We visited Julie yesterday and she was feeling quite a bit
better. She has had her first physiotherapy session and while she is not very
good at stairs, she was able to go up and down a few.
Doug, her former roommate has gone home and has been
replaced by Gerry. He is in his 70s and had some surgery on his esophagus. Both
he and his wife seem very nice.
The trauma team are pleased with her progress – her lungs
are coming along, her ribs are feeling better, her liver is healing and her
head scans are all clear.
Yesterday she was allowed off the ward so went for a coffee
and cookie with a friend. The doctors have suggested she try a day pass this weekend
and see how it goes. If she is doing well, she might be discharged home this
coming week. If it doesn’t go well, she still has a bed at the hospital to come
back to if they have to go to a Plan B. She did say this morning, however, that
she thinks she might have overdone it a bit yesterday because this morning her
back hurt so she was planning a quiet day.
Her doctor will be back on Tuesday so he has the final say. I
have every confidence that whatever decision is made will be the right one for
her.
Things seem to be looking up – after all it will be 5 weeks
on Monday since the accident so she should start to feel better shortly. Almost everything I have read suggests that
around 6 weeks is when the ribs start to feel better so she is fast approaching
that timeline. They changed her meds on Wednesday and that has made a huge
difference – the pain control is better so she is able to do more etc.
I think that now she is getting better, my body has said
“enough is enough”. I went to bed last night with a scratchy throat and woke up
this morning with a head cold. At least this is a long weekend so I plan to do
nothing except eat, sleep and read. I should probably do some laundry along the
way but even that might have to wait!
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