Hey you guys! I'm finally up for a brief breath of air! Life has been hectic - but mostly in a good and healing way
Hubby is pretty much back to normal now. This is the first week he is back at work (although he did monitor a couple of 1/2 days last week while I ran errands). He's off the O2, and no longer even needing naps. We've taken a few mile to mile and a half walks around our hood - his saturations are good, and he's not even very out of breath.
We've gone to a slew of Dr's appts... He also had an ultrasound of his legs to see if we could find the origin of his clots... No clots or scarring in his legs, so the mystery is still afoot. Now he has 5 months more of the blood thinners, and then he'll have to decide if he wishes to stay on them forever, or take a chance and go off them. Tough decision.
I've been doing both our workloads, and on call the past two weekends... But he did that for me when I was down, so it's the least I can do for him. Our workload is already crazy busy (days b/w 30-54 surgeries) - it's like playing whack-a-mole... One goes down, another one pops up! Trying to do anything (even talk) during these times is nearly impossible. I've just not been very good at keeping up the pace!
We've had some fun, funny, and crazy moments. For a while, Bill's brain was very subtly affected by the hypoxia. He would forget things, mix up dates and times, and 'miss' things that were told to him verbally or in emails. Made for some very interesting conversations 
until we had a heart to heart and attributed it to the hypoxia. We also binge watched a series called Boardwalk Empire - not for the faint of heart! Loosely based off the mob stories from the prohibition era. First one I saw, I thought "eh, it's okaaaaay", but by the third episode we were hooked. It was also something we could do together since his activities were pretty limited. We finally finished the last season (5) tonight! :rolleyes:
The funny moments lately all involve our cats to some degree or another - the most recent is our cat who had decided a running faucet is his enemy - and when on, he will fervently bat at the stream of water with his paw - splashing loads of water all over the bathroom and mirror! Other times, he likes to 'dig' in the toilet bowl
The greatest, though, was after Bill had meticulously vacuum packed all of his (our?) survival rations (red wheat, white wheat, rice, corn, oats, flour, etc)...and left them on the guest bed. The next morning, I went in the room to get a document, and our cat (the same hilarious but BAD, mischievous cat) had chewed on each and every vacuum packed sack... making them.... Well, not vacuum packed any more!
Oh, poor Bill!
This past Saturday, we did manage to get out to the local town St Patty's Day Parade - which the
y now call the 'spring festival' in an effort to be politically correct. It was a good time - we dressed up, watched the parade (we have the Rockville Drill Team - it's a bunch of ladies carrying power drills ) and we walked a little over a mile, but came home with some Gelato, so it was worth it
The knee has been.... Temperamental
I had about 2.5 weeks where it looked like it was doing really well and the swelling was going down - I could even run in place. Then out of nowhere, it just decided to swell, stiffen, pull, and hurt again. This was last Wednesday, and it's not changed much since then.
I'm *trying*to take mile long walks at least every other day (when Bill can sit for me at the computer) - I've also been pedaling my little desk-cycle even though it has a small radius of rotation. I've gone back to water-babies (aqua aerobics for you mature folk :cool
twice, but I just put on the waist floatie and bobbed around using my arms. I'm still afraid to try kicking!
Still have the pinch behind the knee when I flex - some days I don't have much ROM because of it, other days are better - but it's always there. Otherwise, things like the IT band and tight hamstrings come and go. Still have achy pain, but Tylenol suffices now. All in all, have definitely seem some improvement, but I'm still impatient and want it healed NOW!
We also decided to get a mini trailer for camping until the one we pick up next year is ready... So we got a little T@G trailer - just enough to sleep in and cook on. We will drive 6 hrs to Phoenix this weekend to pick it up. We are being baptized by fire to this whole "camper/RV" thing - and it IS a thing! We even bought ourselves a one person stand up tent, and a pop-up-potty to go inside
. For us, it will be like 'glamping' but when I type it, I feel like the biggest redneck
So there's the update! I'm trying to read and catch up on threads - I've really missed you guys! But it's probably good I've been busy, as it's kept me from micro-managing my knee!
cheers to everyone!