It’s been a couple days. TG’s been struggling with some pain and some other ancillary issues, but she very well may have turned the corner. She’s been using the pain pump a lot less today, and the rest of her pain meds are only on an as-requested basis. She seems to be fighting very hard NOT to use them, which is extremely encouraging.
She’s walking, albeit slowly. This is a huge milestone. She’s done physical therapy for the past couple days. Part of tomorrow will be figuring out what’s left. It feels like we’re starting to get to the end of the road at the hospital, and it’s good stuff. There’s a couple hurdles, but we’ll work through them in the days to come.
Friend S dropped off a couple gifts today. She loves them — the monkey is very soft, and she’s been cuddling it most of the day. He understands very well what she’s going through, and his counsel early on was huge in helping me personally be a lot more relaxed about things. Thanks man, I owe you… again 🙂
She’s a LOT more of herself tonight. She’s definitely not fighting as much pain, and that she’s gutting it out without anything more than the PCA pump is some incredible progress. She just had a back spasm, and didn’t even reach for the pump. This will help a lot getting her back into life.
TG is reading lots of back emails on her laptop, and starting to get caught up on the world around her.
This almost feels like a normal evening with just the two of us, except we’re here, and not in our living room.
Maybe she’ll even post tonight. [Updated 1030pm: … or not. She finished reading, closed the laptop, was done. Bummer.]