Recovery

Recovery is going well! I still have some pretty big problems with pain management, but today was a good day. It's a crazy roller coaster of pain which is really frustrating. Sometimes I'll just wake up in horrible pain and I can't do anything to get comfortable and I try to just go to sleep most of the day to get away from the pain. In the same day as pain rated a 6, I could have pain at a 2! I mean I don't expect that there will be no pain, but I do expect to not be in severe pain especially when I'm on so many drugs! I'm also trying to slowly get off the drugs as well so that I don't become dependent, but sometimes it's just too painful to be brave and try to go without the meds. Anyways, I think it might be getting a little better and I can definitely move much more easily. I still need hepl to get up out of the bed, but once i'm sitting on the bed I can get up and walk around and sit in chairs and am fairly mobile.

This past Sunday I had my first visitor! Adam drove down and spent lots of time with me! It was good to see someone else besides my parents :) I had a pretty good pain day that day so that was good because I was able to talk and not be so out of it on meds!

(Finally a picture where I look put together!)

My room is pretty nice! I rented a hospital bed so that is a great advantage!! I am entertained by my big HD tv of course, but also have a bird feeder outside my window and I have been learning what birds come to my window. They are soo cute!! Today my dad just put up a humming bird feeder because we've seen a few around the regular bird seed feeder, so hopefully we'll get even more birds. We also got a bird bath today that hopefully I'll be able to see the birds in the water as well! We also have a woodchuck that comes out and visits every once in a while and is sooo cute!

Leigh and Ryan came on Tuesday and visited for a bit and got me tons of great things! I got reeces peanut butter cups (mmm), surfer magazine, legos, a book about girl power, an eye cover that smelled sooo good, and a tamagotchi (blast from the past!!) so that was awesome!! I finished my legos so far and have been reading and enjoying all the things in the care package :) Since then I think my pain has been getting worse, so even though I'm ready for visitors, I'm going to try to space them out so I don't get tired and I don't get my pain at a higher level because I'm not much good for anything when I'm in a lot of pain!

Ok, I think that's enough pictures and bloging for one day! ttyl :)