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Honestly, been a bit too doped up to do full proper replies to people, but all of this support and niceness has really touched me, genuinely had a few wee tears reading through things. @youramericanlover this has been really handy, thank you! And thank you for your reassurance @JonD They got me up for my first few steps on an arjo the day after the surgery and even got seated on a chair and used the commode (which had been a bit of a panic after multiple days of heavy painkillers..). Yesterday was a wee step back in confidence.. I was feeling really good about getting up and on the zimmer and into a chair, but then a nurse hit my foot with the lunch table which made me really sore and tense and then 2 nurses I hadn’t worked with before tried to get me back into bed but were just pulling me and moving without really talking about what I had to do and I was just tense and panicky and sore so by the time I was in bed I didn’t want back out again.. I think a lot of the problem was less the nurses but a dose of morphine making me a bit foggy and unable to let them know that I needed to understand what had to happen as it was my first time doing it.
I’m feeling much more positive today, much more, less painful movement and got out into the hall with a zimmer, showed the OT getting up and down from the toilet and over into a chair so just a wee dip and things are much better today!
Physios have been in each day since and I have some exercises to start on, able to bend my knee when I’m lying or sitting (it was just lying yesterday) but still haven’t cracked lifting my heel yet, maybe tomorrow after some more practice today!
@TotalShanner that’s a really good way of articulating that, thank you! Self esteem has never been great to allow for self care but I am beginning to recognise the importance of exactly that. @owl definitely going to be cracking the banjo out and picking away on recovery evenings I reckon.
@kjlem @damskodonny @johnnettles2 we nearly bought that when we were first looking up here! Then we quickly realised that was a ridiculous thought and we had nowhere near enough money/skills to get anywhere near that being habitable and nice!!