Rehab - Day 18

Nurse Peter came in with a pan at 4:50 am (I had called him - so at least I woke up!!) and he decided to give me injection and early-a.m. pills earlier than normal, so by the time we did that, I was awake and stayed awake. I watched a downloaded TV show "Human Target" which I'd never even heard of - action/adventure - which I enjoyed enough to download the second episode.

I was hurried out of bed and into shower after obs, Bree in a bit of a hurry but that was OK cos OT was 10.00, not 11.00 like I thought Tracey had said. Before we could go, Penny (speechie) arrived for the visit she's been trying to have for 3 days - which was to say that it's probably time to give me another barium test to see if she can bump me up to a full "soft diet" - hope I pass, pureed greens and carrot will be gone and bread and butter added - they also want to do another scope exam and Im willing to try tho they are going to use a gel to smooth it past my gag reflex - I hope so or it'll end up like last time! So that'll be on Monday (last for the year). She also said that Xmas lunch was a bit special with prawns and mango, etc, so I'll be able to eat the mango at least.

I forgot my hand brace and my silly putty so couldn't do those particular exercises but did everything else on the list which still took 40 minutes, so on time for Physio. It was Nick again today (which I don't mind cos he works me harder than Praline cos he doesn't get as interrupted). He really gave me a workout too - the sit/stand was as good as yesterday (once I didn't try to stand straight up) and then we did all bar one lap of the parallel bars with one hand, so that was about 7 of those, then 15 squats, marching on the spot and a new one, standing up on my toes which actually worked my calf muscles. Was pooped when we finished.

Back up for lunch - broccoli soup - so had that and then came back to my room. Bree came in to see if I needed anything and I said I'd like a wardie so I could go to bed for a while (starting to sag) but she came back with a message from one of the nurses that it wasn't good for me to go to bed so soon after a meal and I'd have to wait for 30 mins at least (I wasn't going swimming, just getting horizontal for pity's sake!!). I just started to laugh: either that's a power trip or she didn't want to interrupt the lunchtime process of nurses and wardies watching everybody eat, then take them back to rooms. God, I'll be so glad to get out of here!!

In the event, when I went to the loo, I got them to put me to bed - about 2.20pm - slept a couple of hours then awake for tea and watched another episode of Human Target and Castle. Had tea (pumpkin soup this time) in bed, just still too sleepy to make the effort! I was asleep again by 11.30pm and apart from waking up for a bedpan, slept all nite -- so I was worn out!!