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Sunday, August 13th, 2006 11:41 am
As anyone in Victoria knows, waterfront Dallas Road is probably the ideal location to sit and watch the world go by and is of course an ideal place to recuperate after hip surgery. I was released on Aug 4, three days after the surgery, and my neighbour Evi picked me up and drove me down to kp's establishment. She owns a large house in said location which she runs, as she says, as a B&B without the B: short term rentals for visitors, self-catering, and she lives in one downstairs flat with a bay window overlooking the West end of Beacon Hill park and the Breakwater.

My daily routine quickly soon evolved to getting up slowly, then after breakfast doing my exercises and shooting myself in the stomach with rat poison (this is warfarin - I'm on a blood thinner in case of clotting), dressing, sitting, if fine moving out to porch for lunch, moving back indoors for afternoon exercises, short rest, supper, more sitting, then bed. Gradually this became supplemented with short walks and a little computer time, but basically that was about as much as I could do. A shower on one morning made me so tired I had to have a nap in the afternoon!

At the end of the week I went to my first outpatient physio appointment and was pronounced fit to graduate to a cane instead of a walker. Yay!!! That morning, mkb, who was visiting from Vancouver, took me home to suss things out, and we began preparations for the great Migration...

To be continued.
Sunday, August 13th, 2006 08:12 pm (UTC)
hey Bionic woman, how are you doing? leaving for Edmonton for two weeks on tues.; trying to get sorted out and packed up before then. Have a quiet day today, thank goodness. Good luck on your move home! are you home yet?? Will be around today and tomorrow, so if you need anything, do call! Bet your boys will be happy to have you home!
Sunday, August 13th, 2006 11:59 pm (UTC)
Thanks - I'm doing great, really, but I appreciate the offer of help. Hope you have a great trip to Edmonton!
Sunday, August 13th, 2006 09:02 pm (UTC)
Home Alone - exciting but scary! I'm glad you're doing well enough to start preparing for it.
Sunday, August 13th, 2006 11:59 pm (UTC)
thanks :)
Sunday, August 13th, 2006 11:09 pm (UTC)
Definitely sounds like a nice place to re-couperate. Keep up the good progress!
Monday, August 14th, 2006 12:00 am (UTC)
thank you! :)