Lots of firsts : )

I am so tired and sore tonight. Tomorrow will be a week since my surgery and today was the first time I actually went outside. I didn't realize what a big chore it would be for Michael (my husband) and Kinlie (my daughter) to get me downstairs. We dicided it would be easier to go outside and go around the house instead of me going down the stairs in the house. We have two entrances in to our house our upstairs front door or we have a full basement (basically another whole house downstairs) with it's own entrance. With them taking me outside and around the house I didn't have to take as many steps. Since they took me in my wheel chair I only had two steps to get off of the front porch then Michael took me down a big sidewalk hill around to the back of the house. I was a little nervous but he brought me down backwards so I didn't get away from him. On the way back up we went through the carport which meant I had to go up three steps at the driveway and two steps to get up on the front porch. My little Yorkie Mollie likes to ride in my wheel chair with me. Sometimes as I'm going to or from the bathroom I will put her in my lap and let her ride. She rode with me downstairs today and she seemed to love it.

It was really funny because there was a man walking several dogs down the street as they were bringing me out today. He kinda chuckled at us as he went by. I was laughing pretty hard too along with my squeeling from fright that I may get away in the wheel chair. When I say this is a steep hill....I mean it is steep. LOL

After we got to the back porch we just stayed outside for a few minutes. It was so nice to feel the sunshine and sit outside for a while. Mollie was taking it all in. Since I have been in she has only went outside to go potty then right back in the house too. I think she was enjoying the outside air as much as I was. She has been stuck to me like glue since I got home from the hospital. She has been a real comfort to me.

After sitting outside for a while I took my first REAL shower since my surgery. You can only take so many of the sponge baths with the little hospital wipes you get from the hospital. Not that they are not appreiciated, but there's nothing like a real shower. We put a plastic deck chair in the walk in shower we have downstairs with a towel on the seat. Then we put another plastic porch chair outside the shower with some rolled up towels to prop my leg on. We tied a big black trash bag around my leg above my cast then wrapped a towel around that. I think that was the BEST shower I have ever had!!! LOL We did decide that it would probably be better to get a cast cover for future showers instead of a trashbag. It would just be one less thing we have to worry about since they are waterproof.

After my nice shower Kinlie dryed my hair for me and fixed it. Eventhough I was only going outside long enough to go back upstairs she had me looking like a million bucks. Michael told her "that's right fix her up and she has no where to go" LOL I only stayed downstairs long enough to take my shower and dry my hair, but just that short amount of time I'm still feeling the pain. I kept my foot elevated on my wheel chair, but I was feeling a pulling in the back of my leg. I guess it was putting a strain on my achilles tendon that they repaired while I was sitting there. I've been back in bed for a while with my foot elevated, but I'm hurting pretty bad from my knee to my toes. As bad as it hurts right now...it was SO WORTH the nice shower I got.

We are supposed to be going out of town tomorrow. I'm really hoping I can make it through this weekend out of town. Lots of prayers and pain medicine will get me through it.