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Nov. 27th, 2024 02:19 pm Snce I may disuss Shawn's knee surgery a lot over the next several weeks, I thought I should make a special icon so that people who want to skip reading these can just immediately start scrolling on by. There may be other news intermixed, but if I'll try to attach this icon when the majority of what I'm talking about is knee surgery recovery stuff.
Mason is home for Thanksgiving!
Given how well Shawn is doing, we probably actually COULD have hosted Thanksgiving, but who knows? The nurses all reminded us that it "will get worse before it gets better." So, perhaps, we are currently fooling ourselves to the extent to which Shawn can continue to basically function much like a normal person who needs a walker. Perhaps some big crash is forthcoming. But, fingers crossed, it's been mostly good, so far. Pain, yes, but it helps--I GUESS--that pain has always been Shawn's constant and persistant companion and so she's able to do a lot of sitting up, exercises, and even lots of walking around, etc (with a walker, of course.)
But, she does need a "spotter" and for someone to fetch and carry, and so I am actually very grateful that Mason is here until Monday because I can escape for a bit and go nap. My sleep was very interrupted with the (very reasonable!) need for pain pills, help to get up and down to pee, and all that sort of thing. We have set up a day bed for Shawn downstairs and I am sleeping, per usual, in the master bedroom upstairs, so this means we are communicating via cell phone.... and I don't think I finished a single dream last night.
Still. I can't complain.
She's doing so, so well. I am super impressed with her progress.
We have a turkey defrosting in the fridge because, as we keep staying, it's not like we don't still have to eat! But, we have decided to delay our feast by a day. We'll be trailing behind the rest of the US (and, of course, FAR behind Canada) by a day. Still, it's our holiday. We'll eat when we want to, eat when we want to....
Speaking of food, I think I agreed to make a pot pie for dinner tonight. That's part of what's been exhausting. It's all of the Shawn help that I've been doing, PLUS the usual mantaince of food and dishes and laundry... I'm pooped.
In fact, I am going to sign off to nap. Thanks again to everyone who gave us well wishes.
Mason is home for Thanksgiving!
Given how well Shawn is doing, we probably actually COULD have hosted Thanksgiving, but who knows? The nurses all reminded us that it "will get worse before it gets better." So, perhaps, we are currently fooling ourselves to the extent to which Shawn can continue to basically function much like a normal person who needs a walker. Perhaps some big crash is forthcoming. But, fingers crossed, it's been mostly good, so far. Pain, yes, but it helps--I GUESS--that pain has always been Shawn's constant and persistant companion and so she's able to do a lot of sitting up, exercises, and even lots of walking around, etc (with a walker, of course.)
But, she does need a "spotter" and for someone to fetch and carry, and so I am actually very grateful that Mason is here until Monday because I can escape for a bit and go nap. My sleep was very interrupted with the (very reasonable!) need for pain pills, help to get up and down to pee, and all that sort of thing. We have set up a day bed for Shawn downstairs and I am sleeping, per usual, in the master bedroom upstairs, so this means we are communicating via cell phone.... and I don't think I finished a single dream last night.
Still. I can't complain.
She's doing so, so well. I am super impressed with her progress.
We have a turkey defrosting in the fridge because, as we keep staying, it's not like we don't still have to eat! But, we have decided to delay our feast by a day. We'll be trailing behind the rest of the US (and, of course, FAR behind Canada) by a day. Still, it's our holiday. We'll eat when we want to, eat when we want to....
Speaking of food, I think I agreed to make a pot pie for dinner tonight. That's part of what's been exhausting. It's all of the Shawn help that I've been doing, PLUS the usual mantaince of food and dishes and laundry... I'm pooped.
In fact, I am going to sign off to nap. Thanks again to everyone who gave us well wishes.