The faster I go...

The behinder I get!

I've been sick this week. So sick that I stayed home THREE days in a row! I finally feel better this afternoon but this morning I was still too much under the weather to consider sitting at my desk all day. Of course, that means I have to play by the rules and get a doctor's note to return to work tomorrow. No problem, my doctor is glad to do it. She knows me and knows that I rarely even go to the doctor myself and if I take myself then I'm really sick. I've not even showered for two days and, let me tell you, there's not much that prevents me from taking a shower.

I've actually been off all week. Monday morning I took Ron to a funeral. The wife of one of his co-workers passed away after a long struggle with cancer. While we were out, he fell so we ended up spending an hour or so at the "fake leg" office to have his peg-leg worked on. We did get some very promising news from the prosthetist.

He is going to start on Ron's permanent leg and it will be different than his current leg. Currently, he has a stockinette that he puts on, and then he puts on a formed "cup". The cup then goes down into the "socket" part of the leg. The whole thing is then covered with a neoprene sleeve that grips the leg shaft and his thigh and holds the two together. The new leg will have the neoprene sleeve directly on his leg with a pin that goes through the socket and locks into the leg mechanism. He'll put a stockinette on over the neoprene and this will be the surface that the socket glides on. Once the pin is locked into the mechanism, it's not coming off. That will make walking so much easier for him.

This is the best part... After he does all that and Ron gets used to walking with it, he's going to take the temporary leg and fix it so he can wear it in the shower (so he can walk into the and actually stand there) and into the swimming pool! That is just amazing to me and something we are both looking forward to. He'll silicone the screws and other parts to keep them from breaking down (he told me something else but I didn't hear it exactly) and then he'll fix the bottom of the foot so it can be stood on just like a real foot, and put a non-skid coating on it. Isn't that just amazing? That will open up so many doors for Ron and make it so much easier for him to get around.

Now, if we could just get his short-term memory loss to stop or reverse. That is my biggest concern right now. He forgets things that he's said sometimes within moments of saying it. Or, conversations within minutes. It's very odd what just seems to pass through his brain like water and what he retains.