It has been exactly one year since I moved from the comfort of my own home to where I currently am, a nursing home. I realize I am better off here regarding care (aides\/nurses) because at home it could be so unpredictable. Here I am always covered with no worries. If one of my usual people calls off, there\u2019s always someone that can fill in. That is something I could not promise my mom while living at home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was uneasy about coming but I figured with the help of my support system I would get through. That was taken away less than two months due to the facility going on lockdown because of Covid. I have been unable to see my family and friends since March 2020. Doctors\u2019 appointments are something I look forward to because I get to leave temporarily and see the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thankfully, I was matched up with some very special aides who have made this experience bearable, something I would have never thought possible. They make me smile and laugh daily, regardless of my less than positive and happy attitude at times. They have become way more than just \u2018\u2019help\u2019\u2019. They are my friends. People I appreciate and enjoy seeing. Without them, I think I would\u2019ve lost my mind a long time ago. I could never fully explain just how much they mean to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I received my first vaccine shot Friday.\u00a0 It\u2019s been two days and I feel fine.\u00a0 My arm isn\u2019t even that sore but then again what do I know, I\u2019m a quadriplegic \ud83d\ude0a \u00a0My hopes are this is the first step of getting things under control and hopefully seeing the facility open back up sooner than later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u00a0 I thought going through paralysis was the hardest thing I would ever have to do.\u00a0 Overcome having a feeding tube, not being able to breathe, learning how to breathe all over again and having a trach which eventually I had removed.\u00a0 Relearning life basically.\u00a0 All things I was told would probably never happen.\u00a0 As bad as that stuff sounds, I had my family and friends by my side.\u00a0 Never take yours for granite.\u00a0 Appreciate what you have and everything that\u2019s been given to you because you never know when it could be taken away.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been exactly one year since I moved from the comfort of my own home to where I currently am, a nursing home. I realize I am better off here regarding care (aides\/nurses) because at home it could be so unpredictable. Here I am always covered with no worries. If one of my usual […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/1682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aaronwood.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}