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[ricevermicelli]

So long as I fail to bleed or contract for another 22 hours or so, they are sending me home tomorrow morning. Home! Where there are windows that open! Where I can do some bed resting on the porch! Where I will no longer have to chose between seeing my kid and making sure he has a bath now and then!

(So that plan Thud and I came up with last night, involving the crawl space above the drop ceiling and the route to the elevator bay will probably never happen.)

I am still supposed to be on bed rest once I'm home - no more than ten minutes an hour on my feet, and minimal stairs - but I'm pretty psyched about leaving the Hotel California.

Comments

[blk]

Home! I hope this plan works!

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Well hey, you've had lots of success on exams lately, so it's time for some failure, right? Let's hear it for failing to bleed.

[macthud]

I am suddenly hearing a strange agglomeration of you and Dr Emilio Lizardo (I mean, John Whorfin) in my head.

I've tried, but I just can't properly transcribe what I'm hearing, so you can't fully participate in the madness. But I had to share the concept anyway. 'Cause on account of I'm a giver.

Yay!

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

I am really glad to here they are springing you.

Good thoughts, prayers and healing energy still heading your way.

[martian687.livejournal.com]

Great!

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hooooooray! I hope that is indeed what happens, and that the kiddo stays put for a few more weeks.

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Great news. Always better to be resting in your own home.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

I'm very excited for you and very sorry that I've been tied to my computer. I thought about sending you notable quotables from my diss drafts, but I thought that might send you from boredom to straight out suicidal. Which would be way counterproductive.

[tisana.livejournal.com]

Yay for the possibility of home!

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

Yay! I hope it works!

Newt

[graceo.livejournal.com]

Hoo Rah! You go with your bad non-bleeding non-contracting self!!

[steuard.livejournal.com]

I hope the night goes (went?) well. Bed rest in your own bed sure beats bed rest far away.

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

Your specification of time on feet per hour has my mind spinning with thoughts of how to make apricot jam and a chocolate cake in 5-7 minutes per hour. My conclusion is that it might be possible, if you have a very understanding and helpful adult assistant and apricots already on hand, but that I absolutely should not encourage you to persue it. I lost enough blood with J's birth that the doctor gave me a firm limit of one trip up and down the stairs per day; when my maternal help left, with Chris already back at work all day, I decided that enough time had passed to allow me to stretch this to two trips per day. Even so, that restriction determined a great many things about the overall structure of my day. Adding an additional "time on feet" restriction -- wow. I'm sure that being home will be a wonderful change from Hotel California, but when I really consider all the differences from normal life that being on bed rest would entail for me, I am amazed. I think I might actually have an easier time staying on bed rest away from my normal environment, with its various demands for activity calling to me. Good luck sticking to your restrictions.

Newt

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

Before they would consider releasing me, I had to assure them that I would never, ever be alone in the house with Danger Lad!. Otherwise, I think they'd be keeping me.

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

This makes sense. Bed rest is very difficult to manage with a small child around. When I had my toe surgery this spring and had to have my foot up for two days straight, I was very careful to time it while my brother was still unemployed so he could come help. I really couldn't have managed it without him.

Newt

[msbabs32.livejournal.com]

Bed Rest is something people loudly yearn for until they have to do it. It can be damned boring in bed even with books, magazines, TV and even internet. But that being said, bed rest in your own abode is infinitely better than one in the hospital. Best Wishes for breaking out of the Big House.

Curses, foiled again

[drwex]

I'm home next week T-Th due to L's partial-day school schedule. If you need some company or want someone to drop by for entertainment or Get Something Done reasons I'd be up for that (as long as I'm not up in Chelmsford at his school). Drop me a mail or something?