Eastern Europe Trip

Normally I only get round to updating this blog once a week, as for the past few weeks not a lot has been happening, as Tracy’s been lying on her back in hospital and I’ve just been hobbling round and watching daytime TV (did you know Star Trek is on the Sci-Fi channel every day at 1pm?)… but yesterday was a bit special…

I got a few texts from Tracy during the day, including one with a photo of her arm (I’ll post these much later, when it’s fully recovered as it’s hard to be as excited as we are when it looks like a piece of raw meat…). This shows excellent progress with the skin grafts, although the skin on the top of her arm is still very pink and damp – the doctors are pleased with her progress, which is great news. Then she sent me a text saying she was going back in her back-brace and would be sitting up, so I decided to go to the hospital early and catch her upright. Only when I got there, she hadn’t put the brace on, intending to go into it just before I arrived at my normal time…

So, when I arrived we grabbed the nurse and put Tracy into her brace, and then slowly moved the back of the bed until she was sat upright – and what a difference!! This time she wasn’t dizzy and being sat up made eating her dinner so much easier (so much so, I had to get her to slow down for fear of it sparking off another bout of sickness!).






But that wasn’t the end of it. Once she’d had her dinner she decided she wanted to stand up, and so with the help of the nurse we lowered the bed, and she shuffled to the edge before swinging her legs down so her feet were on the floor. Then, with us holding her shoulders for support she stood up. A little unsteadily at first, but then upright and beaming with the widest grin I’ve ever seen. Her fellow patient wanted to see her stood up (we had the curtains round as she was only wearing a tee-shirt and knickers) so we wrapped her in a blanket and opened the curtains. “Aren’t you tiny!” was the immediate cry (Tracy is only 5’1” and no-one had seen her vertical before!)… She then took a few steps, before deciding that was sufficient (not wanting to over-do it after the earlier experience) and so it was back to bed, where she sat up chatting for a while before we lowered her back to being flat and removed the brace…

To say we were ecstatic at seeing her stood up again would be a huge understatement…

Now we’re sure it won’t be too long before we can think of her getting home again…