This has been a week of ups and downs. I had my second followup with my surgeon on Monday. A new x-ray shows everything is going well. It was really cool to see it. I am full of screws, counting everything in my back and my hips LoL! He said I'm now at a transition point and should soon start seeing a leap in improvements. He also gave me a script for therapy to strengthen my weak back and legs. I'm hoping it will help the numbness too.
Tuesday was a dreary gray rainy all day event. Danny went off for a while and it suddenly became so overwhelming for me. I was hurting some, frustrated a lot because I now limp so much with the weakened left leg. It's rather exhausting to walk. I try to hard to stand upright. I've been exercising and hoping to strengthen that leg by standing on it with all my weight. I start thinking "I can do this" when suddenly it just gives out. Such a let-down. Plus I'm sick of reading, sick of crocheting, sick of court TV. I pulled my back a little trying to get off the bed after struggling with a side leg-lift. I decided not to try the bed again while Danny was gone. After he came home I lay on the couch and then got stuck half-way up when I was leaving. I had to call him to help. Yeah, Tuesday saw a few intermittent tears indoors while the rain fell steadily outdoors. One of my worse days since the first 3 weeks when everything was horrible.
We were excited to visit the chiropractor on Wednesday, to give her the updates as well has have her help with the pull in my back. We were just about ready to leave when the phone rang. I knew in my heart - it was them. The doctor who is 6-months pregnant was feeling rough and stayed home and could we reschedule for Thursday. What else can you say but sure?
We waited until lunch time to venture out, me telling Danny I needed to just run away a while. He'd gotten out since Monday but I'd been stuck home and very sad. We headed to our favorite restaurant. Meanwhile I'd seen online that the new Sentara medical facility was finally open. After eating we headed out to check out their therapy center since it was now the closest place to go.
It's really nice there. No crowd. Everything's new. The staff is awesome! The lady at the desk said they had an opening in an hour if I wanted to go ahead and get my evaluation done. So we headed to Walmart across the way where, leaning on a cart, I meandered around until I couldn't anymore (didn't take long) and we headed back.
So Thursday we stayed in, working on downsizing all the crap we've accumulated over the last 25 years. I guess it'll take another 25 to get it all back to where we started. This includes my online store inventory. Things were going very well with us taking a small load of whatever to the thrift stores for donation, until Danny decided perhaps we should just move it all to the over-crowded garage so he can have another yard-sale. REALLY?! Needless to say, progress has slowed to a crawl, at least for me. Now, instead of piling unwanted books by the front door they are headed to the back hall so he can take them down the steps - so really just moving piles to new places with nothing leaving. But someday soon!!
Friday I had my first actually therapy session. Danny dropped me off with an hour to kill, but because of my weakened state I was finished in 35 minutes. I just can't do a lot at one time now. She had me stand on one foot at a time to see how long I could do it. The right side was good to go, but standing on the left was ridiculous. I'm sure I looked like a flailing bug on a hot skillet - my arms were flying all over the place trying to help me balance! At least my leg didn't collapse so that's already an improvement!
Today is Saturday. For the first time in a long time I'm "working" online. But I have to work fast because I don't want to sit here too long. That said I better get going!
