I'm baack!

[jennlk]

Amd thoroughly uncomfortable. But I'm home; and Home beats hospital by a long way. johnridley sez he's going to take a picture of all the pretty incisions. The doc wanted me home as quickly as possible, so that I wouldn't pick up any of those hospital bugs; but the nurses wouldn't let me go until I could sit up without my pulse rate going over 100 and/or eaten solid food. I did both today, so home I came. Numb toesies on both feet, doc says that may or may not go away. But I'm already walking better than I was before the surgery. More slowly, but much more evenly. This is good. Evetually, J will get the laptop set up in my corner, but for right now, I need to go lay down.


Many thanks for all the good wishes!

Comments

[sraun]

Congratulations! And good luck for a speedy recovery!

[whthorse.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that you're out already. Anything going on back there can be dicey, so walking already is wonderful news.

[jennlk]

The nurses pretty much kick you out of bed on the second day, if only to stand up so they can change the sheets. :)

It's a bitch when they change sheets with the patient still in the bed -- I had that wondrous experience when there was a transfer failure in the wound drain gear, and about a third of it dumped on the bed. Log roll all the way to one side while they strip, clean, and resheet the other; then roll *over* the double lump of sheets in the middle of the bed so they can do the same on the other side. Oy! I think that was the only time I said "ow" once I got out of the recovery room (and I said it a few times)....

Apparently the cages they use now are strong enough to actually take the weight of the upper body, and they've found that the quicker they get a patient up and mobile the quicker the full recovery is. We're still talking months, but.... I'm already not using the walker except for up and down (so I take it with me anyway).