has again been great. I was up around 6am which is normally early for me, but I felt like I couldn't get back to sleep anyway. Someone from my OS's team came to check on me along with the physical therapy assistant. They told me I would have a liquid breakfast even though I had a little solid food last night (somehow I still got a tray of food - I just took it easy). They told me I would have PT after I ate - yeah! that meant finally getting out of bed!
I had PT twice today. In the morning, I walked from my bed to the door using the walker. In the afternoon, I walked in the hallway just a few doors down from me. It felt great to stand up and stretch my muscles a bit, though my leg is still very weak - I'm thankful for my walker.
My pain has been managed well and I'm glad they gave me a nerve block/med port thing. It gives me a steady supply of meds straight to my joint and I can push a button when I need more.
On the kid side of things, I used my breast pump this morning as I was feeling quite full and the nurses (male and female) have sympathized with me about dumping the milk - one referred to it as gold, "too bad it's tainted", I reminded her. My almost 10 month old has been eating pretty well for my husband and sister, including taking her bottles well. I miss nursing her, but I'm not emotional about it. I know this needed to be done and hopefully we can get back to it in a couple of weeks. My husband brought the girls in to see me and we ate lunch together. My youngest had a big grin on her face - it was great to see her eyes light up! My 3 yo was a little hesitant at first. Then she proudly gave me a gift bag containing a throw pillow from home and a hand made card-she is so thoughtful. She then talked about how some things were similar to Mom-o's hospital and settled in to the chair next to me to eat her sandwich. It was great to hold my baby and to get hugs from my big girl, who said, "when I'm big and I'm a mommy, I'm going to have hip surgery too." Of course my husband and I both replied we hope she doesn't need to.
As I mentioned before, my mom has been battling cancer for 3 years. Tonight she was admitted to the cancer hospital. It is strange to think that we are both sleeping in hospital beds tonight. I am relieved that she is getting the care she needs and they are doing tests to see why she is so weak; we just have to take it one day at a time.
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