Forward progress

Both things are really great news.

Loren has been sick, as she often is with her chronic kidney problems. Last night, she was sick enough that she was brought to the hospital to be seen since she has edema in her legs and hands, and has been fighting an infection that won't seem to go away. She also had a lot of pain, which turned out to be small kidney stones.

The people from the facility where she has been living dropped her off and left her unattended. Of course, she is voluntarily at the facility anyhow, so anytime she chooses, she could leave. Anyhow, after she was seen in emergency, they decided that she was not sick enough to admit her, and upon her discharge, the doctor wrote her a prescription for Vicodin for the pain until she passes the stone. Loren, for the first time in I don't know how long, refused the prescription. Instead she went with 800 mg of Motrin. When she called the inpatient facility where she is a resident and asked if someone could come and get her. They said no, that she would have to find her own way back. I know this because she was calling me at 4 this morning in a panic about the whole situation. In fact, I was not sure if she would go back to the place that she has been living, but left that decision up to her. Turns out, she did go back to her facility, and I will be seeing her in less than an hour. Not too shabby.