But I am curious with bandages with fatties like Jack. Can they even be tight or are they more loosely made on than in comparison to a normal person? He doesn't stand up anyway so I guess it doesn't get more swollen up.
A bandage over a wound needs to be tight enough to hold a dressing/itself in place, maybe tight enough to reduce edema, but not so tight that it's cutting off circulation to areas beyond the bandage.
People who don't stand can still get dependent edema. Jack dangles his legs below his heart all day, and his muscles aren't moving and helping his lymphatic system return fluid to the rest of the body. Fluid will pool in his feet and legs as the day wears on.
If you see people in the wild with what look like bandages over both of their lower legs, they may be wearing lymphedema wraps. Those aren't covering a wound (more than incidentally) but helping a burdened system keep fluid from pooling in a circulatory backwater while the patient is sitting or vertical, going about their day.
Yeah well most people don't complain about not getting enough food to the point where nurses bring them an extra breakfast and they just eats it like it's normal.
I really wish Tammy were in the habit of posting her thoughts and musings as much as Jack is.
She's the one assumed to pick up this burden once paid caregivers run out, and Jack might not even be aware he's making this assumption. Every cute and funny update about how he doesn't understand how toast gets soggy when they're serving 100 people is a reminder that Jack is putting the least possible effort into rehab and self-sufficiency. He's writing checks on her account.
You gotta stand by your man, sure, but this is the moment their relationship solidly changes into Carefree Manchild/Mommy-Wife. It was like that before, but now it's visible from space.
That's looking more and more plausible since his plan is to lay around all day in that place eating until his Health Insurance stops paying for it, meaning his next stroke will be paid for out of pocket or Tammy will have to cross his fingers and hope it's a smaller one that doesn't require too much outside care.
Inpatient hospital care will always be covered, but he won't have Skilled days for discharge to a SNF again.
eta: this plays out every year at the hospital with the Christmas admissions. Grandma gets sat on for a few extra days, just so her benefit resets and she can go to rehab instead of home to fall again.
If the next one is the right stroke, he might get to use Tammy's Hospice benefit.
