Colleen: progress

[mdlbear]

Working from home this afternoon, since I had to go to Colleen's nursing home for a care conference at 2:00. No point spending another hour driving when I could spend it working. The care conference is still pretty upbeat -- they say that once she can stand up and stay standing for 2 minutes she should be able to walk.

The big news is that she doesn't need a crane to hoist her in and out of bed; she can use a "sliding board". That's huge, because it means that she doesn't have to wait for them to find the lift, and then track down people who can operate it.

She's also going to be working with two of the male PTs, and they'll be pushing her pretty hard. That's good, too: Colleen's a waterfall, and a woman is going to be more inclined to go easy on her when she's crying. That's not what she needs right now: she needs boot camp.

We're still concerned about the draining infection in her wound; the wound care nurse will come by to look at it this afternoon, but she has no fever and apparently this kind of thing isn't too uncommon.

Comments

[obsessivewoman.livejournal.com]

Glad that there is a working plan.
Thank you for the updates. Can I get you to send me her cell phone number? I'm also on AT&T so it'd be a free call.

[mdlbear]

So am I! A little more open ended than I'd like, but...

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[randwolf.livejournal.com]

Well, good to hear getting in and out of bed has gotten easier. I'm sorry to hear that she's evading PT. May she find the will.

[mdlbear]

Not so much evading it; it's just that Amy has a tendency to back off when Colleen starts showing signs of distress. That's not what she needs.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I would have thought a man would be more likely to be swayed by feminine tears, where a woman wouldn't put up with it. Anyway, it's good to read that she's steadily doing better.

[mdlbear]

More a matter of individual personalities. There's also the fact that she's understandably afraid of falling, and she outweighs Amy by quite a lot.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, that would be a good argument for having two muscular gentlemen standing by...

[mdlbear]

That and the eye-candy factor...

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

Yes, that, too ;-D