Past, Present, Future

[tarotgal]

Here's another edition of "tg is lazy, but here's what's happening in her world"

Past:

• My new part-timer started work last week. It's going to take her a while to get to understand the complexity of the website, but I have faith in her and she's been good so far


• My parents finished my floor in the basement and brought over my bookcases and books. I bought and assembled a few extra bookcases. Three of my best friends came over on Saturday for a "Bookening" and helped me catalog and sort through at least 50-something of my 70 boxes of books. I am grateful for their help. We didn't finish, and I'm not sure when I'll ever get to finish at this rate, because this week has been crazy


• I wrote a fic for cowboyguy's comment fic meme: Hoodie Times(SPN, G) in less than 2 hours, but I think it turned out really nicely.

Present:

• Work is crazy. We're launching something soon and it's not ready and I ended up handed the rest to the consultant to finish up


• I have to clean and fix up my house to have my parents over all weekend, which is a lot of stress I don't need.


• I'm on Gilmore Girls Season 4.


• I'm starting to freak out

Future:

• On Friday I have surgery. Again. This time, on my hip. It's been hurting for about 20 years now. The good news is that the surgery should fix it. The bad news is that I won't be able to walk for several days and then I'll be on crutches for a few months to a year based on how rehab goes. And I thought I was prepared for the pain and the recovery until I stumbled upon a blog today that was talking about all the things you need--special ice packs and some contraption that helps you put your socks on and a shower chair and special crutches special ordered online--and I don't have ANY of those things. My surgeon didn't mention I'd need any of those things. I'd just figured I'd have surgery, sit on my ass for a few days, and skip pain meds and just put up with the pain because they did a number on my digestive system last time.


• I have no idea how much energy I'll have or time I'll have or ability to walk I'll have. I don't like not knowing things! So I'm trying to plan as best I can for all possible outcomes... but I don't have a special shower brush or a grabber or any of the other things the blog says are not optional but absolutely necessary. ACK! PANIC!!

Note: I just spent a few hours in my library and got all my non-BookCrossing TBRs on the shelves. So I'm feeling a little bit better about that now. There are 2 more boxes to catalog and sort through and 3 BookCrossing book boxes to put on bookcases. And there are another 30 or so books to take off my TBR list because I've decided not to read them after all or I found multiple copies. So that's not too bad. I've got a couple swaps to do tonight and some chores to get done still.

I'm feeling incredibly overwhelmed and worried, but less so.

Comments

[cowboyguy.livejournal.com]

Hope the panic gets less panicky, and the work gets less worky, and the hurt is not hurty at all (or as little as possible, anyway). Good luck with everything!

[tinadp.livejournal.com]

Don't panic, if you need equipment someone should be able to help. Are you staying in the hospital or going outpatient? If outpatient will you have any PT or anything at home? Occupational therapists are the adaptive equipment people. If you are inpatient I'm thinking therapy should see you. If you are going home and having trouble getting around they should consider at least an evaluation for services. I don't know exactly what your surgery is, but we definitely send PT and Ot(plus nursing when needed) out do evaluations on people at home after surgery. They can look at your home environment (in a way different from the rest of us) make recommendations on the best way for you to get around, any modifications to make. The OT can help you with your day to day "activities if daily living" as they say in the OT world.
I would ask to be seen by therapy in the hospital or at home.
Sorry for my home care nurse rambling. I'll be thinking of you. Let me know if there is anything I can do long distance. Sending hugs.

[smokeycat-430.livejournal.com]

I hope know your surgery will go great. I just saw one of those grabby sticks at Target yesterday and was thinking of getting one for my grandma because she is always dropping things and asking me to pick them up when I visit her. It was in the As Seen On TV section even though I don't think I've ever seen an infomercial for one.

That's really neat about how your home library is coming along. I have great parents as well and always try to appreciate what they do for me.

I just read yesterday that Gilmore Girls is going to be added to Netflix streaming by the end of the month so if you aren't done with it by then you won't have to wait for the discs to come in the mail anymore.

[melydia.livejournal.com]

You'll leave the hospital with any special crutches or ice packs you need. You might need a stool in the shower (a regular wooden stool worked for Bill and me when we each had our surgeries), and it's easier to bathe with a handheld shower head rather than a traditional one, but it's not a huge deal.

When Bill had his foot surgery he had this interesting thing that ran cold water underneath his bandages to help reduce the swelling. We froze water bottles and changed them out every couple hours to keep everything cold. The hospital gave us that and the crutches and the (rental) wheelchair. We didn't really need to buy anything special.

And if you do need anything else, you have two parents and at least three friends who would love to dote on you. I wish you a most speedy recovery. Don't hesitate to ask me for anything, from checking the mail to bringing you take-out to picking stuff up off the floor to just keeping you company. Rest up, watch loads of TV and movies, and try to relax as much as you can. We'll all still be here when you're back up to full speed.