Moving In, June 2011

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

Author: annon

(Count up six floors to see our balcony)

 The Beverly Hillbilly's have arrived in Toronto. Complete with Granny on the roof (me) instead of her rocking chair I am sitting in my walker haha.  It sure feels this way!  Here we are in our bright, spacious, apartment which we love.  Van is unpacked, apartment is full of totes (filled with pots and pans, dishes, linens, clothes, ect.) One thing we seem to be missing is furniture.  We have two t.v's, three computers, two blow up beds, and my scrap-booking table. That's it, until a friend arrives in the next 8-10 days with our furniture.

our first pic in apartment

First thing we did was to blow up the beds, cause when I get tired I don't want to be getting our bed ready.  People work late here in Toronto. Medigas,  my new liquid oxygen company arrived at 9:30 pm our first night to set up my new system.

Thanks to Ashtin's ingenuity he managed to hook up one of our T.V.'s through his computer and we could watch shows from his hard drive. Rogers cable company will be here tomorrow to hook up the internet, cable and phone.  after sitting on our totes, watching some old The Simpsons' episodes,  we hit the sack.

Poor Ashtin found his face planted into the hardwood floor this morning.  Not sure what happened to his blow-up bed, but it wasn't pleasant for him.  After breakfast we found out from our superintendents (from NFLD) that the nearest Walmart is just about five miles east of us. Off we trekked.  Picked up some fans, tv. stand, computer stand. This Walmart is a super sized one with a full grocery store which was great. However, we looked around us and there is almost every store we could image, this area is called the Golden Mile. Again, pat my back on on-line apartment searching. 

Our T.V. center

Our MEDIA CENTER we figured that the lawn chair can be used on our balcony when we get the furniture.

Toronto General Hospital

June 13th, my big day.  Headed down to hospital and met with my coordinator again then my meeting with surgeon Dr. Andrew Pierre and signed the papers which officially put me on the lung transplant list. Hee Haw!

Friday, bright and early I started physio. They didn't tax me to much the first day, just went over my exercises from the warm ups, speed on treadmill, tension on the bike, which weights I would be using for my bicepts, tricepts, squats, leg weights, stairs.  God I hope I can do this.
I will be attending physio three mornings a week for about 11/2 hours a day.  Every 3 months I will have PFT tests, chest cat scans, blood work and a clinic appointment with a nurse practitioner or a respirologist. I will attending a group meeting every Wednesday morning at 11:00-12:00. Plus I will have to get a family doctor at the Toronto Western Hospital.  From the family doctor I will get three Hepatitis shots.

Since we arrived in Toronto every second day or so I felt ill. As June went on I felt sicker more often.

 We had a meeting set up with Wheel Trans, this is a company through the TTC where they will taxi the disable people to meetings and appointments for just 3 dollars a trip. This turned out to be a God send for us. Considering we couldn't park downtown for under 28 dollars a day.  Taxi's were costing us between 28- 35 dollars a day depending on traffic.

We also had a meeting with respirologist , Dr.Hutcheon, the same doctor who gave me my teleconference. This time we discussed morbid things such as power of attorney. Who gets my permission to pull my plug. Next we discussed whether I wanted to be placed on a respirator ect. and other such awful stuff. However, it must be done.

Soon the sickness got to be every day and I have had enough of it.  I finally went to Emerg. to have it checked out. They did blood test and an x-ray of my chest only to find out my liver counts were very high, and said that I needed to come off the T.B. medication I was put on. Emerg had a discussion over the phone with the Clinic doctor and I was told to come back up to the 12 th floor for a clinic. Here, I waited for 2 and 1/2 hours to see a clinic doctor. The test results from Emerg had come in and it looks like I have C -difficell. Plus I needed to come off the T. B. medication and they would set me up an appointment with the teams infectious disease doctor. End of June 2011.