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Much like in the hospital, one day blurs into another and into another.  I have now been home three days and have even spent some effort and productivity on work.  I spend most of my time focusing on pain management (the drugs are really not very good), improving mobility and my diet.  I am on what is termed a Modified Low Residue Diet, which includes things like canned vegetables, no shells, peels, seeds or whole parts of anything – nothing fresh or wholesome.  The perfect combo for recovering from colon removal.

Still I am happy to be home and not in the hospital.  I know I can recover here faster than there.  I have access to the whole house and moving about even has a purpose, even if that purpose is rather self-serving at the moment.

The many many visitors I had while in the hospital made that painful transition so much more endurable.  Thank you all so much.  It would be shameful if I did not mention the support I received from my ever present, gentle, caring and loving wife, Sally.  Without her support my will to even try to get better would have flailed me constantly.  You can not begin to understand what she has had to do and endure on my behalf, and given the opportunity would have taken it upon herself to spare me the cost – remind you of anyone?  And of course, Willie, my pillar of strength – sometimes literally.  Constantly at the side or foot of my bed able to manage feats no mere nurse would ever be able to manage and without so much as breaking a sweat and saving me HUGE amounts of pain.  For those of you who do not know Willie, if you have seen the movie Crocodil Dundee, and remember the character Donk.  Well, that pretty much sums him, up – a big hulking brute of a man, but with the gifts of mercy and compassion and able to do quite a bit more than wack a few heads.

I have in my head more to say, some serious, some anecdotal, but I am tired now and need a painkiller and a nap…perhaps later.

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