A step up

It's really hard to blog with the finger covered by an O2 sensor.

Saturday we spent catching up on rest.  There was some hope of trying to get up and walking around on Saturday, but we were just too tired.

The doctor said on Sunday Morning that we had been really leaking spinal fluid, so that was why nothing good was going on Saturday evening.  However, there was not much actual blood, which is good in case the hemotomas keep coming back, but bad in that blood is the best thing to seal up the spinal cavity.  So he right there sutured up the drain site, and we were instructed to try to get walking today.

We spent a while increasing gradually up the incline in the chair, about 10 degrees an hour, (20 was last week). I was perhaps freaking out about this a little too much because the doctor said that headaches were indicative of spinal fluid loss, but he said to not be hindered by dizziness or lightheadedness, so we push through it.  We do a walk in the evening and all was happy.

There was a nice visit in the evening with my parents, two of my sisters, and some long-time neighbors (thanks guys!) spend a while visiting, and then we walk again and all ways happy.