Table 2.
Additional Quotes to Support Results
| Dimension | Quote |
|---|---|
| Category: Being Normal | |
| Enjoying | To be able to do things you love to do, uh, I go like uh a lot of antique stores and garage sales, stuff like that, looking for things, and uh that’s the kind of stuff I love to do. (interview 3) |
| Contributing | I worked in the wood shop for 12 years. I was supervisor there. And, I have always been the guy to go to. (interview 2) |
| Being Free | It means freedom, I mean, if I am going to go do something […] I wouldn’t have to stop and think about it. I don’t have to think about how much exertion it’s going to take, how much work is it going to take. (interview 2) |
| Being Independent | I can get in and out. Do my own shower and get dressed and undressed. And It’s great. (interview 11) |
| Category: Losing Normal | |
| Being Restricted | I couldn’t do things, I couldn’t pull myself up or I couldn’t do things in the kitchen. (interview 11) |
| Physiologic Loss | Right now, I’m really concentrating on my [dialysis] training […] I want to get that out of the way. […] Once I get that out of the way, I can concentrate on something different. (interview 13) |
| Adjusting | I was on a narcotic for pain medication, driving me to occupational therapy or wherever we wanted to go, doctors’ appointment […] [My daughters] were my wheels until I got off of the oxycodone. (interview 4) |
| Category: Working to Regain | |
| Pushing Self | I started getting up and walking around a little bit. I would go get a drink and come back and sit down […] Do the exercises that she told me to do. Eventually […] I got back on my feet. (interview 3) |
| Monitoring Improvement | My goal is to try to be a little more active, […] walk up and down the street without feeling winded. (interview 13) |
| Preventing Further Events | I just want to make sure that that infection is completely gone because I do not want in another three weeks to have the same flare up and start from square one again. (interview 4) |
| Category: Working to Maintain | |
| Redefining | [Related to working] I miss not making the trim. I miss not hanging doors or doing trim work, because I really enjoy that […] that phase of my life is coming to an end. (interview 4) |
| It means sitting in this chair […] 24 hours a day. Unless this [walker] is over here where I can stand and get it, hold of it and stand up. And that’s not often. (interview 1) | |
| Preventing Further Events | When PT came in there, I could only walk a few steps before I got out of breath and we all realized that, you know, I wasn’t the best then at that point, so […] we just dropped [walking exercises]. (interview 11) |
| Category: New Normal | |
| Accepting | I know I can’t get back [to being normal], I can’t do that, not to what I used to do. (interview 14) |
| Managing Loss | This is too big for us to handle anymore […] [My son] would love for us to be closer to him because he would really want to do stuff for us. (interview 14) |
| Consequences | |
| Being Cautious | They had told my daughter, they said that one day y’all gonna get up and go in there and she might be dead. (interview 7) |
| High Healthcare Utilization | And that’s every trip [I go to intensive care]. I went to the hospital a few days […] and then by five days later I’m right back in the hospital. (interview 7) |
| Financial Burden | I can’t afford it. I’ve had a partial, that cost me 2,200 dollars, that’s a home equity loan took care of that. I’m still paying for that, you know. That’s frustrating to me, because I can’t, I just can’t hardly keep up with the bills. (interview 14) |
| Relocation | This is a senior apartment building. But I think that all of the people are older than me here […] I’m only here because of my illness, you know, as far as my age, that doesn’t, doesn’t fit in. […] I don’t interact with them. […] I’m not really having a social life. (interview 11) |
| This time when I left [the nursing home after rehab], I had a feeling that if I can’t do it this time, I won’t be able to do it at all. […] if I don’t, I won’t be able to stay [home]. (interview 5) |