I’m so weak and frail now. I can’t imagine how much worse off I would be had i not done all of the pre-transplant rehab. Going through a Humpty Dumpty surgery and the subsequent weeks in various hospital beds and that second stint in the ICU where I spent 10 days and didn’t get up but maybe twice – even then couldn’t go more than arm reach away from bed due to the continuous dialysis being hooked up. I won’t fix that bad grammar so hopefully it paints a picture that I was in a hospital bed for more than enough time needed to get super week.
I am so weak now.
February 3 – first rehab assessment when we moved down. They measure leg strength as part of it using a device that measures strength in foot pounds. I got 54.5 pounds in left leg and 73 in right.
March 3 – rehab graduation. Four grueling weeks and I got up to 85.1 in left and 86.1 in right.
Today – 40.6 left, 47.2 right. No wonder it’s hard for me to get up from a chair.
My six minute walk killed me. It was all about pain in Achilles and then my legs themselves just getting so fatigued.
I think that this is going to be a much harder road than last time – with a benefit of not having to drag around oxygen. That is so very nice.
I am so frail.
Early in the summer I weighed in at about 165 pounds. My sharp decline happened late summer.
On February 3 when we relocated I was 152. I didn’t have energy or stamina to feed myself, and when food was out in front of me eating it was a chore.
Today I’m 142.6 pounds. Those pics from the other day are not optical illusions.
This is why that at normal times I get to keep my weight above 160. I couldn’t imagine how I’d be if I started around 150 and went down 125 pounds from there.
This is going to be really hard. I hope that I’m up for it.