It is interesting to me how significant the simple things seem after such a short time. Wednesday morning, Spoons was - of course - able to shower himself. Today was the first shower he took after the surgery, and even though it was only two days in between, being able to shower seems like a huge amount of progress. It's good exercise, standing and stretching, and it just makes a person feel like a human being.
So, things are slowly getting back to normal. Today there was showering, wearing some actual clothes yesterday and today, like the stylish blue robe pictured a few posts ago, and playing cards. We played some Euchre, and Spoons read a book for a while and watched some TV on DVDs. He also walked at least 14 laps - more than the goal of 10 - and that's a whole mile. On the incentive spirometer, I think he topped 3000, up from 500 a few days ago.
Hopefully we'll move on from ice to liquids to solid food soon enough that we can get Spoons home by Tuesday or Wednesday next week.
Good night, all!
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