It's a weird feeling being an adult woman and needing babysitters on a regular basis. Although Bryan made it to the shops the other day for a couple of groceries, we had to put me into bed so that I would be able to get up on my own if I needed to. I'm still totally helpless when I'm in the lazy-boy (I expect that to continue for a while). This means that I need someone at hand to eject me out at a moments notice should I need to get up... or to retrieve the remote if it should heaven forbid fall on the floor (completely lost), or pass me the laptop, make me a snack, or pour me a drink. Since Bryan is having the odd meeting at work or game of touch, we need to organise someone to come in.
The good news is that the babysitters bring with them a keeness to do whatever jobs I can throw at them, and often come armed with goodies. It is more challenging however to provide the sitter (or other visitor) with stimulating conversation, as the days excitment is delivered in half hour slots on the TV. My favorite programs are ones which don't involve a lot of thinking, and are of short duration. I am really into 'dirty jobs' at the moment, I enjoy watching him try and tackle an ostrich and put a hood over it's head whilst enjoying the witty dialouge along the way.
Physically today has been a reasonable day, I managed to sleep the night in my bed. I think that was in part because I went to bed really late and got up early though. The bed is certainly less comfortable than the chair. I'm a bit worried about whether the chair is a bad idea in terms of healing my bone in an unnatural position, but I didn't have any specific instructions regarding sleeping positions. When I got up this morning I didn't have terrible pain which was nice. I'm feeling pretty sore at the moment, I think I might have been over-keen with something. Bryan was right about the difficult part being keeping me from getting frustrated. My natural desire is to push myself and rehabilitate, but that has to be balanced with healing.
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Pre-op 2000
This is before I had any surgery on my back. It's looking at it front on. You can see the base of the spine is where it connects to my pelvis, and then how the top is out of line with the bottom, This made it look like I had one big hip, because my ribcage was off to one side.
Pre-op 2007
Here is how my spine looks now, you can see that the part that has the rods is straight, then at the top the unfused part goes off at a different angle. The surgery tomorrow is to fix that, by putting a rod from about 2 vertebrae up and 3 or 4 below the junction.
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Hello Margaret, I am glad the operation went so well, and it's good to read that you are recovering at home now. I hope you do manage to find a balance between getting going and giving yourself time to heal properly. All the best for Christmas and New Year. Take care,
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