a rainy day at parkwood

Well another blog...noon on friday, another miserable day (weather wise) had another bowel care session last night it went ok, but the only problem the commode was made for someone 5 foot 4 , maybe next time i'll get a video. this is the bad stuff...i get to bed around midnight, couldn't find a comfortable spot for my knee so i watched tv until about 6 in the morning, and then managed to get some sleep. My male student nurse came in today again today, gave me a bath and got me dressed, got me breakfast, its nice because he has the time to talk while he is doing all of this stuff. i was thinking of hiring him to come in everyday. his supervisor came in to talk to me as well and i think i gave him a very good reference, believe it or not a guy can be a care giver. i certainly couldn't. george came up this morning and took me down to physio, just to see what was going on. he stayed with me through out physio, and as we all know george he started talking the gentleman that i met yesterday, who had been in the air force who had been in the air force since 1959 and he a george had a great conversation. I had to remind the sarge that he had come to visit me and not the rest of the patients in the place hehehe. i got on the motoped and did another 26 minutes, learned a valuable lesson this morning, i tried to show off to george how many RPM i could do on the pedals...got it up to 63, which is 10 higher then i had ever done before, but then my left quad cramped up, so much for showing off. the physio slapped me on the back of the head. then after 26 minutes on the bike they got me sitting up on the edge of a table which is tough to do, since i don't have a lot of strength around my stomach. I probably sat up for about 10 minutes i am guessing. I have OT this afternoon at 2 o'clock and i am going to ask for a tilted over the bed table with a mouse pad and hopefully i will be able to sit up and run my computer, I have been working with dragon (voice activated soft ware, and i can make it work while dictating, but we are having problems finding the correct commands to make it work through programs like my emailer and the web. it is going to take awhile to learn the commands to tell it what to do but it also has to learn to recognize my voice, so hopefully down the road we will get it together and i will be able to tell my computer what to do. we shall see. Meghan is going back to collingwood this afternoon, and won't be back until sunday, with kelly. kelly is flying in form bali, meghan is going to pick her up form the airport in toronto on sunday...and i want her to go home and take a shower and change of clothes to get rid of all the bali bugs. so next blog will probably be sunday night or monday. have a good weekend everyone.