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More milestones
Several more monumental milestones to report. They may seem like trivial things to you -- and, honestly, they are -- but their towering significance to me should perhaps give you a flavor of my reduced expectations these days.
Anyhow, the first big deal has to do with bed. As I've said earlier, I've worked hard to reconstruct the one attractive feature of a hospital bed -- the ability to sleep sitting up. We've accomplished this through use of a bolster pillow with a couple of normal pillows stacked on top. This arrangement has worked pretty well, though as time goes by I seem to slip lower and lower down the pillow mountain and wake up with my head deeply buried. It's a wonder I haven't suffocated during the night. So last night I decided to bag the bolster and sleep on my regular pillows like a nearly-normal person. Probably should have picked a different night for this particular experiment, as I am now on a subsistence diet of Percocet and my chest thrummed with pain all night long. But, really, I felt like a regular guy, actually managed to roll onto my side a couple of times. Oh, the simple pleasures. And another: I actually left the house for the second day in a row. The weather today is gorgeous -- despite an overnight windstorm that littered the yard with debris and took out our power for a couple of hours -- so Lori and I went for a walk outside!! That's a first since my disastrous attempted perambulation of the neighborhood on the day I was released from hospital. And let me say it was lovely. We topped off the little excursion with lunch at a local restaurant -- among the humans. Just another small step toward becoming a normal person again. Third milestone -- less fun. I finally experienced the dreaded post-surgery sneeze. I'd been warned. And I'd managed to fend off a couple of impending ah-choos in recent days. But finally today, a sneeze snuck up on me and exploded without warning. Yeow! I thought my chest was splitting in two. Yawns, sneezes -- and, oh yeah, hiccups -- just another example of how the simplest things loom large in this new life of mine.
Couple asleep on subway
A perfect end to a dull, wet day in Toronto. On the subway from Queen to Union.
