I'm so sorry to hear about your accident Melody. I know a broken hip can be a very tough recovery. Of course, just like anything else, the recovery period can vary depending on the individual and the complexity of the injury. I'm sending you all the good vibes I can muster today

Yes, MelodyL, it is hard to regain the use of muscles that weakened while you were recovering from surgery. And the pain doesn't help, either.

Do not push yourself beyond what your PT and OT professionals require. I have been recovering from back surgery in October, and had almost 3 months of complete inactivity BEFORE the surgery, and then a month afterwards. So I had lots to regain.

I am beginning to notice increased strength. I have braces for my profound PN, so exercising require great effort on my part. I go to the pool, and also use the Nu-Step. Last weekend we went to a local Mall and I walked around the Mall with my husband. Stopping frequently to rest.

Slowly but surely you will get better. And remember, you have had a traumatic event (being hit by a car). I would see my therapist to discuss any anxiety that was lurking......

Keep us posted!

Hugs,, ElaineD

Hi. Doing my absolute best to be positive. Can't wait till this is over. Thanks to all of you for kind words.

Melody

Hi MelodyL

Just checking in - wondering how your rehab is going and hoping you are doing okay and due to head home soon.

Hi all. I was discharged today. Hopefully I will get home P/T.

Alan however is not so lucky. After signing me out, (he is recovering from the flu). he got so weak they had to take him to the hospital.

I called. His labs are good and they have him on fluids. They took him last week when the same thing happened but they released him the next morning. He had some case of the flu. I had my girlfriends go up to my apartment and check on him last week and they called 911.

They checked on him last night. They gave him juice. It's like he was hit by a freight train. And no, he doesn't get a flu shot. He was told he can't get one because of auto immune and the fact that his mom had Guillian Barre syndrom years ago.

Anyway, just spoke to him. He's okay. I'm dead tired because I came home to a house that you wouldn't believe.

Anyway, did the cleaning and now I'm bushed. Sciatica is killing me more than my hip surgery. This stinks.

Anyway just wanted to update you all and thank you for all y our kind words

sorry about your accident and glad that you are back home-----sending healing thoughts your way

Thanks for the update Melody. I'm continuing to wish the best for the both of you.

Well, Alan is very slowly coming back. This was some flu. It's all over Brooklyn. He is in bed but gets up to eat. I am giving him gatorade and water and food (with protein). I move his arms and legs. He is SO exhausted.

My visiting nurse came to evaluate ME yesterday. I asked her to please check his vitals. She was kind enough to do so. Everything was fine. He is just so tired from the flu. She said to keep doing what I'm doing. So does Dr. Fred.

So I shall continue. No one to take care of me. His family doesn't want to be bothered. They actually told him this. I had asked them (while I was in the nursing home) to please go up to check on him (because I hadn't heard from him) and didn't know what to think.). He has cousins who don't live far away so all they had to do was come to my facility, pick up the house key, go up to my place and holler out "Alan, it's your cousins, Melody sent us to check on you, just to make sure". But his sister refused to call the family. She said "I'll pay for a cleaning service". I had told her I didn't want a cleaning service, I just wanted his family to go check on him". She refused.

She actually spoke to him the next day and told him as much. She couldn't care less. She said so. So that relationship is over.

Oh well.

All on me and thank god I have the friends I have. They helped me get rid of 10 black garbage bags. They were up here last night. I have better friends than family. How sad is that?

Melody

Hi Melody

I'm glad to hear you're back to your strong, feisty self but really you should be taking it a bit easier if you can. Aren't you able to access some sort of home help service to take some of the load off you for caring for Alan? Or what about the driver of the car that hit you - doesn't his insurance cover liability for providing home support for you while you recover?

Please don't overdo it and set back your own recovery.

You are absolutely right in evrything you said only it doesn't work that way. I only recently had the visiting nurse to come and evaluate me for home P/T and visiting nurse. I got approved. That means nothing. I am waiting for someone to call me to arrange appointments to come here. I called today and was told "Someone will be calling you".

So it's all on me. Taking care of Alan (who is so tired I can't tell you).
He has no fever, never had one. No swollen anything. The nurse examined him, his vitals were good, she just said 'give him fluids and feed him protein".

It's been over 2 weeks. He just got up to come into the kitchen to eat something then went right back to bed.

I texted Dr. Fred who said 'Might be Epstein Barr". That's Mono. I know about this.

35 years ago, Alan was stricken by a FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN. He was tired but he had this FEVER. They put him in the hospital in isolation and because it had no name, they sent him home for 2 months and he sat there until he got better. I know this virus can linger in the body.

He last took a blood test when they took him to Lutheran last week.

Here are some of the results. If any of you think any of these things can be Epstein Barr, please tell me. (not that I can do anything but I just want to know). I'm just typing the ones that kicked out as abnormal.

And I just asked him if he had a sore throat, pain on his left side, tenderness on his left side, swollen glands, etc etc. He said NO.

CBC with differential
White Blood Cell count - 7.2
Red Blood Cell Count 3.88
Hemoglobin 10.7
Hematocrit - 33.3
Neutophils - 77
Lymphocytes - 15
Lymphocytes Absolute 1.1


Hepatic Panel
Albumin 2.7
Bilirubin Direct 0.21

Phosphorus Inorganic 2.2

If you need any other numbers that might say AHA, HE'S GOT EB, I'll provide them.

See, we just don't know if it's the flu, EB or whatever. I mean, he's alert, he's eating, he's drinking, he is just tired (which could be flu related or any virus related). Everybody around here has the flu (if that helps).

Thanks so much

Melody