The Day Today

This morning I walked out on to the deck, down two steps, down the drive past my car and Fred’s car and then out onto the sidewalk to the front of our neighbor’s house, stopped to contemplate their sunflowers and then walked back. All this was done with Jen, the physical therapist right there. Then before she left, we practiced me going down the stairs with the walker. Coming up is easy because I just lift the walker up on to the deck and then hang onto the sturdy rails our landlord put up for us.

And then this afternoon, I did the whole thing all over again by myself just to see if I could! This time I walked a little less distance on the sidewalk but I made it out and back by myself. Jenn said that next week, we will figure out a way for me to get into the shower safely. Oh, and I am doing well enough that she will be coming only once a week.

We had a big hoo-ha about giving a blood sample this morning –my veins were not cooperating — but when the nurse came by later, blood WAS extracted successfully. My reading has gone down to 2.5 but it is, apparently, still too high so I have to break a coumadin in half tonight and then go back to to the 2.5 regular dose and more blood will be drawn next week; I will be glad when I am off this stuff.

Tomorrow at around 1 pm, my younger son and his girlfriend will be here for a couple of hours! I am SO looking forward to seeing them both!

I think I overdid it a little today because for the first time in a long time, I had to take  a 5 mg oxycodon but I can feel the pain ebbing away…

QUOTATION: If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

— David Viscott

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