Dreams Of Noise

A huge frickin' mistake is finally off the books.

A lot of people have posted this, and if you haven't seen it you really need to.

Wednesday, my surgeon gave my left leg the status "weight bearing as tolerated".

That afternoon, on several different occasions, I took a few halting steps... without the walker.

Thursday, I did some more of that. It's exhausting as hell, and I've got to be careful not to push it... but the more I do, the more I can do.

Friday, I was discharged from Imperial. Because, really, the physical therapy folks can't do anything more for me except supervise exercises I can do at home. And the nurse staff was basically giving me three pills and bad food.

However haltingly, I'm beginning to walk on my own.

And I'm doing it at home.

Where, to ice the cake nicely, I can has broadband.

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I have more e-mail to catch up on than anyone in the history of e-mail catching-up-on. I have orders to send out. I have a gazillion thank-yous. And, oh my, I have music to write. So I may not post as much as I likely should. And my trousers have no recourse or resource.

But.

I'm back in the saddle again.

How are you doin'?

I stood today with a walker.

Did it several times, actually. No real problem except figuring out the exact leverage. Leg didn't complain much at all. And Jeff, the PT, said, fantastic, I'll talk to Adlai (the guy actually in charge of my leg) on Monday and we can start taking a few steps.

And I said, Can I try now?

And I moved the walker forward, and moved my left foot forward and didn't put too much weight on it, and dragged my right foot forward quickly. And then I did it again. And again. And again.

And when we left the room, I asked, Let me go as far as I could, which I didn't do. I went about forty feet, and I think I could have gone the whole, maybe 150 from that point back to my room.

And, once back here, we did a chair-to-bed transfer. No prob.

Bed to bathroom. No prob.

Bathroom back to bed. No. Prob.

He doesn't want me to do anything without a spotter until we've discussed stuff with Adlai, so I'm probably not gonna do any more until Monday.

But.

I'm walking again.