Clean Hair

Mission accomplished--I've washed my hair. If you don't have a portable spray wand that will fit on the faucet of the deepest sink in your house (in our case, the kitchen sink), you should get one. The hair washing adventure actually went quite smoothly. Stan did have to wield the sprayer, but I was able to wash my own hair by leaning forward over the sink. So, that's done, and now on to exercises.

Before the exercises, however, I'll recap the night and the morning. Sleep is my friend. I turned out the light at 8:00 last night and slept until 7:00. That doesn't mean I slept 11 straight hours--far from it. I wake up about every 2 1/2 to 3 hours. I try to be quiet, but my thumping with the walker always wakes up Stan, so our routine is that I go to the bathroom while he prepares a new chilled, gel-pak. I get back in bed (still on the daybed in his office) and he puts the cold gel-pak on. He goes back to bed and I fall asleep quickly. Three hours later, same routine.

When I woke at 5:00 and we went through our routine, I took a Percocet and moved to the couch in the family room. I thought I might wake up for the day, but the next thing I knew, it was 7:15! Stan was still asleep upstairs, so I trundled over to the coffeemaker, got a cup of coffee, and settled down on the couch to spend some time with my computer while drinking coffee. Unfortunately, the Percocet once again worked its magic and I could drink only about half a cup of coffee. Stan woke up about that time and urged me to eat my bran cereal, which I did, but I couldn't face orange juice or yogurt or prunes or anything else. As soon as I ate my cereal, I collapsed back on the couch and fell asleep again, not waking until 11:30.

Stan cajoled me into eating lunch--half a grilled cheese, 4 potato chips, and two spoons of ice cream--and into taking another Percocet. I didn't want to take the Percocet, but figured I wouldn't be able to do all the exercises if I didn't, so I took my pill, we washed my hair, and now I'm waiting for a little while to let the medicine to take effect before starting the exercises.

I see a nap in my future....