Howdy out there, blog-followers!
Our patient had a pretty good weekend. Saturday she not only got up smiling and happy, but she made breakfast for us AND cleaned up the kitchen!
Yesterday she went to church but only for an hour. The drain from her incision is driving her nuts and she was quite tired (all that pot-scrubbing from the day before, no doubt!) so she rested for the remainder of the Sabbath.
Today is her follow-up appt to last week's surgery. Her doctor will remove the drain-that's-no-longer-draining and I'm sure she'll be a lot more comfortable. She still gets stabbing chest pains now and then and that right arm is only slightly above shoulder level when she lifts it.
I'm being a Simon Legree in making her do exercises to get that arm up there. She does this finger-walking up the wall thingie to s-t-r-e-t-c-h out that scar tissue. Makes her break into a sweat to do it. But she'll get there, never fear! She blow-dries her hair and everything else with her left arm/hand. Alan was born a south-paw so he thinks that's perfectly natural!
We should get the final path report today as well. Stay tuned . . .
Lindy-Lou the Mom
PS -- Oh! Gretchie-Girl is telling us this will be her last week as our houseguest. I know she's anxious to get home to her cute, new little house, but SHEESH! What'll we do without her cheerful spirit and upbeat personality??? sniff . . . sniff . . . sniff . . .
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