There's No Place Like ...

Well, it's home for the next few months, anyway.  Moving still seems pretty distant with everything else going on right now though.

Deb got a lot of good rest yesterday afternoon and evening in between having to get up to go the the restroom, dealing with her surgical drains, and taking laps around the first floor to get some movement in.  She slept, as planned, on the sofa overnight taking up the longer arm of the sectional while I took the shorter half.  We were up at 0100 and 0530 to deal with the aforementioned items before waking up for the day at around 0830.

I ended up taking a mid-day trip out to run errands and grab lunch with my friend Tom, and Dane showed up a little late (of course).  But even with that and the grocery store and picking up other items in Fremont and Green Lake - oh, and the post office - I was still only gone for around three hours.  Deb slept for most of that time, though she did get up once (I had left things so she could easily reach what she needed to do that).

Deb took a shower this afternoon, and to my surprise decided that she wanted to go up the stairs to do it in our Master Bathroom shower.  I hovered appropriately while she navigated the stairs mostly on her own, but she dealt with the stairs like a champ.  Still, it was tiring, so she says she only wants to deal with the stairs once-a-day for now.

Her biggest complaint right now is that all of the sitting in one place is hurting her back.  For tonight she wants to swap out our sleeping arrangement, and I think she will try to spend more time in her recliner tomorrow just to get some different support.  She isn't complaining about the general pain she is in, but she is being honest when I ask her specifically about it.  The truth is, you can think that you've mentally prepared yourself for the pain in advance, but you find out that doesn't mean much until you are actually dealing with it.

Still, she's strong - a real trooper.  Stronger even than she'll admit to herself.  But trust me, I see it.