back home after my adventure.

Another friend collected me from Margaret's place & took me & my bags to Craft group, where I wasn't allowed to move chairs & tables & carry stuff back to the storeroom! Not that I wanted to, or even thought of helping. We had our usual crafty & chatty time.

Nor was I allowed to carry my bags, or the fruit & veg we bought on the way home. Dallas pushed the trolley across the sloping market floor (good thing the trolley was stable, cos she is smaller & shorter than me!) & then drove thru early peak hour traffic, & carried almost everything up my 38 stairs! And offered her spare room if I find the stairs too much, but I'm planning to stay in for a few days, maybe take a short walk at night if I get too stir-crazy.

I do have some great friends - it's amazing to an island like me how helpful folks are if asked (& even if not asked!)

The only pain-killers I asked for (in the ward, dunno what I might have been given pre & post-op) were for my sore back - scar pain was ok, more a bloody (bruised!) irritation & annoyance, as it still is. And those little sticky strips that "hold" the wound together - wot a bloody irritation. And white surgical stockings are just the thing for hot humid Sydney days & nights, but I have to go around looking like a lady bowler until I see my surgeon again.

Hospital beds & chairs are not the best for chronic back pain, so after I could get up on Fri night I walked a round a bit - sometimes just out of our 4-bed ward into the corridor, later in the hospital grounds.

I read, knitted, embroidered & rested, & did the same at Margaret's place, tho she did allow me to chop veggies last night (I was hanging out for veggies & ate lots, yum!!), & I even sneaked in a small washing-up while she was arguing with her new computer. By-the-by, I couldn't submit anything on her computer, first message I had saved & we sent it to Charlie for posting, second disappeared after submitting & I couldn't retrieve it. One Of Life's Little Mysteries! (Two Of Life's Little Mysteries?)

thanks to everyone for your support & good wishes, now I just have to wait till my appointment with my surgeon in a week.

sandra (resting on a comfortable computer chair after half a day on another comfortable chair)

I'm sure my bruises are prize-winners, too!