first post-op day: Mum's fine, I'm knackered

[abendgules]

Mum seems recuperating at an astonishing rate; minimum of pain meds, doing her recommended exercises, moving around the house largely without the new walker. She'd been unwilling to even walk from kitchen to bathroom without it last week.

She puttered in the yard while I did laundry and ironing. I trimmed my new jeans and pinned for hemming.

I'm almost concerned she'll try to throw herself back into activity too soon; I don't want her to rush, and somehow impede her own recovery in her keenness to get back to normal activity.

She's off driving for at least 2 weeks; someone other than me has to pitch in as driver at least for the short term, for groceries and errands. Driving after that remains tba.

A family friend JK was around for lunch, but I found I ran out of steam in early afternoon, growing increasingly short-tempered, and even a meal and coffee wasn't enough to keep me going, and I retired to snooze. The tension of surgery day was catching up with me, I think.

We've had a stream of calls of friends and family checking in, and Mum has answered most of them. How much she's feeling better is audible in her voice.

It's been a strange visit; between doing a lot of worrying about Mum's health and her capacity to live independently, it's been delightful to slouch about in shorts and t-shirt, or go running in full sunshiny warmth - needing sunscreen, hat and sunglasses. I wish Robert were here to bask in the fine weather with me.

Comments

[larmer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to read that things are working out well for the recovery. Hopefully your recovery will go well too. :)

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Irecovered completely in about 3 days, although I felt really, really sleepy for a couple of weeks. The doc told me I could drive as soon as I could slam my foot down on the brake for an emergency stop. The most difficult thing was getting up from sitting down, you use your abdominal muscles there.

[badgersandjam.livejournal.com]

I'm glad your mother is picking up. Soak up the vitamin D while you can--Wimbledon's on, and you know what that means weather-wise.

[bend-gules.livejournal.com]

...and there's NOOOOOOOO coverage of Wimbledon here! Mum has a basic cable package, none of the extended sports/movies/pr0n stuff, and I'm *dyin* to watch, and cannot find it. AAArgh.

The intawebs is slow here otherwise I'd be hunting it up online. Can't sit at this computer and sew though.