Rehab - Day 35 (20 Dec 2010)

Peter was in loud voice mode at 5.10 am this morning and woke me out of a beautiful sleep, the sod - and he still didn't get his cigarette so he was vocal for nowt! GRRR!  The rain has gone away for now (tho they did say we'd have a rainy Xmas Day - hard to believe it's only 5 days away!) I'd seen an ad in McCalls Quilt Mag for eQuilter and went looking - did some stash shopping as everything was 50% off, even got a book on how to measure and make slip covers -- I know, I said I'd pull my head in but $4 a yard was too hard to resist - *oops*.  Got them to get the TV taken away today - $50 for one Harry Potter movie I'd already seen, so total waste of money - rather spend it on iTunes. 

Got up and had my shower when I was asked: think Tina was relieved she no longer had a smelly patient - lol - so was all ready for wardie (Robert) when he came to escort me to OT.  Not enthused, bit breathless today and listless.  But still went thru the motions of my routine with as much gusto as I could muster - will do better this arvo.  Alissa came and got me and we went thru to Physio.  We did 3-4 half squats holding each for 30 seconds and boy does that wipe out your legs!  Then I progressed to half stepping up on a wooden step, not actually getting up on it but tapping it with my foot.  In amongst all that, I sat/stood about 5 times, as I did in OT too.

I got a new wheelie walker, taller than the last one, very modern and swish - felt less comfortable even if better for posture and balance - it's amazing to me how quickly you can get used to something, I'd had the other one for 4 or 5 days and was "used" to it.  I hunch my shoulders up around my ears (one of the physios said to me 'You don't need a new pair of earrings, relax your shoulders'!  Very hard for me to do, relaxed is not a state I know well).

I collapsed gratefully on the bed when I got upstairs and tho I meant to, I never moved for the rest of the afternoon except to go to the loo - I tried to see if I could get up from just the loo, no shower chair - but still too low for the strength of my legs so Lae had to help me - ah, well, it'll come.  Alissa said I should do a couple of laps with the walker but that didn't eventuate either - I really did feel wiped out.

Had a lovely tea of Broccoli Soup and Macca Cheese - it was totally yummy - Penny came and did the swallowing test again and with just a weekend of "suck it and see", my number of swallows to get water to go down had lessened so looks like I keep sucking - lol - I requested Pineapple chukas instead of orange!!

I'd downloaded 2 new games from Big Fish, so everyone can guess what I spent the night doing - but only lasted till 9.00 and turned everything off and went straight to sleep!  I really was that tired - thought it might be laziness and lack of inclination but ...