\u2026 in my recliner using my laptop — having checked out of the Kittitas Valley Rehabilitation Center yesterday right before noon, after my physical therapy.\u00a0\u00a0 John drove me to CWU campus where we participated in a scholarship luncheon with my normal Friday group.\u00a0\u00a0 Then home \u2013 first time since I left at 3:00 A.M. with chest pains, the day after Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
I was hopeful John would continue the blog because my writing nowhere touches his, but he insisted I needed to pick up now that I\u2019m home with access to my computer (wow.. have not touched it so almost forgot how to start a Word document).\u00a0 John says he will do a couple more general things before he quits but the day-to-day ones I can do.\u00a0 We have an appointment with the heart surgeon on March 9th<\/sup>.\u00a0 We will report on that and likely stop then.<\/p>\n Back to my first day home.\u00a0 The 4 Brittanys were so happy to see me.\u00a0\u00a0 Meghan was the most responsive and sensitive first as I sat on the potty, my first stop in the house.\u00a0 Then I walked to my recliner and got to pet Annie (youngest) and her dad, Dan.\u00a0 Oh, Shay also came to say hi before I got back to the recliner.<\/p>\n It was a busy afternoon and I finally got to nap from about 4:00 to 5:20, and shortly after John and I went to a\u00a0 home where our music group was having a potluck and play time.\u00a0 We had to practice Irish music for an appearance the Saturday before St. Patrick\u2019s day.\u00a0 After bringing in the Mexican enchilada dish to share, John went on to the pharmacy to pick up the many meds I will have to take \u2013 no more nurses to hand them out.<\/p>\n My first night was longer than any recently because it was quiet and comfortable.\u00a0 My only challenge is now I need John\u2019s assistance to stand from the low & soft recliner.\u00a0 All the chairs I have learned to get out of at Physical Therapy are higher and have a\u00a0 sturdier push-up from seat.\u00a0 It\u2019s okay \u2013 I\u2019ll get there soon.\u00a0 I\u2019m continuing out-patient therapy at the facility in town 3 days a week.<\/p>\n I\u2019m so happy to be able to report I survived and am home again and regaining strength each day.\u00a0\u00a0 I could not have done it without the obvious help of doctors, surgeons, nurses, assistants, care providers, all the thoughts and prayers and contact from all of you, my friends and relatives.\u00a0\u00a0 Thank you all so much.\u00a0 My most intensive support, love and concern, came from John, my sweetie.\u00a0 It was rough on him to take care of the animals (3 horses & 4 dogs), and still make one or two trips to be with me in Yakima for all those many weeks.\u00a0 I wasn\u2019t transferred to the Rehab center here until Jan 20th<\/sup>, and I could not get out of bed on my own for many weeks.\u00a0\u00a0 Then once there he visited for two meals each day.\u00a0 At least the drive was closer.\u00a0 He also has honchoed all the paperwork with CWU for retirement and cleaned out my office of the many boxes with materials back over all my teaching years (starting 1966 at Georgia State University in Atlanta).<\/p>\n So, I have written more than you will likely be willing to read, and there are many thank you messages to be done (I\u2019ll get to some of those later) but, for now, I want to express a general Thank You<\/em>! 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