Sylvia's Journal

As we are branching off into different treatment scenarios, updates now coming from three different sites. Tessa wrote about Axel early this morning.

Yesterday morning I talked with Joan who is at Spaulding Rehab in Boston and getting a work out. She is using visualization to help her out of her bed, chair and the to the end of the hallway. Go girl!!

It is a dreary day at Lobster Cove. I am inside today. Yesterday Sita wheeled me out into the yard in the sun and we sat and ate raspberries brought by her friend Brian.

Katie Blair ‘mommy sat’ in the morning so Sita could take care of some other things. Although I won’t be able to see this myself, KB also helped various fruits and vegetables to grow properly upward.

And once again, when we need something, the universe provides. Last night when Jim asked what we should have for dinner, in walked Carol with an extraordinary mediterannean chicken dish, while we were still nibbling on her exquisite pickled beans.

The VNA nurse came by today and helped Sita and me sort out my pain medication regimen which isn’t quite working the way it should. Tomorrow I have to go back to the trauma clinic in Worcester and that will be an occasion to see Axel (whose surgery has been postponed until some psychiatric and neurological glitches have been sorted out).

In a couple of hours I start my physical therapy at home. News from the bowel front is good for those of you who want to know. Nurse Sita and Personal Care Assistant Anne Dodge are keeping me from racing too fast around the kitchen, and as for Dr. Potato, he hasn’t shown up yet, maybe for lunch.
Cheers
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