Improving slowly, and bored out of my skull

[bunrab]

I still can't spend too long doing stuff like typing. And I can't reach the top shelf of the fridge, or any of the upper kitchen cabinets. 'Bout the highest I can reach my arms is so that the upper arm is about 10 degrees below horizontal/perpendicular to body at shoulder. The elbows are working better, though. And my wrists are pretty well recovered from the damn IVs.

But I got some crocheting done this evening, and caught up on all the newspapers from last week, while S was at rehearsal. And spent a while on the phone - now there's something tiring on the elbows! - making every single follow-up appointment I need for the next week and a half. Whee.

The visiting nurse is very nice. Today, she just watched while S did the change on my IV pump. She did the surgery site dressing, S took notes, and tomorrow he gets to try that under her supervision. She was actually MUCH gentler about it than they were in the hospital.

I'm still quite hesitant about going out anywhere, not because of the pump - that's manageable - but because: what if I trip and fall? If I use my arms to catch myself, I'll damage things. If I don't, I'll damage things. And I do, in fact, trip and fall perhaps more often than usual - the bifocals and complete lack of peripheral vision contribute to that, but also I've been a frequent stumbler over my own feet all my life. So, I am scared to go outside. I suppose I could use a walker or a wheelchair, except that there's nothing in my medical condition that would justify that; certainly insurance wouldn't pay for it, plus, based on some past experiences with temporarily using a wheelchair when I have injured a leg or foot, I absolutely hate the way people treat anyone in a wheelchair.

Whine, whine. Anyway, by Thursday I'll have to go out, since I have a doctor's appointment. So my horizons will expand a bit and I may even be able to write something witty. Stay tuned.

That was too much typing; my shoulders ache.

Comments

Glad you're home!

[(Anonymous)]

I notice the hospital visit hasn't changed your schedule at all. Best wishes for a quick recovery from the snow-blown Western Slope. Hugs, C & V

[capitalista.livejournal.com]

Good to hear things are going well. Now, I expect a report of at least one finished afghan during this recovery period!

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

It make take a while to finish this one; since I made my starting chain length pretty much at random, with no idea of how much or how little the simple ripple pattern would narrow it, I seem to have wound up with something about 56" wide, which means I'm going to have to make it at least 65" long to not look totally stupid. So one 11-ounce skein of Joann's Rainbow Boucle plus the solid yarn I'm carrying with it (and a P hook) should get me about halfway; I'll need to go get another skein of the Boucle. The solid yarn is a DK-weight rayon chenille I got off eBaY for something like $6 for a POUND of the stuff; it's slightly too thin for the sweater I was going to make of it, and I got 2 one-pound cones of it, so it goes with the boucle nicely. But damn, this is going to be something like a full-size bedspread more than an afghan!!
The cat certainly likes it!