Rehab - Day 16

Woke up to Joyce shrieking and Peter asking for coffee and a cigarette and a little while later all the staff shrieking and laughing on top note (is it just me or does anyone else think it inappropriate that they carry on without regard to the patients' ears, sleeping habits or wellness - maybe I just remember health professionals as different to that) so once again had the door shut and kept it shut. Although because of the bleak, rainy day, was soothed a bit watching out the window - it rained all day too, sometimes hard and fast and lots of wind and other times, just pitter patter thru the palm fronds - better than sun any day!

No physio today because the union members of the physiotherapy staff are out on strike and Praline is a member of the union - I think for a pay rise, that's usually what strike action in the government is about! That didn't set my mood up any better either. Then I got word that the speech therapist would be here at 11.00 am (while I was being showered and hair washed) and it's now 12:50 pm and still no speechie - does it surprise me? No? And no OT time written down either although Tracey said I would be having it - so a total waste of a day, therapy-wise!!

I didn't go out to lunch, not interested in sitting with other people today - actually realising that mid-January is really the earliest I can expect to go home and it will probably be later than that has knocked the stuffing out of me a bit -- that's such a long time and I want to go home so desperately now, God knows how I'll be in 7 or 8 weeks!! Will this never end??

Leigh rang this afternoon and I had a good whinge which was probably not a sparkling conversation for her but made me feel a bit better!! I watched my TV shows and that whiled away the time until tea time, then to the loo (I surprised myself, Bob and Reg by bursting into tears when I came out and they were rushing me into standing up, getting nightie on, etc. - just so miserable and put upon!) - Got them to put me into bed - nowt to stay up for - and played - also finished watching "Castle" and downloaded a pilot for a new one called "Human Target", cos at $3 a pop, it's cheap to see if I like things.

I never went out of my room today so no walks and that was NOT good - if I won't do the extra walking per day, the process will only take longer so am only hurting myself, so that's enuff of that, Bingham!! I did do swallows - and with nobody watching I can do the Masako exercise really well (poke your tongue out between your teeth, keep it out by holding with your teeth and then swallow - try it, it's quite difficult to do!) and also did hand exercises with the silly putty -- but none of the most important, the legs! I can't let my moods affect my motivation but that's the hardest exercise of the lot.