Woohoo! Breakfast today! Egg, sausage, applesauce, toast, tea. I can get up to go to the bathroom today! TADAAAAAA!
- Pull self into sitting position using trapeze
- Use foot lifter to get bad leg off bed, and turn toward side of bed.
- Scootch to edge of bed and grab for walker. Gently slide onto good foot.
- Have nurse accompany me to bathroom, negotiate the turn around, grab the support bars
- Sit crooked on toilet!
Nurse accompanies me back to bed where I sit on the edge of the bed and try to scootch backwards so I don’t fall off, then throw my good leg up, grab the trapeze with my l hand and use the foot lifter to get my bad leg back in bed.
Take a 45 min nap to recover. My youngest daughter is coming to visit me today from Virginia. Finally! someone I know! Then surprise, surprise, my friends, the Petersens show up! They’re from Tampa and they drove down to visit me. How WONDERFUL! They’re such good people. They both look really great, and they were so cheerful and encouraging. Time just flew by!
My daughter showed up later. I apparently need to order dinner to get dinner, so I ordered turkey and sides. It wasn’t bad. My daughter was sitting there crocheting and we talked and laughed and watched Animal Planet. It was sure good to have family. The nurse came in and asked if I was ready to check out tomorrow. WHAT?! I just walked for the 1st time today! My husband and my oldest daughter won’t be here until Friday! Where do I go from here? Do I call a cab? My youngest drives a Mazda! “So you’re not ready to check out yet?” Ya think?! Now I’m all upset. Husband calls from Paducah, KY, the car has broken down. It won’t be fixed until Monday. My daughters hash it out, and youngest says she can get me to her house and husband and oldest will meet us there.
I got a cramp in my leg and for some reason or other, every nerve in my swollen leg is touch sensitive. After about 5 min of pain, a nurse comes in and massages it. I didn’t know I could sing that high. In the 1st place, it didn’t help, and in the 2nd place it felt that she was basically shredding every bit of muscle from my bones with demon claws. Now she didn’t have long fingernails, so she wasn’t actually clawing me, but the pain was so intense that it felt sharp. Note to self, if you have a cramp, do the Mr. Miyagi thing and just heat up your hands and apply heat to affected area instead of rubbing. I am taking many naps and trying to have a BM. (It seems to have a big significance to the nursing staff.) In addition, they have been giving me anticoagulants, by shot. Hmmm? Does that make any sense at all?
What a doofus, I didn’t order breakfast for tomorrow. or lunch. hmmm may be very hungry. I’m still on the walker and am not moving very quickly anywhere. I did take a walk up the hallway and back…42 feet. Maybe 80 feet tomorrow. I’m taking about 2-3 of the oxycodone every 6 hours. I do not notice any change in the pain level after I’ve taken them, yet I continue. Is it mind control? *plays ominous music*
Measureable progress 