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A very strange day, ending with a very strange post. There was very little outward strangeness, but my inner landscape seems to have changed considerably, and for the better. More on that downstream, I hope.

Colleen was tired in the evening when I went to see her, but proud of the fact that she had almost managed to stand up by herself, getting out of the bed. She'll be walking in no time, I think. I realized, somewhere during the day, that although she was able to get around before, she didn't have much leg strength -- hopefully she'll get some of it back with the PT.

I have some very wonderful friends. Thank you all.

Colleen: progress

I've seen Colleen twice so far today: once in the morning (to deliver her Kindle), and about an hour ago on the way home from an afternoon outing with Chaos. I gave her a purple bandana that I'd found at REI.

She had an hour and a half of PT today; tried three times to stand up out of her wheelchair and nearly succeeded! They're saying maybe an extra half-week past the original estimate of two weeks. I can live with that -- it puts her home at about the end of the month, and stays under the 3 weeks of skilled nursing care that we get for free with Kaiser. (We get 100 days/year total, but after 21 days there's a co-pay. I don't know how much, but it can't be cheap.)

She's feeling a lot more optimistic this evening, and so am I.

[river] ssri still coming up to speed?

It's been a little over 5 weeks since my citalopram dosage was increased to 20mg; today marked what felt like another definite improvement. That, or the change has been there for a while, masked by concern over Colleen's condition. In any case, I felt happy for most of the day. A little bit lower in the evening, more like "just OK", but even that's doing pretty well for me. I could get used to days like this.

It's probably related, also, to yesterday's change, whatever the heck that was all about. I still haven't figured that out yet.

I was particularly happy during my walk. I did very little thinking this time, just observing the scenery and the people. I seem able to notice my feelings best when I'm not thinking.