Hip Kid Gets Hip Kit
Who knew they made a kit?
27.04.2024 - 27.04.2024 78 °F
Last night, our first evening at home, we enjoyed a wonderful eggplant parmesan offered up by our good friends JoAnn and Chuck, Beryl's BFF for many years, and a wonderful gourmet cook. JoAnn made us 6 dinners for our freezer with instructions to cook - she knows i can't cook and we otherwise would have had cold cereal which is what i can make. Dinner was yummy as you can see. Not long after, your sleep deprived duo called it a night.
My daughter Megan texted just before noon on this, our first day home from surgery.
"How did you sleep last night?"
"Pretty well; up three times and awake before 7:00"
"That sounds rough, but if you say it went well, then I'll believe you"
Here lies a wonderful example of generation-gap. Megan is forty, mom of two boys, married to Eric for, what now, seventeen years? She thinks that getting up three times a night sounds rough. I'm her dad, 35-years-old when she was born; I have a head start on life. Getting up to pee three times a night is a piece of cake.
I texted back: "At our age we get up three times to pee most every night and awake early almost every morning. Just not in tandem like the last two nights. But basically it's easy-peasy. Home health care nurse and physical therapist both here right now. Good friends Beth and David bring lunch later, along with all kinds of goodies, which we all enjoyed together on the patio. We're fine, surrounded by flowers and good wishes. There is more medical equipment around here than you can imagine but other than that all is reasonably normal. You're very sweet to keep tabs on us. Keep doing it."
That really sums up the morning.
This morning, 7RPP PH-W smells of lovely flowers. We had lunch on the breezy balcony on tasty delights.
One of the more momentous events of the day was the arrival of the "Hip Kit." Sold by FabLife, the "Hip Kit" contains a 26" Reacher, a Contour Sponge (for scrubbing one's back and other places no longer reachable), a Dressing Stick, an 18" Plastic Shoehorn and a Deluxe Formed Sock Aid. These wonderful tools, suggested to us by a physical therapist back at the hospital, delivered in one day by Amazon and very reasonably priced, offers tools that are each wonderful in its own right--so more valuable than we could have imagined.
My favorite may be the Deluxe Formed Sock Aid. Designed to guide the sock over one's heel (which one can--for now--no longer reach), it sports a foam patch to help keep the sock in place and two foam handles to, well, I'm not sure what they do but we will figure it out. It was the shoe horn that motivated us to buy the kit. The sneaky surprise is, or course, the "Dressing Stick." It is a combination hook/pusher that assists in putting on and removing articles of clothing. Until its arrival, I have been the sole provider of panty on/panty off assistance. Now, however, the Dressing Stick may come into play. We'll have to see. The hook on the opposite end "aids in pulling zippers and shoelace hoops." I am uncertain as to what exactly a shoelace hoop is.
Beautiful flowers are in abundance.
Our girl is doing quite well. Gone is her hip pain. Of course, that is due to the fact that gone is her hip.
In its place is post surgical pain, swelling (treated with ice), bruising that we are told will get worse before it gets better and, best of all, a sense of relief and a lingering question: "Why did we wait so long?"
Jillian, the physical therapist, instructed us to have Beryl lie down after lunch. She was down with that.
In our absence, two platters purchased online, arrived, eerily reminiscent of her former knee situation.
Gotta go. I'm off the the store for prunes and prune juice. So we can, well, go.
