Forgot to mention that yesterday, kp had a stitch removed from her stomach. It had been there for months and wasn’t coming out by itself like they had hoped, so the doctor put some anaesthetic gel on her and cut it out. It came out a treat, much to kp’s delight.

A bright and alert kp greeted me this morning. She was watching daytime tv while eating Rice Crispies from the most awkward of angles.

I had got a bit tipsy last night (ahem!) and kp had me reading emails out to her and I was slurring word after word, so I needed a jugful of water when I arrived to prevent dehydration.

I read out blog comments before she went in the bath. After the bath, she had her buttock wound redressed. It’s closing up nicely. Previously, you could have got a strawberry in there with a squeeze, now it’s down to a raspberry.

It was a glorious day today, so after the bath, we went outside for some fresh air. We had a cup of tea in our little corner which catches the sun and avoids the wind.

The spigot is working a treat, and kp is doing really well with it. So we are on course for catheter removal next monday.

When we got back to the room, I went for a sleep until physio.

Physio today involved kp getting into lots of strange positions eg Sitting on the bench, but leaning to her right, and lifting her left leg up and to the left and lots of variations on that. I think it was to loosen her left hip.

It is very hard to describe the weirdness of the positions and at the time I started thinking how I was going to describe them in the blog, so I started taking photos of all these weird positions until I got the sternest of looks from kp………..

This is her “Put the BL++DY camera down” look. I don’t think I dare publish those photos.

After the strange positions, she did a stand :-

When she stands, her right leg locks lovely, but she doesn’t have the sensation in the left leg to realise when her left leg is locked. In the photo about, she probably thinks her left leg is locked, but as can be seen, it’s got a bend in it.

After some standing, it was time for walkabout. With wheelchair in front of her……….

she walked about 20 steps. She walked out of the physio room and down the corridor to the “Quiet Room”. The main man was on his knees controlling her left leg and making sure the left foot was in the right spot so it could carry the weight as her right leg moved forward. He wanted kp to feel the motion of walking and to get into the rhythm of it. She wasn’t far off either, but I don’t think I helped matters. The main man was by kp’s left leg on the floor, the other physio was on kp’s right (for support just in case) and I was in front of the wheelchair making sure it didn’t run away too fast, but I think I was slowing it down too much, when really kp should have been pushing it. Anyway, I know for next time.

Physio over, we went outside to enjoy the sunshine and Marie, Michelle and Glenn arrived. Marie is back from her hols and it was good to see her. kp (and I) had been looking forward to it. She had brought kp a T-shirt. It couldn’t have been more perfect.

Tomorrow, Angela is visiting kp, so we are looking forward to that.