Another Day Of Progress

Today, we spent most of the day together at the hospital, just relaxing and "healing." For most, that may be a little like sitting around watching a piece of grass grow, but for us it was just another day at the races! In fact, we did just that - we watched the race from Atlanta! Sharon was not feeling really chipper today so we took a ride out to the coach again and she and Bulli spent some quality time visiting again. She managed to bring him an ice cream cup and he considered that just about the best thing he had tasted lately. He really didn't need that to feel welcomed by his Mom, but he surely didn't turn it down, either!

Mid-afternoon, Mama Cache (Sharon) came by and visited for a while. She was the one who found the wheelchair for us and arranged for its loan for the time we're down here. It has been a real lifesaver and has kept us from having to get one here that would have to tranport with us back to Nashville, when that time comes. She is planning a little caching event before we leave as a departure farewell for us. We look forward to seeing a lot of the local cachers that we've met during our trips down here.

Sharon has been a little "down" for the last couple of days. She is much more than ready to escape from the institutional life that she's lived for the majority of the time we've been down here. It looks like that may happen about Wednesday. Dr Emerson indicated yesterday that he thought that would be about right! That will be two days before her stitches come out. She's somewhat concerned about the removal of the stitches. She feels like they will open her up to more germs to invade and cause another "bad period!" We both don't even want to think about that possibility!

Sharon's big accomplishment today was a pair of VERY large men's sleeping pants she was able to get on. With her being hooked up to a traction device since the last operation, there was absolutely no way to get pants of any kind on past those devices. With the implementation of the brace, that possibility could now be pursued. The brace is fairly large, so I found some XXL men's sleeping pants made from a stretch jersy material that were both large enough and stretchy enough to make it over both the leg fixture and the hip fixture and be worn in some way that could almost be called "normal". That normal feeling and the ability they gave her to "get out and about" gave her a whole new outlook this afternoon. Her comment as we drove back to the room was that it made her feel like a real person again and not just like an invalid. Not bad - I found the pants on a clearance sale, and she felt like a person again. I suppose that makes them a fabulous buy! I have a charge from her to go tomorrow and grab a couple more pairs! We gave the Physical Therapy staff the challenge to transition her back to crutches starting tomorrow and to get her on the practice stairs so she can get back in Geovanii again! Both of these are critical steps for making it out of the hospital and the final transition back to Nashville!

Cheers!

Joe

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