Day 43 - The Tardis Effect

While I worked last night, cleo and the girls were spending their first night at home without me. Things went ok, except that Sarah had a little trouble getting cleo out of bed this morning, but that was mostly because of the way our lounge was organised meaning cleo was having to get out of the sofa bed on her weaker side, which she cannot do as yet.

Quart into a Pint Pot (the Tardis effect)

So, we set out to redesign the lounge, in order to create some extra space, both for the nights when cleo sleeps downstairs, and for daytimes when space is at a premium, especially at times when cleo is using her wheelchair. As I have said before we don't have much space so something had to give, and in this case the tardis effect was created by losing the second desktop pc we had in the lounge. Master plan is that the pc will go upstairs to our bedroom with a desk for times when cleo is up there. The new laptop also gives us the option of another pc anywhere in the house because that is wireless.

So, after much shoving and moving of furniture and pc's we arrived at a solution that seems to have created some more space. The problems that cleo had this morning suggested that we need some practice too, so that we have a definite method for getting off the sofa bed. We will work on that this week, before i work again next friday.

Old Friends....

I regularly follow the statistics from this blog to see who is reading it, and where those readers come from. I noted a link from a community owned by a couple whom we were friendly with some years ago, but with whom we had lost touch for various reasons. Tonight, we made contact with that lost friend again, and i hope that the friendship continues from now. Without cleo having the stroke I doubt we would ever have been in touch again, so i suppose that is a good thing to come out of this episode. As the saying goes, life is too short.....

cleo spent most of today in the wheelchair, which i think was needed as she was pretty tired after Christmas, and new year, and a bit of a sleepless night on the sofa bed last night. While it's good that she works her leg and practises the techniques to relearn the actions that will eventually see her walk unaided again, you can of course do too much, and i think that a rest from that will have done her good today. The girls are back to school tomorrow so cleo and I will have some time during the day to start getting better roganised around each room in the house, making sure that things which cleo might need are in accessible places which she can get at from her chair, or however she is moving around. That will be something that might take a few days but i am sure it will be a worthwhile effort, because it may afford cleo a little independence which presently she does not have, and which i would rather she did.