Update of the moment
Apr. 13th, 2008 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbaileySo here's the latest update on how I'm doing:
* Got the stomach flu this week. After 3 days of being ill, went to the doctors and got anti-nausea, anti-diarrhea medication, and 400ccs of Saline by IV for the dehydration. Joy. I'm going to try to go off the anti-nausea drugs tomorrow to see if I'm keeping things down now.
* Leif swam for the first time. I didn't get video, but opted for some nice stills. I *will* actually upload the last 5 months of pictures sometime soon. Really.
* Found an accountant who knows what to do for Canadians who just moved here. Yay! US Taxes will get done!
* The incision has no redness around it at all anymore, which is way cool. On Tuesday, I go in for my 6-week checkup. I asked at the 4-week mark whether I could go in the hottub, and was told that they'd probably OK it at the 6-week mark. I start 6 weeks of physiotherapy the day after that.
* My stamina for walking seems largely back. I can walk to Safeway at a decent pace (I still have to rest when I'm there). I can get to the mailbox and back without a break now. The part that causes me grief still is the muscles on my left shoulders. I'll ask Angie which one it is. It's been more sore than the others since the beginning, but hopefully it's something the physio can help me sort out. If it weren't for that, I'd be cutting back the pain killers already. I still might do that when I know I have a 6-hour stretch of low activity.
* For lack of anything better to do, I've been playing with Eclipse. I rediscovered eclipse a year ago when I was working on the ConnectUU site. The PHP mode was surprisingly good and helpful, and I was quite productive in it. I tried shortly after that to use PyDev, and it did horrible things to eclipse. I've tried it again, and I'm enjoying doing a bit of Java coding (homework), and Python coding in it now. I may finally have found an environment in which I can be more productive than I was in vi.
* Ernie (Angie's dad) and Janet (his wife / one of Leif's Grandmothers) have been here for the weekend helping us clean up. Janet is an absolute whiz at organising things, and the kitchen is way more usable then it has been since we got here in November. I need to make sure that I send out thank-you cards to everyone who's come and helped us. Kit was here a couple of weekends ago. Heather was here last weekend. Leslie, Grant, Jim/Sarah, and Andrew/Sarah have each brought us food. Jamu and Sandy each came for longer periods right after the surgery. Having people come and help has made a huge difference to us keeping things together. Without outside help, I don't know how we would've managed.
I'm a day and a bit off of 6-weeks post-surgery. I'm feeling good.
* Got the stomach flu this week. After 3 days of being ill, went to the doctors and got anti-nausea, anti-diarrhea medication, and 400ccs of Saline by IV for the dehydration. Joy. I'm going to try to go off the anti-nausea drugs tomorrow to see if I'm keeping things down now.
* Leif swam for the first time. I didn't get video, but opted for some nice stills. I *will* actually upload the last 5 months of pictures sometime soon. Really.
* Found an accountant who knows what to do for Canadians who just moved here. Yay! US Taxes will get done!
* The incision has no redness around it at all anymore, which is way cool. On Tuesday, I go in for my 6-week checkup. I asked at the 4-week mark whether I could go in the hottub, and was told that they'd probably OK it at the 6-week mark. I start 6 weeks of physiotherapy the day after that.
* My stamina for walking seems largely back. I can walk to Safeway at a decent pace (I still have to rest when I'm there). I can get to the mailbox and back without a break now. The part that causes me grief still is the muscles on my left shoulders. I'll ask Angie which one it is. It's been more sore than the others since the beginning, but hopefully it's something the physio can help me sort out. If it weren't for that, I'd be cutting back the pain killers already. I still might do that when I know I have a 6-hour stretch of low activity.
* For lack of anything better to do, I've been playing with Eclipse. I rediscovered eclipse a year ago when I was working on the ConnectUU site. The PHP mode was surprisingly good and helpful, and I was quite productive in it. I tried shortly after that to use PyDev, and it did horrible things to eclipse. I've tried it again, and I'm enjoying doing a bit of Java coding (homework), and Python coding in it now. I may finally have found an environment in which I can be more productive than I was in vi.
* Ernie (Angie's dad) and Janet (his wife / one of Leif's Grandmothers) have been here for the weekend helping us clean up. Janet is an absolute whiz at organising things, and the kitchen is way more usable then it has been since we got here in November. I need to make sure that I send out thank-you cards to everyone who's come and helped us. Kit was here a couple of weekends ago. Heather was here last weekend. Leslie, Grant, Jim/Sarah, and Andrew/Sarah have each brought us food. Jamu and Sandy each came for longer periods right after the surgery. Having people come and help has made a huge difference to us keeping things together. Without outside help, I don't know how we would've managed.
I'm a day and a bit off of 6-weeks post-surgery. I'm feeling good.
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Date: 2008-04-14 06:46 am (UTC)