A Disaster of a Week

Oh kloker, what a horrific and harrowing experience for you (and the entire city of Austin! But, It is YOU I am concerned about.
After that entire ordeal, I am glad you were finally taken to a decent shelter, and were taken home to get your 'go bag', and then back to the shelter until it was 'safe' to get home. When these types of disasters strike, it would seem one is at the mercy of the city services. When the services are overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the disaster - I guess you are a good example of what can be expected, both the good and the bad.
I see you posted this only about 10 minutes ago, so I am glad I was able to see it so promptly and respond. Get your rest and, tomorrow will be another day. I am hopeful you will continue to be safe at home.
Please do check back with us tomorrow, if you are able, and let us know how you're doing. We will be here to hear your story...
Good night, kloker!!
Leon (site moderator COPD.net)

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Wow, Kloker. Seems like every day is a new adventure for you. We were lucky down here in Seguin. We basically had no ice accumulation and never lost electricity. The crazy thing is, with all the stuff that happens to you, you keep hanging in there and keep surviving. That is amazing. I am glad you got back home safe, sound, and alive. Take care Kloker, rest up, and God Bless.

I am so very sorry you had to deal with all of that. Get your rest and hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for you. Let us know how you are doing tomorrow if you feel up to it.

Update: Thanks to you all for all the wonderful support, it really helps me keep pushing along. Okay, I got some sleep. A lot of it. I'm still very tired, but I am okay. I got used to eating almost nothing for this week, as the hospital kept me warm but would not treat me or care for me at all. The shelter did, but I also had no meds all week - NONE! So, I was not doing very well. But I am better now. Got my kitty in my lap, managed to eat a little today, scraped my face, and dressed the wounds from falling out of the hospital bed (they didn't care). I may not be in the best of moods today, but it will pass. I am also now completely off Prednisone, which has not helped my breathing any, but doing okay, just moving a little slower. Also, I'm off both diuretics, so I should be able to get fully hydrated now. I've been very thirsty today. I had very little to eat or drink through the week. Finally got my new scrip for the BP med today so I'm good there too. BP is good. Heart rate is still chaotic. I have severe hand and leg cramps, but I have drunk a large number of bottles of Ozarka today, about two days' worth, and still thirsty. Taking all my vitamins and minerals again too. Also doing a lot of breathing treatments, as I also had none during the week, until right at the end. The sun shone brightly all day and it was 72. Tomorrow it will be 75! I will try and go sit on the back porch for a while! It is pretty noisy here, as there are a lot of service trucks and chainsaws going. I swear half the trees in our neighborhood were destroyed. Half were laying in the streets. Crazy! Lat night when I climbed into my own bed (!!!) there were still 110,000 Austin people without power. It's a little better today but slow going. I ordered some groceries and straightened up the house a little, but I got tired pretty quickly. Ate half of a bowl of soup, which did not like me, so I quit, and had a little macaroni salad. I still have some birthday carrot cake left but it's going to go bad before I can finish it. I didn't feel like eating any. What a waste! I also lost a few things in the fridge, but not too bad. I will try to call my doctor tomorrow with an update, she was supposed to come see me last week. Hopefully we can have a visit this week, and my son will try to bring the two midgets (his wife Casey is extremely vertically challenged) next weekend, and Gordon might get to come this week too. I have laundry to do tomorrow, and a few dishes, but plan to take it mostly easy other than that stuff. Luckily, I had no tree damage to my yard and no broken windows or water pipes (I left the faucets all running a little). Not even a burned-out light bulb. Excellent! And, oh, heck yeah! I had my first cup of coffee in a week this morning. Nectar of the gods!!! I'm back on the Mucinex so my runny nose is gone, and my chest is clearing out, but I had a coughing fit in the middle of the night that I really thought was my last. I could not get any air at all and kept choking, but I kept trying to push and pull air and finally, just as I was about to go south, a tiny bit of air broke through the congestion and I sounded like an angry donkey, but after A couple of minutes I was able to cough it all up, go to the bathroom, and do a breathing treatment. Scariest one I've ever had. Another few seconds and my typing days would have been over. Whew! What a week. Plus, it's hard to sleep with my sore right knee and painful jammed shoulder from that fall in the hospital. And the cat scratched me some more, so I feel right at home now!


Sometimes I think it's all a conspiracy. All of my evil deeds from the past have come back for revenge, but though they may try to get me on purpose, I am NOT going to let them win on purpose! Instead, I am counting my blessings, and being grateful for all the new strangers I met at the shelter who helped me survive and kept me company in the dark and in the light! They were some amazing folks! I even made a new friend in the program. She is going to help set up my laptop so I can use it for Zoom AA online meetings! Beauty, eh? I hope all of you are well and having a good week, and I really love all the great comments and support you all give so freely. It makes it all just a little bit easier. Later. Sorry - dang, that was a long tale of adventure! Aargh!!!