For a week now Pauline has struggled with the effects of her operation to repair her broken leg. For the first few days she had the greatest difficulty in making any progress at all. One of the problems patients needing physiotherapy have is that the physiotherapists are not on duty at weekends. This means two days in seven are lost in terms of rehabilitation.
On Monday 30th April she was struggling just to get out of and into bed. She kept feeling sick. On Tuesday she stood up to walk with the aid of a walking frame and in seconds was violently sick. Another day was lost. Following this she was given an injection to combat the nausea. On Wednesday she managed to walk quite a distance in the ward and I received the news that she was getting mobile. Imagine my pleasure to discover at evening visiting time that she had done this three times. The result was that she was totally exhausted.
But this is the start of what I hope will be a steady recovery. Even so, I have had to cancel an intended trip to our home town of Nelson in Lancashire where I was due to preach at the United Reformed Church on 3rd June. I can see no possibility of her being able to travel for a couple of months. I very much hope our holiday in Andalucia, Spain in September will still be on. I feel sure sufficient progress with mobility will be achieved by then.
After being helped to walk following her spinal operation last December and then having to start all over from a worse position, Pauline will need all her reserves of strength and determination to return to normal.
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