Straightenin' Up...

....finally.

May 23

Sleepwalking

Brad wanted to sleep in his own room so he could sleep in his gaming recliner. In a weird plot twist, Rhonda told Beth to listen up for him sleepwalking. Sure enough, Beth heard him knock his TV off the stand in the middle of the night. He says that he remembers falling and getting himself back up.

Since then, he hasn’t been asleep and is in severe pain. When we called for the doctor covering for Dr. Haber, he said to give him Percocet a little more frequently and if that doesn’t help, bring him in.

Rhonda is worried that he messed something up. I have a hard time believing he fell all the way to the ground, then picked himself up. Dr. Haber told us before that the stuff he installed is solid and that he couldn’t budge it or hurt it. Rhonda’s theory now (and it’s a good one) is that his muscles are tensing up, so she’s calling the doctor to try to get a muscle relaxer.


May 22

Playing the Surgery Card

He refuses to cut the grass and just keeps laying his surgery card on the table. It seems to me that Dr. Haber was doing all the work, sawing and tightening screws while Brad took a nap. I bet Dr. Haber cut his grass this weekend.

Oh, well, I’ll do it this one time…


Upstairs

  • Now he's back upstairs in his lair, playing X-box 360. Life is close to normal...or will be soon.

Snoozing

  • He's been snoozing the whole time, except for the time it took to swallow a Percocet, eat a bowl of ice cream, and move to the guest room. It seems like the pain is manageable.

@corkerns

  • I brought him home in my car because the nurse said going low is better than stepping up into RC's Lexus. Wrong - he's too tall for my car now. He had a lot of trouble getting his head in!
  • He was complaining about being dizzy all the way home and thought he was gonna pass out, so I planned to just leave him in the car until the feeling passed as he couldn't fall very far in the car! Once we got home, though, he was fine. Beth and I tried to help him in, but we couldn't keep up with him. He made to the couch and fell asleep immediately. It's been way more than 4 hours since his last pain medicine, but he's not complaining.

Showered and Dressed

I was able to refrain from saying “…going home like the Rebels…”.


Comeback Kid

In a comeback reminiscent of the Southern Miss baseball team, Brad is being discharged today. Everything turned around when he went from morphine to Percodan.

Getting showered now and gathering stuff up…


May 21

Not Ready for Solid Food

  • All the food described in the last post just came back up.

Turkey

  • Rhonda said he ate a piece of white bread, a couple bites of turkey, a few spoonfuls of vegetable soup, and some milk. Sure hope he's past the nausea....

Slow Progress

He has gotten up 3 times so far today, but mostly seems to just lay there out of it. I can’t believe he’s not watching TV or doing anything.

Rhonda just told me that they are taking him off the morphine and that Dr Haber said we will see real progress tomorrow or the next day.