Rehab - Day 29 (14 Dec 2010)

Woke up at  2.30 a.m. absolutely saturated - been dreaming of being on the loo again!! Hospital makes you obsess about bodily functions - LOL!  Actually it's not funny cos when I'm home, no hospital or nurses to change and wash sheets - also more than a bit humiliating at my young age!  But now I can move so much more easily, I got out of bed so they could remake it easily.  I do so love being able to move again with a fair amount of ease - and all in the last 48 hours - unbelievable:   guess my mind block is unblocked, thank God - now to just build stamina and I'm outta here!

What else do you do at 2.30 am but surf the net - I knew I wanted to buy a set of weights and Deals Direct had the perfect set: 1kg, 1.5kg and 2kg with stand so got those and a pet bath spray nozzle with shampoo reservoir for the puppies as I will bath them myself from now on  (I'll buy a treadmill when I am home - I am determined to get myself back to fitter once I'm home, fitter and healthier - I must have survived this health crisis (seemingly against all odds) for a reason and I am looking on it as bonus time so am going to enjoy my bonus time and make it last as long as I can!!).

I also bought a sampler pack of Saffron Craig fabrics (she's a new Sydney designer of contemporary fabrics:  expensive but fresh and love her colours) and a "stuffie" (a really gorgeous koala for Maddy for Xmas) so managed to spend a bit on her site, tho not as much as I would have loved to!!

And ... as the sun came up, found a video of John Farnham singing "It's a Long Way to the Top" - so did have a lovely surf around *G*

Shock, horror, no shower - had to be at Physio by 8.40 and we were on time.  Alissa gave me a right royal workout - she was the only one who knew I had finally managed to stand out of the chair and in the end after sit/standing about 9 times (hard work doing it that many times, 2 of them were to show Jenny and Nick my new trick - was really sweating!) then she gave me a weighted rod and I did arm raises, then we walked between the bars then walked outside the bars with the walking stick and then to finish off, we did exercises on one of the "plinths"as they call them - then I got up from a very low height, tho by them I had the knee wobbles - and hate to admit it, but thoroughly enjoyed the whole process, endorphins were fizzing around madly!!  In to OT and did my routine.

While I was there, Dr O'Sullivan arrived to see me and one of the guys who sits next to me at table, Tom (reminds me strongly of Uncle Frank or Uncle Blue) - the doctor seemed pleased by my progress but frowned at my independence of putting myself to bed last night without nursing presence.  They want you not to be nervous but also don't want you to do anything that smacks of helping yourself!!  He also said that Penny had said my diet wasn't going to change so they must be diligent with listening to my chest to make sure I wasn't aspirating anything down the wrong tube!  For myself, I've been lax practising my swallowing, so with all the improvements of the past 2 days, will get back on to those tomorrow.

I went out for lunch - had the last of the mango Weis bars so start on the raspberry ones tomorrow.  I ended up going to bed cos was so tired and 2.30am was a long time ago but too much noise to sleep - Peter decided to hang around the nurses station and they were all singing loudly and talking even louder - sheesh!  I just quietly shut my door which at least drowned some of the noise.  I watched an episode of Castle, which drowned it out even further so I was happy enough. 

I got an email from Apple about free engraving on any iPod, iPad, etc and as I've been thinking of getting one for my walking regime cos can listen to either music or audio books, I wemt to the site and I ended up getting a red iPod Nano 8GB engraved with "Good Work, Me" on it - my present to myself for working so hard and having finally broken the last hurdle to my full recovery - as long as I am careful and listen to my knees' tiredness meter, it should be downhill all the way now.

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