Episode 114: A home health nurse checked my blood pressure every Tuesday for two years after my gallbladder and my discharge papers say I said no
Submitted by Dot — Tulsa, Oklahoma. 68. I had my gallbladder out at Saint Francis the spring after my husband passed, and the Tuesday after I got home a woman named Carol was on my porch in navy scrubs with a canvas tote bag on her shoulder. She said she was with home health. She said Medicare covers it after a surgery and I didn't have to do a thing but sit down. I want to say what she brought, because it matters. A home blood pressure cuff, the gray kind with the soft sleeve and the screen the size of a playing card, the kind they sell at the pharmacy next to the reading glasses. She took…
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