kimblebee
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- May 28, 2009
No real updates today. I went and saw him for a while last night. His mood was crap but so was mine because we had had an argument the day before.
They x ray’d his right knee and it didn’t show any signs of damage beyond a bit of possible arthritis. His knee is the thing that is slowing him down the most. They have started putting Voltarin cream on his knee and he says it’s having an instant impact. Today he was able to get into and out of the chair with no pain. He still had to be helped, but now he isn’t writhing in pain due to his knee.
He’s able to text and hold his phone now so we talk a lot during the day. His fingers were all curled up but now he stretches them out by lying his hand flat on a pillow and that’s improving too. I think the final step before he comes home will be to get him up and walking consistently. He’ll have to have a walker for a while until he’s steady on his feet again but we can make a walker work. It’s funny to see his walker because it’s so much bigger than a normal one. He’s 6’7” so he’d be hunched in half to use a normal one lol
One last thing that made me smile yesterday..probably the only time I smiled at all that day. Next Saturday night my youngest brother and girlfriend get here from Toronto and so we are going to my parents house to put up their tree and decorate Christmas cookies. They have both been traditions for as long as I can remember.
Anyway, after that, we are having dinner and then having a game night. My sister will have the other grandparents take her kids home and get them into bed so we can have an adult evening with drinking. Not that they don’t drink around the kids, but now we can be loud and rowdy. I don’t usually drink with them because I only like one cocktail, a Long Island iced tea. It takes a lot to make so I just don’t drink. No big deal and I don’t feel left out or anything.
When we were up at the hospital somehow that night got brought up and my mom asked me if I knew all that went into a Long Island. I know there’s gin, and vodka, and triple sec, and white rum, and lime juice, and coke. Then she said that she is going to buy all of that so I can drink with them and not feel left out. It’s such a small thing, but it made me feel so included that she would think of that tiny detail for me.
I swear, I am going to cry more in the next two weeks than I have all year.
Oh, one more thing, don’t watch the end of Philadelphia right before you go see your husband in the hospital. That part always makes me cry but I was sobbing. Ugh, if I had the bits to go through menopause, I’d swear that’s what was happenings
Sorry for the verbal vomit.
They x ray’d his right knee and it didn’t show any signs of damage beyond a bit of possible arthritis. His knee is the thing that is slowing him down the most. They have started putting Voltarin cream on his knee and he says it’s having an instant impact. Today he was able to get into and out of the chair with no pain. He still had to be helped, but now he isn’t writhing in pain due to his knee.
He’s able to text and hold his phone now so we talk a lot during the day. His fingers were all curled up but now he stretches them out by lying his hand flat on a pillow and that’s improving too. I think the final step before he comes home will be to get him up and walking consistently. He’ll have to have a walker for a while until he’s steady on his feet again but we can make a walker work. It’s funny to see his walker because it’s so much bigger than a normal one. He’s 6’7” so he’d be hunched in half to use a normal one lol
One last thing that made me smile yesterday..probably the only time I smiled at all that day. Next Saturday night my youngest brother and girlfriend get here from Toronto and so we are going to my parents house to put up their tree and decorate Christmas cookies. They have both been traditions for as long as I can remember.
Anyway, after that, we are having dinner and then having a game night. My sister will have the other grandparents take her kids home and get them into bed so we can have an adult evening with drinking. Not that they don’t drink around the kids, but now we can be loud and rowdy. I don’t usually drink with them because I only like one cocktail, a Long Island iced tea. It takes a lot to make so I just don’t drink. No big deal and I don’t feel left out or anything.
When we were up at the hospital somehow that night got brought up and my mom asked me if I knew all that went into a Long Island. I know there’s gin, and vodka, and triple sec, and white rum, and lime juice, and coke. Then she said that she is going to buy all of that so I can drink with them and not feel left out. It’s such a small thing, but it made me feel so included that she would think of that tiny detail for me.
I swear, I am going to cry more in the next two weeks than I have all year.
Oh, one more thing, don’t watch the end of Philadelphia right before you go see your husband in the hospital. That part always makes me cry but I was sobbing. Ugh, if I had the bits to go through menopause, I’d swear that’s what was happenings
Sorry for the verbal vomit.
Emotional ups and downs always happen. I'm sorry you guys had a down day. Hoping for a better tomorrow!!!
I sure hope they make that happen for you. Merry Christmas Kimblebee.
