Soooooo...... This post will be filled with happy thoughts and just picture me with a big smile on my face. My nurse just came in to check my blood pressure and she said I look really good tonight and I have a big smile. I told her I don't know if the big smile is from shopping online or just everything in general and all the good news. I think it's a little bit of both lol.
So to start yesterday I had my appointment in Hamilton with my surgeon, it was a follow up from my surgery and since I left Hamilton. I had to take Patient Transfer, which is uncomfortable and extremely bumpy. Dean was kind enough to come with me and sit in back. I couldn't have gone to that appointment without him. It started off with them transferring me to there stretcher which I got extremely anxious for and of course once transferred it wasn't so bad. <there goes my brain taking over once again> I also hadn't been outside in weeks, it was pretty frigid lol!!!! The ride there was alright, dean kept me distracted by talking to me and whatnot. When we arrived we had to go straight to X-ray. They wanted X-ray of my pelvis and chest. Thank god they were able to do the X-rays well I laid on stretcher, because I wasn't about to move again. After my X-rays we went to wait for Dr. Ghert, of course I'm starting to freak out because I didn't know what my chest X-Ray was going to show. Was it going to show the cancer has come back in my lungs? Or was it going to come back clear? Well HAPPY TO SAY IT CAME BACK CLEAR :):):):):):):):):) the one of my pelvis showed that the reconstructive is solid and new bone and muscle is starting to form. Best news ........ Aside from that she examined my incisions .... The one that is infected she didn't seem to concerned about, she said because I had over 200 staples I was bound to get some infection on incision. I also still have bedsore on my bum, which she thinks will clear up the more I get up and move. I no longer need the pink wedge in between my legs to role ..... So I said BYE BYE to that yesterday lol. My doctor said I can roll like normal and have next to no limitations. She also bent and rotated my knee in ways it never has been. My left leg is just extremely stiff. She also wrote to the nurses here that I need to be in a more intense rehab program and be up and moving out of bed more. She said I'm capable of it and my whole body is stiff and losing muscle mass. So she wants me doing rehab 2 times a day. Other then that she said everything is good ..... I have another appointment scheduled for April and she said I better come into that appointment walking with a walker or crutches lol!!!! The patient transfer home was a crappy ride, the whole ride home I had a really bad muscle spasm that started from knee right down to foot, dean had to basically hold my foot up bc I couldn't move it and every little bump I felt sharp pain right down my leg. Once we got back and I got in my bed I felt WAY better, other then I was exhausted and pretty loopy from the Ativan. Dean left around 430pm, and I basically slept the whole night lol. It wiped me out.
Soooo physio today I ROCKED again ...... I got up and took 15 steps, then sat in wheelchair for an hour. Mom pushed me around and showed me all the sites lol. We sat down for abit and I tried pushing myself with chair. It's hard work on the arms OMG!!!!!!!! Good way to regain muscle strength for sure. Physio is now allowing me to get in chair on weekends with the nurses, so tomorrow will be the first time trying that. There are also talks of whether I will move to the 2nd floor, or whether I'll stay up here and they come to me. If I go to 2nd floor there are very strict guidelines and my physio team isn't sure I can meet all of them. So it's all up in the air, but I do know next week I should be receiving more physio time and getting up and about. As of right now they are thinking 6 weeks till I go home, but that can change. When I was transferred to Freeport it kind of sucked bc I came over Christmas so my first 2 weeks were basically wasted. I was not happy hearing 6 weeks but if that's what I got to do that's what I go to do. I want to be able to move around safely at home. So I try my hardest to remain positive. I'm lucky I have an extremely supported husband, family and I don't know what I would do without my parents. They have been there taking care of Alyssa majority of the time, now that Dan is back to work.
Thank you to you both Mom and Dean ...... We love you and Munchie loves staying at Grandma and Grandpas.
I'm gonna stop for tonight, I'm starting to fall asleep.
Goodnight all ##
So to start yesterday I had my appointment in Hamilton with my surgeon, it was a follow up from my surgery and since I left Hamilton. I had to take Patient Transfer, which is uncomfortable and extremely bumpy. Dean was kind enough to come with me and sit in back. I couldn't have gone to that appointment without him. It started off with them transferring me to there stretcher which I got extremely anxious for and of course once transferred it wasn't so bad. <there goes my brain taking over once again> I also hadn't been outside in weeks, it was pretty frigid lol!!!! The ride there was alright, dean kept me distracted by talking to me and whatnot. When we arrived we had to go straight to X-ray. They wanted X-ray of my pelvis and chest. Thank god they were able to do the X-rays well I laid on stretcher, because I wasn't about to move again. After my X-rays we went to wait for Dr. Ghert, of course I'm starting to freak out because I didn't know what my chest X-Ray was going to show. Was it going to show the cancer has come back in my lungs? Or was it going to come back clear? Well HAPPY TO SAY IT CAME BACK CLEAR :):):):):):):):):) the one of my pelvis showed that the reconstructive is solid and new bone and muscle is starting to form. Best news ........ Aside from that she examined my incisions .... The one that is infected she didn't seem to concerned about, she said because I had over 200 staples I was bound to get some infection on incision. I also still have bedsore on my bum, which she thinks will clear up the more I get up and move. I no longer need the pink wedge in between my legs to role ..... So I said BYE BYE to that yesterday lol. My doctor said I can roll like normal and have next to no limitations. She also bent and rotated my knee in ways it never has been. My left leg is just extremely stiff. She also wrote to the nurses here that I need to be in a more intense rehab program and be up and moving out of bed more. She said I'm capable of it and my whole body is stiff and losing muscle mass. So she wants me doing rehab 2 times a day. Other then that she said everything is good ..... I have another appointment scheduled for April and she said I better come into that appointment walking with a walker or crutches lol!!!! The patient transfer home was a crappy ride, the whole ride home I had a really bad muscle spasm that started from knee right down to foot, dean had to basically hold my foot up bc I couldn't move it and every little bump I felt sharp pain right down my leg. Once we got back and I got in my bed I felt WAY better, other then I was exhausted and pretty loopy from the Ativan. Dean left around 430pm, and I basically slept the whole night lol. It wiped me out.
Soooo physio today I ROCKED again ...... I got up and took 15 steps, then sat in wheelchair for an hour. Mom pushed me around and showed me all the sites lol. We sat down for abit and I tried pushing myself with chair. It's hard work on the arms OMG!!!!!!!! Good way to regain muscle strength for sure. Physio is now allowing me to get in chair on weekends with the nurses, so tomorrow will be the first time trying that. There are also talks of whether I will move to the 2nd floor, or whether I'll stay up here and they come to me. If I go to 2nd floor there are very strict guidelines and my physio team isn't sure I can meet all of them. So it's all up in the air, but I do know next week I should be receiving more physio time and getting up and about. As of right now they are thinking 6 weeks till I go home, but that can change. When I was transferred to Freeport it kind of sucked bc I came over Christmas so my first 2 weeks were basically wasted. I was not happy hearing 6 weeks but if that's what I got to do that's what I go to do. I want to be able to move around safely at home. So I try my hardest to remain positive. I'm lucky I have an extremely supported husband, family and I don't know what I would do without my parents. They have been there taking care of Alyssa majority of the time, now that Dan is back to work.
Thank you to you both Mom and Dean ...... We love you and Munchie loves staying at Grandma and Grandpas.
I'm gonna stop for tonight, I'm starting to fall asleep.
Goodnight all ##
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