tell her that she was going to give her medicine. Why does she have to wake her to give her a shot in her IV? I will reserve judgement - maybe there is an oral drug too? One shot in the tube, changing one of the IV bags, playing with the little monitor/drug managing machine by the IVs - okay a blood pressure pill with water and then Swan said, " da paina betr witda marpeen den dalawda dey shewda chainja urleea. Has dictr blow mi bin inyit" I figure this to be, "the pain better with morphine then with the dilaudid? Has Dr. (we have no idea who "Dr. Blowme" unless it is the World-famous Swedish surgeon Dr. Haywood Jablowme who they are flying in. At least Cha Cha and I got a chuckle out of all of this mess - thank you Ms. Swan.

It does sound like the MRI found nothing other than they may have bruised the liver when they did the biopsy here about a week ago down in the Day Surgery area. That is the day I freaked-out at the nurse who tried to blame it on Jill's Crohn's Disease. Maybe you're not as smart as you think you are. I have the urge to go down there and say, "Remember me? My wife is still suffering from what the doctor's down here did to her last week and you told me it was a coincidence..." What would that solve? See why I need Cha Cha? Even when she is on morphine her voice is in my head keeping me in line and out of jail. So, they are probably going to do the ERCP today (I know we have heard that before) nut we will wait to know for sure when Dr. Jablowme or Dr. Blowme or whoever (I cannot wait until he/she gets here to find out what her/his name is). Again, to find out about the ERCP, if you are not familiar, I wrote about it in Saturday, November 15th blog (the second one that was posted at 12:27 PM).

They sure have lots of problems here

I will definitely have more to blog today. There is another nursing student here checking Cha Cha out. He is from Aurora University. The ones we had at KCH were most from Kiswaukee Community College but maybe from NIU too. Shouldn't Cha Cha get compensated for being a test smarty (she is not a dummy). Now there is a Code Pink going on here - Code Pink is a missing / abducted child, bio-hazard ... Oh, never-mind. that has been cleared. whew!

It is now 1142 and and her ERCP is scheduled for 1630 so think about her lots at 4:30 PM Central Standard Time (CST). I will, of course, keep you updated because that has become one of my main job duties over the past week; I have generated my own industry and workload. I am happy to do it and it helps me understand, pass the time and be able to refer back later if I have to because there is so much being thrown at us that I will never remember all of this. Have a great whatever time and whatever thing you are doing. Thank you for all of your continued kind words, messages, thoughts, prayers, prayer chains... Cha Cha and I both really appreciate each and every one of them and you. Cha Cha for now...MITM (out) TA!