Lucky me I got home last night after a terminal scare. I was not ready to go back to the hospital. I imagined myself in a multi bed ward at Lower Keys Medical Center. I couldn’t stand it. I waited my turn at Advanced Urgent Care on North Roosevelt Boulevard.
My right leg had been giving me trouble swollen and painful all day. Exercise is what it needs so I had gone walking of course and apparently that wasn’t what it wanted so I went to the clinic on North Roosevelt driven by my ever patient wife to see what needed to be done.
It was a gloomy evening’s entertainment especially considering the original plan which called for a slow walk to Alonzo’s on the Boardwalk for happy hour fish and a mojito. Yeah well my pain and swelling wrecked my wife’s good idea of course. It was all good after we got the news that there was no blood clot and I went home after a short moment in privatexwith the nurse who quite understood my tears of relief. I really don’t want to go back to the hospital and certainly not Lower Keys which has an abysmal reputation. Layne was seriously thinking of driving ninety minutes to Mariners in Tavernier. Shit. I’d have gone back to Jackson South...But none of this apocalyptic thinking was necessary and I got a clean bill of health. The drive home was lovely.
I’m drinking more water and walking more steps. I’m getting my routines down and I’m learning to manage my new spaces. Friends came all day Tuesday and kept me up and chatting, catching up on the life I’ve been missing. Wednesday I go to Broga (yes!) for a restorative session, gentle moves on the mat that I will do as able. I am excited. Then lunch with another friend. How good it is to be home. I am a lucky man ( with a painful leg).
My boy.
7 comments:
You may find yourself with a certain amount of health anxiety now, but better to be safe than sorry. Glad it turned out OK.
Proactive is the only way to go, you've got a lot of healing still to do, and a lot of pain to endure, most of which will be good pain, but who the hell can tell what's really going on in there. What Anonymous said... "better safe than sorry".
We see you are continuing Broga. Did you get a series of exercises and walking instructions to do each day or 5 days a week by yout rehab team how to deal with soreness, swelling? Or do you have people to call to ask advise as it comes up so that you continue to progress safely?
Michael, I found your blog when you were about the only information coming out of Key West after the hurricane thru Webb Chiles. I was one of those "annual visitors" during Key West Race Week in January for almost 20 years, but my wife and I have grown fond of the place...partially because my Mother-in-law also lived there for several years in the early years of those visits.
I have continued to check in on you, because I enjoy the pics of KW, am a fellow sailor, and most recently watching your amazing recovery.
Cheers to you, sir, and I wish a continued successful recovery.
-Shawn
(Solomons, MD)
P.S.> Oh, and WELCOME HOME, almost.
Thank you all. Pictures of Key West will be forthcoming as I get out more.
The recovery road is long and twisted. From what I've witnessed, and experienced from time to time, patience and perseverance are useful tools. You have ample amounts of both and will find your way through all this "stuff."
Pat that dog for me.
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