What? Ohhh…just laying around with my leg elevated, eating bon-bons (LOL), everything I need within arm’s length (Crochet, Books, Medicine, Kleenex, etc), watching mindless TV and just enjoying SO MUCH being lazy…..NOT!!!
Let me give you a “typical” day right now….I do sleep pretty good with the help of pain meds and Tylenol, but regretfully have to sleep on my back. My favorite thing during normal life when going to sleep is lift up the head of the bed with the select comfort settings, have great pillows, continue to read my current book on my reader, and then just before I drop by reader, falling asleep, on top of Max, I put the reader down and turn over on my stomach. Oh my goodness…I love to sleep on my stomach and get such great rest that way. So not only does my leg tweak with pain as I am trying to sleep, but then I have this slight level of anger in that I can’t sleep on my stomach. I count the days when I can do that again.
So sleeping goes pretty good with help from the meds, oh and the fan…yes a fan even when it is below freezing outside! Yes, I am one of those! Not only did I take sleeping on my stomach for granted, but I also took being able to go to the bathroom whenever wanted in the night. Think about that for a quick second…middle of the night and you need to get up to tinkle, and you just swing your legs over and go!!! YEA!! Now I need to assess how bad do I need to go…after all I have to wake up David to help me get out of bed and to shuffle with the walker. So what was kind of a good night sleep is now sprinkled with “can I wait” or “do I need to go now?” And if I do wake him up is it too early to go out to the living room, in the recliner rather in the bed? David can be a fit full sleeper, so it is nice to hear him sound asleep…so that is where I hesitate. Hopefully you know some of this is tongue in cheek, in that David has been nothing but the greatest help over these last couple of weeks. But I do like to look at frustrating things with a hint of humor.
So once I am up, it is in the chair and usually only out of the chair for potty breaks, but I still try to keep some of my projects going. Crocheting really does help keep my mind slightly away from the pain. And really the pain is not high level, just annoying. And of course I get frustrated and impatient with the fact that I cannot do much by myself unless it is in within arm’s reach. One of the neighbors lent us one of those reacher tools that works great!! In fact, I think we will buy one of our own at some point.
JayJen and Jackie stopped over yesterday and brought some freezer meals, which was really nice. Some for breakfast and some for supper. Although no green bean casseroles but 3 meat loafs!! The meat loaf is the very best. And yesterday we had a teriyaki chicken in the crock pot from Jackie that was amazing.
The drain did stop over the weekend so I will call the surgeons office and see what I need to do. The discharge papers say that I should have my “provider” remove it, so not sure exactly who that is!
I did ask David to help me walk a little extra after a potty break. I had not even looked at the other half of the living area since I came home. It was nice to see the tree and just walk around on the porch with some extra steps. Yes, I was sore, but I am determined!!
And I did not realize how gray the days are in the winter!! When you have a limited view outside and it is out the windows towards the deck, it is just gray, gray, gray out there!! LOL…and then one day this week the SUN came out and I told David to make sure we opened the shades as much as we could. Just surprising about the gray….I know some people have a hard time with the constant gray and I just did not realize it was that bad! :-). The things you learn from your recliner, with your bum leg elevated and your restricted view!
Well hope everyone’s New Year was good…happy…and fulfilling!
Take a minute to be grateful for one of life’s pleasures!
Dandy Ventures 