JuneP
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Me and my furry kids came home yesterday after two months of living and under the care of relatives who also happen to be great friends. I'm still on my walker but able to put 50% of my body weight on my healing leg. It felt so good to sleep in my own bed and be able to be strong enough to take care of myself.
I cooked my own breakfast this morning and took my first shower in 2 months. Thank God for my shower chair and my shower head with a flex hose! Between yesterday and today I also unpacked my clothes, loads of vitamins, electronics devices, etc. etc; and got all of those hooked up as well. I was amazed that my energy held after doing so much, but it did.
In 9 to 10 days my surgeon says I can walk on my own, with 100% of my weight on both legs. I hope I make a lot more progress in the next week because the ham string on the broken leg is causing me a lot of discomfort/pain that is really interfering with my sleep. I'm fine walking and sitting but doing my therapeutic exercises, at least some of them, are irritating it even more.
When I got home I paid a local gal I had hired before hand to do a huge grocery shopping for me. So now the freezer and fridge are filled to the max with TV dinners and meats, fruits and veggies, that I hope to alternate with the TV dinners. Also got a call from the body shop this morning that my car is finally finished and will be delivered on Monday. I've hired a gal that my son uses as a personal assistant when he's up here, to take it for the emission test before driving it back to my house; and nine to ten days from now my surgeon says I can drive again. For a while it was a toss up as to whether the car or me would be fixed first. The car is beating me by 9 days!
I will probably be a bit edgy about driving again after the trauma of the accident, so I'm figuring that I'll stick to short necessary trips just to town for necessary groceries and garden items. I can't wait to get into my garden, which I can't do until I can walk without the walker. I've peeked out from the back porch and was surprised that things looks pretty good considering there's been no one in the garden to feed it and watch over it, other than the gardeners cutting the lawn and pulling a few obvious weeds here and there.
I was thrilled to see that my little Meyer Lemon tree )AKA the margarita tree) on the back porch has about 8 tiny, raisin sized baby lemons on it thanks to the warm spell in March that allowed me to put it outdoors when it was flowering, to be pollinated. If all 8 ripen I'll get a nice large batch of margaritas made with those!
I cooked my own breakfast this morning and took my first shower in 2 months. Thank God for my shower chair and my shower head with a flex hose! Between yesterday and today I also unpacked my clothes, loads of vitamins, electronics devices, etc. etc; and got all of those hooked up as well. I was amazed that my energy held after doing so much, but it did.
In 9 to 10 days my surgeon says I can walk on my own, with 100% of my weight on both legs. I hope I make a lot more progress in the next week because the ham string on the broken leg is causing me a lot of discomfort/pain that is really interfering with my sleep. I'm fine walking and sitting but doing my therapeutic exercises, at least some of them, are irritating it even more.
When I got home I paid a local gal I had hired before hand to do a huge grocery shopping for me. So now the freezer and fridge are filled to the max with TV dinners and meats, fruits and veggies, that I hope to alternate with the TV dinners. Also got a call from the body shop this morning that my car is finally finished and will be delivered on Monday. I've hired a gal that my son uses as a personal assistant when he's up here, to take it for the emission test before driving it back to my house; and nine to ten days from now my surgeon says I can drive again. For a while it was a toss up as to whether the car or me would be fixed first. The car is beating me by 9 days!
I will probably be a bit edgy about driving again after the trauma of the accident, so I'm figuring that I'll stick to short necessary trips just to town for necessary groceries and garden items. I can't wait to get into my garden, which I can't do until I can walk without the walker. I've peeked out from the back porch and was surprised that things looks pretty good considering there's been no one in the garden to feed it and watch over it, other than the gardeners cutting the lawn and pulling a few obvious weeds here and there.
I was thrilled to see that my little Meyer Lemon tree )AKA the margarita tree) on the back porch has about 8 tiny, raisin sized baby lemons on it thanks to the warm spell in March that allowed me to put it outdoors when it was flowering, to be pollinated. If all 8 ripen I'll get a nice large batch of margaritas made with those!
