Hi everyone, Happy Tuesday!
Glad to hear about your progress. Happy day 5 for me as I came home from hospital last night and am feeling so much better!
Day 4 yesterday started with horrible muscular spasms in my thigh but I was cheered by my first attempt at stairs - easy peasy going up, just quite difficult coming down as I couldn't get my bad leg to move forward at all without help from the physio. Fast forward an hour, and a visit from a doctor to say that if my X ray to be taken was ok, and I was passed by physio for stairs, that it was possible that I may be allowed to go home if I wished. If I felt I needed an extra day, then that was no problem. Amazing how empowering that was! I managed the stairs better second time around, still ropey coming down, but a big improvement on first go. Then went to X ray feeling quite buoyant. Amazing how emotional this experience makes us - after a difficult manoeuvre onto the X ray table, followed by a painful half hour wait for a porter to bring me back to the ward, I dissolved into tears for the first time in the entire process. I could just feel myself getting sorer and sorer in the wheelchair. I think I was also frustrated that all the complex, skilled stuff had gone so smoothly, and then despite 3 reminders from the staff, such a simple action as a transfer delay could cause such pain. Anyhow, decided to go ,with surgeon's blessing. Very grateful that my stay there was made as comfortable as it was by such dedicated, great staff.
Woke up this morning to a white veil of snow over everything. Beautiful! But given the hair-raising journey up to Wrightington, was very happy not to have the return in snow. I was so pleased to be back home. Have spent the day ensconced on my recliner, icing and relaxing with a fire in the grate, my cat on my lap, and my husband doing his best to sort everything out...Bliss!! I wonder how long this will last?! Long may it continue!
Here's wishing you all a very pleasant, pain-free evening xxx