I am starting to get used to the changes in a rehab hospital. In acute care every day was the same. In rehab weekends are really different from weekdays. During the week in rehab there is physio and OT and they get up every morning and make you get dressed note I wear shorts and a t shirt and when I am in my wheel chair I much wear shoes. Darcy and Meghan went to sport check, and I now have a pair of shiny black basketball shoes they selected because there was a tall basketball player at the time and said they said they were light and comfortable; he bought them so they did too. On the weekends it is much different it is much different because there is no reason for them to get you, so I lay in bed for several hours this morning just waiting for stuff to happen. I did have some problems this morning as I couldn’t get me left knee into a comfortable position. And since it was the weekend there doesn’t seem to be as many people here to help. They have changed my pain medication to a long lasting, 12 hour pill that I can bump occasionally if I need it. As mentioned before the biggest hindrance is my re injured left knee. As far as movement is going the little physio and OT that I have had seemed to get me moving in the right direction. The OT did mention although I don’t want to get too hopeful I could possible have a 100% recovery in y right arm. At this point in time the left arm is a little behind but I can move my fingers slightly and I contract my biceps slightly. The triceps however is quite week. The start of this blog was going to be about parkwood but I always seem to return to all these blogs is to what is hurting, working, not hurting not working. So I will in the future try to stick to the topic. Today I will continue to ramble. Last night wasn’t a good night due to my knee mostly and I think I upset the nurses by ringing the bell frequently. The good thing last night was they put me on the commode again and tonight I get on the commode again and have another shower. Hopefully this will keep me from stinking so much as I did when I was in Toronto, where I only got daily wash downs. I mentioned in a previous blog that I have a great roommate, I asked if I could use his name and he agreed, Peter has been so helpful as sometimes I lose my call bell when I can’t see it on the bed and he calls the nurses for me and I think sometimes I even wake him up to do it. This morning was very interesting given my knee problem and I wasn’t getting the response that I was expecting so I had peter call Darcy on his phone to see if they could get here earlier. And Meghan did arrive about an hour and a half earlier. Since peter is mobile in a wheel chair and has use of his arms he actually came over to my bed and adjusted my leg. Not only is peter helpful but when his son arrived I had my leg brace on and it had been tightened very tight so he was very kind and loosened all the straps for me and I ended up talking to him for 10-15 minutes taking time away from his visit with his dad. I am finding that I have got to start keeping quiet as I am talking too much, way too much and becoming a pain in the butt, no I am getting tired of listening to my self…in the future I will try to be briefer in my explanations and questions. I think I am really going to like it here once I get used to the routine staff are fantastic and any residents I have met so far have been great. Looking forward to getting down to some hard work at physio and OT on Monday. Interesting to note: that my OT rides with a local cycling club and has a titanium bike with campy components. So I can talk cycling to somebody. Good to see Ross and tony today. In the future I won’t ramble as much I promise but…..
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