So Steve and I are in bed. We came out of surgery about 30 hours before and Steve has to take a trip that we both have come to dread, the bathroom trip. The reason being is because all the blood rushes down to the leg and it is just very painful. The alternative is the pee can so we both make the trip on crutches. Steve coming out of the bathroom, spies a little critter by his bed.  On closer inspection he realizes that it is a nasty looking cockroach. I tell him that I hate having cockroaches crawling on me when I sleep. Now Steve being the caring person that he is has sort of taken to the roll of helping me to manage down here and has been taking very good care of me. And so he continues to show his benevolence by chasing the little roach around the room on crutches. I trying to be the best help that I can, egging him on and helping with recon work, letting him know the position on the roach. When it is all said and done. The roach lay dead on the bottom of one of Steve’s crutches and Steve leaning on the other crutch has the look of one of the Three hundred after the first day of defending the Hot Gates.

Day 4

The leg still pounds and hurts. I am not sure where more pain is coming from, the drill holes or the ham string and veins that were taken out to fix the ACL. In any case, it hurts. We are supposed to be doing exercises to stretch and get motion back in the knee but it is hard to do these faithfully as it doesn’t seem natural to be trying to move it around, it just wants to lie in bed and be fussed over.  Did work off line and then played a game of chess with Steve should have know that I was going as a sheep to the slaughter but it was a nice change and I learned much seeing  Steve the master at work.  Linda brought over some Mexican ice cream, which was definitely one of the highlights of the day.

Posted on August 24th, 2007 by John
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