I Am Home

I had physical therapy yesterday and after that was over, I came home. I called the office here at the apartment complex and two men came over with my furniture from where they had stored it. I had to tell them where everything should go and, with only one exception, I got it right! This was surprising because I was tired and hot and fuzzy-brained because I was exhausted.

You remember all that "stuff" in the millions of boxes? Well, most of it came back to me in a few boxes and a huge cooler without a lid and it all has to be put away all over again! I have done a bit of it — mainly books– but I am in no hurry. I really DO have to find my land line phone, though since none of the cordless extensions work until the main one is hooked up. And although the carpet was vacuumed before I came home, everything else is covered with a slightly gritty layer of dust which, when cleaned up some time in the next day or two, will all go into the carpet which will then have to be vacuumed again!

I was too tired last night to take a shower and this morning I discovered I had no hot water, and the drier and oven were also not working. I realized that it had to be flipped breakers but had no idea where the breaker box was! I was desperate for a shower and called the office as soon as it opened to tell them the problem. Now, these people are usually very quick in fixing problems so I was quite surprised when I found two hours had passed. I called the office again and while I was waiting for a knock on the door, I went into the utility room and picked up a basket of clothes to carry them out to the living room so I could fold clothes and watch a John Wayne movie at the same time. And, as I turned around to drag the basket out, I saw the breaker box! Everything was carefully marked so it was easy to see what had to be flipped. Just as I had finished, there came a knock at the door and it was the guy come to fix the problem!

When I knew what day I was coming home, I went to Amazon and ordered a Roku box. Jake had one and I was very impressed! The box came this morning and Jake came over this afternoon and set it up for me. I have Amazon Prime so I am going to go with their free movies first. I am also pretty sure I will also subscribe to Netflix after a while. I was going to pay for a meal this evening at the restaurant of Jake’s choice but what with the physical therapy and the coming home and seeing all the "stuff" to be put back again, my stomach and digestive system were not feeling too happy so I asked Jake to postpone the meal. I do not want to put an expensive meal into a stomach which feels a bit insecure! We are not going tomorrow because I want to be absolutely sure my digestive system can cope! And I don’t want to go on Thursday because there is another session of PT that day, so any day other than those two will be fine.

And, talking about PT, this morning when I stepped out of the shower, I put my left leg — the weak one–out first and noticed I didn’t need to glom onto the grab bar the way I usually do when I put my full weight on that leg. So, the PT is working. I said to Jake it was possibly the placebo effect too –I know I am susceptible but hey, whatever works! It gives me motivation to do this stuff at home.

Off to play with Roku now!