Good news update!
Apr. 19th, 2018 12:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
periegesisOn Tuesday, I got discharged from the rehab facility! I also can take pills instead of IVs now! No more IV port! (It didn't even look like Lieutenants Stammetts' on Star Trek. I was so disappointed by that.)
Of course, between having a doctor's appointment on the same day and packing up everything there, I crashed basically as soon as we got home. Yesterday, though, I made bean soup and a loaf of bread. It was fun to cook again. Almost nothing was seasoned quite the way I liked it at the rehab facility (I was there nearly 4 weeks!), and the bread there was terrible. The worst store brand wonderbread, and sometimes the whole wheat variety. Bread with actual texture is amazing. It's so simple, too. Difficult to hold the mixing fork, a bit, because nerve damage in that hand from crutches that assume everyone's thumbs work the same way, but I managed. ("Mixing fork?" It's a no-knead recipe, but one that actually rises in the same amount of time as normal bread. You mix it up like biscuits, but less gently. A large dinner fork with a thick handle is best; if you want to make bread like this but all your forks have thin handles, find a thrift store and buy a stocky fork of fuck-all.)
Today, I want to take a walk, but it's raining, and I'm not sure I can make it 3/4 of a mile (or a full mile, to go where I really want; I need some things from 5 Below) on one crutch. Or both crutches. Let alone back. I'm not sure where the ankle brace the injury clinic originally gave me is; I'd want that. (I have an idea, but who the hell knows if I'm right.) There are also things I need to do, that should be done during business hours, which is to say the next 3-4. But I feel like I can't focus on that without some exercise first. If I take my laptop, I will need to clean out my backpack (which I need to do anyway at somepoint, tbh) and it will be heavier. But then I could rest at the Starbucks (either on the corner or the one in the B&N) after shopping. But I could do that anyway. And the most urgent thing is just a phone call; the other is a thing that has to be emailed and what difference will one day make, it probably won't be handled by the recipient this week since it's already Thursday. Maybe best to see how far I can go with a lighter bag and just my phone, and of course the one crutch (as a cane; it's a forearm crutch) and an umbrella.
I'll have to get out of the house eventually. Except for the specific localization of the pain, I'm no worse off than I was this time in 2016. Definitely no weaker. I got myself strong again that time; I used Pokemon Go to motivate myself to walk places. I could do that today, if it weren't raining (one hand for the crutch, one hand for the umbrella; none for the phone), but honestly I just want a reliable charger cord and some fruit soda. Perhaps another pack of chapsticks. A sense of not being imprisoned. Little things I haven't had, since the end of February. It's been nearly two months.
I have an ankle brace to look for.
Edit: Found the ankle brace! Exactly where I thought it would be, too. Also all the clothes I was missing; I have laundry to do, later. This...might actually work.
Of course, between having a doctor's appointment on the same day and packing up everything there, I crashed basically as soon as we got home. Yesterday, though, I made bean soup and a loaf of bread. It was fun to cook again. Almost nothing was seasoned quite the way I liked it at the rehab facility (I was there nearly 4 weeks!), and the bread there was terrible. The worst store brand wonderbread, and sometimes the whole wheat variety. Bread with actual texture is amazing. It's so simple, too. Difficult to hold the mixing fork, a bit, because nerve damage in that hand from crutches that assume everyone's thumbs work the same way, but I managed. ("Mixing fork?" It's a no-knead recipe, but one that actually rises in the same amount of time as normal bread. You mix it up like biscuits, but less gently. A large dinner fork with a thick handle is best; if you want to make bread like this but all your forks have thin handles, find a thrift store and buy a stocky fork of fuck-all.)
Today, I want to take a walk, but it's raining, and I'm not sure I can make it 3/4 of a mile (or a full mile, to go where I really want; I need some things from 5 Below) on one crutch. Or both crutches. Let alone back. I'm not sure where the ankle brace the injury clinic originally gave me is; I'd want that. (I have an idea, but who the hell knows if I'm right.) There are also things I need to do, that should be done during business hours, which is to say the next 3-4. But I feel like I can't focus on that without some exercise first. If I take my laptop, I will need to clean out my backpack (which I need to do anyway at somepoint, tbh) and it will be heavier. But then I could rest at the Starbucks (either on the corner or the one in the B&N) after shopping. But I could do that anyway. And the most urgent thing is just a phone call; the other is a thing that has to be emailed and what difference will one day make, it probably won't be handled by the recipient this week since it's already Thursday. Maybe best to see how far I can go with a lighter bag and just my phone, and of course the one crutch (as a cane; it's a forearm crutch) and an umbrella.
I'll have to get out of the house eventually. Except for the specific localization of the pain, I'm no worse off than I was this time in 2016. Definitely no weaker. I got myself strong again that time; I used Pokemon Go to motivate myself to walk places. I could do that today, if it weren't raining (one hand for the crutch, one hand for the umbrella; none for the phone), but honestly I just want a reliable charger cord and some fruit soda. Perhaps another pack of chapsticks. A sense of not being imprisoned. Little things I haven't had, since the end of February. It's been nearly two months.
I have an ankle brace to look for.
Edit: Found the ankle brace! Exactly where I thought it would be, too. Also all the clothes I was missing; I have laundry to do, later. This...might actually work.
