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the_rckI hurt more after PT than I had before. The PT had managed to get some of the tension out of my neck and shoulders, but that hurt, too, just differently. She said that my top rib on the right was pulled up again.
Cordelia and I met at the library to return books (I couldn't carry all of them, so she had a bag, and I had a bag). Then we walked to Totoro and had lunch. After that, we went back to the library separately because she gets impatient walking with me at my pace.
I picked up my holds but couldn't fit all of them into my bag. I considered leaving some to pick up later, but I didn't want to accidentally leave something that was about to expire and was rushing to catch a bus. I didn't want to have to wait another half an hour for that.
I took the #3 bus from Blake to St Joe's. It wasn't a trip I'd made before. There was another bus I could have taken (the #64, I think), but it would have taken ten minutes longer to get there and left at the same time. Both buses were once every half hour, so the #3 was really the better choice.
My SIL looked really exhausted. Our BIL did, too. Nobody's been able to persuade him to leave the hospital to go and sleep, so he's been catnapping in chairs since Friday. While I was there, they moved her from the surgical ICU to a ward with a lower level of instant intervention capability because they felt she was recovering as she should.
Our BIL just texted to say that she might be allowed water today. I really hope so. Her hemoglobin levels are holding steady, so she's probably not bleeding internally any more. They had her walking a little bit yesterday with someone next to her, just a few feet out and back.
Scott's parents gave me a ride home from the hospital. They were on their way home and trying to figure out the best route for missing the heavy traffic on 23 at that time of day.
We have the big family vacation scheduled to start on the 19th of August. Normally, my SIL would be a big organizing force for making sure people kept busy and meals were properly planned. The location is pretty much only good for hiking and for water activities. I don't think she's going to be up to any of that, not three weeks out from major abdominal surgery. I don't know if she'll even be good to be away from her doctors for that long.
I'm trying to figure out if there's some of this that Cordelia and I can help with. I'm not touching the outdoor activity planning because I have (and had) no intention of participating. Given my phobia, the water activities side would be a form of hell. The meal planning part... I was assuming that I'd be preparing my own food and eating on my own schedule because what I need is opposite from what everyone else expects/needs. If I'm doing that, then people can eat normal food at dinner time rather than trying to season things only with salt.
I suppose the first step on that is to make a Gdoc and share it. If anybody else has already done that, I'm not aware of it.
I think I remember Scott saying that there's a grocery store not too far from where we'll be staying. I hope I'm remembering right because that would make things massively easier for me. For everyone really.
Hm. It looks like there's a small store in walking distance and like everything else will require driving. Less convenient. Quite a lot less convenient given that I can't drive.
I'm going to have to figure out reasonable storage for food during the drive from here to there because there are certain specific things from specific brands that I know are safe. I can't be sure of finding them at a random store four hours from home and can't tell from looking at ingredient lists whether or not something unknown is safe. A lot of things that make me sick fall under 'natural flavors' or 'spices' on ingredient lists.
Cordelia and I met at the library to return books (I couldn't carry all of them, so she had a bag, and I had a bag). Then we walked to Totoro and had lunch. After that, we went back to the library separately because she gets impatient walking with me at my pace.
I picked up my holds but couldn't fit all of them into my bag. I considered leaving some to pick up later, but I didn't want to accidentally leave something that was about to expire and was rushing to catch a bus. I didn't want to have to wait another half an hour for that.
I took the #3 bus from Blake to St Joe's. It wasn't a trip I'd made before. There was another bus I could have taken (the #64, I think), but it would have taken ten minutes longer to get there and left at the same time. Both buses were once every half hour, so the #3 was really the better choice.
My SIL looked really exhausted. Our BIL did, too. Nobody's been able to persuade him to leave the hospital to go and sleep, so he's been catnapping in chairs since Friday. While I was there, they moved her from the surgical ICU to a ward with a lower level of instant intervention capability because they felt she was recovering as she should.
Our BIL just texted to say that she might be allowed water today. I really hope so. Her hemoglobin levels are holding steady, so she's probably not bleeding internally any more. They had her walking a little bit yesterday with someone next to her, just a few feet out and back.
Scott's parents gave me a ride home from the hospital. They were on their way home and trying to figure out the best route for missing the heavy traffic on 23 at that time of day.
We have the big family vacation scheduled to start on the 19th of August. Normally, my SIL would be a big organizing force for making sure people kept busy and meals were properly planned. The location is pretty much only good for hiking and for water activities. I don't think she's going to be up to any of that, not three weeks out from major abdominal surgery. I don't know if she'll even be good to be away from her doctors for that long.
I'm trying to figure out if there's some of this that Cordelia and I can help with. I'm not touching the outdoor activity planning because I have (and had) no intention of participating. Given my phobia, the water activities side would be a form of hell. The meal planning part... I was assuming that I'd be preparing my own food and eating on my own schedule because what I need is opposite from what everyone else expects/needs. If I'm doing that, then people can eat normal food at dinner time rather than trying to season things only with salt.
I suppose the first step on that is to make a Gdoc and share it. If anybody else has already done that, I'm not aware of it.
I think I remember Scott saying that there's a grocery store not too far from where we'll be staying. I hope I'm remembering right because that would make things massively easier for me. For everyone really.
Hm. It looks like there's a small store in walking distance and like everything else will require driving. Less convenient. Quite a lot less convenient given that I can't drive.
I'm going to have to figure out reasonable storage for food during the drive from here to there because there are certain specific things from specific brands that I know are safe. I can't be sure of finding them at a random store four hours from home and can't tell from looking at ingredient lists whether or not something unknown is safe. A lot of things that make me sick fall under 'natural flavors' or 'spices' on ingredient lists.
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Date: 2018-08-01 12:58 am (UTC)I'm glad your sister-in-law is doing better. I keep thinking about her and sending good wishes her way.
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