I did not feel very well Monday and Tuesday this week. Think it was the low pressure front that came through. Just ached all over and felt cranky. Had the usual nurse on Monday for a dressing change and Cowboy had physical therapy on Tuesday. The band practiced Tuesday afternoon. We are doing a concert at the library downtown this coming Sunday. Two hours of playing. I am taking Cowboy with me and it is a large library. Hopefully he will manage OK.
Tuesday night I had a little bit of a meltdown. Had been reading a rather strange book and it included a lot of flashback type narrative and so when I went to bed I kept thinking about other times in my life. I got to thinking about the Cowboy I met in 1976. He was so energetic and positive and full of enthusiasm for life. He was also very good looking and had a kind of flirtatious way about him. He was intelligent and engaging. I thought about these things and then I wept. No one knew. It was just me, in the bed, listening to Cowboy breathing and the burp of the wound vac.
We went to see the surgeon yesterday. He says Cowboy's wound is healing very well but is suggesting we think about a skin graft to complete the healing. the choices are to stay on the wound vac for several more weeks or go through surgery and heal faster without the wound vac. Downside of course is the surgery and the attendant discomfort. We have an appointment with the plastic surgeon next Wednesday and will decide then. Cowboy is so tired of the aggravation of the wound vac that he wants to do the surgery.
I went to the military base yesterday and picked up Cowboy's new glasses, our medicines for the next three months and bought a very large bill of groceries. The troups are beginning to return from the middle east and the place was a zoo. the paper said there will be 20,000 more troops there by the end of the year. I may decide to just go over there every three months when have to pick up medicine. It is exhausting to deal with the traffic, lines, people and confusion.
The physical therapist came again this morning. While he was here I went to book club. The rest of the day has been about trying to get a little better organized. Seems like I am doing that a lot.
I took Cowboy to dinner on Tuesday night down in the city. We went to Red Lobster. He ate three biscuits, all his shrimp and most of his potatoes. Overall he is down 5 more pounds. That is a total of 36 this year. He is just skin and bones. Some days he eats and some days he doesn't.
He is getting out of the house some. We went for a short walk this afternoon. He is doing very well with his walker.
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