Kathleen had a busy and difficult day today. An important one. Lots of information, lots of painful therapy, but it is all in a good cause and she's trooping with the best.
We'll be coming home tomorrow (Thursday) and Birdie is anxious to have her Mom back. She's still looking all around the house for her, can't quite figure the situation out. She'll be a great companion for Kathleen soon.
We've learned a lot about this knee replacement thing. Today we had a buffet lunch and played "Discharge Jeopardy" on a big Power Point screen. The categories were "Pain" "Clots" "Activity" "Misc." and one more we can't remember. And we answered in the form of a question.
Katie's appetite isn't the best, but neither is the food. . . typical bland institutional fare. What is tops is the personnel here, friendly, qualified, useful and lots of them.
We've assembled some equipment: built a stair railing from the garage, loaded up on ice packs, got a chair with wheels, lowered the bed, and added some handy items. We'll borrow a cane from Dan. He has a few spares.
Kathleen hopes to be out shopping for her mother-in-law's May 23 birthday. :)
