On
September 16, Mr CrazyOldLady had bypass surgery.
After
being in the hospital for only 5 days, he came home on the 20th, and
is doing well so far.
There
are good days and bad days. It's very frustrating to for him to be
unable to do with ease all the ordinary everyday things he's used
to doing. He tends to forget that someone just recently opened his
chest and ripped his heart out, fiddled with it and then replaced
it.
We
do a minimal sort of rehab for the first four weeks. We do have to
walk a little twice a day, and have been really doing more than the
minimum requirement walking further each day if he wants.
Fortunately,
we have a very nice park right across the street which actually makes
walking quite pleasant, even restful. It's still slow going, but it
sure feels good to be out in the sunshine. He is now able to walk
a reasonable distance, i.e. more than a block, so we're up to a quarter
mile or a little more some days.
He
still tires fairly quickly and has some pain, but he says it's not
too bad. We just go day by day.
We've
also been lucky that the weather is as nice as it is. Fall is always
a great season in Illinois.
We
can also go in the car for short trips if I drive, of course. This
drives him crazy, but we manage, and we have been able to go to the
studio for a couple hours or so a day. Today we even uploaded books
and stuff to eBay, so we'll begin to generate some cash flow again.
All
in all, right now, it has it's depressing moments for both of us,
but the upside is that he will be better than ever sometime in the
near future...at least that's the plan! The depression goes with the
territory, or so I read, along with some evident sort term memory
loss which is also supposed to be temporary.
Bottom
line? Even though it is all a slow process, some progress results,
and it's really not even three weeks yet.