Friday, April 10, 2020

Friday, April 10, 2020

Tonight's picture was taken around Easter of 2005. That year we took Mattie to Bunnyland, an event held every spring at Butler's Orchard in Maryland. They had an Easter egg hunt for the kids and lots of fun activities (hayrides, pedal tractors, giant slides, and live animals). Mattie loved going to this farm every fall (for pumpkin picking) and spring! I am so happy Peter captured this cute photo of us, right before  Mattie went hunting for Easter eggs. 








Quote of the day: Today's coronavirus update from Johns Hopkins. 

• number of people diagnosed with the virus: 491,358
• number of people who died from the virus: 18,316

I am quite certain Indie understands that Sunny is not feeling well. She is sticking close. While we are in the living room with Sunny, she is hanging out by the windows. 

This morning, Peter took photos of Sunny's leg and text messaged it to the surgeon. Who was nice enough to give us her mobile number. She instantly responded and feels that Sunny's incision looks good and was pleased with his progress. I have cut down the amount of pain meds Sunny was getting, as the only thing it seemed to be doing was making him stupefied. Not to mention constipated. To address the constipation, she has us giving Sunny Metamucil and pumpkin. Can't say Sunny likes pumpkin. Pumpkin pie... yes, pure pumpkin... no!

This is Sunny's incision. I would say it photographs better than it actually looks. Thankfully I saw progress today with Sunny taking steps and bearing weight on this leg. 

Sunny is dealing with bruising and edema (swelling in which small blood vessels leak fluid into nearby tissues). So his leg needs an ice bag on it periodically throughout the day for 15 minutes at a time, and we also have to do edema massage which is rubbing the leg from the ankle on up using firm, but not painful, pressure to move the excess fluid out of the area. The massaging helps, because when I feel Sunny's leg, it feels like it is filled with a sac of jelly. Rubbing the leg does seem to help get this jelly feeling reabsorbed back into his body. 

 This is the extensive bruising on the back of Sunny's leg (the leg that was operated on).

 We got Sunny up and walking today.   He needs to start doing this for his   physical recovery, to aid his   constipation, and to help get all the   sedation out of his system. His Sunny   spirit seemed to perk up when   outside. But he tires very easily and   after his walk, literally came back   home and slept for several hours.