The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey June 30, 2014

At the Edge of the Woods

We're not out of them yet, but there's more scrub brush at the edges, right? Stuff that needs pushing through before we can be out of the woods? Yeah, that's it. Overall, Marcia's doing well. We got here home midday on Wednesday, and had formal outpatient PT on both Thursday and Friday. We managed a lot (relatively) of exercise yesterday, including a couple of walks up and down the sidewalk on our block. So she's improving rapidly. Today: blood test (for effectiveness of blood thinner) and PT. Me? By the time I was done with all the chores plus the…

Brian Bilbrey June 24, 2014

Another Marcia Update

As of this evening, she's still in hospital. All of the Occupational and Physical Therapy goals have been met, but her hematocrit number remains low (but not alarmingly so). So they decided to keep her another day. Excellent day of movement, up and down stairs plus lots of walking about. That's all I've got for you, now. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey June 23, 2014

Hip Replacement Update(s)

Update 1130 EDT: We were up at 0430 this morning, and left for the hospital at 0520. Got her into pre-op by 0630, with surgery scheduled to begin at 0840. Lots of paperwork and people coming in and asking Marcia what her name was, and why she was in the hospital. I *still* think she should have made a list, and given a different answer to each questioner. The staff might not have found that amusing, however. They wheeled her back into the OR at 0830. I went into the waiting area, and ... waited. At 10:15, Marcia's surgeon reported…

Brian Bilbrey June 22, 2014

Ready for tomorrow

Marcia gets even more bionic tomorrow early, with a full (left) hip replacement. They'll have her on her feet in the afternoon, walking around and doing stuff on Tuesday, and presuming everything goes dory and hunky, home on Tuesday evening. Wow! We expect wonders from Dr. King and the great staff at AAMC. Wish us luck. * * * I'm glad to note that DoD has reported no casualties in the last week.

Brian Bilbrey June 20, 2014

What a week!

To give you just a sense of what it's been like, here's the email I sent to my group at $FIRM early on Thursday morning: Subject: Not going to be in office todayMultiple appliance fails.Hot water heater wasn't making hot water, assumed pilot light fail.No, no, a partial containment fail instead, with leaking to carpets,yay! But most of the water went to the sump, and left the building appropriately. Cleaned up some water until time to feed and walk thedog.Heading out to do that, the garage door opener played up, badly.Repeat of winter problems that we tolerated until they went…