Countdown to taking off the brace: 59 days
Countdown to Rebecca coming to Chicago: 7 days
I forgot yet another really cool gift from yesterday. While I wasn’t there for it, knowing it was done is almost as cool. See below.
If you can’t read it, they had the Cubs marquee say “GET WELL CHIP!” and sent me a photo of it. Pretty cool!!!
Today went pretty well. I got to sleep in, which isn’t as great as it sounds. The longer I lay in bed, the worse my back feels. So I got up around 9:30 and sat in my chair staring out the window for a while. At 10:30 my parents showed up and we went to the building chapel for service. We even got Tony (another patient) to join us. Super small crowd - 6 in the “congregation”. But it was a good message on Psalms.
After that I went back for a quick cath then back out to try out West Egg Cafe. Very good, and nice about the wheelchair, too. I had a bacon, spinach, egg and cheese frittata. Really good. My parents split some whole wheat walnut pancakes. Ben and Sam showed up halfway through to say hi. They were headed to some class about how to have a baby. I’m sure it was fun for them.
1pm - Lokomat training. Better and better on that thing. This time got up to 60% of my body weight on the feet and moving faster, too. 35 minutes. Also Tony watched as we’re (by we I mean me and the therapists) trying to talk him into using it.
2:45pm - Pool therapy. Once again good, but I was tired.
4-5pm - nap
5:30 - Go through the painful process of dressing myself and getting into my wheelchair with as little help as possible. It wore me out but I guess I should practice that. Parents then left to go see Million Dollar Quartet, which they loved.
6pm - Erik showed up with Thai takeout. Awesome. Then we headed to Navy Pier to watch Oblivion on IMAX. It was actually really good. Action/sci-fi, weird plot twists… all in all pretty good. Navigating the wheelchair to and from Navy Pier was almost as fun as watching the movie.
Here is something in my room that’s been up since the surgery. Rebecca and Leah made it. It’s a prayer map, showing everywhere in the world that people are praying to God for some resolution in my situation. Looking at it is always humbling. If you know of a place, let me know! Antarctica? We’d have all 7 continents if we had that. Just sayin…
It also gets a lot of attention from the staff here, including last night when the PCT (tech) walked in on me on the pot in the bathroom (also naked since the shower was right after that) and… well…
Tech: Hello (opens door without knocking… there are no locks on the bathroom doors here for safety)
Chip: Kind of busy in here!
Tech: Yeah I just had a question about the map you have. Are those places you’ve been?
Chip: No, it’s a prayer map. Each star represents someone praying in that country. Please… some privacy?
Tech: (in no hurry) Oh okay. Yeah I see you’re busy. Well that’s cool. I was hoping it was where you’ve been. I want to go to all 50 states and you have a lot there.
Chip: (getting mad and not talking)
Tech: Right… okay I’ll leave you alone. You know how to reach me!
Chip: Yep. Bye.
I hope you found that as funny as I found annoying :)
Gnight!
Chip
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