Sunday October 14th 2007

The Dr walked in today and found me eating the soft part of the biscuits with gravy and was not too happy.. The words "SOFT DIET" kept coming up. Oh well... I was hungry and guess what.. ALL the food went down.. I could actually swallow again!!

I've been trying to get up several times a day and walk.. the problem is that every step I take I have to be so careful. My toes and almost the entire right foot drags so if I don't lift the leg up high enough and the toes catch I will stumble and fall. So far I've already fallen 4 times and I am pretty bruised up. I don't know how I bruise so easily.. there doesn't seem to be a lot of blood in me. They are always complaining that they can't find a vain... (I'm bruised up from that too) and that my blood is not good!! I need MORE of it.. they are thinking about giving my another unit of blood before I leave the hospital. I wonder if any of the blood that is in my is really mine... LOL!!!

Lunch is soup, toast, fruit cup and tea.. the tea is nasty and I ask JR if he will get me something better to drink.. a shake from the cafeteria or something.. anything but what I have in front of me!

When I am walking the nurse asks me to get up on a scale.. this scale looks like it's made for a COW to get up on... I weigh and I am just under 108.. I've been on TPN all week ... getting insulin shots 3-4xs daily... they were sure that was going to get me gaining weight but I've lost weight... probably all the diahrrea..

Dinner isn't much better... I want biscuits and gravy again.. it's the only thing that tastes good to me...

I go for another walk.. I try to walk quite a bit more and I fall again! I need a good brace but of course I won't get one in the hospital. When I get home I will make myself up one.. I can figure this out!! Not sure when I will be getting out... tomorrow will be a week and I am sure Dr Rasque will want to see me again before I am discharged... they may have to do another CT scan on my bowels to make sure they aren't blocked... OH JOY.. that will mean I can't eat again until after the scan is over.. :-(