Hi again, James!  This is a continuation of my previous message:

JB>  I'm starting to feel comfortable driving again, but if
JB>  it wasn't for reclining seats where I can sit back a
JB>  couple of notches, and a Palates exercise ball, (but
JB>  flat like a pancake) acting as an air cushion, I can't
JB>  drive for far at all.


          Hey, whatever works....  :-)



JB>  I tend to putter out after a road trip with three or
JB>  four stops, and it's back home for a few days of R+R.


          This may seem like a silly question... but do you have to do
three or four stops at once?  I'm just wondering whether a series of
shorter trips might accomplish the same goals, with less exhaustion
afterwards....  :-)



JB>  I was in hospital, and once the doctor found out I
JB>  actually made it to the restaurant, (Who can really
JB>  survive on hospital food?) I was discharged the next
JB>  day.


          And now you know how to get yourself kicked out of hospital if
that's what you'd like to do!  You showed the doctor you had the energy
& the gumption to seek out an alternative source of nourishment.  If
you had to get dressed in your own clothes to go the restaurant, you
probably looked like a million bucks compared to the way you looked in the
standard hospital gowns as well....  :-))



JB>  Sure, I could start a pot of boiling water at home,
JB>  but I had to lay down on the kitchen floor to wait
JB>  for the noodles to cook. A balanced diet? At least
JB>  I had enough of beans and pasta to last me the rest
JB>  of my lifetime. 


          Yes... we found it very hard at first when Nora came home from
rehab. She was discharged before the paint was dry in the bathroom, and I
had a lot of back pain until I'd experimented with various ways to do
certain tasks within a limited space.  Like you, though, we'd been getting
increasingly impatient with hospital food etc.  Our first "off
campus" expedition... barely one month after Nora's stroke... involved
pushing a manual chair uphill to a grocery store near the rehab facility. 
The head nurse thought we were crazy.  But, to make a long story short, we
wore out our welcome much sooner than anybody expected....  ;-)



AH>  Onward & awkward, that's my motto... [chuckle].

JB>  And now it's my motto too! 


          Thankyou.  Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....  :-)))



JB>  I adopted a Rick Mercer quote, "Safety first, time
JB>  permitting."


          Uh-huh.  Dallas & I take reasonable precautions, but we don't
put our lives (or Nora's) on hold indefinitely.  It was scary taking her to
that picnic
... we knew we'd be in a jam if she fell & we couldn't get her up. 
However, we were at the beach in White Rock.  White Rock is not the end of
the earth.  It's quite hilly, but it has a hospital & assorted other
emergency services....  :-)




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