PROPER PHYSIO STARTS AND JANET IS IMPROVING IN BODY AND MIND
Wednesday evening, 1st August. Five weeks have now gone by and at last it seems we, by which I mean Janet and her care / treatment, are moving forward apace.
She had good bouts of physio on both Monday and Tuesday. And although she had received no physio when I visited on Wednesday afternoon, after we returned from having a coffee and a snack at The Tontine Hotel in Peebles High Street, the physios were waiting and she was taken to the gym (in the basement at Hay Lodge) and walked with the parallel bars - and also went on to walking with just a stick (with a physio steadying her), which is absolutely fantastic news and shows just how well she is progressing.
The only downside is that she seems to have cellulitis, which is a bacterial infection of the skin and tissues beneath the skin. This, it would seem, is what has been causing her swollen right leg, although it was initially thought that the blood clot was the origin of the swelling. In any event, a doctor from the adjacent GP practice was called to examine, and Janet has been put on a course of penicillin. Hopefully, this will do the trick and the swelling will come down and the leg go back to normal.
Janet is happier within herself just now and her concerns about being at Hay Lodge seem to have been alleviated.
She had good bouts of physio on both Monday and Tuesday. And although she had received no physio when I visited on Wednesday afternoon, after we returned from having a coffee and a snack at The Tontine Hotel in Peebles High Street, the physios were waiting and she was taken to the gym (in the basement at Hay Lodge) and walked with the parallel bars - and also went on to walking with just a stick (with a physio steadying her), which is absolutely fantastic news and shows just how well she is progressing.
The only downside is that she seems to have cellulitis, which is a bacterial infection of the skin and tissues beneath the skin. This, it would seem, is what has been causing her swollen right leg, although it was initially thought that the blood clot was the origin of the swelling. In any event, a doctor from the adjacent GP practice was called to examine, and Janet has been put on a course of penicillin. Hopefully, this will do the trick and the swelling will come down and the leg go back to normal.
Janet is happier within herself just now and her concerns about being at Hay Lodge seem to have been alleviated.
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