Almost there!

Miki is one day away from being able to drive - yahoo!! The DD is very happy, as is the patient! Off to physio just one day a week now, the other day is pool exercises at and with Mary Lois in her lovely pool (thanks, Mary Lois!!). Still doing daily exercises twice a day, but she is not using the walker or even a cane to get around. She can go for walks now, and Nurse Ratchett (ah, Dafni) encourages her to use her nordic poles for stability. Yesterday for the first time she was able to walk to the Point at the cottage, with the assistance of 9 year old grand daughter Vanessa!

Will try to add some more pics soon - I am not there much to get pics during the day, but this would be a lot more interesting if there were pics as well as words :-( We had a gathering of our up island friends last weekend, one of whom had had a full knee replacement a day after Miki's, but in Nanaimo. She is doing just as well, and is even driving already! Go Moira!!! Another friend, Chenda, is scheduled for her knee replacement on October 18, so she got lots of encouraging stories from Miki and Moira.

Healing therapy..!

Miki had a wonderful healing touch session with friend Ingrid before her surgery, which she swears is why she felt so calm going to the operating room. Now, 3 weeks after surgery, Ingrid did another wonderful session with her - AND with Nurse Dafni, who was able to shed all the worry of being all things all the time.










Then we moved on to less serious forms of therapy - red wine and Wii - here is Ingrid trying to bash a soccer ball around,
and Maggie and Miki had a rousing game of ping pong (or is that table tennis....) although as you can see, if was not all that strenuous, being played from a sitting position.

Next day the therapy continued as 9 of us went to the Ship 'n Shore in Deep Bay for
Fish and Chip Therapy - did us all a world of good, except this dedicated little blogger forgot to take a picture of us all.....:-(

Healing energy!

Sept. 5. One of the more healing things that happened this week was a visit from our Rosie from Fort McMurray.

Miki was so much better that she can now go out for longer periods, so we were able to enjoy a long leisurely dinner at El Greco, where she could put her leg up on the bench when she needed to.




Ms. Miki is doing so well even Nurse Daphne got to go play this week, joining friends Louise and Maureen for drinks and appies at the Rialto!

Miki update

Aug. 31 - Sept. 4 Miki had a great recovery week at Mary Lois's, Nurse Par Excellance!! (thanks Mary Lois) and got out and about every day, into the parking lot, off to physio and just down the hall.

She went to physio twice a week, and saw her surgeon on Thursday who gave her a gold star for all her hard work. She has graduated now from the walker to a cane (thanks Ter!!) and only uses that outside.

We spent a great week at Sharon's (thanks Sharon!!!) in her lovely master bedroom and ensuite and Miki was able to take her first solo shower there.

















She is doing so much better, we are able to move home to the cottage, where she can move around and look after herself quite handily. Of course Nurse Sitges gave her a "you're back already?????" look and then promptly settled in to play Nurse Sitges, making sure Miki is comfy on the couch with a blanky.

Two weeks ago today!

Aug. 29 - 31 Two weeks ago today was Miki's surgery! She is doing so well! She exercises twice a day faithfully, goes to physio twice a week and sees the surgeon later this week to get her next marching orders. We went to the cottage for the weekend for the first time since surgery and she did great - even hobbled around the yard a little.

Terri took her to physio and an xray of the knee today - see how well she is doing!!

Walking with the bars - this one hurts!!!! Bend that knee....ouch!

Working with the wedgie....pull hard! Every day her walking is better, her flexibility is better and she is that much closer to dancing.....:-)

Aug. 24 - 26. Physio at Royal Jubilee Hospital started on Monday - a great Scottish gal named Emma is Miki's therapist, and gave her a good workout and sound advice as to what to do at home. She will go twice a week up to 12 appointments.

She is moving around better every day - in and out of bed easily, not putting full weight on the walker now, just using it to steady herself, but still finds sitting up for any length of time tiring. The body has been through a trauma and is letting her know it needs lots of rest!!

On the 26th we move to Sharon and Jenny's in Langford, and will try to get some of the pics I have taken onto the blog soon. Miki thanks everyone for all the kind words and support!

The patient goes to a party - with her nurse!!

Sunday, August 23 was a joint 65th Birthday party for Sharon, Jenny, Marilyn and Barb! Friends gathered in Marg and Sandy's gorgeous back yard to share food, games, laughter and birthday cake!!!

Lovely neighbour Isobel agreed to let us drive down her driveway so Miki would have a shorter walk to the yard. Here she and Sue are sharing their "disclosure" lists! We set Miki up in a good solid chair complete with footstool, and everyone came to her for visits!