What a difference a night makes! While I can't say it was a "normal" night back upstairs in my very own bed, it was much better than the previous few nights, so hooray for some sleep finally! I actually felt like a human this morning! The day that stretched out ahead of me when I woke at 8:00 a.m. was a quiet day, but it's fine to have quiet days.
The only real activity of note this morning was the full panoply of exercising which really did a job on my leg, but in a good way, of course. There was plenty of icing and elevating at the conclusion of the 30 minutes of stretching, pushing, and pulling. We had soup for lunch while watching another Mummy movie from the 1930s (we do get stuck on our little "kicks"), then I finished packing a Valentine box to send to the Florida grandchildren which Stan subsequently took to UPS to ship. Rather than coming straight home, he went to the Rec Center to walk on the track, leaving me supposedly to take a nap, but I was unable to fall asleep. Who knows why because I was certainly tired from my morning exertions and, in general, surgery patients need a lot more sleep than usual. In the end, however, I just read.
To keep you updated on the state of medicine, I haven't taken any Percocet since Thursday morning before physical therapy. I've been taken my two aspirin daily for blood thinning purposes, I've taken an ibuprofen morning and afternoon before exercising, and a Tylenol PM at bedtime. While I can't say I'm exactly pain free, I'm fine, and anything (just about) is better than the dizziness and nausea caused by Percocet.
After another grueling round of exercising this afternoon, I iced and elevated until 5:00 when younger son and his family arrived. It's been a while since we had our usual Saturday night pizza, so it was lovely just to sit around chatting and eating our pizza. They've now left, and I suppose Stan and I will watch a bit of TV until it's time to climb the stairs again and get into bed. Hoping for two good nights of sleep in a row!
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