Physical therapy day

I could not sleep this morning so about 0500 I gave up trying and got up and went downstairs so that I would not disturb Kathleen. When the sun came up I went outside with Reggie and checked up on the plants.

I checked my e-mail and then made some coffee and cereal for breakfast. When I finished that I read the paper and got myself cleaned up for Kathleen’s doctor’ appointment at 1045. Once I was ready to go I woke Kathleen up and helped her get ready.

We finally made it out the door about 1035 and raced to the doctor’s office. When we got there the took some new x-rays of her arm. The doctor was pleased with the progress and we could actually see some clouding at the break, which he said was the healing process.

Most importantly to Kathleen he said that she could take the brace off to shower. She has been going… not being able to shower for the last five weeks. I have tried helping her take baths, but we were always so careful trying to keep the brace dry. So if nothing else being able to take a shower should help her moral.

We had some time between the doctor’s appointment and the physical therapy appointment so we stopped by the store we bought the chair a week or so ago to see if they had another one. They did but they were asking about 35% more for it than what we paid for the last one.

So being the tight wad that I am I asked the clerk about it and he said the boss said the from now on that was the new price of them. We went back and looked at both chairs and decided that we liked them enough to pay the extra money for it. But just before we told the clerk that we wanted it, he said that since we bought one at the lower price the boss said that we could have this last one for the old price. So now we have two rather comfortable chairs in the living room.


Bu the time we got home and the chair moved into the living room it was just about time to rush to the physical therapy appointment.. We were a little late for the appointment, but we made it. Kathleen was doing much better for most of the appointment until it came time for the stretching portion. That is always the most painful for her, the pain is not in the break, but rather in the forearm and wrists.

After that appointment she wanted to go back to the doctor’s to have her wrist x-rayed, so we did and the x-ray did not show anything, but the doctor said that if in two weeks it was not better they would run some other tests.

We had just gotten home and Aaron and the girls showed up. Aaron and Chucky were supposed to haul the cabinets up to Kathleen’s craft room when Chucky got off work. So while we were waiting I told Aaron that I could help move some of the cabinets upstairs with him.

I thought that we were just going to be taking them upstairs, but Kathleen had talked to Aaron earlier and she wanted them mounted. So we mounted the upper cabinets and before we knew it Tami and Toni showed up.

The gals had talked and decided to have dinner at our place, so tonight Aaron, Tami and the girls along with Toni and Chucky made taco salad for us for dinner. They also brought corn on the cob and watermelon. After dinner Aaron and Chucky brought the cabinet bottoms up to Kathleen’s craft room, so now our front porch is almost cleaned off.

So this is just about the end of a busy day.

Have a good night!

Bob

Funny comment of the day

So, I was telling my friend Anne about my blog and she teased me by saying...
"oh, now you're a blogger, hu? Most of the blogs I have seen are from liberal lesbian types."
To which I replied "My dad has a blog and he is neither liberal nor is he a lesbian!"

Alyssa

Container Container and Hope

I think we do so much running around on PT (Physical Therapy) days because we are actually up, dressed and gone. That is so exciting that we just go until we drop. Then we don't (I don't, at least) move for a day or two until next time. I was hoping to actually go to sleep earlier tonight – not tomorrow - but it's too late for that. Why do those pills - even with coffee - make it impossible to stay awake during the day and don't bother me that way at night?????

I'm hoping I don’t ache so much in the morning so PT will be easier. I do and do not look forward to it. I'm hoping Dr Woolley will be impressed and that my humerus is happily healing and not twisting around in there. (A lame attempt at bone humor but it is my real desire.)

The Container Container in the kitchen isn't missed although it took most of the day for me to realize it was gone. Sometimes when you are raising elephants you get used to walking around them.

I understand Aaron and Chucky are going to get cupboards moved from their resting place on the front porch up to the upstairs tomorrow/today. I can't believe it is actually going to happen - amazing and wonderful. Then to get everything put away, hauled upstairs from my downstairs studio and more put away and gotten rid of. Then, deep breath, move the piano in there and get a bed of some sort for that room. This was all supposed to have started happening before Bob's surgery but life and schedules change and we go with Plan B - or C.

Welcome to the first addition of the Bob Roush Family and Friends blog!

Welcome to the first addition of the Bob Roush Family and Friends blog. I have decided that since most of my posts lately have simply been a daily journal rather than a care or progress report after my surgery I would change the venue to a more generic blog.

After getting up this morning, I went outside and watered the plants, even though it is not that hot it still has not rained in a loooong time! When I finished I made some coffee, ham and eggs and toast then read the paper.

Waiting for Kathleen to get up and ready I decided to take a large plastic box full of Tupperware and other plastic containers downstairs. It was larger than I really wanted to handle myself, but I took about half of the containers out of it and it was not so bad. I also did three loads of laundry, washed, folded and put away.

I heated up some leftovers for lunch and after a while I went outside and raked the front yard. Since it has been so dry, many leaves have fallen off the walnut trees and the lawn was a mess.

Well it looks like we will not be doing any of the running around that we have planned to do for the last few days, as it is 1830 and Kathleen is still not dressed. Either she needs to take pain medication or she has just taken it and is too groggy to do anything.

Well, I hear the drier telling me that the last load is done and I need to take it out, fold it and put away.

Let me know what you think of the new format.

Bob

Blog Questions

I am a total novice when it comes to blogs. I am amazed that I was able to set mine up. My question is this...can I email my friends to look at my personal blog, or is it linked to yours?

Is anybody out there?

I got myself signed up when I saw the new blog location and am looking forward to reading more posts!

Love,

Alyssa

In looking for another venue in which to post our activities; I cam upon this blog page Saturday but I wanted a couple days to think about it. Right now, I am looking of other opinions...What do you think?

Bob