Robert and I just had a delicious dinner, an array of yummy treats from Branford's La Cuisine, a cafe that does catering and sells prepared foods. Robert ate more food than he has in days because it was all so yummy and varied: Beet salad, Moroccan carrots, wild rice/orange pilaf, roast pork loin, a meringue cookie. This is thanks to my super-thoughtful co-workers at the library who gave me a gift certificate to La Cuisine to help out with Robert's recovery.
Robert is still spending much of the day in bed, but he's breaking it up with a few hours a day sitting in a chair reading. The elegant wooden rocking chair he got for his 30th anniversary at Yale is the most comfortable chair for him right now. He sits in it and looks all librarian-ish with his reading glasses and the tall stack of last week's New York Times newspapers that he is determined to catch up on.
He's doing laps around the house without a walker. Today he added an additional "speed lap" to his routine. I think tomorrow I'll suggest we add stairs to the routine.
Everything seems to be going pretty smoothly, thank goodness. Meals and insulin shots happen in good time, the laps around the house take place, pain meds are taken at the right time, tooth brushing happens at least once a day. It does take a full time assistant to direct all that activity (me) , but I'm really pleased that all those daily routines are happening without a great deal of trouble.
Things are good and there are frequent smiles in the house. The cat has gotten over his fear of the walker.
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