So the weekend visit went very well and I spoke to the occupational therapist on the, on my return on the Monday and she cleared it for the Wednesday. And it's been fine ever since. Obviously things the very early days, it used to take me an hour from getting up in the morning, getting showered, getting washed, getting showered, getting changed, coming downstairs. I had a battle, a real battle to take my pills out the foils because of my lack of control and the first 2 or 3 weeks, my wife used to leave them lying for me in the morning and that was, took about an hour to an hour and a quarter from getting up to getting down before I started making my breakfast. So that was, you know, it was quite taxing, both mental and physically because at that time I was, obviously you've been in hospital for about 2 months and you're very, very weak, you know. And I used to come here and sleep, lie along here and sleep, you know, and I was very, it was very tiring, very tiring at that time. It really was.
But, like everything else, like, like the speech coming back, your throat's getting stronger , my muscles got stronger, physically got stronger and things became easier and easier and easier and you've just got to keep doing it and doing it and doing it and doing it, you know. Sorry, I was going to say I was very, very dependent on, on my wife because I couldn't make coffee, I couldn't make tea, I couldn't make soup, I couldn't make you know, meals or anything. I couldn't do anything about the house or, you know, once I was dressed, I could, manage, just manage to dress myself. It was the devil's own job trying to put a pair of shoes on socks or slippers or anything like that, you know. It was really, really difficult and I was totally dependent. |
