Day Three

So, here it is Friday and I am finally writing about Wednesday.

Wednesday brought more boredom and more freedom.  No pain to speak of, more able to walk around, and the ability to swallow a bit more.

Wednesday evening, we had a visitor from a friend a church who had had this surgery a few years ago.  She brought some wonderful Chicken and Dumplings.  They were tasty and not liquid!  She also had a few words of comfort about it not being too long before I could do what I wanted and to just take it easy.

I will now take this chance to say a few words about sitting.  Something we normally take for granted.  You sit in a chair, you sit on a sofa, you sit on the edge of a bed, you even sit in a recliner.  Seems easy enough.  But when you are recovering from ACDF, nothing is ever easy!

I had read that sitting in a recliner was good for you.  But our recliner has a weird shape and seems to throw your head a bit forward, and it is not that easy to get out of once it is reclined.  So I chose not to sit in it.  I now know that was a mistake.

See, the REASON sitting in a recliner is good for you , is it supports your neck and back.  It seems that none of my neck muscles are working. Holding this monster of a head up on my own is unbelievably hard!  Sitting anywhere without support is really really hard.  Now that we have moved the recliner back to its normal position, I 'm wishing it was back where I could watch tv.

While I am at this...let me jump ahead to yesterday.  Again, more and more ability to walk, and more and more boredom.  I can most times walk without the walker, but the dizzyness comes and goes, so I am keeping it with me just in case.  I can eat just about anything I want...or at least anything I have tried.  I am so tired of eating pudding and applesauce that it is not funny!  I thought about eating supper with the rest of the family, but since it was a bit spicy, decided it probably wasn't the best idea I ever had so I had a couple bowls of soup instead!

Each day is bringing me more get well cards and more boredom.  I'm thinking Rex should go back to work and I should go back to sewing!  So I'm guessing that isn't going to be happening anytime soon!

I do have to say though.  I could not believe how excited I am about being able to take a shower in the morning and change my bandage!  What a sad state of entertainment to admit the highlight of my week will be taking a shower and to change the bandage on my neck!


Nini