Thanks everyone for your good wishes.
It's a month tomorrow since my husband's accident and we are making headway slowly. He has been a remarkably model patient and has been very stoical throughout the ordeal but he is starting to get a bit like "I'm over all this now and I just want to get on with my life."
Unfortunately, hard as we tried, we didn't manage to avoid an infection in the elbow so that has set things back somewhat. You can't begin to imagine how difficult it is to do things when the elbow is bent at 45 degrees, won't bend or flex very much and is painful as well. He can't put on his glasses (or push them up when they slide) can't hold a phone and make notes, can't sweep a floor, hold a drink and take tablets, untangle a garden hose, cut up food, lots of things.
I've tried painting a few times and have done six different coloured backgrounds on the same painting with no idea what I am trying to accomplish. (It is almost 3D). Still just the process of applying paint is theraputic, as are my brief visits here.
I am still being the left arm and chauffeur. We have gone back to work for a few hours a day and he has to go to the physiotherapist twice a week so I don't have a lot of spare time at the moment. The first two weeks my eldest daughter was visiting but now she has gone home and I sometimes can coerce my 21 year old son to help?
but mostly we are on our own. Much fun, certainly not something one would choose.
I can't understand people who deliberately do things that risk life and limb.
Anyway I'll post another update when we see the doctor for his six week visit. Hopefully we will see lots of new bone on the xrays.
