Exactly on cue.
After spending a little over a week in the Portland hospital I have been making very good progress with healing and movement. Each day has brought new noticeable improvements, and so the doctors and physios were all happy to let me go today, prior to the weekend when nothing much seems to happen.
And how nice it was to head outside and on a pleasant spring day too!
It didn't matter in the slightest that I had a little wait in the car while Brian did a pharmacy visit on the way home - in fact what a pleasure to just sit in a car and feel 'normal'.
It's great to be home, enjoying a lovely spring bunch of daffodils and jonquils.
Over the next few weeks I will be adjusting some of the pain relief medications I have been on, in order to reduce them as I am now in such a better place pain-wise than I was pre-surgery. So good.
So all is currently on track to attend the family wedding of my niece next weekend.
The next few days I expect will follow the plan of re-adjusting to home life in a wheelchair, and ensuring I don't accidentally sneak extra weight onto my left side, while my arm strength and right leg continue to strengthen. The mixed blessing I have is that I don't get any pain in the left hip, so I don't get any cue if I am doing the wrong thing (However I'm not complaining about this lack of pain I can assure you!)
Now comes some research as we look to purchase our own wheelchair (up til now this has been hired from the hospital). With so many factors to consider this is not as easy as it sounds. I'd love to hear from anyone who has some insight into this?
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