Thurs. 7/2 - Shower Time!

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It's Day 3 post-op and also Day 3 since my last shower. I've been awake since 4am (pleasingly not
Waterproof leg cover - works wonders!
due to pain but rather due to child climbing in bed with a nightmare he couldn't shake...), and I feel gross. I don't have a shower chair yet and our showers aren't conducive to a folding chair that would allow for enough room for me and someone to help me wash up. Luckily, it's a warm morning and we have a fairly private backyard, so I get into my swimsuit, slide the watertight leg covering on over my leg, and hobble out to a lawn chair where my mom is waiting with warm water and shampoo/conditioner. 

Thanks to Covid, I haven't had my hair cut in over 6 months so I'm like Rapunzel over here, and my poor mom is trying to scrub out all the gunk that's built up in my hair over the past 3 days. I sponge bathe the rest of myself whilst trying to avoid any water on my casting, and manage to do pretty well. Admittedly, I feel the best I've felt since the surgery. I have breakfast at the table with my parents and kids, I even create a few Perler Bead creations with the kids, and walk around a bit on the crutches. I feel good. So good, in fact, that I feel bad that I'm not doing anything else. I feel like I should be doing something more (Fold laundry? Make lunch? Work on my manuscript?) but after just a few minutes sitting outside on the deck in the heat, I get woozy and am shaking. I feel like I might vomit but luckily my husband and mom are able to scrape me up into the wheelchair and get me back into bed, my husband reminding me that I need to go more slowly and not push myself.

But I'm bored. And I'm FEELING much better... I've only taken one Percocet the whole day and actually called the doctor to find out what lower dose/other medication I could take since I hate taking meds unnecessarily (the answer I'm given: Tylenol).

I realize this recovery is a marathon, and to cross the finish line, I have to keep a steady pace, not a sprint. But damn it's hard to just sit here and do nothing except make a dent in the bed.

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