TacoBed Blog: Day 5

TGIF!

It's day 5 and a schedule is slowly starting to form. The first home issue has been with the dogs. Minnie and Moochie have been sharing our bed since they were little pups. Now we're telling them to stay out of the bed and they're a bit confused by this. During the day Chuck will keep the bedroom door closed and since they usually follow Chuck around like he's the pied piper everything is ok.

At night Chuck closed the bedroom door and they are not happy about this at all. There's lots of barking and growling and scratching on the door. Once the barking starts Riff-Raff starts talking. Riff-Raff is a gift from our neighbor, Tina. He's a bobble head butler who says scary things and is sound activated.

The first night of dog banishment I got up around 4 a.m. and went into the living room until around 7 and then went back to bed.

At 2 a.m. this morning the alarm went off for me to take meds. After taking the meds, I was laying there listening to dogs barking and growling and Riff-Raff talking about dirt naps when I finally had enough. I opened the door and let the dogs in. Once the bedroom and bathroom were properly surveyed Moochie made a move toward the bed and I made him get down. Minnie went under the bed and stayed there. Moochie made several more attempts to get into the bed and each time I made him get down. Then he went to Chuck's side of the bed and started digging on my NEW pillow sham! This is the point in time when I realized I'm going to be ok. I got up, with my walker, went to the other side of the bed and grabbed the pillow sham and hit Moochie with it. Then I got one of the dog beds and threw it in the corner. Moochie slunk over to it and got in and we didn't hear another sound from him. The troll dog, Minnie, finally tried to get into the bed. Chuck got up and got her a dog bed. She got in it and stayed there. The bonus from knee surgery may be that the dogs learn to sleep on the floor!

I have to take a lot of medications. Besides the pain meds the only other interesting one is the Enoxaparin. This medication is to prevent blood clots and is given subcutaneously. That means I give my self a shot in the belly! Amazingly enough it's no big deal. I suppose that's because I have a lot of belly to shoot up. I was worried I wouldn't be able to do it but I can. Fortunately I only have to do this once a day for 10 days.

Chuck called Nancy and she made a surprise visit for lunch! She brought me a beautiful orchid, which I'll probably kill and she Chuck a bottle of wine. It was a nice visit. She thought I was doing well enough to come back next week...HA!

The PT showed up and we did some different exercises and stretches. I just took a couple of the break through pain killers and I'm feeling much better now.

Action Jackson is coming by with some delicious food that Amy made! I'll have a report on that tomorrow!

I just received a wonderful bouquet of Incredible Edibles from the Unix team.