so far so good so what?

Still in the Royal Alex...but there is a chance I will be discharged before the weekend or on the Monday after. They want to send me out with a $40,000 wound vac and seem unsure about my reliability. They seem to think that I am indigent and homeless because I live in my RV close to wherever the work is in the summer, even had me chat with a social worker... All the while I am thinking "WHAT THE FUCK!?" How do you tell someone " Hey...in a good year I can make more than any Dr. at your Hospital" but I don't do that because that would be uncouth. Sometimes I feel like screaming, these people, Dr's and nurses all, still have absolutely no clue who is paying the bills in this province. Like it or not its us in the oil industry that make the money and keep the economy going... I had a conversation with a male nurse this afternoon, good enough guy but had no clue about the problems in this province...a news story on TV about whether or not Alberta should have a PST prompted the response "Well they should get all the royalties they can and THEN bring in a PST" I didn't respond, but I was flabbergasted....he has no idea how much money left this province for good the last time they tried that, and then to make Alberta even more uncompetitive by bringing in a PST? Wow!

On a completely unrelated note: One good thing to come from the Hospital stay is that this is my 14th day free from smoking. So yah for me.

Royal Alex

Blogging from my hospital bed, with another couple of weeks on the horizon. So that infection that I told you about earlier and was getting treated in Edson turned out to be a lot worse...I was sent to Edmonton and operated on that night. Turns out the abscess on my leg was a close relative of flesh eating disease....the Dr told me right off the that that there is a chance a testicle or 2 has died and may need to be removed...flash forward, that never happened, Thank God, but I did go through 2 more operations the next 2 nights for deep cleaning and debriding. As of right now am getting the wound dressings and packing replaced twice a day, in room. I am on morphine 2 to 3 times a day depending on the pain level. It looks like I will be here for a long while yet...very strange, I feel so alone. Thats good right?

ummm....

Well a short update is in order:

Came down with a massive infection, have an IV in my hand and have to go into Edson hospital every 8 hours to get an antibiotic drip...I don't know if its helping much. the pain is intense, the only good thing so far is I could do the junkie thing if I had to...I thought I was afraid of needles, don't feel a thing...or the nurse is just that awesome.

So the bad thing about this is that I can't leave Edson, even though the job is mostly done, until I get this under control. So in addition to the whole scaring the shit out of me, its costing me over a $1000 a day in lost wages...I hope it gets better soon, I don't like this at all.