Sylvia's Journal

Early morning, another entry about the same day but now seen from Lobster Cove. The Reiki, prayers, love you are all sending (as well as the food) are working their magic.

I am reading Sita’s and Tessa’s entries about the 23rd as well and they make me cry. The tears are beginning to come more frequently now – it is as if they were dried up or sitting in shock in some part of my body that could not figure out how to release them.

Sita’s fast exit to Worcester yesterday morning was of course very distressing. But Anne Dodge seamlessly took over and we had a pretty good day. The Visiting Nurse Association network folks showed up, first Regina, a wonderful intake nurse who pointed out some other main management options, and put in a request from a home health aid to releave Sita a couple of times a week. Then Robert the physical therapist. PT can’t do much now with me as long as I have to keep my weight off my right leg and my right shoulder is still hurting. I am alternating wheelchair and walker day by day to let the right upper part of my body heal. Right now I have all the colors of the rainbow going from my right hip to my right elbow, right chest.

For the first time my right foot is hurting against the cast. It feels like raw/sore/tender skin being grinded into hard plaster. Of course I can’t move anything inside the cast and when the pain medication isn’t doing its work I try the breathing exercises I learned in yoga a long time ago. This has served me well throughout the ordeal, from the moment I opened my eyes at the crash site and anytime the pain takes over my whole consciousness.

Two more angels, Debbie Hinds and Edith Maxwell, walked in with meals yesterday and it required the eye of a puzzler to fit everything into the refrigerator. Edith stayed with Anne and me for dinner and we watched the Corporate Trainer episode from the (British) Office, an episode the Buxbaums introduced me to years ago and which I have watched countless time ever since. It was fun to watch it with Anne who is also a trainer. Anne also brought a 500 piece puzzle and we completed the edges before I collapsed from tiredness. For me puzzles have always been associated with wintersport vacations in the mountains (in the US or Europe as child) and only the crackling fire was missing.

Sita returned home around 11 PM, exhausted but in good spirits as you can read from her update on Axel. We are off today to Worcester, a long trip I am dreading a bit but a reunion I am very much looking forward to.

More later
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