Well, it’s great to have her home.

But, hard work. Takes me back in time to the last time she came home from hospital, but its not quite as hard work.

Mentally, kp is doing “ok”. She is still not “walking”. Pain has been an issue, surprisingly not in her hip (although this stills throbs on a nighttime), but between her hip and knee ? She needs the zimmer to get around, but resorts to the wheelchair from one side of the house to t’other. Her “walking” is SO laborious. And her right foot is not in line with her walk, but points off to the side ?! You can see she doesn’t want to put ANY weight on the right hip.

There was one time this week when she had just woken up, that she COULD put some weight on it, and we thought “WOW, it’s getting better”. Her walk was not normal by any means, but you could see it was on the way to being normal, but since then it has just reverted to a hobble. I don’t think it helps that her left side is weak, and the hip that has been changed is on the right.

So, hopefully, this time next week, there will be improvements, but I know kp is concerned that she isn’t much further forward since coming home from hospital.

We were due to go to Cyprus in April with my family, but kp can’t go now (can’t fly, for fear of embellisms). She has said I should still go, Marie will stay the week with her, but I am in 2 minds.

Work have been good to me. On the day she came home I left at lunchtime, and the following day, I was kp’s carer and worked from home. Marie came to do Friday (thanks Marie). We have Mon/Tue/Thurs/Fri covered this week, which means I’ll work from home on the wednesday.

So, in summary, kp “ok” mentally, neither up nor down. But we would like to see some improvement this week.