Daniel has more physical therapy this morning and they worked him really hard. In fact, he came back from that and slept for 2 hours. After lunch Nancy and I went out and found him some more comfortable clothes - a button shirt and some sweat pants and shorts. It was so nice for him to be able to do PT in the afternoon without the hassles of the gown hanging down below his knees.
This afternoon, they took him downstairs to the gym and put him on a recumbent bike for 15 minutes. Since it didn't put any stress on his neck, he could really work his legs and even worked up a sweat. So cool. Then they did more occupational therapy, working on his fine motor skills, especially with his left hand, which has been a major problem for over a year.
This evening came the most freeing events. His RN, Mike, pulled the last of the IV's around 6, so he no longer had any tubes hanging into him, or bandages constraining him. Yesterday afternoon they had discontinued the Morphine, so now he was free to move. Nancy and I, at the recommendation of the PT, took Daniel out for a wheelabout. We covered most of the hospital, stopping by surgery, imaging, the cafeteria, and pretty much everywhere else. Then Daniel wanted to see the wonderful Christmas light display they had outside - it's really wonderful. Since he was dressed in normal clothes, why not! Definitely, getting out and about was great for his morale.
We were just about to leave when Mike came back, right at 7 (the end of his shift) and told Daniel he had just enough time to remove his dressings. The doc had put that on his orders, but they hadn't had time to get to it, so he ended up spending 15 minutes of his own time. Nice guy. That's when we got to see what is a 14 cm incision held together with about 36 staples. It appears to be cleanly closed and the scar should be pretty fine, certainly an additional thing Daniel was concerned with. Oh yes, there's also plenty of ink where the doc marked his back before cutting.
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HOORAY, Danial is home!! I just got off the phone with your mom, Nancy, and talked with Linda and Lisa, too. I am also excited that I am able to figure out this computer stuff well enough to get onto your blog. I have not read it yet, but wanted to send my best wishes to all of you right away. I have been thinking about all of you so much and I am so happy your surgery went well, Daniel. All of my kids ask about you often so I will now tell them about the blog also. I am going to close now and send this with the hopes it will go through. I will send more another time. My love to all of you, Aunt Carol and co. Oh, dear, it doesn't show a way to send, so perhaps it is set up to just read. As you can see, I really don't know how this works.:) Bet you are all getting a good laugh out of this rambling----but I am trying. :)
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