Sleeping Beauty

I apologize for not keeping you up to date. It was a scary trip for all of us, I think. I spent several weeks in ICU, sedated, and in a medically-induced coma, to allow my body to heal and recover from a whole body attack of Shingles.

I surprised Joe by being awake on Sunday Morning when he came to visit. All of ICU was tbrilled that I was finally awake!

I have  had to learn to eat, again; and, after a week of practicing am finally eating enough calories to have the feeding tube removed. Yay, for me! It doesn't take much to make us patients happy :-)

The next hurdle is learning to walk again. My legs are very weak with a lot of muscle wasting from the time ICU. My chief OT guy says I'm doing great and getting stronger every week.

My current condition: I have shingles in my whole left leg. It is, living up to is potential, very, very painful. I get flares of pain that last about 5 minutes in which I need focus and breathe through.It's probably scary for visitors to watch, but I usually try to warn them all about the flare-ups.

So, I continue to get stronger and when I'm strong enough, I'll be able to go home. No ETA on that yet. :-(