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Candied Policemen
Aug. 18th, 2006 09:24 pmI meant to update a week or two ago, but I guess I've been busy and/or distracted. Enough of that, though, I'm sure it's dull to read journal entries about why people aren't writing journal entries. So I'll move on to the exciting bit.
Two weeks ago, I got home from work anticipating the coming week off. Nicole went out for a quick walk before supper. However, when she was stepping down into the entryway, she lost her footing and went crashing down into the door. We rushed her to the hospital, where after a mere couple of hours waiting in Grey Nuns Emergency, the X-rays confirmed that she had, in fact, broken her right arm. The break was on her upper arm quite close to the shoulder, so they couldn't put a cast on it, but it hadn't slipped out of alignment, so they gave her a sling and a swath to keep her arm fairly immobile close to her chest.
So the past two weeks have been interesting. By now, Nicole has regained a bit more usage, but the first few days the arm was quite sore, and she was living on Tylenol 3's. She couldn't bend over, so the kids and I had to do all the picking up. She needed help getting dressed and undressed, and forget about doing much in the way of writing with only her left hand. I've even had to help with the cooking, which is about my least favourite thing ever. Oh, and I get to do all the driving, too. She also couldn't lie down--and still can't, really--so she's been sleeping in the recliner in the living room.
Now she's mostly off the painkillers, she doesn't need the swath all the time, and she can take the arm out of the sling for brief periods, particularly to do the exercises the specialist she saw last week assigned her. Her arm is quite weak, and having been stuck in the sling for so long, she can't straighten it out fully yet, but all in all she's doing quite well. Another month or so and things may be back to normal. We hope.
We didn't have too much of a vacation, obviously, not that we'd planned for anything too elaborate. Still, our tentative plan of taking three or four day trips to places around Edmonton was reduced to just one--the Stettler to Big Valley train on the holiday Monday, which we'd already bought tickets for. That was okay, though Big Valley is not much of a tourist draw, at least when there's not a big rock concert going on there(which is most of the time, frankly). Nicole's parents came with us, too, and Nicole wasn't too uncomfortable.
We also went to the Jubilations dinner theatre in West Edmonton Mall for our 15th anniversary on the 10th. Unlike the Mayfield dinner theatre, which tends to have over-the-hill stars doing Neil Simon plays and the like, Jubilations is more the fun musical revue with a thin, humorous, vaguely parodic plot. The best part was the fact that the servers were also in character--we were seeing "Emergency Room", so they were all patients or hospital staff. Even the main actors came out to help serve the actual meals, so I guess they're a mixture of actors to have to help wait tables and waiters who get to act. Anyway, lots of singing and dancing, though not to any original tunes, more things like "Doin' It Right On The Wrong Side of Town"(a song I now have to get a copy of, btw), "Doctor Doctor (Bad Case of Lovin' You)", etc. More effort went into the choreography than the writing, it seems. But it was still fun, and the food and entertainment was better than the silly riverboat ride we went on for our 10th(?) anniversary.
There's more to write about, but I'll stop here and try to split it up, and hopefully not put it off for two weeks again.
Two weeks ago, I got home from work anticipating the coming week off. Nicole went out for a quick walk before supper. However, when she was stepping down into the entryway, she lost her footing and went crashing down into the door. We rushed her to the hospital, where after a mere couple of hours waiting in Grey Nuns Emergency, the X-rays confirmed that she had, in fact, broken her right arm. The break was on her upper arm quite close to the shoulder, so they couldn't put a cast on it, but it hadn't slipped out of alignment, so they gave her a sling and a swath to keep her arm fairly immobile close to her chest.
So the past two weeks have been interesting. By now, Nicole has regained a bit more usage, but the first few days the arm was quite sore, and she was living on Tylenol 3's. She couldn't bend over, so the kids and I had to do all the picking up. She needed help getting dressed and undressed, and forget about doing much in the way of writing with only her left hand. I've even had to help with the cooking, which is about my least favourite thing ever. Oh, and I get to do all the driving, too. She also couldn't lie down--and still can't, really--so she's been sleeping in the recliner in the living room.
Now she's mostly off the painkillers, she doesn't need the swath all the time, and she can take the arm out of the sling for brief periods, particularly to do the exercises the specialist she saw last week assigned her. Her arm is quite weak, and having been stuck in the sling for so long, she can't straighten it out fully yet, but all in all she's doing quite well. Another month or so and things may be back to normal. We hope.
We didn't have too much of a vacation, obviously, not that we'd planned for anything too elaborate. Still, our tentative plan of taking three or four day trips to places around Edmonton was reduced to just one--the Stettler to Big Valley train on the holiday Monday, which we'd already bought tickets for. That was okay, though Big Valley is not much of a tourist draw, at least when there's not a big rock concert going on there(which is most of the time, frankly). Nicole's parents came with us, too, and Nicole wasn't too uncomfortable.
We also went to the Jubilations dinner theatre in West Edmonton Mall for our 15th anniversary on the 10th. Unlike the Mayfield dinner theatre, which tends to have over-the-hill stars doing Neil Simon plays and the like, Jubilations is more the fun musical revue with a thin, humorous, vaguely parodic plot. The best part was the fact that the servers were also in character--we were seeing "Emergency Room", so they were all patients or hospital staff. Even the main actors came out to help serve the actual meals, so I guess they're a mixture of actors to have to help wait tables and waiters who get to act. Anyway, lots of singing and dancing, though not to any original tunes, more things like "Doin' It Right On The Wrong Side of Town"(a song I now have to get a copy of, btw), "Doctor Doctor (Bad Case of Lovin' You)", etc. More effort went into the choreography than the writing, it seems. But it was still fun, and the food and entertainment was better than the silly riverboat ride we went on for our 10th(?) anniversary.
There's more to write about, but I'll stop here and try to split it up, and hopefully not put it off for two weeks again.
